Green Pastures Devotions

Today’s Scripture reading: Titus 3.12-14 (NIV)

Today’s Scripture reading: Titus 3.8-11 (MSG)

Today’s Scripture reading: Titus 2.11-14 MSG

Today’s Scripture reading: Titus 1.5-9 (MSG)

Titus 1:1-4 (MSG) "I, Paul, am God’s slave and Christ’s agent for promoting the faith among God’s chosen people, getting out the accurate word on God and how to respond rightly to it. My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end. This is the life God promised long ago—and he doesn’t break promises! And then when the time was ripe, he went public with his truth. I’ve been entrus...

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SCRIPTURE: “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning...

SCRIPTURE: “I will tell of the kindnesses of the Lord, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the Lord has done for us — yes, the many good things he has done for Israel, according to his compassion and many kindnesses. He said, “Surely they are my people, children who will be true to me”; and so he became their Savior. In all their distress he, too, was distressed, and the ange...

SCRIPTURE: Luke 2:8-20 VISIO DIVINA: Center yourself by taking a deep breath and relaxing your body as best you can. Allow your shoulders to lower away from your ears. Let your arms rest in your lap and let your feet be fully supported by the floor. Feel the weight of your body held by the chair. Spend this time quietly. Open yourself up to God’s voice. Link to the Art and Devotional

SCRIPTURE: “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” Romans 12:9-12

SCRIPTURE: “I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations. I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself. You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant, I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through al...

The Lord inhabits our worship. Enter this reflection by settling for a moment and inviting God’s presence. As we continue with the theme of Love, the song this week is Adore Him from Vineyard Worship in the UK. Through these profound lyrics, we are connected to the love of God that encompasses our lives and the world through Jesus. Read through the lyrics slowly and notice what messages are highli...

Week 4: To begin each week of Advent, we have compiled opportunities for Sabbath. We pray your Sabbath experiences throughout the Advent season will be a sanctuary for you - to rest and recover from all the busyness that can come with this season. ⁠⁠⁠Click Here for the Full Written Version of the Advent Devotional

SCRIPTURE: “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17b-19 Christian Dunn | National Youth Director Link to Devotional

SCRIPTURE: A prayer of the Apostle Paul for his friends in Ephesus “…may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.” Ephesians 3:18-19 Becky Olmstead...

SCRIPTURE: Luke 1:39-56 Center yourself by taking a deep breath and relaxing your body as best you can. Allow your shoulders to lower away from your ears. Let your arms rest in your lap and let your feet be fully supported by the floor. Feel the weight of your body held by the chair. Spend this time in silence. Open yourself up to God’s voice.

SCRIPTURE: “Mary responded, “Oh, how my soul praises the Lord. How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! For he took notice of his lowly servant girl, and from now on all generations will call me blessed. For the Mighty One is holy, and he has done great things for me. He shows mercy from generation to generation to all who fear him. His mighty arm has done tremendous things! He has scattered the p...

SCRIPTURE: “Arise, Lord, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might… For the Lord has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling, saying, ’This is my resting place forever and ever; here I will sit enthroned, for I have desired it. I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor I will satisfy with food. I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her faithful people...

The Lord inhabits our worship. Enter this reflection by settling for a moment and inviting God’s presence. As we continue with the theme of Joy, the song this week is a medley of another traditional hymn and a Vineyard Worship song: Angels We Have Heard On High / Glory to God. These timeless and timely lyrics call us to celebrate the joy brought into the world through the birth of Jesus. Read thro...

Week 3: To begin each week of Advent, we have compiled opportunities for Sabbath. We pray your Sabbath experiences throughout the Advent season will be a sanctuary for you - to rest and recover from all the busyness that can come with this season. ⁠⁠Click Here for the Full Written Version of the Advent Devotional

By Josh Williams Associate National Director Of Evangelism & Justice SCRIPTURE: “There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.” Proverbs: 23:18 ⁠ Click Here for the Devotional

SCRIPTURE: “In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts. Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith. You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.” Isaiah 26:1...

SCRIPTURE: “But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” Luke 1:30-33

ELANIE FORSYTHE-LEE | WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION LEADER SCRIPTURE: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end.” Isaiah 9:6-7a

SCRIPTURE: “When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, yo...