July 14, 2026

Daily Devotional

The Second Coming of Christ!

The return of Jesus Christ stands as the great and blessed hope of every believer! While His first coming secured our salvation through His death and resurrection, His second coming will bring the full realization of God’s kingdom, the resurrection of the dead, and the final judgment!

The Living Bible describes this climactic event in Matthew 24:30, speaking of the signal of His coming appearing in the heavens and the nations seeing the Son of Man arrive on the clouds with power and great glory. It will be heralded by a commanding shout, the voice of the archangel, and the trumpet call of God (1 Thessalonians 4:16 TLB). At that moment, the dead in Christ will rise first. Then those believers who are still alive will be caught up with them in the clouds in their Eternal Bodies to meet the Lord in the air and be with Him forever (1 Thessalonians 4:17 TLB)! In the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, the dead will be raised imperishable and we will all be changed (1 Corinthians 15:52 TLB)!

This coming is also the day of the Lord, a time of righteous judgment. The TLB cautions in 2 Peter 3:10 that it will come like a thief, with the heavens passing away with a terrible noise and the elements destroyed by fire. Christ will then judge the living and the dead, separating the righteous from the unrighteous as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats (Matthew 25:31-32 TLB). Every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him (Revelation 1:7 TLB).

Yet for those who belong to Christ, this is our blessed hope (Titus 2:13 TLB). When He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is, and this hope causes us to purify ourselves (1 John 3:2-3 TLB). Jesus promised His disciples in John 14:3 TLB that when everything is ready, He will come and get them so they will always be with Him. The angels at His ascension confirmed that this same Jesus will return in the same manner as He went into heaven (Acts 1:11 TLB).

In light of His certain return, we must live in readiness. The TLB reminds us in 1 Thessalonians 5:2 that the day comes as unexpectedly as a thief in the night. We are to watch and be ready (Matthew 24:42 TLB). This glorious hope calls us to lives of holiness, urgent evangelism, and unwavering faith. It comforts us in sorrow and motivates us to share the gospel, knowing time is short.

The coming of Christ will right every wrong and bring eternal joy to His people. Let us live each day in eager expectation of that wonderful Event!

AMEN!

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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 13 in Proverbs for today: (JULY 13 (MT) (ESV)

13 A wise son hears his father’s instruction,
    but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
²From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good,
    but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
³Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
    he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
⁴The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
    while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
⁵The righteous hates falsehood,
    but the wicked brings shame^[a] and disgrace.
⁶Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless,
    but sin overthrows the wicked.
⁷One pretends to be rich,^[b] yet has nothing;
    another pretends to be poor,^[c] yet has great wealth.
⁸The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth,
    but a poor man hears no threat.
⁹The light of the righteous rejoices,
    but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
¹⁰By insolence comes nothing but strife,
    but with those who take advice is wisdom.
¹¹Wealth gained hastily^[d] will dwindle,
    but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
¹²Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
    but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
¹³Whoever despises the word^[e] brings destruction on himself,
    but he who reveres the commandment^[f] will be rewarded.
¹⁴The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
    that one may turn away from the snares of death.
¹⁵Good sense wins favor,
    but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.^[g]
¹⁶Every prudent man acts with knowledge,
    but a fool flaunts his folly.
¹⁷A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
    but a faithful envoy brings healing.
¹⁸Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction,
    but whoever heeds reproof is honored.
¹⁹A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul,
    but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.
²⁰Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
    but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
²¹Disaster^[h] pursues sinners,
    but the righteous are rewarded with good.
²²A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
    but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
²³The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food,
    but it is swept away through injustice.
²⁴Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
    but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.^[i]
²⁵The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite,
    but the belly of the wicked suffers want.

Footnotes

Proverbs 13:5 Or stench
Proverbs 13:7 Or One makes himself rich
Proverbs 13:7 Or another makes himself poor
Proverbs 13:11 Or by fraud
Proverbs 13:13 Or a word
Proverbs 13:13 Or a commandment
Proverbs 13:15 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); Hebrew is rugged, or is an enduring rut
Proverbs 13:21 Or Evil
Proverbs 13:24 Or who loves him disciplines him early

CHAPTER 50 ISAIAH for today: (JULY 19 (JJ) (ESV)

50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce,
    with which I sent her away?
Or which of my creditors is it
    to whom I have sold you?
Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
    and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
²Why, when I came, was there no man;
    why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
    Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea,
    I make the rivers a desert;
their fish stink for lack of water
    and die of thirst.
³I clothe the heavens with blackness
    and make sackcloth their covering.”

⁴The Lord God has given me
    the tongue of those who are taught,
that I may know how to sustain with a word
    him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
    he awakens my ear
    to hear as those who are taught.
⁵The Lord God has opened my ear,
    and I was not rebellious;
    I turned not backward.
⁶I gave my back to those who strike,
    and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
I hid not my face
    from disgrace and spitting.

⁷But the Lord God helps me;
    therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
    and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
⁸    He who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
    Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
    Let him come near to me.
⁹Behold, the Lord God helps me;
    who will declare me guilty?
Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;
    the moth will eat them up.

¹⁰Who among you fears the Lord
    and obeys the voice of his servant?
Let him who walks in darkness
    and has no light
trust in the name of the Lord
    and rely on his God.
¹¹Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
    who equip yourselves with burning torches!
Walk by the light of your fire,
    and by the torches that you have kindled!
This you have from my hand:
    you shall lie down in torment.

Revelation 01

for today: (JULY 13 (NN) ESV)

1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants^[a] the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, ²who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. ³Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

Greeting to the Seven Churches

⁴John to the seven churches that are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, ⁵and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ⁶and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. ⁷Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail^[b] on account of him. Even so. Amen.

⁸“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Vision of the Son of Man

⁹I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. ¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet ¹¹saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

¹²Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, ¹³and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. ¹⁴The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, ¹⁵his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. ¹⁶In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

¹⁷When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, ¹⁸and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. ¹⁹Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. ²⁰As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Footnotes

Revelation 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; likewise for servant later in this verse
Revelation 1:7 Or mourn

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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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