"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

March 15, 2023 Daily Devotion: “Come to Our Senses" 2 Kings 5:1–14 A man named Naaman was a high-ranking Syrian soldier. He was influential, wealthy, proud—a man of dignity, courage, patriotism, and military clout. There was only one problem: the man had leprosy. Through a chain of interesting events, Naaman was led to Elisha for cleansing from his dread disease. It fell to Elisha's servant to be...

March 14, 2023 Daily Devotion: "When We Think Correctly” 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 NIV For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every tho...

March 13, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Press Toward the Goal" Philippians 3:14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. Those men and women who refuse to get bogged down in and anchored to the past are those who pursue the objectives of the future. People who do this are rarely petty. They are too involved in getting a job...

March 12, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Living Sacrifice" Romans 12:1-3 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his g...

March 11, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Have Life, and Have it to the Full" 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. This reminds us of God’s great promises for us. Even before we felt the breath of new life, when we were still separated from God because of our sin, through salvation, gave us t...

March 10, 2023 Daily Devotion: "New Dimension" Psalm 19:1–3 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. There is a language in nature that speaks of the existence of God. It is the language of order, beauty, perfection, and intell...

March 09, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Put It into Practice" Philippians 4:9 New International Version 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in their elders is integrity, honesty, truthfulness, and faith. What they hate...

March 08, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Work with Enthusiasm" Ephesians 6:7 New Living Translation (NLT) 7 Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeki...

March 07, 2023 Daily Devotion: "With Me in Paradise" Matthew 6:25 (NIV) Do not worry about your life . . . Some people ask, “Do you think God has time for me? You don’t know how mixed up our life is, how confused it is; the pressures, the tension at home, the business problems, so many things I couldn’t possibly tell you about, including the sins in our lives that We somehow cannot seem to give up...

March 06, 2023 Daily Devotion: "No Man Is So Ignorant As He Who Knows Nothing And Knows Not That He Knows Nothing." Jeremiah 4:22 For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me . . . No man is more pathetic than he who is in great need and is not aware of it. Remember Samson? Standing there in the valley of Sorek, surrounded by the lords of the Philistines, ” … he wish not that the Lord was d...

March 05, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Our Rock Is God" 1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom . . . I believe we ought to get all the education we can, but we dare not make it our god. John Dewey once defined education as the systematic, purposeful reconstruction of experience; but so much of modern education leaves out God. What we are actually doing is...

March 04, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Dedication ..." Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much . . . What God expects, and all God expects, is that we dedicate completely all of our talents and gifts to Him. That is the meaning of the parable of the talents in Matthew, chapter 25. Read this parable, and you will see that we are always rewarded because of our faithfu...

March 03, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Sunlight of His Love..." Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope . . . One of the best ways to get rid of discouragement is to remember that Christ is coming again. The most thrilling, glorious truth in all the world is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. When we look around and see pessimism on every side, we should remember the Bible is the only Book in the wo...

March 02, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Sin Shall Not Reign Over Us” 1 John 4:4 Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Paul once wrote, “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye can not do the things that ye would” (Galatians 5:17). This is the battle or the tension that is present in us to a gre...

March 01, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Where God Guides, He Provides" John 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. He (the Spirit) will never lead you contrary to the Word of God. I hear people saying, “The Lord led me to do this. … The Lord told me thus and so …” I am always a little suspicious unless what the Lord has said is in keeping with His Word. God never directs us to do...

February 28, 2023 Daily Devotion: “Future Life with God" Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure. There is no escape for the man who squanders his opportunity to prepare to mee...

February 27, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Conflict of the Ages" Luke 23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him . . . One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst. Why did the crowd ask for the release of Barabbas and the crucifixion of Jesus? The answer is in the biblical statement, “The...

February 26, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Ability to Believe" Romans 10:9 believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead . . . It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men believed it. The tomb was not emptied of Christ’s body that first Easter because some faithful persons believed it. The fact preceded the faith. We are psycholog...

February 25, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Christian Movement in Motion" Genesis 28:15 Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest. When Jesus uttered His words of comfort in the first few verses of the fourteenth chapter of John’s Gospel, concluding with, “And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know” (John 14:4), Thomas said unto Him, “Lord, we know not whither thou goes...

February 24, 2023 Daily Devotion: "A Humble Spirit" Matthew 23:12 He that shall humble himself shall be exalted. In almost every instance in the Bible, as well as in life, pride is associated with failure, not success. We hear a great deal about the inferiority complex, but the superiority complex of pride is seldom spoken of. It was pride that caused the fall of Lucifer, and he became Satan, the...

February 23, 2022 Daily Devotion: "I Can Do All Things Through Christ" Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives. Jesus had a loving heart. If He dwells within us, hatred and bitterness will never rule us. Jesus had a forgiving and understanding heart. If He lives within us, mercy wi...

February 22, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Believe... " Mark 11:24 What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe . . . We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become sel...

February 21, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Satan's Defeat..." Psalm 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. When temptations come, let me suggest that you ask God for strength—and also to show you the way He has prepared for your escape. One other word of counsel; be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted. All of us are not su...

February 20, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Future of Promise" Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Today many people are living in the bondage of fear. In a recent study a psychiatrist said that the greatest problem facing his patients was fear. Fear of going insane, committing suicide, being alone, or fear of heart disease, cancer, disaster, or death. We are becoming a...

February 19, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Hour of Decision" Psalm 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsteth for thee . . . Some Christians have learned little of a daily devotional life. Nothing can take the place of a daily devotional life with Christ. Your quiet time, your prayer time, the time you spend in the Word, is absolutely essential for a happy Christian life. You c...