Posts with the category “daily-devos”

Joshua 24:14-24The Covenant Renewal14 “Therefore, fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and worship the Lord. 15 But if it doesn’t please you to worship the Lord, choose for yourselves today: Which will you worship—the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amo...  Read More

Psalm 23 (The Lord is My Shepherd)The Lord is my shepherd; I have what I need. 2 He lets me lie down in green pastures;he leads me beside quiet waters. 3 He renews my life; he leads me along the right pathsfor his name’s sake. 4 Even when I go through the darkest valley, I fear no danger,for you are with me; your rod and your staff—they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence o...  Read More

Romans 5:1-5 (Rejoice in Suffering)5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, 4 endurance pro...  Read More

Ephesians 2:1-10 (Saved by Grace)And you were dead in your trespasses and sins 2 in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient. 3 We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under w...  Read More

James 2:14-26 (Faith Without Works is Dead)14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way faith, if...  Read More

Luke 15:11-24 (The Parable of the Prodigal Son)11 He also said, “A man had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets to them. 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living. 14 After he had s...  Read More

Acts 2:1-21When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying. 3 They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them. 4 Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Sp...  Read More

Romans 8:28-3928 We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he als...  Read More

Psalm 42:1-11As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God.When can I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night,while all day long people say to me, “Where is your God?” 4 I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God,with joyful and thankful shouts. 5...  Read More

Jeremiah 29:11-1411 For I know the plans I have for you” this is the Lord’s declaration “plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you” this is the Lord’s declaration “and I will restore your ...  Read More

Psalm 16:1-11Protect me, God, for I take refuge in you. 2 I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have nothing good besides you.” 3 As for the holy people who are in the land, they are the noble ones. All my delight is in them. 4 The sorrows of those who take another godfor themselves will multiply; I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,and I will not speak their names with my lips. 5...  Read More

Luke 14:25-3325 Now great crowds were traveling with him. So he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters yes, and even his own life he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 “For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t first sit d...  Read More

Romans 8:1-118 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,2 because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering, 4 in order that the law’s requirem...  Read More

Philippians 2:5-115 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, 6 who, existing in the form of God,did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. 7 Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity.And when he had come as a man, 8 he humbled himself by becoming obedientto the point of death—even to death on a cross. 9 For this r...  Read More

2 Corinthians 5:17-2117 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! 18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message o...  Read More

Psalm 34:17-2217 The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles.18 The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he saves those crushed in spirit. 19 One who is righteous has many adversities, but the Lord rescues him from them all. 20 He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken. 21 Evil brings death to the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be punish...  Read More

Psalm 271 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom should I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—whom should I dread? 2 When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell. 3 Though an army deploys against me,my heart will not be afraid; though a war breaks out against me, I will still be confident.4 I have asked one thing from the Lord; it is what I...  Read More

Isaiah 6:1-8In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full ...  Read More

2 Corinthians 12:7-10Especially because of the extraordinary revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so that I would not exalt myself. 8 Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it would leave me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.”Th...  Read More

Ephesians 1:3-14Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ. For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious ...  Read More

John 14:25-2725 “I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you. 27 “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your heart be troubled or fearful....  Read More

Luke 21:1-4He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins., “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For all these people have put in gifts out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”...  Read More

2 Corinthians 12:9-10But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.”  Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ.  For when I am weak, then I am strong....  Read More

Philippians 4:6-7Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses  all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus....  Read More

Judges 6:11-1611 The angel of the Lord came, and he sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites. 12 Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “The Lord is with you, valiant warrior.” 13 Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all thi...  Read More

1 Chronicles 29:10-13Then David blessed the Lord in the sight of all the assembly. David said, May you be blessed, Lord God of our father Israel, from eternity to eternity. 11 Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to you. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and you are exalted as head over all. 12 Ric...  Read More

Esther 4:1-17When Mordecai learned all that had occurred,  he tore his clothes,  put on sackcloth and ashes,  went into the middle of the city, and cried loudly and bitterly.  He went only as far as the King’s Gate, since the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering the King’s Gate. There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict  ...  Read More

1 Corinthians 12:12-31For just as the body is one  and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body so also is Christ.  For we were all baptized by  one Spirit into one body whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free and we were all given one Spirit to drink.  Indeed, the body is not one part but many. If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong...  Read More

Psalm 1001 Let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord! 2 Serve the Lord with gladness;come before him with joyful songs. 3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name. 5 For the Lord is good, and his faithful love endures forever; his fait...  Read More

Judges 4:1-16The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud had died. 2 So the Lord sold them to King Jabin of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera who lived in Harosheth of the Nations. 3 Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, because Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he harshly oppressed them twenty years.4 Deborah, a prophete...  Read More

Romans 8:31-3931 What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything? 33 Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies. 34 Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more, has been raised; he a...  Read More

Proverbs 13:20The one who walks with the wise will become wise,but a companion of fools will suffer harm.1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”...  Read More

Revelation 3:14-22“Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: Thus says the Amen,   the faithful and true witness, the originator , of God’s creation: I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of my mouth. For you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothin...  Read More

Ephesians 6:10-1815 “If you love me, you will keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. 17 He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will bein you. 18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. 19 In a littl...  Read More

Ephesians 6:10-18Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by his vast strength. Put on  the full armor  of God so that you can stand against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh  and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens. For this reason take up the full armor  of ...  Read More

Luke 9:23-26Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it. For what does it benefit someone if he gains the whole world, and yet loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will...  Read More

Revelation 3:14-22“Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: Thus says the Amen,   the faithful and true witness, the originator, of God’s creation: I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit  you out of my mouth. For you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothin...  Read More

James 1:2-8Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials,  because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly and it will be given to him.  But let ...  Read More

Romans 5:6-11For while we were still helpless, at the right time,  Christ died for the ungodly. For rarely will someone die for a just person though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. But God proves  his own love for us  in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. How much more then, since we have now been justified by his blood,  will we be saved through him fr...  Read More

Philippians 3:7-117 But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. 8 More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own fr...  Read More