Dean Allen's Daily Devotional

-August 5, 2025-

Good morning beloved, happy Tuesday,

“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.”

(1 Peter 4:18).

Peter, a disciple, an apostle, spent three years with Jesus. God transformed him from a sinner to a saint. Christ turned him from a fisher of fish to a fisher of men.

Jesus is our Savior who died in our place on the cross. I was the one who sinned, I was unjust, I was separated from God, I was under condemnation, I was the one who was lost. He was sinless, holy, blameless, and undefiled. That is mercy, that is grace, that He would take our place.

Peter writing of Christ said, “who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).

Our sins were imputed to Christ and He bore them in His own body. He paid our sin debt. We should have died and been banished to hell forever. He was bound so that we might go free. He was punished so we might be pardoned through His sacrificial death on the cross.

Just as our sins were imputed to Christ, so too, God has imputed Christ’s righteousness to us. We who were far from God have been brought near by the precious blood of Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

May we rejoice today that through Christ’s substitutionary death we have salvation, forgiveness of sins, and eternal life. Have a blessed day living for our Savior and serving Him.

“ For by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous (Roman’s 5:19).

Dean

-August 4, 2025-

Good morning beloved, happy Monday,

“My flesh and my heart may fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

(Psalm 73:26).

As we grow older, we come to the harsh reality that we have more and more limitations. We can’t see as well, hear as well, walk as fast, move as well or remember things as well as we used to.

These bodies are wearing out. The psalmist tells us, “My flesh and my heart may fail..” Instead of fighting it, we must face it and embrace it. We all have weaknesses, challenges, and obstacles we go through on a daily basis.

The psalmist found the answer, the elixir of life, “But God is the strength (or rock) of my heart and my portion forever.” God hears and answers our prayers and promises to help us in every way, every day.

Paul writing to the Corinthians wrote, “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16). Man’s priorities are body, soul, and spirit—God’s priorities are in reverse order: spirit, soul, and body.

May we focus our attention on things above not the things of the earth. God promises to take care of us, even as we age. Let us do all we can for a long as we can, the best we can. We aren’t helpless but we need a little help. One of the hardest things we can ask for is help.

Have a blessed day. Stay safe and healthy.

Though we have many limitations, God has not a single one.

Dean

-August 3, 2025-

Good morning beloved, happy Lord’s Day,

“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation! Selah.”

(Psalm 68:19).

The Lord has richly and abundantly blessed us, He is blessing us, and He will bless us the future. God bestows His blessings on us daily, as He does His sufficient grace. He daily loads us with benefits.

The word load is defined as, “to make (someone or something) to carry or hold a large or excessive amount of heavy things.” The load of benefits that the load gives is not meant to burden us, but bless us.

When I think of a load I think of a covered wagon or wagons filled to capacity crossing the country from east to west. In Scripture, Joseph sent wagons full of provisions to sustain his father and his family as they traveled from Canaan to Egypt.

Can we not say, “God has blessed us over abundantly, more than we could ask of think.” We are so blessed with loads of benefits and blessings, way more than we deserve. In fact, we deserve nothing, yet He gives us everything.

Have a blessed Lord’s Day. Stay safe and healthy.

He carries our burdens and loads us with His benefits and blessings. As Psalm 103:2 says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, and forget not all His benefits.”

Dean

-August 2, 2025-

Good morning beloved, happy Saturday,

“Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul.”

(Psalm 66:16).

Psalm 66 is one of the anonymous psalms, and is such a blessing to every child of God. God uses each of us who are blessed, to bless others. We all need to know we are not alone in this Christian life in what we are going through.

Our words of praise in what God has done for us stirs up others to do the same. This is why we need to meet together in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and praise His name together.

Hebrews 10:24-25, “And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much more as you see the Day approaching.”

I love the expression, “I will declare what He has done for my soul.” It all begins with our salvation. None of deserve to be saved, but we are saved by grace through faith. The salvation of a soul is the greatest of all miracles. But God continues to do great things in our lives. Each day is a new page in a new chapter in the book of our lives.

Paul wrote in Romans 8:32, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things.” God is a bountiful giver.

Let us all declare to one another what He has done for our souls. Have a blessed day. Stay safe and healthy.

The more blessings we receive from Him, the more we have to declare praise and thanks to Him.

Dean

-August 1, 2025-

Good morning beloved, happy Friday,

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.”

(Romans 1:16).

The gospel means the glad tidings or good news. In a world inundated with bad news, the message of the good news is the best news. Paul unashamedly preached the gospel to both the Jews and the Gentiles. In some cases, he risked his life to further the gospel.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4, is what we call “The Gospel in a Nutshell.” Paul wrote, “For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according the the Scripture, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.”

The message of the gospel is simple and clear enough that even an even young child can understand it. God made the message so powerful that it changes lives. The word for power in the Greek is dunamis, from which we derive our English word dynamite.

The Holy Spirit uses the Word of God to transform our lives. The gospel never grows old, is always fresh and flourishing. Let us meditate on it, have it at the ready to share it, and pray that God would prepare hearts to receive it.

Have a blessed day proclaiming the gospel. Stay safe and healthy.

Let us live out the gospel, speak forth the gospel, and stand firm in the gospel.

Dean