Posts with the category “daily-devotions”

Reading: Romans 6:1-141 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you k...  Read More

Reading: Galatians 5:1-151 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if ...  Read More

Reading: James 2:14-2614 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and d...  Read More

Reading: Luke 14:25-3325 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes...  Read More

Reading: John 1:14-1714 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.15 (John test...  Read More

Finding the Balance: Where Grace Meets TruthThere's a tension in the Christian life that every believer must navigate—a sacred balancing act between two essential elements of our faith: grace and trut...  Read More

Reading:  John 8:1-111 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers o...  Read More

Reading:  Romans 10:9-139 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe...  Read More

Reading:  Romans 3:21-2621 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Chr...  Read More

Reading:  Ephesians 2:1-101 Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.2 You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers...  Read More

We live in a culture that celebrates the grind. From childhood, we're taught that nothing worthwhile comes easy. "If it sounds too good to be true, it is." "There's no such thing as a free lunch." "No...  Read More

Reading:  Romans 5:1-111 Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace[a] with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. 2 Because of our faith, Chri...  Read More

Reading:  Jonah 1:17-2:1017 Now the Lord had arranged for a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.Jonah’s Prayer2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his...  Read More

Reading:  Leviticus 16:15-2215 “Then Aaron must slaughter the first goat as a sin offering for the people and carry its blood behind the inner curtain. There he will sprinkle the goat’s blood over the...  Read More

Reading:  Genesis 1:1-5; 26-311 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.[a] 2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering ...  Read More

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powe...  Read More

Daniel 3:19-27 (NLT)19 Nebuchadnezzar was so furious with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face became distorted with rage. He commanded that the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usua...  Read More

Isaiah 53:6 (NLT)All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.  We have left God’s paths to follow our own.Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT)5 Trust in the Lord with all your...  Read More

Hebrews 12:1-3 (NLT)1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily tri...  Read More

Isaiah 53:3-6 (NIV) 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 4 S...  Read More

Isaiah 61:3 (NIV)  " . . . and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty    instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a  ...  Read More

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 (NIV)1     There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:2     a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,3     a...  Read More

2 Corinthians 9:6-11 (NIV)6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each of you should give what you have decided in yo...  Read More

Matthew 13:31-32 (NIV)31 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. 32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it ...  Read More

Galatians 6:7-10 (NIV)7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spiri...  Read More

Matthew 9:17 (NIV)17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wines...  Read More

Romasn 12:1-2 (NIV)1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 D...  Read More

Ephesians 4:22-24 (NIV)22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of you...  Read More

John 8:31-32 (NIV)31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”Ephesians...  Read More

Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV)18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams i...  Read More

2 Chronicles 20:13-22 (NIV)13 All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the Lord.14 Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jahaziel son of Zechariah, the son...  Read More

Isaiah 61:1-3 (NIV)1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for...  Read More

Acts 16:22-34 (NIV)22 The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods. 23 After they had been severely flogged, they were th...  Read More

Psalm 34:1-8 (NIV)1 I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.2 I will glory in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice.3 Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his...  Read More

Genesis 29:31-35 (NKJV)31 When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. 32 So Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, “The Lo...  Read More

Isaiah 40:28-31 (NLT) 28 Have you never heard?  Have you never understood?  The Lord is the everlasting God,the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary.  No one can measure the depths o...  Read More

Numbers 13:26-33 (NLT) 26 to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit the...  Read More

Deuteronomy 8:2 (NLT) 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you wo...  Read More

Deuteronomy 8:1-5 (NLT)1 “Be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then you will live and multiply, and you will enter and occupy the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors. 2 Re...  Read More

Exodus 13:17-18 (NLT)17 When Pharaoh finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory, even though that was the shortest route to the Promise...  Read More