Devotionals Daily Blog for Inspiration and Growth

“I HAVE WON THE VICTORY”

God’s Promise in the Empty Tomb With the cross, [God] won the victory. — Colossians 2:15 On the first Easter morning... the smothering silence that insulates the domain of the ...

In Between Despair and Joy

So far as we know, there has only been one day in the last two thousand years when literally not one person in the world believed Jesus was alive. On ...

Yet Not as I will, But as You Will

Editor’s note: Today is Good Friday, the day that our Lord Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice so that we could be saved. What obedience! Enjoy this excerpt from His ...

Where Is Jesus? The Foot of the Empty Cross

Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. — Acts 4:12 What is the ...

Putting Down Emotional Baggage

If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. — John 8:36 On a trip to the High Sierra mountain range in California, some-thing hit me: the pack ...

The Lamb, Yahweh

Editor’s Note: For those of us who aren’t familiar with Jewish traditions, Passover is an eight-day festival which is celebrated from the 15th to the 22nd of the Hebrew month ...

Find Jesus in Jonah

He Is the God of the Second Chance Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach ...

Faith In the In-Between

It was a rare moment of public confession. The day had been difficult, riddled with both emotional and physical pain. Months before I’d received my third diagnosis of cancer — ...

Look to Jesus

Carinette has a spark in her. A look. A bounce in her step. A light in her eyes. She is one of fifty-seven children in the Haitian orphanage: all dark ...

Palm Sunday: Who Is This?

Editor’s Note — What better book that The Jesus Code to launch Holy Week (the week from Palm Sunday to Easter)! The Jesus Code is dedicated to “those special and sacrificial pastors, their wives, ...

Jesus Is the Bread of Life

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” — John 6:35 I’ve eaten ...

See the Seahorse

See the Seahorse I wait for the Lord to help me. I trust His word. — Psalm 130:5 The seahorse (or Hippocampus, if you want to be scientific!) is a ...

A Message Precisely for You

When was the last time you heard God speak to you in your spirit? I believe God desires to communicate with each of us on a daily basis — in ...

Lean on Me

Lean on Me as you face the circumstances of this day. Whether or not they realize it, all people lean on — depend on — something: physical strength, intelligence, beauty, ...

Calling and Character Always Go Together

Moses was eighty years old when God strengthened him to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. God gave Moses a new strength to perform a divine mission and ...

What Do You Want?

Trade what is simply available for what will truly last. When I was in junior high school, I went with my parents to Hawaii. I was immediately smitten. Blue skies, ...

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