"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

September 22, 2022 Daily Devotion: “Do You Have Eyes But Fail to See…“ Mark 8:17-18 New International Version 17 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? Just how challenged are you by the thought that...

September 21, 2022 Daily Devotion: “Miracles are Miracles” Matthew 14:31 — The New International Version “Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” Some ask, "Why did Peter doubt?" Yet the amazing thing is that Peter Ever climbed out of that tossing boat and tried to walk on water! Maybe We've been too critical of Peter. Wouldn't it...

September 20, 2022 Daily Devotion: “Your Faith Has Healed You“ Mark 5:30 New International Version 30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” Healed by merely touching Jesus' cloak? Oh, to be able to do that our-Have cancer? Touch Jesus' cloak! Suffering from arthritis? Reach for his cloak! In so brief a space, we...

September 19, 2022 Daily Devotion: “Where Your Heart Is, There Your Treasure... “ Luke 12:33-34 New International Version 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. There's no end to how we...

September 18, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Do Not Worry About Tomorrow... " Matthew 6:34 New International Version 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Wouldn't it be interesting to know how many doctor visits could be eliminated if only we didn't worry? How many millions of nights of lost sleep could be recovered? How man...

September 17, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Patience is not just a virtue. With evangelism-it's vital!" Matthew 4:21-22 New International Version 21Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, 22 and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him. Just lik...

September 16, 2022 Daily Devotion: "At Peace..." Luke 2:28-30 New International Version 28 Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying: 29 “Sovereign Lord, as you have promised you may now dismiss[a] your servant in peace. 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation, The initials R.I.P. are found on so many tombstones that they now appear on virtually all cartoon depictions of marble headstone...

September 15, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Glorious Inheritance…" 1 Chronicles 5:1 New International Version 5 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s marriage bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel; so he could not be listed in the genealogical record in accordance with his birthright, As we bring the Old Tes...

September 14, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Name It and Claim It… " 1 Chronicles 4:10 New International Version 10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. No wonder this is such a popular passage! Who wouldn't want to be pain free and blessed...

September 13, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Highest Joy… " Nehemiah 8:10 New International Version 10 Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” You'd think fasting would be more appropriate than feasting, wouldn't you? Upon hearing the law of Moses...

September 12, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Special Task…" Nehemiah 7:2 New International Version 2 I put in charge of Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel, because he was a man of integrity and feared God more than most people do. Some might call it nepotism. In fact, one wonders if Nehemiah isn't being somewhat defensive even to explain why he put his brother in...

September 11, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Lasting Quality..." Nehemiah 4:17-18 New International Version 17 who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other, 18 and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me. A Whole generation brought up on multitasking thinks nothing...

September 10, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Risk It All Leap of Faith... " Ezra 8:22-23 New International Version 22 I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.” 23 So we fasted and petitioned our God about this...

September 09,2022 Daily Devotion: "Sufficiently Courageous to do Right Things" Esther 1:12 New International Version 12 But when the attendants delivered the king’s command, Queen Vashti refused to come. Then the king became furious and burned with anger. The wonderful story of Esther's legendary courage quite rightly bears her name. As Mordecai predicted, Esther had indeed come into a royal icon...

September 08, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Degree of Pain ..." Psalm 126:5-6 New International Version 5 Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. 6 Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them. Today's featured passage is all about pain and gain. About exile and restoration. Resignation and exhilaration. Hopelessness and hope. Seve...

September 07, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Anointed One…" Zechariah 4:6 New International Version 6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty. For those of us who believe, the question is not what God can do but what he will do, or perhaps does do. Could the answer to that question lie in the particular task at...

September 06, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Go to Worship…" Zechariah 7:5 New International Version 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? Here's a reality check. Think back on last Sunday. Assuming you went to church, can you recall having any conscious thought about...

September 05, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Glorious Rest..." Daniel 12:13 New International Version 13 “As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.” If one lives long enough, advancing age has a way of becoming a battle for survival. Body parts just don't work like they used to. The mind itself begins to play tri...

September 04, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Unflinching Faith… " Daniel 6:5 New International Version 5 Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.” If someone wanted to dig up dirt on you, how difficult would it be? To his eternal credit, Daniel was squeaky clean. No matter how hard they tried, Daniel's E...

September 03, 2022 Daily Devotion: "God is too Touched" Daniel 9:23 New International Version 23 As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision Wouldn't it be great if every time we prayed (or even occasionally) Gabriel would show up to tell us God's response? But he doesn't, does he?...

September 02, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Eternal Kingdom" Daniel 7:14 New International Version 14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. What Daniel sees in his marvelous vision is a being that looks ever so human, bu...

September 01, 2022 Daily Devotion: "When Bad things happen to good people…" Psalm 44:20-22 New International Version 20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, 21 would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart? 22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. In a variety of different...

August 31, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Deliciously Right... Disgustingly Wrong…" Job 34:3-4 New International Version 3 For the ear tests words as the tongue tastes food. 4 Let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good. All of us can instantly taste the difference between sweet and sour. The same goes for salty and unsalty, spicy and bland, frothy and smooth. We certainl...

August 30, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Blameless… " Job 22:2-3 English Standard Version 2 “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? Jobs friend Eliphaz could hardly be more cynical in asking these questions. Because he doesn't believe Job is as righte...

August 29, 2022 Daily Devotion: “Every Nature of God... " Job 22:2-3 New International Version 2 “Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him? 3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless? God, would need that kind of fulfillment. It's not as if God is somehow incomplete or lacking anything...is he? By his n...