"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

December 30, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Use Your Time Wisely” James 4:14 For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Nothing takes God by surprise. Everything is moving according to a plan, and God wants you in that plan. The devil also has a plan for the world. God has a plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to decide which plan you...

December 29, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Peace may Come" 1 John 5:14 If we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. God has said, “If my people . . . pray . . . then will I hear from heaven.” Before three thousand people were brought into the Church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent ten days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail. God desires that Christians be concerned and...

December 28, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Escapism" 2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations . . . and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Thousands of people have made plans to escape from the realities of life. A new word has come into common usage the last few years. That word is “escapism.” The dictionary defines it as “a retreat from reality into an imaginary world....

December 27, 2022 Daily Devotion: “Who and What God Really Is... " Psalm 119:18 The Living Bible Translation Open my eyes to see wonderful things in your Word. Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve. If you have any uncertainty about the inspiration of the Bible, go back and look at it ag...

December 26, 2022 Daily Devotion: “His Plans Are Already Formed" Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. The Scriptures predict that a new day is coming. There will be a golden age of prosperity when all perplexing problems-religious, social, or political-will find their complete solution. It will be a marvelous time for this mixed-up world. However,...

December 25, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Way to Deliverance" Psalm 34:4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. Man has always been beset by worry, and the pressures of modern life have aggravated the problem. To men of all time Jesus said, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow . . . but seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things...

December 24, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Saving Faith” Romans 10:9 if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. The heart is the blood-pump of the body. It is also used metaphorically when we speak of affections and feelings. Since it is the central organ of the body and one of the most vital, the Bible...

December 23, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The God of Breakthrough" Hebrews 13:20,21 The Living Bible Translation may the God of peace . . . produce in you through the power of Christ all that is pleasing to him . . . In the revelation that God established between Himself and us, we can find a new life and a new dimension of living, but we must “tune in.” There are higher levels of living to which we have...

December 22, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Christian Hour of Decision" Psalm 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsteth for thee . . . 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 cannot possibly be a happy, dynamic, and powerful C...

December 21, 2022 Daily Devotion: "With All Sincerity" Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Certain relationships in life require from the parties involved only moderate degrees of devotion. A certain degree of reserve and distance seems to be suitable in such relations as these. But there are other relationships in life where all this is changed when...

December 20, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Manifestation" 1 John 3:21 The Living Bible Translation we can come to the Lord with perfect assurance and trust . . . The Bible teaches that faith will manifest itself in three ways. It will manifest itself in doctrine—in what you believe. It will manifest itself in worship—your communion with God and the fellowship of the church. It will manifest itself in...

December 19, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Hope" 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 world that predicts th...

December 18,2022 Daily Devotion: "New dimension, A New Direction, and A New Power in Life" Psalm 61:2 When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. When you become a Christian, it doesn’t mean that you will live on a perpetual “high.” The Psalmist David went down to the very depths, and so did the Apostle Paul. But in the midst of all circumstances God’s grace, peace, an...

December 17, 2022 Daily Devotion: "God Has Equations and Rules in the Spiritual” Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust . . . The trouble with our modern thinking is that we have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that e...

December 16, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Binding Obligation" Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Certain relationships in life require from the parties involved only moderate degrees of devotion. A certain degree of reserve and distance seems to be suitable in such relations as these. But there are other relationships in life where all this is changed...

December 15, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Think Before We Speak..." James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. The problems of the world could be solved overnight if men could get victory over their tongues. Suppose there was no anger, no profanity, no lying, no grumbling or complaining; suppose there were n...

December 14, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Invest Wisely... " Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time . . . We are stewards of our time. God has given each one of us a little “chunk of eternity” called time. These golden moments of opportunity are doled out to us for our benefit and for God’s glory. If we use them wisely, they are woven by God’s omnipotent hand into the fabric of eternity. You cannot kill time...

December 13, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Transform you from the inside out" John 11:40 Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? If you are a young man or young woman hooked on dissent or despair, ready to split, then lend me your attention. My answer concerns your dreams, and the element in your make-up called “faith.” All that God requires of anyone in...

December 12, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Divine love, like a reflected sunbeam" 1 John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light… This age in which we live could hardly be described as conducive to a sensitiveness of the needs of others. We have developed a veneer of sophistication and hardness. Abraham Lincoln once said, characteristically, “I am sorry for the man who can’t feel the whip whe...

December 11, 2022 Daily Devotion: "A Friend... " Proverbs 18:24 There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. How many lonely people there are today! God did not create man to live in miserable inner loneliness. In that first Eden, God Himself came down to keep the man He had made from being lonely. One of the most heartening things Jesus said to His disciples was, “Lo, I am with you alwa...

December 10, 2022 Daily Devotion: "What Makes You Tick? " Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Experts have told us that society is sick. Their solutions have treated human frailty with infusions of low-income housing, welfare payments, integrated education, and psychological conditioning. But we are learning that this is not the total answer. The world does need changing,...

December 09, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Naked Truth" Psalm 51:6 The Living Bible Translation You deserve honesty from the heart; yes, utter sincerity and truthfulness. Oh, give me this wisdom. The Bible teaches that purity of conduct includes truthfulness. The Bible teaches that we should be truthful in our representation of ourselves. With what scorn Christ denounced the hypocrisy of the scribes a...

December 08, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Unspeakable Gift" Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born . . . and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. To Christians the joy of Christmas is not limited to His birth. It is built even more on the triumph of His death and resurrection—that gave meaning to His birth. The mysterious spirit o...

December 07, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Sword of the Spirit" Proverbs 13:13 The Living Bible Translation Despise God's Word and find yourself in trouble. Obey it and succeed. As Christians, we have the Spirit of God in us. But ours is the responsibility to keep sin out of our lives so that the Spirit can produce His fruit in us. Become grounded in the Bible. As Christians, we have only one authorit...

December 06, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Code Book" Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Time is running out. The seconds are ticking away toward midnight. The human race is about to take the fatal plunge. Which way shall we turn? Is there any authority left? Is there a path we can follow? Can we find a code book that will give us the key to our dilemmas?...