Fresh Fire Ministries

09/07/2026

09/07/2026

“He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus!” Revelation 22:20 (NKJV) The last and final recorded words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ confirm the revelation of the Apostle John while on the Isle of Patmos. It is a reminder that His imminent return is closer than we think. In fact, it is closer now than when we first believed. “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.” Romans 13:11 (NKJV) There is no other book of Scripture more sharply contrasting the blessed lot of the saints with the fearful future of those who are lost. We can rejoice in knowing that we have a prepared place because we have become a prepared people. “In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:2-3 (NKJV) Jesus is coming, and He will come. First of all He is coming. This is the event known as the rapture of the church. It is the culminating event prior to the unleashing of the tribulation period. During the rapture, Jesus will meet the church in the air after those who have died in the Lord have been resurrected. “Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up (raptured) together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.” I Thessalonians 4:17 (NKJV) Jesus will come and He will come quickly. His coming quickly in our devotional passage refers to what is called His “second advent.” Advent can be defined as a “coming into place, or arrival.” His first advent was when He came to earth to be born of a virgin in the city of Bethlehem. His second advent will be when all things concerning John’s revelation have been fulfilled and He will then return to earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords to rule over the New Jerusalem, the new heaven and the new earth. He’s coming back, He said it, and it will come to pass. It is now closer than any time in the history of mankind. It is now closer than you think. It is so much closer than when we first believed. Come Lord Jesus!

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09/05/2026

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ as made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5:1 (NKJV) Freedom is a constitutional right of our nation, and also a blood bought benefit of every believer in Jesus Christ. Once you have tasted freedom you never want to be bound again. Unfortunately your flesh is not in agreement. Its plan is to bring you back into captivity to the things that Christ has set you free from. Here’s the picture. The very thing that we said we were not going to do, not going to participate in, not going to eat, not going to drink, and the places that we said we were not going to visit, now all of a sudden, we want to. Where did that come from? Our flesh feels the allure; we can even visualize it, taste it, lust for it, and desire it. We can feel a slow drift. We pre-plan the excuses that we will make should we give in to the flesh and try desperately to find justification and rationalization for doing so. But we must stand fast. We cannot afford to go there. We cannot be entangled again. No, never again. “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” John 8:36 (NKJV) This was the admonition of the Apostle Paul in our text to the church at Galatia as well as to all believers for all time. The operative word is “again” which provides a duality of meaning for our understanding. It first means that we were once bound in chains, locked up, and imprisoned to something or someone in total opposition to the liberty afforded to us by Christ. Secondly, it is clear that at the time of the writing the Galatian church was free as we also are since Christ destroyed the chains that had us bound. We must stand fast. For the Galatians it was to stand fast apart from the Law of Moses, the commandments and the 613 precepts that were attached to it. For us, it is to stand fast against anything that halts, hinders, or completely holds back our ability to move ahead no longer captive to the things that formerly had dominion over us. We can’t go back, voluntarily, involuntarily, or by an act of compromise or agreement with those who do not have our best interests at heart. Stand fast in our decision-making process and refuse to be associated with the past. Christ has made us free! If you have ever been bound, shackled, locked up, or locked down regarding the issues of this life, and have tasted the sweet nectar of freedom. Then surely you never want to be bound again. Stand fast! Stay encouraged! Stay free!

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09/04/2026

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us.” Ephesians 4:20 (NKJV) What is it that you have asked God to do or to answer? Be encouraged in knowing that He is able to do it. What is it that has captivated your thoughts, permeated your mind to the point that you are not able to put it into words? Be reminded that God is able to do it. We serve a God who is absolutely, categorically, and unequivocally able. What are we asking for? The salvation of a loved one? Peace in the midst of a storm? Victory over sin? Wisdom to make the right decision. No matter what we long for, God is able to do it. God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we may ask or think. When God does what is “exceedingly and abundantly” as He works on our behalf, it literally means that He does what is “superabundant, more than enough, and above the ordinary.” There are times when our plans and projects, done on our own and under “our” power fall far short of what we need accomplished in our life. But when we make our needs known to God, He will take our fallible and finite request to a totally different level far “above” what we originally desired. The things that God has for us are far beyond what we could ever ask or think because they manifest on a level far beyond our physical or human comprehension. They can’t be seen with our eyes nor heard with our ears. “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for those who love Him.” I Corinthians 2:9 (NKJV) Here is where the text becomes quite interesting. God accomplishes those things that are beyond what we can request or imagine through the power that works within the life of every believer. This “power” in the original text is best defined as God’s “untrammeled, unequaled, and unlimited power.” It is the same “power” that Jesus said that we would receive when the Holy Spirit comes upon us in Acts 1:8. God uses this same transforming power to work in us those things that are above and beyond what we could ever ask or think. He uses the power that is already in us, to work for us so that we may receive what we have desired of Him.

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09/03/2026

"Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV) The invitation to call upon God suggests to us that divine revelation becomes reality when we seek after it. "Ask, and it will be given to you, seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you." Matthew 7:7 (NKJV) The word "ask" in this text is the idea of an individual making a request of someone who is in a higher position, such as an individual asking something from God. When we ask of God He will give, just as when we call upon Him, he will certainly answer us. But we must be willing to call on Him. When we call upon the Lord, He is willing and able to answer us regardless of our circumstances, conditions, or the calamity that we may be facing. The prophet Jeremiah can certainly testify to that fact during his time in the courtyard of the guard during the siege of Jerusalem. It is in the midst of this dire situation that the Lord himself calls upon Jeremiah to call upon Him. It is absolutely awesome to know that God will at times, invite us to cry out to Him. Psalm 50:15 declares that when we "call" upon the Lord in the day of trouble He will deliver us. Psalm 86:5 says "For you Lord are good and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who will call upon you. God will answer but we must call. The promise of the Father is not only that He is waiting to receive our call or cry, but He is also ready to answer our request. When God answers, it is never void of revelation. He seeks to announce or manifest things to us that are beyond our human understanding. When we call, God will speak. When God speaks, great and mighty things will be accomplished on our behalf. "So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it will accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV) In the context of Jeremiah's experience with God; He cannot answer unless we call. This does necessarily mean that we need to become loud or shout in order for Him to hear us. If we are in right relationship with Him, we know His voice and He knows ours. Even the faintest cry does not escape God's hearing. If you have not received an answer, perhaps you have not called on Him. Have you called on Him?

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09/02/2026

“Then Job answered the Lord and said: I know that you can do everything, and that no purpose of yours can be withheld from you.” Job 42:1 (NKJV) More than likely you have already heard or been made aware of the personal storm encountered by God’s servant Job. It was catastrophic, disastrous, and something that no child of God should have to endure unless God who is ultimately sovereign, permits it. In the case of Job, that is exactly what God did. In Job chapters 3 through 26, Job dialogues with his friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar who questioned Job’s relationship with God, concluding that because of the magnitude of the storm that he was ensnared in, he surely must have sinned and come short of God’s divine standard. How wrong they were. God had obviously overheard every conversation that Job had with his friends. He hears them trying to rationalize what Job was going through from their own humanistic and limited comprehension. Struggling to figure things out but coming up short. What is next on our agenda after the winds stop blowing, the clouds begin to roll back, and the torrential rains subside? The obvious answer is to begin thanking and praising God for the breakthrough, for our deliverance, and for keeping us when we thought that we may have been going down for the last time. Job’s response to God’s inquiry in our devotional passage is tailored to teach us what we should come to know after the storm is over and something that we often overlook in the midst of our praise. It’s the sovereignty of God. Job discovered by way of revelation that God was autonomous, independent, and that He could do whatever He wants to do when, how, and with whom He wants to do it with. He doesn’t need our input, nor does He seek our permission. And whatever God decides to do by way of a storm or any other device at His disposal, nothing or no one can thwart His purposes. After the storm Job finds out by way of personal experience things about God and their relationship that He had only heard from the mouths and witness of others concerning their own experience with God. Now Job knew for himself, things about God that he would have never known had he not encountered the storm.

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09/01/2026

“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous.” Romans 5:19 (NKJV) One man, one decision, in cooperation with Eve brought sin into the world and imputed into us all a human condition that will not be cured until Jesus comes. “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death spread to all man, because all have sinned.” Romans 5:12 (NKJV) Sin is in our DNA. It cannot be prayed away, legislated, or ignored. We battle with it, often in our own personal denial, but the fact still remains the same. The sin of one man has been released upon us all. Sure, we weren’t there, and none of us were even born. Yet we bear the end result in our human behavior and the choices that we make on a reoccurring basis. Every man, woman, boy, and girl born into the world after the sin, and in the similitude of Adam, have been born in sin. It is a reality that we must all face each and every day that our feet touch the firmament of God’s earth. So for some, who may, out of ignorance or otherwise believe that they have never erred or come short of the glory of God, think again. Just one man and the damage done on that infamous day in the garden has now impacted at least 8 billion people worldwide and counting, and those who will be born into this world that has been grossly deformed morally, all because of one man. It’s very difficult to phantom, but it no less true. The first man, Adam is the sole perpetrator of every form of evil and disobedience that we now experience real time around the world. “For we have all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23 (NKJV) Thank God for Jesus! “The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second man is the Lord from heaven.” I Corinthians 15:47 (NKJV) What one man did and could not undo, God provides a perfect man in the person of His only begotten son to undo, as one man, what one man could not do. Hallelujah today! Jesus in pure, perfect, and undefiled obedience to the Father provides the universal remedy for the universal pandemic of sin. No one could, or would, but Jesus can, did, and will. For those who name Him as Lord, Jesus has become the sin offering in full and total satisfaction of God’s requirement to save us from our sin, and to give us eternal life.

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08/31/2026

“But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8 (NKJV) The atmosphere and landscape for bad doctrine has been produced and perpetuated by a society and culture that has progressively lost its appetite for sound doctrine. Bad doctrine can only survive when there has been an ongoing separation from healthy, wholesome, and biblically correct sound doctrine. Paul’s letter to the church at Galatia in our devotional passage addresses a 1st century church problem that even now has 21st century church implications. At issue was the turning away from the gospel of Jesus Christ by some of the congregants at Galatia, into a “different” gospel. Here the idea of different carries the meaning of “strange or altered doctrine.” It certainly was not the gospel that Paul had preached and taught them. But there were those who had infiltrated the church, causing trouble with their unrelenting attempts to pervert the purity and power of the gospel of our Lord. It was an issue of epic proportions. Even to the point that Paul pronounces condemnation on anyone, even an angel who would dare have the audacity to preach any other gospel, that whoever attempted to do so should be accursed. We need not look very far to be able to hear and see countless examples of words, doctrines, and theologies that have not agreed with the Word of God. Our nation’s highest court has redefined marriage. Preaching in many locales has become merely a scripture with a funny story accompanying it. Worship has lost its sanctity and borders on entertainment. We are slowly drifting into an era of “itching ear” theology. Where people want to hear what they want to hear, when they want to hear it, and how they want to hear it. If it doesn’t meet their “personal” standard they keep moving on to find a place of worship that does. As bad as it may sound, and as dismal as it may seem, thank God it is not the end of the story. Truth will always prevail and overcome bad doctrine. But we must be willing to stand on the truth of the Word of God regardless of society, culture, or a generation that has become in many respects wordless. The key is knowing the truth when you hear it or read it. “If you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:31-32 (NKJV)

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08/30/2026

“Oh I want to see Him look upon His face. There to sing forever of His saving grace. On the streets of glory let me lift my voice. Cares all past, home at last, ever to rejoice.” Here we are once more and again our precious and forgiving Heavenly Father. Needing you now in this hour more than we have ever needed you before. Some need you for one thing and some for another. We come confessing that there is no one else who can help us in these closing days of grace. We also come this morning in great anticipation on the day that we as believers will see you face to face. What a glorious day that will be. Our cares and troubles of this mean and cruel world will be gone forever. We bless you that it is what you have promised us. And that there has never been one promise of your word that has ever failed us. Until that great day. Keep us. Even when we don’t want to be kept. Deliver us. While we yet struggle in our flesh. Lead us and guide us. When we are going astray. And then keep your hands on us until you get out of us what you have invested. In Jesus’ name.

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