"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

July 12, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Full Growth Process" Philippians 4:13-15 New International Version 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength. 14 Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles. 15 Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and re...

July 11, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Parameter" Galatians 5:16-18 New International Version 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever [a] you want. 18 But if you are led by t...

July 10, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Team Spirit" Amos 2:4 Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.” Team Spirit is the other term for loyalty, which means the quality of being...

July 09, 2023 Daily Devotion: "In Awe of You" Isaiah 6:5 New International Version 5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” In a time when God's name is so readily taken in vain, this passage has a refreshing bite and warning: God is vastly superior and far more...

July 8, 2023 Daily Devotion: "In All Things God Works" Romans 8: 28 And we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” If we are honest, some of us Christians are embarrassed about suffering and hardship because we feel we ought to be free from all that. There is, however, nothing in Scripture that indicates this....

July 07, 2023 Daily Devotion:   “The Process”  Ephesians 4:15-16, ESV Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Like a child on the way to adulthood,...

June 23, 2023 Daily Devotion:  "The True Victim"  Genesis 42:21-24 New International Version  21 They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that’s why this distress has come on us.” 22 Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would...

June 22, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "Step Up to The Plate"  Genesis 42:21  "Then they said to one another, 'Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore, this distress has come upon us'"   In the original language, the "we" in their conversation is emphatic! "We...

June 21, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "Character Mixed with Wisdom"  Genesis 41:53-57 New International Version   53 The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end, 54 and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt, there was food. 55 When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh...

June 20, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "God Has Made Me Fruitful..." Genesis 41:47–52 As predicted, for seven years, the land produced bumper crops. During those years, Joseph gathered all the crops grown in Egypt and stored the grain from the surrounding fields in the cities. He piled up huge amounts of grain like sand on the seashore. Finally, he stopped keeping records because there was too...

June 19, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "The Waiting Period" Genesis 41:41-46 New International Version 41 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.” 42 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. 43 He had him ride in a chariot as his second-i...

June 18, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "The Promise of Morning Light"  Genesis 41:41–42 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the entire land of Egypt.” Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and placed it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in fine linen clothing and hung a gold chain around his neck.     When the reward comes, thank God without pride. Only God can...

June 17, 2023 Daily Devotion: "If God Was In It, God Would Do It” Genesis 41:37–40 Joseph’s suggestions were well received by Pharaoh and his officials. So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find anyone else like this man so obviously filled with the spirit of God?” Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has revealed the meaning of the dreams to you, clearly no one else is as intelligent o...

June 16, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Benefits of Enduring Affliction"  Genesis 41:15–16 "Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'I have had a dream, but no one can interpret it; and I have heard it said about you, that when you hear a dream, you can interpret it.' Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, 'It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favourable answer'" Talk about humil...

June 15, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Shaped for a Significant Future"   Genesis 37:18-20 New International Version 18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. 19 “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. 20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what...

June 14, 2023 Daily Devotion:  "God May Be silent, But He Has Not Forgotten You" Genesis 40:23–41:1 Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer, however, forgot all about Joseph, never giving him another thought. Two full years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing on the bank of the Nile River. When Joseph saw the cupbearer taken from the prison, he must have thought, Now's my chance! This guy...

June 13, 2023 Daily Devotion: "From Goodness to Greatness" Genesis 40:20-23 New International Version 20 Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials: 21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh’s...

June 12, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Sunshine Days" Genesis 40:6-8 When Joseph saw them the next morning, he noticed that they both looked upset. “Why do you look so worried today?” he asked them. And they replied, “We both had dreams last night, but no one can tell us what they mean.” “Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied. “Go ahead and tell me" When your heart is right...

June 11, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Cupbearer" Genesis 40:1–3 Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer and chief baker offended their royal master. Pharaoh became angry with these two officials, and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard. Isn't it remarkable how often God brings alongside us people who are going through like Joseph or...

June 10, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "Stand Firm"  Genesis 39:21–23 But the LORD was with Joseph in the prison and showed him his faithful love. And the LORD made Joseph a favorite with the prison warden. Before long, the warden put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners and over everything that happened in the prison. The warden had no more worries, because Joseph took care of everythin...

June 09, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "Fullness of God's Promises"  “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7 Living by faith is the key that unlocks the door to the fullness of God’s promises. There is no doubt that God will always be faithful to his promises. Scripture is clear in 2 Timothy 2:13 that “if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.” Fai...

June 08, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God's Ranks"  Genesis 39:19-23 New International Version 19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger. 20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison, 21 the Lord was with him; he sho...

June 07, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "Sudden and Fierce" Genesis 39:10–12 She kept putting pressure on Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and he kept out of her way as much as possible. One day, however, no one else was around when he went in to do his work. She came and grabbed him by his cloak, demanding, “Come on, sleep with me!” Joseph tore himself away, but he left h...

June 06, 2023 Daily Devotion: “A Message of Hope ..." Genesis 37:18–20 When Joseph’s brothers saw him coming, they recognized him in the distance. As he approached, they made plans to kill him. “Here comes the dreamer!” they said. “Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has eaten him.’ Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!...

June 05, 2023 Daily Devotion: "It Keeps Us Alive"  Job 33:4 (NASB) The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me.   Breathing is a miracle we don’t stop to think about very much. We just do it. It keeps us alive. In the same amazing way God has given us as Christians a way to “breathe spiritually” for our spiritual well-being. Spiritual breathing, like physical b...