Category: Daily Devotions

“If you declare with your mouth ‘Jesus is Lord’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9) Paul grieves for his fellow Jews, who, with zeal to please God, try to cover themselves with their own righteousness. They were still attempting to obey the law…

“Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD — that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” (Psalms 83:18) The Israelites called God Jehovah, a name they thought of as incommunicable and inexplicable. The name means the “self-existing one”; the “I am”. He was before all things, the creator of…

“The words ‘it was credited to him’ were not written for him alone but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness — for us who believe in him (Romans 4:23, 24). When we think of something being “credited”, we can think of a gift being paid anonymously into our bank account, or we…

“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.” (Romans 6:12) Paul writes: “Consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ … Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires ……

“At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the…

“Deliver me from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.” (Psalm 22:20 Have you ever been on a plane that was either in the midst of a storm or skirting it? How flimsy the armrests feel as you grip them tighter with each successive drop of turbulence. The overhead lockers clatter,…

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine … to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 3:20, 21). One of the most beautiful things about science is that there is an attempt to measure everything. From the weight of the earth to…

“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8) Love is not just a noun; it’s a verb. It’s not what you think or feel; it’s what you do. When Mother Teresa arrived in Calcutta in 1948, one of the first things she did was pick up five abandoned…

“My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the utterance from my heart will give understanding.” (Psalms 49:3) The Bible says that you are to be gracious in what you say. That means your goal in conversation should always be to bring out the best in others, not denigrate them or cut them off. Good communication…