"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

May 15, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Trust His Character" Genesis 16:1-2 New International Version   16 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”   When we are overwhelmed by shame, it can cause us to los...

May 14, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Our Debt was Paid" Psalm 103:12-13 New International Version   12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him. Do you ever struggle with believing that God has truly forgiven you? Perhaps you struggle to believe that...

May 13, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Way Back Through Jesus" John 10:10 New International Version   10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.   With sin comes shame. Shame makes us feel bad about ourselves. It makes us want to cover our mistakes, which often leads to us engaging in more sin. The worst part is that th...

May 12, 2024   Daily Devotion:   “Praise His Holy Name Forever”    Psalm 145:2-3 New International Version   2 Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise his greatness no one can fathom.   What has God done for you? In what specific ways have you seen His faithfulness? Praise Him for these things. Believe He will continue to sho...

May 11, 2024 Daily Devotion:   "Nothing Can Separate Us" Romans 8:38-39 New International Version   38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Seasons of...

May 10, 2024   Daily Devotion:   “More Than Conquerors”   Romans 8:31 New International Version   31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?   In seasons of darkness, pain, loss, grief, oppression, and sickness it can be easy to lose our hope. It can be easy to choose not to trust God but to trust instead in ourselves or in earthly comforts. B...

May 09, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Spiritual Battle"   Lamentations 2:11 New International Version   11 My eyes fail from weeping I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. We are in a spiritual battle every single day. By God’s grace, those who are in Jesus Christ get to figh...

May 08, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "The Beginning of Knowledge"   Proverbs 1:7 New International Version   7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools[a] despise wisdom and instruction.   Our God is just and holy. He cannot and will not tolerate sin. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,” says Proverbs 1:7. God “burns with anger”. But those who follow and...

May 07, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "One Heart, One Mind" Acts 4:32 New International Version   32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.   Another reason the early Christians didn’t consider their possessions to be their own was that they realized that we use our possessions only for a s...

May 06, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "God's Unfailing Love" Psalm 13:5 New International Version   5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. God character never changes and His love for you, His child, runs deep. If you are in Christ Jesus, there is no condemnation for you (Romans 8:1). When you experience a season of suffering, injustice, or pain, don’t...

May 05, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "The Heart That Rejoices" Psalm 13:5 New International Version   5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.   What will our response be? What will your response be? And how will we respond in the face of inevitable suffering? Jesus says, “I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you have...

May 04,2024   Daily Devotion:   "A Heart Seeking Truth" Psalm 51:17 New International Version   17 My sacrifice, O God, is[a] a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.   We can all feel like our heart is broken at times. These are the moments when the book of Psalms becomes a great comfort to us, offering us a language for our own pain and brokenness. Wheth...

May 03, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "God Is Our Strength"   Psalm 22:19 New International Version   19 But you, Lord, do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me.   When the people around us watch us go through times of great pain and suffering and see we are not crushed (2 Corinthians 4:8-10), perhaps God will use our life and faith as an example to them, drawing th...

May 02, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Good and Compassionate God"   Psalm 10:1 New International Version   1 Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?   God is always moving, always working, and never far away. In Exodus 34:6 God describes Himself as, “The Lᴏʀᴅ, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and f...

May 01, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Take Steps of Faith" 1 Corinthians 12:12 (ESV)   12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.   God designed you to be a beautiful member of the body of Christ. Without you and your unique gifts, the body of Christ will not function to its fullest potential. Take ti...

April 30, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "United in Christ"   Galatians 3:28 New International Version   28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.   Jesus loves you, not because of what you have or what you can offer, but because you are a daughter of God. You are chosen. You are known. You are not a mistake,...

April 29, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "The Lord Will Fulfill His Promises"   Luke 1:45 New International Version   45 Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”   How firm is your faith when the desires of your heart are unmet? What about when your prayers seem to be unanswered for longer than you imagined? When we’re in the middle of barren places, it...

April 28, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "God Hears Our Cries" Genesis 30:22-24 New International Version   22 Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. 23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.” 24 She named him Joseph, [a] and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”   God hears our cries, too. Even when we...

April 27, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "God Is Honored by Our Sacrifice"   Mark 12:43-44 New International Version   43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”   The widow gave God everything. Wh...

April 26, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "He Is Worthy of Great Honor"   Exodus 15:20-21 New Century Version   20 Then Aaron’s sister Miriam, a prophetess, took a tambourine in her hand. All the women followed her, playing tambourines and dancing. 21 Miriam told them: “Sing to the Lord, because he is worthy of great honor; he has thrown the horse and its rid into the sea.” You have a front row...

April 23, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "The Deeds of the Lord" Psalms 77:10-11 New International Version Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand. I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. The Psalmist in our reading today reminds us that even when we feel like all is lost—even when we feel...

April 22, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Conflicts into Blessings"   Genesis 28:3-4 New International Version   3 May God Almighty[a] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. 4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land Go...

April 21, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "God's Discipline"   Galatians 6:7-9 New International Version 7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we...

April 20, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Our Manumitter" Genesis 32:28 New International Version 28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[a] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome. It is incredibly gracious of God to rid us of our self-reliance. God will accomplish His purposes by His power alone. He does not need our help to fulfill...

April 19, 2024 Daily Devotion: "Choosing to Be at Peace" 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 New International Version 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We need recon...