Devotion Archive
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Devotion for December 28, 2024
“[Moses] regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.” (Hebrews 11:26, NIV) What matters most to you? What are the top three or four values in your life? Here’s a decision that will transform your life: Choose God’s values…
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Devotion for December 28, 2024
“By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.” (Hebrews 11:27, NIV) Moses made intentional resolutions about how to live his life, and it’s important that you do too. One of Moses’s resolutions was this: He chose to live by faith rather than by fear.…
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Devotion for December 27, 2024
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 16 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not at the things which…
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Devotion for December 26, 2024
“Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.” (James 3:16) False wisdom ruins lives. Renowned eighteenth-century theologian Jonathan Edwards said the following about the effect of the Fall on man: Sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness; and God was forsaken, and…
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Devotion for December 25, 2024
News Headlines: Young Mother dies … 12 Arrested in Terrorist Raid … City Devastated by Oil Blast … Man accused in Hate Attack … But in contrast, the message of Christmas is Peace On Earth. In fact, the message of the Bible is peace. The word peace, or versions of the word, is used in…
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Devotion for December 24, 2024
“She [Mary] will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21) When the angel told Joseph to name the child Jesus it wasn’t just to give Him the name by which He would be called to dinner. It…
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Devotion for December 23, 2024
Life Shift. Sometimes there are those moments in life when everything just shifts. You’re driving along, and all of a sudden brake lights — and then your front end ends up in the back end of the car in front of you. Life shift. Your teenage daughter sits you down and says she got a…
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Devotion for December 22, 2024
“4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to ransom those under the law, so that we might receive adoption. 6 As proof that you are children, God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, ‘Abba, Father!’”…
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Devotion for December 21, 2024
Isaiah 9:1-7 1 But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He will make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of the Jordan, Galilee of…