By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Saturday, May 2, 2020 Let us continue to pray that our Lord will lead the scientists and physicians to find a vaccine for treating this deadly coronavirus. We know that God is able to do anything but fail. I hope
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Friday, May 1, 2020 Well, my brothers and sisters, the Lord has blessed us to see the fifth month in this year. My God, we are still living! Over a million of our fellow Americans have been infected by this
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Thursday, April 30, 2020 Are you determined to run on to see what the end will be? A person of destiny will find his or her identity in Christ. We can’t find eternal security when our identity is misplaced and
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Wednesday, April 29, 2020 My devotionals this week are about the significance of identity, destiny and legacy. I took a brieftour back to West Africa, Senegal, the deadly island of Goree, where ‘perhaps millions of our ancestorswere tortured and packed
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Tuesday, April 28, 2020 You are destiny’s child; you are a person of destiny and you were born to be great. When I use the word great, I have in mind becoming all that God has called you to be
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Monday, April 27, 2020 I strongly believe that God has given each of us a God-sized dream and destiny. God created us in “…in His own image.” (Genesis 1:27) God has a glorious purpose for your life and my life.
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Sunday, April 26, 2020 I have been greatly blessed by almighty God to have been born into a family that has great faith in our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. My beloved parents and grandparents were people of great faith.
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Saturday, April 25, 2020 Let me sincerely thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to read the daily devotionals. Let me thank Dr. Linda Fortenberry for editing these devotionals and for her faithfulness. I do these
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Friday, April 24, 2020 The Bible says in Galatians 3: 11, “But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident, for the just shall by faith.” The question is on this Friday, the
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Thursday, April 23, 2020 Our focus this week has been on faith, specifically, stepping out in faith. Hebrews 11:1 states “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Having true faith means we believe
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Wednesday, April 22, 2020 I think you know by now that my thematic focus for this week is “Faith.” I gave you a definition in faith in our Monday devotional. “True Bible faith is confident obedience to God’s word in
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Tuesday, April 21, 2020 The Christian is called to live by faith. We are challenged in Romans 1:17 to go from faith to faith: “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it written, the
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Monday, April 20, 2020 As we walk by faith and not by sight, God will consistently reveal to us His grace, His love, His strength and His mercy. As we move from fear to faith, God will shower us with
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Sunday, April 19, 2020 We can have the victory over sin. I asked you a few days ago “What victories do believers enjoy?” Remember, we have the victory over death; we have the victory over Satan and we have the victory
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Saturday, April 18, 2020 The good news is that we have the victory. We can rise again. We can hope and believe again. There is a lot of talk about Making America Great Again and now talk of opening the
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Friday, April 17, 2020 Now is not the time to quit or to spiritually turn back to Egypt. We can live in victory; walk in victory; and speak victoriously when we truly believe that Jesus died to give us the
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Thursday, April 16, 2020 Today, I want to encourage you to live in victory. God’s will for us is to live a victorious life. I want you to live in victory. One great sign for living in victory is that
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Wednesday, April 15, 2020 “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Where do we go after the Resurrection? We are to be a witness. This period of “shelter in place” is prime time for believers to seek, search and survey the lost souls in our families and
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Monday, April 13, 2020 In these challenging and troubling times, we must not give any place to Satan; he wants us to falter, fail and become frustrated. It is important that the body of Christ maintains her vibrancy, vitality, vision
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Sunday, April 12, 2020 Today is Easter Sunday. Today is Resurrection Sunday. Today is the Lord’s Day. “This the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24) Many churches are closed today
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Saturday, April 11, 2020 Because of Calvary, Jesus nailed our sin nature on the cross. The Good Shepherd died for the sheep. Remember, the sheep didn’t die for the Shepherd, and the sinner couldn’t die for the Savior. Because of
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Friday, April 10, 2020 Today is Good Friday. Several thousand years ago, Jesus marched up to Calvary’s cross to demonstrate how much He loves us. He suffered, bled and died for our sins. “But God demonstrates His love toward us,
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Thursday, April 9, 2020 As we take our walk with Jesus, we must become extremely thankful that Jesus is our Good Shepherd. In St. John 10:1, Jesus says “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd giveth his life for
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Wednesday, April 8, 2020 As we prayerfully listen to the voice of Jesus during this Holy Week 2020, I think Jesus has a lot to say to us. As we remember “Calvary,” Jesus taught us remarkably about several of the
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Tuesday, April 7, 2020 How is your faith at this time in your life? I am praying that the God who said, “I am that I am” will give you the strength and the resolve to continue to trust his
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Monday, April 6, 2020 In times like these, we must become more keenly aware of who is the Lord God Almighty. You need to know who God is for yourself. It won’t work if you don’t have a personal, intimate
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Sunday, April 5, 2020 Well, you may have gotten it by now. This week, I tried to share with you that you can trust the promises of God. Jesus said in Saint Matthew 4:4, “It is written, man shall not
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Saturday, April 4, 2020 Today, April 4th is the day that Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., was murdered in 1968. If you were born during that dark day, where were you? I know where I was: a young teenager, very
By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Friday, April 3, 2020 This week, the Holy Spirt led me to do the daily devotional around the “Promises of God.” We are to live on the promises of God and not the explanations of mankind. The word says in