St Barnabas Daily Devotions

John 10:17-21 - Daily Devotion - 6 August 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 17 The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.” 19 Again there was...

John 10:11-16 - Daily Devotion - 5 August 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock. 13 The man runs...

John 10:7-10 - Daily Devotion - 4 August 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 7 So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture. 10&n...

John 10:1-6 - Daily Devotion - 3 August 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 1 “Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 But the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his o...

2 Kings 10:12-24 - Daily Devotion - 31 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 25 When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal. 26 They brought out the sacre...

2 Kings 10:12-24 - Daily Devotion - 31 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 12 Then Jehu set out toward Samaria. At Beth-eked of the Shepherds, 13 Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.” 14 Then Jehu...

2 Kings 10:1-11 - Daily Devotion - 30 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying: 2 “When this letter arrives, since your master’s sons are with you and you have chariots and horses, a fortified...

2 Kings 9:27-37 - Daily Devotion - 29 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 27 When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there. 28 Then his servants carried him by chariot to Jer...

2 Kings 9:14-26 - Daily Devotion - 28 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 14 Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram, 15 but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the bat...

2 Kings 9:1-13 - Daily Devotion - 27 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead. 2 When you arrive, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go in, get him away from his companions, and take hi...

2 Kings 8:16-29 - Daily Devotion - 25 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 16 In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah. 17 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. 18 And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Is...

2 Kings 8:7-15 - Daily Devotion - 24 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 7 Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.” 8 So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’” 9 ...

2 Kings 8:1-6 - Daily Devotion - 23 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.” 2 So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instruct...

2 Kings 7:12-20 - Daily Devotion - 22 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 12 So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’” 13 But one...

2 Kings 7:3-11 - Daily Devotion - 21 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over t...

2 Kings 6:24 - 7:2 - Daily Devotion - 20 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park A warning before you read: Today’s passage contains a graphic description of starvation and cannibalism. ~~~ 24 Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria. 25 So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city...

2 Kings 6:13-23 - Daily Devotion - 18 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 13 So the king said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send men to capture him.” On receiving the report, “Elisha is in Dothan,” 14 the king of Aram sent horses, chariots, and a great army. They went there by night and surrounded the city. 15 When the servant of the man of God got...

2 Kings 6:1-12 - Daily Devotion - 17 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 1 Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us. 2 Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha. 3 Then one of them said, “Please...

2 Kings 5:19b-27 - Daily Devotion - 16 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park But after Naaman had traveled a short distance, 20 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, while not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.” 21 So Gehazi pursue...

2 Kings 5:10-19a - Daily Devotion - 15 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 10 Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.” 11 But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wa...

2 Kings 5:1-9 - Daily Devotion - 14 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 1 Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. 2 At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a youn...

2 Kings 4:38-44 - Daily Devotion - 13 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 38 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.” 39 One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a w...

2 Kings 4:28-37 - Daily Devotion - 11 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park Context: The Shunammite woman’s son has died, and she has travelled to find the prophet Elisha. ~~~ 28 Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’” 29 So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment,[ A ] take my staff in your hand, and go! If you m...

2 Kings 4:11-27 - Daily Devotion - 10 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 11 One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down. 12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him, 13 and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. W...

2 Kings 4:1-10 - Daily Devotion - 9 July 2026 St Barnabas Anglican Church Fairfield & Bossley Park 1 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!” 2 “How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in th...