Devotion Archive
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Devotion for February 20, 2023
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4, ESV) A common source of stress is loss. You can lose your job, your health, your money, your reputation, or a loved one.…
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Devotion for February 19, 2023
“Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” (Psalm 25:5) I was praying for someone this morning when I felt the Holy assure my heart. “Nothing can trigger an emotional trauma that has been released to me.” Jesus was talking…
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Devotion for February 18, 2023
“The gullible believe anything they’re told; the prudent sift and weigh every word.” (Proverbs 14:15 The Message) If you spend any time on your phone or watching TV these days, you’re going to get a lot of information from a lot of different sources. It’s important, now more than ever, to remember that not everything…
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Devotion for February 17, 2023
“We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don’t know what to do, we never give up. In times of trouble, God is with us, and when we are knocked down, we get up again … we know that God raised the Lord Jesus to life. And just as God raised Jesus,…
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Devotion for February 16, 2023
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is…
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Devotion for Febuary 15, 2023
“Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey — whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?” (Romans 6:16) Consider some of the people who are enslaved today through no…
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Devotion for February 14, 2023
“Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:17-18, NIV) When a crisis hits, you have to…
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Devotion for February 13, 2023
“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.” (Psalm 23:4, NIV) In Israel, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho, there’s a canyon called the Valley of the Shadow of Death. In his day, King David probably traveled through it many times. Some of the…
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Devotion for February 12, 2023
“You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” (2 Timothy 2:1) An old saying about mentoring and apprenticeships goes something like this: “I do, you watch; I do, you help; You do, I help; You do, I watch.” Jesus trained his disciples in a way like this, and they…