Carter Conlon | Daily Devotionals

Psalm 23:5. David says, You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You may feel today like your life is surrounded by opposition, like everything is working against you. But God does not wait for your enemies to disappear before He blesses you. He prepares a table, as David says, right in the middle of your struggle. What looks like a place of defeat can become a place of provisi...

2 Kings 19:35: In the morning, the Lord had sent an angel and the army was gone. There are moments when you feel surrounded, like everything around you is against you and there is no way out. The voices are loud, the pressure is real, and it feels like you will never escape. But the power of God has not changed. When a righteous man brought his situation before the Lord, God moved in a single nigh...

The kingdom of God advances to those who know where their strength comes from. Walking in the flesh is trying to follow Christ by human will and human ability alone. It will always fail. In the fire, this truth becomes unavoidable. God is building a testimony in your life that cannot be sustained by human effort. When you surrender your rights and yield your life, the Spirit of God takes residence...

In Psalm 18:29, the psalmist David said, "By my God I have leaped over a wall." Today you may feel surrounded, as if walls are all around your life that cannot be broken down. The enemy wants you to believe that you're stuck, that there's no way out. But that is not the truth. God gives strength to overcome what stands in your way. He gives power where there was none before. What looks like a barr...

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Psalm 133:1 When you and I look around at the world today, we see division almost everywhere. The division is becoming violent and it's becoming vile in its speech. However, when we are in unity with God, we will automatically find ourselves in unity with one another. When we become disunited with God, we automaticall...

In you, O Lord, I put my trust. Let me never be ashamed. Deliver me in your righteousness. Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be my rock of refuge, a fortress of defense, to save me. Psalm 31:1-2. Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a good country, and in sincerity they put the words "In God We Trust" on their currency. Over time, their love of their money caused the lo...

Romans 8:38-39. Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. There are those who believe they've failed too many times. They've crossed a line where God no longer loves them. The enemy uses failure to convince you that you're no longer accepted. But the Word of God declares something different. Nothing can separate you from the love of God. Not your...

Today I want to remind you that Jesus could not carry the cross to Calvary in His physical strength alone. God sent Simon of Cyrene to help Him to finish the journey. If the Son of God needed strength beyond Himself, then so do we. The call to take up the cross is not our call to self-powered endurance. It's an invitation to dependence. God always provides strength for the journey that He ordains....

Colossians 2:14 says, " blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, nailing it to His cross." You may say, I have a past, I have a record, I've done things that cannot be undone. But when you come to Christ, something supernatural happens. What was written against you is literally wiped away by the blood of Jesus.  You may still remember it, but heaven doesn't hold it against y...

Psalm 71:17-18. " Oh, God, you have taught me from my youth, and to this day I declare your wondrous works. Now also, when I am old and gray-headed, Oh, God, do not forsake me, until I declare your strength to this generation, your power to everyone who is to come."   This is the mandate given to us now, to show the next generation the power of God, not just to talk about it, but to show them that...

Mark 9:23-24. Jesus said, " If you can believe, all things are possible to Him that believes." The reply was, " Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief." There are moments when you've done everything you know to do and still nothing changes. You pray, you speak, you stand in faith, and yet the situation remains the same. You wonder if even God will move.  That's where this father stood, and his cry was...

Psalm 78:19 says, " Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? " This was a question of the people of Israel. They'd seen the power of God bring them out of captivity, but when they stood in the wilderness, they began to doubt that He could bring them into the place He had promised them.  The situation looked so hopeless that the thought came into their minds, maybe even God can't do anything with...

You must stop listening to every argument that tells you your life will never change. The voice that says you'll always be stuck, always be limited, always be defeated, must be confronted. You cannot continue to entertain those thoughts and expect to walk in freedom.  There has to be a decision to reject these thoughts completely. Don't give them any space in your mind any longer. When those thoug...

Hebrews 3:15 says, "Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your heart." Don't say, "No, God is not for me." Do not say, "I'm too dead. I'm too far gone. I'm too far back." Do not listen to the voices around you that are chirping away everywhere, saying there's no hope for you. You'll always be like this. Your dad, your mom was like this, and you'll be like this as well. No, no, no, no. T...

We knew the Word of God in this nation. We knew what God said. We knew the warnings of God. There were voices that were raised to caution us, just as in Acts 27, with the Apostle Paul that said, don't take this journey. If you do, it's going to result in the loss of everything. And now here we are with that loss. The loss of our military, our might, our civility, our economy, our morality. It seem...

Romans 8:11: "But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you." If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal body. The whole of creation is groaning, the scripture tells u...

John 11:43. 'Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.' When Jesus stood at the tomb of Lazarus, many voices were already speaking. Some were weeping, some were mourning. Some were saying it's too late. Lazarus has been dead for four days and a stone covers the grave. Every voice around that tomb was declaring the situation final. Then one voice rose above...

John 11:43, three of the most powerful words in the New Testament: Lazarus, come forth. Are you feeling today empty with no life to give? But did you know that even death is not beyond the reach of God? Lazarus was not just struggling, he was completely dead, beyond what anyone thought could be restored. Yet just these few words from Jesus changed everything. You may not feel anything, but you don...

John 11:3-4: 'Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick. When Jesus heard that, He said, this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.' Lazarus knew that Jesus loved him. He had once welcomed Jesus into his home. He heard His word. He knew His words were life and truth. Many in the church world today can say the same thing. Jesus is welcom...

Reading to you from Psalm 107:1-3. 'Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south'. It's time now for us to remember what God has done for us. It's time for us to remember that it was th...

Luke 10:38-39 tell us, in part, that Martha welcomed Him into her house, and Mary sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word. Before Lazarus sat at a table as a man who was raised from the dead, there was another moment. Jesus entered the village, and Martha welcomed Him into her house. Mary sat at His feet and heard His word, and Lazarus, we assume, was there as well. This was the first table, the pla...

In John 12:9-11, speaking of Lazarus after he was raised from the dead, the Scripture says many of the Jews knew that he was there because on account of him, many of them went away and believed in Jesus. Now, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was who had been raised from the dead. They made Him a supper and Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him. Many came not only just to see Je...

There must come a place where you stop listening to every argument that tells you that God can't use your life. Every reasoning, every voice, every reminder of your past tries to convince you that your future is limited. But those voices are not truth. They are lies and must be rejected. Refuse to give them weight. Refuse to entertain them. Refuse to consider them as even possible. When the enemy...

I want to remind you today that it's not by might, it's not by our works, our careers, our success, or even our eloquence. We live by the mercy and grace of Almighty God. The church of Jesus Christ that comes out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved has heard the voice of Jesus Christ calling us. We've gotten up from where we used to be. That's where life begins. As with Lazarus, the old cloth...

There's so much darkness in our generation. There's so much drug addiction and violence. There's a whole generation now being raised without God. Our young children are being confused on every conceivable level. It's time now for you and I to begin to cry out to God for this generation. It's time to cry out for our children. It's time to cry out for our families. It's time to cry out for the opiat...