Category: Daily Devotions

“He has raised up for his people a horn, the praise of all his saints, of Israel, the people close to his heart. Praise the Lord!” (Psalm 148:14) Sometimes, when we think about God, we are left with the need to praise Him. We try to fathom Him, explain Him, grasp Him, but He is…

“We know that God loves you and has chosen you to be his own.” (1 Thessalonians 1:4, GNT) If you want to live with hope for the rest of your life, no matter what happens to you, you must first anchor your identity in what God says about you. It will never work if you…

“My soul is weak from waiting for You to save me. My hope is based on Your Word.” (Psalm 119:81, GW) The anchor is as old a symbol of Christianity as the cross is. In fact, during the first 300 years of Christianity, believers used the anchor, not the cross, to secretly identify themselves. In…

“For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” (Hebrews 2:1) God’s Word is the anchor that will prevent people from drifting past the harbor of salvation. While English explorer William Edward Parry and his crew were exploring the Arctic Ocean, they needed to…

“God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name.” (Philippians 2:9) Jesus’ exaltation was the reversal of His humble incarnation. He who was poor became rich; He who was rejected became accepted; He who had learned obedience returned to a position of power that calls all others to obey…

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.” (Ephesians 1:3) To be blessed in the heavenly realms is some kind of shorthand for saying that God is looking with favour on us. God, who is in heaven,…

“And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.” (Matthew 13:23) The ultimate barrier to salvation is unbelief, and anyone willing to receive the gospel on…

“God highly exalted Him.” (Philippians 2:9) Christ followed the path to glory so that we could follow Him. Because Christ humbled Himself, the Father wonderfully exalted Him. His exaltation includes the elements of both His resurrection and His coronation — His exaltation to the right hand of God. The apostle Peter said Jesus was “raised…

“Therefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of…