Devotionals Daily Blog for Inspiration and Growth

For AdultsRest in My Presence when you need refreshment. Resting is not necessarily idleness, as people often perceive it. When you relax in My company, you are demonstrating trust in ...

“Which is these three do you think was a neighbor to the man?..”The expert in the Law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”Jesus told him, “Go and do ...

Building with Weak ThingsThe Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you ...

Tel Aviv is a tangle of concrete, buildings, cars, exhaust, and armed guards. At first, we were swept up in the metropolis, gasping for air. We definitely felt like outsiders, ...

“If we make space in our lives for certain kinds of people but not others, we will never know the fullness of God or understand the depths of God’s love ...

You are near, LORD, and all Your commands are true. — Psalm 119:151I always used to ask God to be near, but recently I’ve tried to shift my prayers a ...

Watch to See What He Will DoO LORD, You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from ...

I was in the sixth grade when I heard it.Growing up in church developed my passion for the Bible. I remember setting down my pipe cleaners as a toddler in ...

When I opened the gift from my friend, I wasn’t quite sure what it was. The small glass bottle was a beautiful cobalt blue, about two inches tall, covered in ...

I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. — Robert H. SchullerYou are going to do great things in your life. ...

Life places many demands on us: the demands of navigating our careers, marriages, parenting, dating lives, friendships, self care and service, to name a few. The demands aren’t bad things, ...

Don’t Lose That Loving FeelingCarole’s Story Maintaining the fire of revival in my life has required effort. My pride still seems to be the “water” that threatens to put out ...

It’s tempting to think that many of us will reach a point in our lives where we’ll be forced to question all that we believe, and then after this struggle ...

Seriously?It happened one morning when my life had sprinted past whatever control I thought I had on anything resembling a schedule. This was during a time when I would cringe ...

Look closely, phrase by phrase, at the implications of this pivotal statement:But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the ...

True confession? I am not a very compassionate person.I once asked a college friend if I should pray for God to help me care more about other people, or if ...