Posts with the category “daily-devos”

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

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 f...  Read More

Psalm 46God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found in times of trouble.2 Therefore we will not be afraid, though the earth trembles and the mountains toppleinto the depths of the seas, 3 though its water roars and foams and the mountains quake with its turmoil.Selah 4 There is a river its streams delight the city of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most High. 5 God is within h...  Read More

John 10:7-10Jesus said again, “Truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 9 I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture. 10 A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance....  Read More

1 Corinthians 15:1-8Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have taken your stand  and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you unless you believed in vain.  For I passed on to you  as most important what I also received: that Christ died  for our sins according to the Scriptures,  tha...  Read More

Colossians 1:15-20He is the image of the invisible God,  the firstborn over all creation.  For everything was created by him,  in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through him and for him.  He is before all things,  and by him all things  hold together. He is also the head of the body, the church...  Read More

1 Thessalonians 4:13-1813 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For we say this to you by a word from the Lord: We who are still alive at the L...  Read More

Galatians 2:2020 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me....  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 faith...  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 obedient to the point of death—even to death on a cross. 9 For this...  Read More

Proverbs 3:5-6Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; in all your ways know him, and he will make your paths straight....  Read More

Romans 8:18-3918 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of him who subjected it—in the hope 21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the b...  Read More

Matthew 28:18-20Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”...  Read More

Galatians 3:26-29for through faith you are all sons of God in Christ Jesus. For those of you who were baptized into Christ have been clothed with Christ.  There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free,  male and female;  since you are all one  in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs  according to the promise....  Read More

James 1:27, 2:14-1727 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world14 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 daily food. 16 If one of you s...  Read More

Luke 16:19-3119 “There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day. 20 But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was lying at his gate. 21 He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores. 22 One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man...  Read More

Romans 8:14-17For all those led by God’s Spirit  are God’s sons.  For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear.  Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption,  by whom we cry out, “ Abba ,  Father! ” The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit  that we are God’s children, and if children, also heirs of God and coheirs with Christ if indeed we suffer with him  so tha...  Read More

Luke 18:9-14He  also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves  that they were righteous  and looked down  on everyone else: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee was standing   and praying like this about himself:  ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like other people greedy, unrighteous, adulterers,   or even like this tax collect...  Read More

Psalm 51:1-12Be gracious to me, God,according to your faithful love;according to your abundant compassion,blot out my rebellion.2 Completely wash away my guiltand cleanse me from my sin.3 For I am conscious of my rebellion,and my sin is always before me.4 Against you—you alone—I have sinnedand done this evil in your sight.So you are right when you pass sentence;you are blameless when you judge.5 I...  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

Luke 15:11-24The Parable of the Lost Son11 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[a] 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 spent...  Read More

Romans 8:31-39What, then, are we to say about these things?  If God is for us, who is against us?  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? Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect?  God is the one who justifies.  Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more, has been raised;he also is ...  Read More

Acts 10:34-48 ESVSo Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all), you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism tha...  Read More

Luke 14:15-24When one of those who reclined at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is the one who will eat bread in the kingdom of God! ”  Then he told him, “A man was giving a large banquet and invited many. At the time of the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’ “But without exception they all began to m...  Read More

Philippians 2:1-11If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care—then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, an...  Read More

Luke 15:1-10All the tax collectors  and sinners were approaching to listen to him. And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners  and eats with them.” So he told them this parable:  “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them,   does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field   and go after the lost one until he finds it? When he has found it, h...  Read More

Philippians 4:10-13I rejoiced in the Lord greatly because once again  you renewed your care for me.  You were, in fact, concerned about me but lacked the opportunity to show it. I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself. I know how to make do with little, and I know how to make do with a lot.  In any and all circumstances I have learned ...  Read More

James 4:13-17Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”  Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.  Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” But as it is, you boast i...  Read More

Matthew 6:25-34“Therefore I tell you:   Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?   Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? Can any of you add one moment to his life ...  Read More

2 Corinthians 9:6-15The point is this:  The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. Each person should do as he has decided in his heart not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves  a cheerful giver. And God is able  to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you m...  Read More

Luke 12:13-21Someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher,  tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” “Friend,”   he said to him, “who appointed me a judge or arbitrator over you? ” He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard   against all greed,   because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.” Then he told them a parable:  “A rich man’s land was very productive. He th...  Read More

John 3:16-18For God loved   the world in this way:   He gave   his one and only   Son,   so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.   For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn   the world, but to save the world through him. Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned,   because he has not believed i...  Read More

Matthew 9:35-38Jesus continued going around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom,  and healing every  disease and every sickness.  , When he saw the crowds, he felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dejected,  like sheep without a shepherd.  Then he said to his disciples,  “The harvest is abundant, but the workers a...  Read More

Philippians 2:1-11If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love,  if any fellowship with the Spirit,  if any affection and mercy,  make my joy complete by thinking the same way,  having the same love,  united in spirit, intent on one  purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition  or conceit,  but in humility  consider others as more important  than yourselves. Everyone ...  Read More