June 10, 2026

Daily Devotional

Death is More Than Just Going to a Cemetery & Being Buried: Your Spirit Lives On for Eternity!

Death often appears final—a graveside service, a casket lowered into the ground, flowers wilting under the Texas sun. Yet Scripture reveals this is only the body’s temporary end. The real you—your spirit—continues into eternity. This truth brings both solemn warning and glorious hope for every believer.

From the beginning, God formed us as more than dust. “Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living person” (Genesis 2:7, TLB). That divine breath is the eternal spirit. When the body returns to dust, the spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7). Physical death is not annihilation; it is transition.

Jesus made this unmistakably clear. To the thief on the cross He promised, “Today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43, TLB). The Apostle Paul echoed this confidence: “We are confident, and we would much prefer to leave these earthly bodies and be at home with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8, TLB).

Absent from the body means present with the Lord—immediately. The spirit lives on consciously, either in the joy of Christ’s presence or, for those who reject Him, in separation and judgment (Hebrews 9:27).

This reality calls us to urgent faith. “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16, TLB).

Eternal life is not automatic; it is received through Repentance and Trust in Jesus’ death and resurrection. The same power that raised Christ guarantees our own future resurrection body (1 Corinthians 15:42-44), when spirit and glorified body reunite in the new heavens and new earth.

For an 85-year-young Vietnam veteran like me or any soul reading these words, the cemetery is not the end. It is a Doorway.

Your spirit—created for fellowship with God—will live forever. Choose today to walk in newness of life through Christ. Let this truth comfort the grieving, stir the complacent, and fill every believer with triumphant hope.

The grave may claim the body, but it cannot touch the spirit redeemed by the Lamb. Eternity awaits. Are you ready?

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Let us Praise Him Daily!

A good way to learn to Praise God is to memorize the first 6 Verses of Psalms 148:

1 Praise the Lord, O heavens! Praise Him from the skies!

²Praise Him, all His angels, all the armies of heaven.

³Praise Him, sun and moon and all you twinkling stars.

⁴Praise Him, skies above. Praise Him, vapors high above the clouds.

⁵Let everything He has made give praise to Him. For He issued His command, and they came into being;

^{6 H}e established them forever and forever. His orders will never be revoked.

PLEASE read the last 6 Chapters of Psalms: 145-150 so that you will learn how to Praise God like David did!

If you don’t want to get your Bible, Here they all are, just click on each Chapter and I will read them to you:

PSALMS 145 PSALMS 146 PSALMS 147 PSALMS148 PSALMS 149 PSALMS 150

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JESUS IS:

THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH,

THE LEADER,

THE ORIGINATOR,

THE LORD & MASTER,

THE SUPREME LEADER,

OUR HOPE,

1ST BORN FROM THE DEAD WITH AN IMMORTAL BODY TO NEVER DIE AGAIN,

THE 1ST FRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION,

HE IS OUR FESTIVAL OF HOPE,

OUR PARDON,

GIVEN 1ST PLACE IN EVERYTHING,

HAS BEEN EXALTED AS SUPREME OVER EVERYTHING,

IS ENOUGH,

THE FULLNESS OF GOD DWELLS IN US THROUGH JESUS,

JESUS HAS BROUGHT US INTO HARMONY WITH GOD,

HE HAS BROKERED A PEACE TREATY BETWEEN GOD & MAN,

YOU WERE BORN ON THE WRONG SIDE, BUT BY ACCEPTING JESUS

YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE NOW,

YOU ARE BEYOND REPROACH,

JESUS WAS THE SOLUTION BEFORE YOU HAD A SIN PROBLEM,

NEVER GET OVER WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU!

NOW:

THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH:

TO TEACH US TO LEAD OTHERS TO CHRIST!

AMEN!

(You might want to copy those down and memorize them!)

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DAILY BIBLE READING:

>1. Chapter for the DAY in Proverbs;

>2. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the Old Testament AND

>3. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the New Testament Daily:

Chapter 10 in Proverbs for today: (JUNE 10 (MT) (ESV)

10 The proverbs of Solomon.

A wise son makes a glad father,
    but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
²Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,
    but righteousness delivers from death.
³The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry,
    but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
⁴A slack hand causes poverty,
    but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
⁵He who gathers in summer is a prudent son,
    but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.
⁶Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
    but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.^[a]
⁷The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
    but the name of the wicked will rot.
⁸The wise of heart will receive commandments,
    but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
⁹Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,
    but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
¹⁰Whoever winks the eye causes trouble,
    and a babbling fool will come to ruin.
¹¹The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,
    but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
¹²Hatred stirs up strife,
    but love covers all offenses.
¹³On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found,
    but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
¹⁴The wise lay up knowledge,
    but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.
¹⁵A rich man’s wealth is his strong city;
    the poverty of the poor is their ruin.
¹⁶The wage of the righteous leads to life,
    the gain of the wicked to sin.
¹⁷Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,
    but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
¹⁸The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,
    and whoever utters slander is a fool.
¹⁹When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
    but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
²⁰The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;
    the heart of the wicked is of little worth.
²¹The lips of the righteous feed many,
    but fools die for lack of sense.
²²The blessing of the Lord makes rich,
    and he adds no sorrow with it.^[b]
²³Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool,
    but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
²⁴What the wicked dreads will come upon him,
    but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
²⁵When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more,
    but the righteous is established forever.
²⁶Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
    so is the sluggard to those who send him.
²⁷The fear of the Lord prolongs life,
    but the years of the wicked will be short.
²⁸The hope of the righteous brings joy,
    but the expectation of the wicked will perish.
²⁹The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless,
    but destruction to evildoers.
³⁰The righteous will never be removed,
    but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
³¹The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,
    but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
³²The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
    but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.

Footnotes

Proverbs 10:6 Or but violence covers the mouth of the wicked; also verse 11
Proverbs 10:22 Or and toil adds nothing to it

CHAPTER 17 ISAIAH for today: (JUNE 10 (JJ) (ESV)

17 An oracle concerning Damascus.

Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
    and will become a heap of ruins.
²The cities of Aroer are deserted;
    they will be for flocks,
    which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.
³The fortress will disappear from Ephraim,
    and the kingdom from Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
    like the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the Lord of hosts.

⁴And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low,
    and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.
⁵And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain
    and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
    in the Valley of Rephaim.
⁶Gleanings will be left in it,
    as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
    in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
    on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the Lord God of Israel.

⁷In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. ⁸He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.

⁹In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.

¹⁰For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
    and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
    and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
¹¹though you make them grow^[a] on the day that you plant them,
    and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away^[b]
    in a day of grief and incurable pain.

¹²Ah, the thunder of many peoples;
    they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
Ah, the roar of nations;
    they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
¹³The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
    but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
    and whirling dust before the storm.
¹⁴At evening time, behold, terror!
    Before morning, they are no more!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    and the lot of those who plunder us.

Footnotes

Isaiah 17:11 Or though you carefully fence them
Isaiah 17:11 Or will be a heap

Revelation 11

for today: (JUNE 10 (NN) ESV)

11 Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, ²but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. ³And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

⁴These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. ⁵And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ⁶They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. ⁷And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit^[a] will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, ⁸and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically^[b] is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. ⁹For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, ¹⁰and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. ¹²Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. ¹³And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁴The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

The Seventh Trumpet

¹⁵Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” ¹⁶And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷saying,

“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
    who is and who was,
for you have taken your great power
    and begun to reign.
¹⁸The nations raged,
    but your wrath came,
    and the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
    and those who fear your name,
    both small and great,
and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

¹⁹Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings,^[c] peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

Footnotes

Revelation 11:7 Or the abyss
Revelation 11:8 Greek spiritually
Revelation 11:19 Or voices, or sounds

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Please Remember:

“CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS

AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD!”

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The Steps to Salvation:

> Repent: Repentance means that you are turning away from sin to turn to Christ. It does NOT mean that you will be perfect.

> Believe/Receive: Salvation is through Faith in Jesus and by the Grace of God. Believing means putting your Faith in Jesus and receiving forgiveness of sin.

>Walk in the Newness of Life: Jesus died so that we might live. We walk in the Newness of Life being Born Again by His Blood.

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GOD THE FATHER IS THE SOVEREIGN KING
AND CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE
UNIVERSE AND BEYOND!

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