Devotion Archive
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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…
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Devotion for October 6, 2024
“They put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” (Matthew 9:17b) Like new wine poured into fresh wineskins, everything stays spiritually fresh for the true believer. First, he or she leads a life of unquestioning obedience and follows the Lord without conditions or excuses. Not long before His ascension, Jesus told Peter, “‘Follow…
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Devotion for October 5, 2024
“[Love] does not seek its own.” (1 Corinthians 13:5) Love transforms selfish people into self-sacrificing people. From the time of Adam and Eve, replacing God with self has been at the root of all sin. Our first parents had only one restriction: “From the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not…
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Devotion for October 4, 2024
“To me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” (Philippians 1:21) True contentment is found only in Christ. There has never been a society in the history of the world that has had as many commodities as Americans have. We are living in an affluence that is unheard of in the world’s history.…
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Devotion for October 3, 2024
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (Galatians 6:9, NIV) Every farmer knows that what you sow in one season, you will reap in another season. You plant in the spring, and you harvest in the fall. The…