Daily Devotion
WHERE DO YOU GO FOR HELP?
The writer looked up to the Sovereign Lord of the universe and prayed for Him to send deliverance from His heavenly throne. This should be the prayer of all of us. Where do you look for help, where is the first place you look or who do you go to? It should be to...
DO YOU KNOW THIS PEACE?
We can rest and be at peace because God has and always will deal with us in a generous way if we are believers. God always gives us way more than we deserve as the next verse speaks to in delivering from death, tears, and falls which could speak to spiritually...
ARE WE LISTENING AND OBEYING?
Jeremiah received another message from the Lord. He was to go to the gate of the temple in Jerusalem and deliver a prophecy in God’s name to the people of Judah who entered to worship. This message applies to us also as in the next verse Jeremiah was to tell them...
LISTENING AND DOING
The Lord called all the people then alive in Judah, to pay attention to, and to take to heart, His message to them. He had not been as ungiving as a wilderness or as unenlightening as darkness to them. They had no reason to feel free to abandon Him. Let us remember...
BEING THANKFUL FOR GOD’S MERCY
Aren’t we thankful that God is so totally different from us! He does not punish us immediately or completely like we deserve for the sins we commit. He doesn’t pay us back (get even) with us and give us the punishment we deserve. His love is a loyal love and is...
HIS SPIRIT AND WORD
God promised with a covenant promise that He would not withdraw His Spirit or His Word from His people on whom He would place them (cf. Jer. 31:31-44). This is a reference to the New Covenant. The Spirit would abide on His people forever, and His Word would remain...
TRUSTING IN HIS WORD
All that God has said will happen has come to pass and all that is written in His Word will happen one day. His word never fails. Sinners need to come to the Lord and only then they can change their ways and thoughts, through the His help, and because the Word of...
DO YOU KNOW HIM?
After His sacrificial work had ended, the Servant (Jesus) would look back on it with satisfaction, as would Yahweh (God the Father cf. 1 John 2:2). The "many" would obtain salvation through the knowledge of Him and His work. The "many" are those who trust in Christ...
THE PROMISE
The "promise" in Acts 2:39 is the gift of the Holy Spirit (1:5, 8; 2:33). Peter's reference to "your children" reveals the strong influence that Jewish fathers exercised in their homes. When a father becomes a Christian, his children would normally follow his lead...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD
In Isaiah 45:18-19 the Lord wants to settle in our mind that He created all and that He is the one and only God. He wants Israel and us to know that He is trustworthy and all that He did was for our benefit. He wants us to enjoy His creation. He did not and does...
DO YOU LOVE ME?
In this very familiar section of Scripture we see Jesus telling the disciples after they have fished all night to cast the net again and they catch so many fish they almost sink the boat. They need to recognize without Him they can do nothing, as do we. Then He...
THE NEW CREATION
The seventh day of the week, the Sabbath, commemorates God's finished work of Creation (Gen. 2:1-3). The Lord's Day (Sunday) commemorates Christ's finished work of redemption, the 'new creation.' God the Father worked for six days and then rested. God the Son...
