Devotion Archive
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Devotion for December 23, 2021
“Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.” (Micah 7:8) A struggling single mother worked as a secretary in a Dallas bank. Electric typewriters had just been introduced, but there was no automatic way to correct mistakes. Bette…
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Devotion for December 22, 2021
“Don’t be like your ancestors who would not listen or pay attention when the earlier prophets said to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Turn from your evil ways, and stop all your evil practices.’” (Zechariah 1:4) A battered, old truck was rambling down a country road and approached a sharp right turn.…
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Devotion for December 21, 2021
“For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.” (Psalm 105:42) It almost seems contradictory when we read these words of the Psalmist: “For He remembered His holy promise.” It’s as if God were in a grocery store, and just as He began to walk through the parking lot to His car, He…
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Devotion for December 20, 2021
“Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.” (Romans 5:5-11) A young boy, Chris, was…
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Devotion for December 19, 2021
“I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.’” (Psalm 2:5-8) James the Fifth of Scotland ruled his subjects quite differently than…
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Devotion for December 18, 2021
A young man, who grew up in a housing project, having little hope and few goods, heard an evangelist preaching “love” on a street corner. After listening for a few moments, he shouted to the preacher, “I’m sick and tired of you people talking about love. I want to see love. I want to feel…
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Devotion for December 17, 2021
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” (Hebrews 12:1) Before you were born, God anticipated your arrival and had a specific plan for you.…
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Devotion for December 16, 2021
“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (Isaiah 41:10) Fear will rob you of your creativity and self-worth. It is the enemy of greatness; the antithesis of faith.…
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Devotion for December 15, 2021
“For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.” (Psalm 107:9) God did not create any need He could not satisfy! He did not create food that would simply taste good. He created food that would taste good and satisfy our hunger — food that would nourish and sustain us, comforts us,…