Devotionals Daily Blog for Inspiration and Growth

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. — Psalm 23:5 Pause and envision the scene in ...

In our own lives, prayer is often confusing and ill-defined. It is distorted and neglected. It is a burden and an obligation. It is reduced to another habit of being ...

Do not love the world or anything in the world… For everything in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of ...

Peace is in short supply these days.Many people today yearn for peace in their own lives. Even if the nations of the world were at rest and no insurgent groups ...

Editors Note: This is an excerpt from Being Still with God Every Day. In this 366-day devotional, each day features a scripture and a short, meaningful devotion to set minds ...

You have searched me, LORD, and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. — Psalm 139:1-2Lord, You know me. ...

But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.” – Luke 2:10I love Christmas. I ...

When the eighth day arrived, the day of circumcision, the child was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived.Then when the days stipulated by Moses ...

I remember when I first started following Jesus, I did what most people do. I opened the Bible. I didn’t really have much of a context of where to start ...

Matthew 2:2 reads, Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw His star as it rose, and we have come to worship Him.Not too many children are so ...

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, ...

Recently I studied the life of Mary, the mother of Christ, with women all in the midst of life changes. Each of us was carrying a burden; each of us ...

On that first Christmas night the Bible tells us about the angel coming to those fearful shepherds and saying, “Fear not, I bring you good news.” What is the real ...

Some books are more like friends than inanimate leather-bound pages. Streams in the Desert and Jesus Calling have been my friends for years now and my ratty, well-loved copies sit ...

Snow-covered mountains whizzed by. Carter couldn’t wait to get out of the car. This year his dad was going to let him chop down a Christmas tree. Not his family’s ...

When you meet together, sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, as you praise the Lord with all your heart. — Ephesians 5:19 Worship is a festival, not a funeral! If ...