Devotionals Daily Blog for Inspiration and Growth

Perseverance: The Need for Persevering Faith

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised. — Hebrews 10:36Have you ever known a time when ...

Let the Walls Fall Down

The Falling of a Wall Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. — Acts 8:5Do any walls bisect your world? There you stand ...

Breaking Shame and the Lie of Not Enough

As soon as Adam and Eve messed up, the Enemy started speaking shame over them, and he’s been doing it ever since then.Guilt, that sense of conviction that comes over ...

Do Not Lose Heart

Do not lose heart. — 2 Corinthians 4:16One day a naturalist, out in his garden, observed a most unusually large and beautiful butterfly, fluttering as though in great distress; it ...

Eternity: Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in Me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told ...

Stop Blaming!

Lord, I’m so glad that You are with me always! Of all the ways to get into a pit, getting thrown in — by something but especially by someone — ...

Love in Action

Since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his ...

Jump on the Truth Train: He Healed My Mind

When I was a university student, I caught the train every morning at 7:30 a.m. from Seven Hills station in the western suburbs of Sydney where I lived, to Redfern ...

Keeping Up With the Joneses

Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else. — Galatians 6:4Are you ever tempted to look at ...

Jesus Is Not a Registered Voter

Again the high priest asked Him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?” “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at ...

Depression: Jesus Understands Deep Sorrow

I was thirteen, working on some homework at the kitchen table when the yellow crank-dial phone that hung on the wall rang. My mom was washing dishes at the time, ...

Judging Others Hastily

Editor’s Note: Today’s devotional is excerpted from A Jane Austen Devotional, beginning with this selection from Pride and Prejudice.* * *Mr. Bingley was good looking and gentlemanlike; he had a ...

Go the Second Mile

Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. — Matthew 5:41The phrase going the second mile has found its way into our modern vernacular. Its roots are ...

The Soul: This Tiny, Fragile, Vulnerable, Precious Thing about You

We each have an outer life and an inner one. My outer self is the public, visible me. My accomplishments, my work, and my reputation lie there. My outer world ...

Questions About Heaven?

Why do most people believe in some kind of life after death, even if they aren’t particularly religious or don’t think about it very much?God has put within each of ...

Subversive Jesus: WWJD?

He has brought down rulers from their thrones… [and] has sent the rich away empty. — Luke 1:52–53I grew up in the church, and at a young age, I came ...

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