Category: Daily Devotions

“The fear of human opinion disables; trusting in GOD protects you from that.” (Proverbs 29:25, Message Translation [paraphrase]) Anyone who has ever tried to do anything great has, at some point, come face-to-face with naysayers — people who tried to convince you that your dream or goal wasn’t worth going after: If these people had…

“Your Father knows what you need. But put God’s work first, and these other things will be yours as well.” (Luke 12:30-31, CEV) In most cultures today, it’s easy to think of yourself first — to hoard all your resources and to consider your own interests before other people. But Jesus calls you to live…

“Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.” (1 John 2:6, NLT) When you build your life on God’s Word, you develop a worldview that helps you live out his purposes. But with so many faulty worldviews around us, how can you stay focused on what really matters? How…

“… See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” (Romans 9:33) Read Romans 9:19–33. St. Paul knows what it is like to stumble: To trip over his best intentions in his…

“All of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.” (2…

“The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.” (Psalm 103:8) Read Psalm 103:1–8. Do you ever get frustrated with others around you because they seem to do the same thing that irritates you or lets you down? Do you have those friends who always cancel a catch-up at the last minute?…

“All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on Him the sins of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6, NLT) The world is full of heart disease today — but not just the physical kind. There are many spiritual diseases of the heart, like…

“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” (Romans 8:18) Read Romans 8:18–25. Suffering is not something we enjoy going through in life. We don’t want to suffer; we want to be comfortable in the things we do. Many of us hate being out…

“Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.” (Mark 4:27) Read Mark 4:3-20. Have you sown a “seed” of faith, and now you’re wondering when you will reap the “harvest” God promised in His Word? If so, read on: “The kingdom of God…