Pastor Cecil A. Thompson DailyEvotional

​PASTOR CECIL · Pastor Cecil's Devotional: “CHOOSE LIFE!” Deuteronomy 30:19a CHOOSE LIFE​! Deuteronomy 30:19a – Devotional Deuteronomy 30:19a “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life. “ Many times I have sat near grieving individuals who have just experienced the loss of a loved one. In a few instances I have been the one to deliver the news of that loved one’s death. At times I have heard statements to the effect that God needed another angel — and the deceased person was that angel. I am always compelled to debunk the false notion that we become angels when we die. It always delights me to learn that the deceased person had received Jesus as their personal Savior. All too often, however, there is no indication that the deceased had ever received Christ as their personal Savior. Some have tried to paint a picture of salvation where there is no basis for that false hope. In con

​PASTOR CECIL · Pastor Cecil's Devotional: “SALT VERSUS SAND!” Mark 9:50 SALT VERSUS SAND! Mark 9:50 – Devotional Mark 9:50 “Salt is good, but if salt loses its salty quality, you can never restore its salty quality again. Be at peace with each other. “ I can recall my teenage years when I worked mixing and hauling concrete. I still can recall how sore my muscles became as I first started working on the laborious task. That is an experience which lingers in one’s mind. I have read today’s passage from Mark’s Gospel many times and always reflect on how similar sand and salt are to each other, yet they are uniquely different. Sand is simply fine bits of stone, but salt is a chemical with unique qualities. Salt can season food to make it taste more appealing, it can preserve food to make it last longer, it can be scattered on an icy walk to make it safe to walk, or to be used in many other ways. Fries would just not taste the same without salt! Making this personal we need to ask o

​PASTOR CECIL · Pastor Cecil's Devotional: “OUR HOLY LIFE!” 2 Timothy 1:9 OUR HOLY LIFE​! 2 Timothy 1:9 – Devotional 2 Timothy 1:9 “He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of His own purpose and grace. “ I have had opportunity to spend a small amount of time in fruit orchards. I cannot recall ever hearing groans from the trees as they produced their luscious fruit. I have also walked down the long rows of onions while slicing off the seed pods for a seed company…and never once heard the onion plants groaning as they matured. The trees and the onions just produced according to their purpose. Sometimes it seems that we try our best to be something other than what God designed us to be. In writing this second letter to Timothy, the Apostle Paul clears the deck and lays it out for all of us to see. We are all called to live a holy life. Paul is quick to add that there is nothing that Timothy can do to merit this holy life, and th

​PASTOR CECIL · Pastor Cecil's Devotional: “ETERNAL VALUE!” Mark 8:36 ETERNAL VALUE​! Mark 8:36 – Devotional Mark 8:36 “What value would it be if someone were to gain the whole world, yet sacrifice their own soul? “ Many prominent people seem to possess everything this world has to offer, yet end up lacking eternal value. People sometimes sacrifice their time and talent to gain notoriety only to end up hiding from that notoriety. I recall the incident when an extremely wealthy man was asked how much money it would take for him to feel satisfied. His reply to that question was;  “Just a little bit more!” So what should we strive to accomplish in this crazy and self-centered world? It is certainly not the things that will rust, perish and fade away.  Things  will always fade, perish, and pass away. That is the reality of human existence. Only as we come to the place of receiving eternal life through the precious blood of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, will we find eternal val

​PASTOR CECIL · Pastor Cecil's Devotional: “A NEW APPEARANCE!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 A NEW APPEARANCE! 2 Corinthians 5:17 – Devotional 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new. “ Listen to today’s Message of the Week, “A New Appearance!” by clicking above on the play button. Blessings dear hearts. Walk with God today and be a blessing! – – – Pastor Cecil Subscribe to Daily Evotional Share a blessing by inviting your friends and family to subscribe to Pastor Cecil’s DailyEvotional emails by clicking on the Subscribe button above. Share the Lord with someone by directing them to  https://PastorCecil.com . If you have watched  The Sands of Eternity  video above and prayed the prayer at the end, please go to  https://PastorCecil.com/  and use the form on the webpage to let us know so we can send you follow up resources and/or send an email to  pastorcecil@dailyevotional.com  and let him

​PASTOR CECIL · Pastor Cecil's Devotional: “A RUSTY MESS!” Matthew 6:20 A RUSTY MESS​​! Matthew 6:20 – Devotional Matthew 6:20​ “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. “ Listen to today’s Message of the Week, “A Rusty Mess!” by clicking above on the play button. Blessings dear hearts. Walk with God today and be a blessing! – – – Pastor Cecil

​PASTOR CECIL · Pastor Cecil's Devotional: SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS! Zechariah 12:10 SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS​​! Zechariah 12:10 – Devotional Zechariah 12:10 “They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. “ Isaiah 53 reads . . . Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for ou