Devotion Archive
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Devotion for July 9, 2021
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.” (Philippians 4:8) It’s reported that in 1949 Captain Edward Murphy, an engineer working on a project for the United States Air Force, became…
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Devotion for July 8, 2021
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” (Galatians 5:22-23) For the next several days we will focus on the fruit of the Spirit — and the first, foundational fruit mentioned here is love. The core teaching of the Bible is love. Love is at the center…
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Devotion for July 7, 2021
“Dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love …” (Jude 20–21) How do we remain loving people in the midst of conflict, negativity, broken relationships, and attacks by the devil? Jude explains that we can do this by building ourselves up…
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Devotion for July 6, 2021
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.” (Proverbs 1:7) Three Hebrew words are used to define the word “fool” in Proverbs: “Kesil.” This refers to a hard-headed person who thinks he or she needs no advice. “Ewil.” This word has a root meaning of “growing thick…
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Devotion for July 5, 2021
“For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love. For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be…
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Devotion for July 4, 2021
“How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?” (Psalms 13:1” When Kelly James and two climbing buddies died on Oregon’s Mount Hood in the USA, his brother Frank, a professor of theology, admitted: “It’s one thing to talk about death in the abstract. It’s another…
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Devotion for July 3, 2021
“There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.” (Hosea 2:15) Biblical references to valleys generally symbolize a state of hopelessness. The Valley of…
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Devotion for July 2, 2021
“When he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.” (John 16:13) In the book A Testament of Devotion, Thomas Kelly describes how a believer can live at two levels at once: “On one level we may be thinking, discussing … calculating … all the demands of external affairs, but…
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Devotion for July 1, 2021
“We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” (Romans 8:26) Romans 8 speaks of a threefold groaning in our world: The creation is groaning like a woman in childbirth to be set free from decay. Earthquakes and hurricanes ravage the earth. We cannot…