Devotion Archive
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Devotion for October 15, 2024
“Which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life’s span?” (Matthew 6:27) You can worry yourself to death, but not to life. Dr. Charles Mayo of the renowned Mayo Clinic wrote, “Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands and the whole nervous system. I have never met a man…
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Devotion for October 14, 2024
“[Love] hopes all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:7) Love refuses to take human failure as final. Even when faith falters, hope comes to the rescue. It is that long rope that keeps us linked to the sovereignty and power of God. The apostle Peter wrote to believers who were experiencing severe trials. To encourage them he…
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Devotion for October 13, 2024
“Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on.” (Matthew 6:25) To worry about the future is to sin against God. Someone has said, “You can’t change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly…
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Devotion for October 12, 2024
“[Love] bears all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:7) Love confronts sin but protects the sinner. In 1 Corinthians 13:7 Paul mentions four qualities of love that are closely related: Bearing all things, believing all things, hoping all things, and enduring all things. That might sound like love is indiscriminate and accepting of anything that comes along,…
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Devotion for October 11, 2024
“Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on.” (Matthew 6:25) God’s Word commands us not to worry. A story I once read reminded me that worry is like fog. According to the article, dense…
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Devotion for October 10, 2024
“[Love] rejoices with the truth.” (1 Corinthians 13:6) Love never compromises God’s Word. Paul has just given us a list of things that love does not do: Become jealous, brag, act arrogantly or unbecomingly, seek its own, become provoked, keep track of wrongs suffered, or rejoice in unrighteousness. Now he comes to the first of…
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Devotion for October 9, 2024
“So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons … And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, ‘May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.’”…
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Devotion for October 8, 2024
“Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for [the Lord] Himself has said, ‘I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you.’” (Hebrews 13:5) God promises to provide for all your needs. In World War II the death of many adults left many orphans.…
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Devotion for October 7, 2024
“[Love] does not take into account a wrong suffered” (1 Corinthians 13:5) If you love someone, you won’t keep a record of their offenses. It is reported that when the Moravian missionaries first went to the Eskimos, they couldn’t find a word in their language for forgiveness. They had to combine a series of shorter…