June has featured Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. Here is what God is doing in the lives of our youth. Be encouraged by the Word of God and their devotional that they are sharing today! SCRIPTURE:  “When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE:  “But You, O Lord, are a shield [a]for me, my glory and the One who lifts up my head.” Psalms 3:3 I recently graduated from 8th grade. I was blessed to have been on the honor roll, have a great reputation and...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. PRAYER:  "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."   Proverbs 3:5-6 God showed me that going to Concordia Prep at...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippian 4:13 I was accepted to Concordia Prep for high school, and I was excited about going there, too. I was trusting God and praying every day f...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE: “I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.” Philippians 4:12 The Lord has shown what I...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE: “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, more height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate ...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE: “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” II Cor. 4:8-9 I think my biggest trouble has been keeping a ...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE:  “Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.” Proverbs 12:25 Depression can cast a heavy burden on our hearts, leaving us feeling weighed down and overwhelmed. But during this struggle, ther...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE: “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13 Depression can be a relentless battle that seeks to consume our joy, steal our hope, and leave us feeling defeated. But in the face of t...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE:  “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 When faced with the overwhelming burden of...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth. Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 NIV God wants us to repent when we sin. He wants me to do this because it feels ...  Read More

June will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. It is good to read godly inspiration from our youth.  Be encouraged by God's Word working in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE: “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning...  Read More

Throughout the month of June we will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. May your hearts be encouraged by what the Lord's Word is doing in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE: “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” Psalm 23:4 NIV God showed me this in my life when I went to an Orioles gam...  Read More

Throughout the month of June we will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. May your hearts be encouraged by what the Lord's Word is doing in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to ...  Read More

Throughout the month of June we will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. May your hearts be encouraged by what the Lord's Word is doing in the hearts of our young people SCRIPTURE: “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”  1 Corinthians 13:11 The conflict of being a child and a man. One...  Read More

Throughout the month of June we will feature Devotionals written by our GBFC Youth. May your hearts be encouraged by what the Lord's Word is doing in the hearts of our young people. SCRIPTURE:  “But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, 'Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.' 41 And Jesus answered and sai...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.  18 ‘Come now, and let us reason together,’ Says the Lord, ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, they shall be ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.” 1 Corinthians 10:21 You can’t partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons. (You might think,) "How can I get some of that stuff from the demon table, because the demon table looks good?"  It’s appetizing, but that’s your flesh calling you. Just beca...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “You therefore must endure[a] hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” 2 Timothy 2:3-4 Today as you have opportunity to celebrate Memorial Day take a moment and thank God for those who have died in the line of service to our country. They indeed endured ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: "I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. 3 You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4 Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’ 5 'I have heard of You by the hearing...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.” 1 Corinthians 10:21 Liberty in Jesus does not mean that you can do whatever you want. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons. In common language, you cannot straddle the fen...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,” 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 Are you resisting the knowledge of God...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  “What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? 20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.” 1 Corinthians 1...  Read More