Author: Dwight Clough

We show people how to experience God’s love. Out of that encounter flows everything good – healing, growth, obedience, sacrifice, mission. As you plan your year-end giving, remember that a gift to Dwight Clough Ministries Inc. empowers us to help people on every continent to experience God’s love, sometimes for the very first time. See DwightClough.com for details.At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was…

We show people how to experience God’s love. Out of that encounter flows everything good – healing, growth, obedience, sacrifice, mission. As you plan your year-end giving, remember that a gift to Dwight Clough Ministries Inc. empowers us to help people on every continent to experience God’s love, sometimes for the very first time. See DwightClough.com for details.For nothing is impossible with God. — Luke 1:37I don’t know if Zechariah and Elizabeth tried getting their miracle their way or not. By the time Gabriel showed up in the temple, Zechariah’s faith had worn thin. It sounds like he had given…

We show people how to experience God’s love. Out of that encounter flows everything good – healing, growth, obedience, sacrifice, mission. As you plan your year-end giving, remember that a gift to Dwight Clough Ministries Inc. empowers us to help people on every continent to experience God’s love, sometimes for the very first time. See DwightClough.com for details.Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. — Hebrews 12:2Guest devotional…

He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. — Luke 1:51An unbeliever would scoff at Mary’s song. The boot of the Roman empire was on the neck of the Jewish nation. Mighty deeds were measured in columns of marching Roman soldiers. The great miracles of deliverance for Israel were history — ancient history it seemed. The people of Israel lived and died under the watchful eye of the Roman state.But God gives a great gift to His children. He enables us to see what others cannot see. The unbeliever…

… Elizabeth was barren … — Luke 1:7I don’t know what statement may have characterized your life up to this point, but I want you to know that God can, in a moment, redefine your life. Elizabeth lived most of her life under the label "barren." But in God’s mind, she was not barren. She was the mother of John the Baptist, perhaps the greatest prophet who ever lived. We remember her for her greeting to Mary — these two mothers whose sons changed a nation, a world, history.Remember that Elizabeth lived MOST of her life with the label that…

… so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. — Luke 1:4One night I watched part of a show on network television about faith. In one of the segments, a scientist hooked up electrodes to create brain activity that caused his subject to have a "spiritual experience." Some concluded from this that religion was nothing more than brain chemistry. Others concluded that God had "wired" our brains to respond to Him.We must understand that God would have no difficulty proving His existence or anything else about Himself to anybody anytime He wants. There are…

"Don’t cry." — Luke 7:13I go around and around the Bible and I keep coming back to this verse. A widow has lost her only son. The funeral procession carries his dead body to the grave. Everyone is clothed with sadness.Everyone but Jesus. "Don’t cry," He says. Call it audacity. Call it power. Call it compassion. Jesus slices through human tragedy and brings to us what we didn’t dare imagine: life from the dead.This time when I visit this verse, I ask God the question that troubles me. "Why did You only raise one widow’s son? There were many. Why…

I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions. — Colossians 1:24(Continued from yesterday.)What is lacking?Let me suggest that two answers: 1. Contact. None of us wants to suffer, but our suffering grabs the complacency of this world by the throat and demands a response. Some cannot yet measure by the cross, but they can measure love by the price we pay.2. Participation. Every time we lay down our wants and say, "Not my will but Yours be done," we enter into fellowship with the Christ who died for us. Jesus suffered alone. But,…

I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions. — Colossians 1:24What is lacking in the sufferings of Christ?Is it brutality? No. There was no shortage of cruelty, hatred, contempt and indifference. Atonement? No, Jesus paid the full and terrible cost of sin. To add our own sacrifice only cheapens the grace of God.So what is lacking? Think about it. More tomorrow.Be encouraged!Dwight Discoveries Devotional – Inspiration in Your Inbox is provided daily byDwight Clough Ministries, Inc.1223 West Main Street #228Sun Prairie, WI 53590 USADwight Clough Ministries is supported by your donations.Visit DwightClough.com for…

And anything you desire from me, I will do for you. — 2 Samuel 19:38What a rash promise! King David is rewarding the aged Barzillai for his assistance when David fled from his rebel son Absalom, and he hands him, in essence, a blank check.But Jesus offers his disciples the same thing. He says, "My Father will give you whatever you ask in My name."God seems to be saying, "You come up with the desire, and I will grant it."How reckless! Yet, He doesn’t make the offer to just anybody. David and Jesus make the offer to those who shared…