RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
CONFESS YOUR SINS TO ONE ANOTHER
JAMES 5:16 16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous...
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DAILY DEVOTIONS
RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
PRAYING IN FAITH
JAMES 5:13-15 13Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. 14Is anyone among you...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
NEVER TELL A LIE!!
JAMES 5:12 12Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
THE LORD IS FULL OF COMPASSION AND MERCY
JAMES 5:10-11 10Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- 6 days ago
- 1 min
DON'T JUDGE OTHERS!
JAMES 5:9 9Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judges is standing at the door! 5: 9 ...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- 7 days ago
- 1 min
BE PATIENT!!
JAMES 5:7-8 7Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 25
- 1 min
TREATING OTHERS FAIRLY MATTERS TO GOD
JAMES 5:6 6You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. 5: 6 The “innocent” were defenseless persons,...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 24
- 1 min
PAY THEM WHAT THEY ARE WORTH
JAMES 5:4 4Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 23
- 1 min
MONEY IS WORTH NOTHING IN ETERNITY
JAMES 5:1-3 1Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2Your wealth has rotted, and moths...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 22
- 1 min
BOASTING IN OUR ARROGANCE IS SIN
JAMES 4:16-17 16As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 21
- 2 min
IF IT BE THE LORDS WILL!!
JAMES 4:13-15 13Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 20
- 2 min
THE LAW OF LOVE!!
JAMES 4:11-12 11Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 19
- 3 min
SUBMIT YOURSELF TO GOD AND RESIST THE DEVIL
JAMES 4:7-10 7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Come near to God and he will come near to...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 18
- 1 min
DON'T BE PRIDEFULL!!
JAMES 4:4-6 4You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 17
- 2 min
Submit Yourselves to God
JAMES 4:1-3 1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 15
- 1 min
BECOMING WISE
JAMES 3:14-17 14But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15Such...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 15
- 1 min
BE A PEACEMAKER
JAMES 3:18 18Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness. 3: 18 James was known as a peacemaker (Acts 15: 13-21;...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 13
- 3 min
THE WIFE OF NOBLE CHARACTER
PROVERBS 31:10-31 10aA wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. 11Her husband has full confidence...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 13
- 1 min
WHO IS WISE??
JAMES 3:13 13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 12
- 1 min
THE TONGUE SHOULD BE LIKE A REFRESHING SPRING OF THE HOLY SPIRITS WATER!!
JAMES 3:9-12 9With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness.n...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 10
- 1 min
HUMAN ALONE CAN'T TAME THE TONGUE!!
JAMES 3:7-8 7All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, 8but no human being...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 8
- 1 min
THE TONGUE CORRUPTS THE WHOLE BODY!!!
JAMES 3:6 6The tongue also is a fire, world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 7
- 1 min
MAKE SURE YOU CONTROL YOUR SPEECH
JAMES 3:2-5 2We all stumbled in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 6
- 1 min
TEACHERS ARE HELD TO HIGHER STANDARD!!
JAMES 3:1 1Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly....
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 5
- 1 min
FAITH WITHOUT DEEDS IS DEAD!!
JAMES 2:25-26 5In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 4
- 1 min
OBEDIENCE SHOWS OUR GENUINE FAITH!!
JAMES 2:21-24 21Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22You see...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 3
- 1 min
FAITH WITHOUT ACTION IS DEAD!!
JAMES 2:17-20 17In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18But someone will say, “You have faith; I...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 2
- 1 min
TRUE FAITH CHANGES OUR LIVES CONDUCT
JAMES 2:14-16 14What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- May 1
- 1 min
JUDGE NOT OR YOU WILL BE JUDGED THE SAME.
JAMES 2:13 13because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment. 2: 13 By...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 30
- 1 min
THE LAW GIVES FREEDOM!!
JAMES 2:12 12Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom. 2: 12 As Christians, we are saved by...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 29
- 2 min
LOVE AS CHRIST LOVES US!!
JAMES 2:8-11 8If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. 9But if you...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 28
- 3 min
DON'T SHOW FAVORITISM!!!!!
JAMES 2:2-7 2Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 27
- 1 min
DON'T SHOW FAVORITISM
JAMES 2:1 1My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. 2: 1-26 In this chapter,...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 26
- 1 min
BE CARING AND COMPASSIONATE AND DON'T BECOME OF THE WORLD!
JAMES 1:27 27Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 25
- 2 min
JAMES 1:26REIGNING IN THE TONGUE!!!!
JAMES 1:26 26Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 24
- 2 min
DO NOT DECIEVE YOURSELF
JAMES 1:22-25 22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23Anyone who listens to the word but does...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 23
- 1 min
GET RID OF ALL FILTH!!!!
JAMES 1:21 21Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 21
- 2 min
LISTEN WELL,THINK ABOUT WHAT IS SAID,THEN SPEAK!
JAMES 1:19-20 19My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 20
- 1 min
LIGHT IS GOOD!!!
JAMES 1:17-18 17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not changed like...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 19
- 2 min
NEVER SAY GOD TEMPTED ME!!!
JAMES 1:13-16 13When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14but...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 18
- 1 min
PERSERVERE UNDER TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS
JAMES 1:12 12Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 17
- 2 min
HUMBLE LIVES NOT WEALTHY LIVING!!!
JAMES 1:9-11 9Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position. 10But the rich should take pride in their...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 16
- 2 min
BELIEVE AND NOT DOUBT
JAMES 1:6-8 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 14
- 2 min
Do we lack wisdom??
JAMES 1:5 5If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 13
- 2 min
FAITH PRODUCES PERSERVERANCE
JAMES 1:2-4 2Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 12
- 1 min
JAMES GREETINGS TO THE CHRISTIANS IN BUILDING THEIR FAITH!
JAMES 1:1 1James, a a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings. 1: 1 ...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 11
- 3 min
JAMES STUDY
WE ARE STARTING THE BOOK OF JAMES.HERE ARE THE KEY FACTORS OF THE BOOK. PURPOSE: To expose hypocritical practices and to teach how...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 10
- 1 min
THE LORD IS WITH US ALL!!
2 THESSALONIANS 3:18 16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.17I,...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 9
- 1 min
HE HAS RISEN!!!!
GOOD MORNING AND WHAT A GREAT DAY OF CELEBRATION. MY FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR! THE DAY CHRIST OVERCAME EVIL BY HIS RESSURECTION FROM THE...
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RICHARD DEAN BROOKS
- Apr 6
- 1 min
WARN THOSE WHO DISOBEY GODS INSTRUCTIONS!!
2 THESSALONIANS 3:14-15 14Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in...
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