Jarvis Kingston

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Psalm 9:1 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. -John 14:27 DEVOTION Based on John 14:27 Jesus offers His personal peace, not a generic, temporary calm but His own deep, abiding peace. The world’s peace depends on circumstances; Christ’s peace transcends them. Th...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Psalm 3:5 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. -Psalms 147:3 DEVOTION Based on Psalm 147:3 God is not just aware of our brokenness—He actively heals it. Like a tender physician, He does not just diagnose our pain but treats it with gentle hands. The binding of wounds speaks of careful, personal attention. He does not heal from a distance but comes c...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Psalm 92:1 A TIME FOR EVERYTHING 1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dan...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Psalm 143:8 Jesus wept - John 11:35 DEVOTION Based on John 11:35 The shortest verse in the Bible carries profound weight. Jesus, God and human, stood at His friend's tomb and wept. He knew He would raise Lazarus, yet He still grieved. This shows us that faith and tears can coexist. Sorrow is not a sign of weak faith—even Jesus experienced it. When anxiety comes from loss o...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.” PSALM 23:6 DEVOTION Based on Psalm 23:6 David writes with unshakeable certainty: surely. Not hopefully, not maybe, but surely. God's goodness and love do not just accompany us—they follow us, pursue us, never letting us out of their sight. This...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Luke 12:24-26 Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds? Can any of you add a cubit to his height by worrying? If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?” LUKE 12:24-26 DEVOTION Based on Luke 12:24-26 Jesus points to creation as our teac...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Matthew 6:34 So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own Matthew 6:34 DEVOTION Based on Matthew 6:34 Jesus speaks with practical wisdom about our tendency to borrow tomorrow's troubles today. He does not minimize our challenges but redirects our focus. Each day brings its own concerns—why double our burden by...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.” PROVERBS 12:25 DEVOTION Based on Proverbs 12:25 This proverb acknowledges a profound truth: anxiety is heavy. It presses down on our hearts like a physical weight, affecting our whole being. But notice the simple antidote that God provides—a kind word. Our Father often delivers H...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Psalm 94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. -Psalms 94:19 DEVOTION Based on Psalm 94:19 The psalmist speaks from experience, not theoretical knowledge but lived reality. In the midst of overwhelming thoughts that multiply like shadows in the night, God’s comfort breaks through like dawn. This is not about positive thinking or denial;...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” PHILIPPIANS 4:6 DEVOTION Based on Philippians 4:6 This verse is more than just advice; it’s an invitation to transform worry into worship. When anxiety rises like a tide threatening to overwhelm us, God offers an alternative: pr...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” 1 PETER 5:7 DEVOTION Based on 1 Peter 5 God doesn’t just tolerate our worries—He invites them. 1 Peter 5:7 reminds us that we don’t have to carry the weight of anxiety and burdens alone. To “cast” is to release fully, to throw off what we were never meant to bear. Often, we hold onto stress, thinking we mu...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. JOHN 15:13 DEVOTION Based on John 15 Jesus redefines love, not as mere words or emotion, but as sacrifice. In John 15:13, He reveals the highest expression of love: giving one’s life for another. This points not only to His coming sacrifice on the cross, but also to how we’re calle...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 John 17:9 & 11 THE HIGH PRIESTLY PRAYER 1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only tru...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. PROVERBS 27:6 DEVOTION Based on Proverbs 27 True friendship isn’t just kindness—it’s truth in love. A faithful friend won’t flatter you into complacency but will speak what’s needed, even when it hurts. These “wounds” are not to injure, but to refine. Honest correction, given in lo...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Job 2:13 “So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.” JOB 2:13 DEVOTION Based on Job 2 Sometimes the deepest comfort we can offer isn’t found in words, but in presence. Job’s friends sat silently with him for seven days, acknowledging his suffering simply by being there....

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Luke 5:19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. LUKE 5:19 DEVOTION Based on Luke 5 This scene shows radical friendship and unshakable faith. The paralyzed man couldn’t get to Jesus on his own, but his friends were...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Proverbs 17:17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” PROVERBS 17:17 DEVOTION Based on Proverbs 17 This verse highlights the constancy of real love. A true friend isn’t just present when life is easy—they remain when things get hard. Adversity often reveals the depth of relationships. God created us to be relational beings, and in hardship, He...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.” MALACHI 3:8 DEVOTION Based on Malachi 3 This verse offers a sobering reminder: giving is not just generosity—it’s obedience. God considers tithes and offerings part of our covenant relationship with Him. When we withhold them, we rob God and ourselves,...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Deuteronomy 8:17-18 “And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.” DEUTERONOMY 8:17-18 DEVOTION Based on Deuteronomy 8 It’s tempting to believe our s...

Your Daily Prayer 🙏🏾 Psalm 95:1 Worship louder in the silence the louder we lift God’s name the clearer His victory becomes. FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT ACTION: GENTLENESS Help someone in a small but meaningful way, like holding a door or carrying groceries. Today’s story is about King Jehoshaphat and how worship led his people to victory. Instead of fighting with weapons, they praised God, and God fou...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” MATTHEW 6:24 DEVOTION Based on Matthew 6 Jesus speaks directly to the tension between serving God and serving worldly gain. We can’t fully give ourselves to both. Mammon represents wealth, s...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Ecclesiastes 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.” ECCLESIASTES 3:13 DEVOTION Based on Ecclesiastes 3 God not only gives us work to do—He also invites us to enjoy the fruit of that labor. Ecclesiastes 3:13 reminds us that satisfaction and enjoyment are not selfish indulgences but gifts from God. The...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” JOSHUA 1:8 DEVOTION Based on Joshua 1 God’s Word isn’t just a book—it’s our guide, strength, and lifeli...

Your Daily Prayer 🙏🏾 2 KIngs 6:6 Even the smallest needs are seen and met by God. FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT ACTION: GENTLENESS Listen intently to someone without interrupting or forming a response while they’re speaking. Today’s daily devotional is about Elisha's everyday miracles. Elisha freed a widow, purified a stew, fed 100 men with 20 loaves, and recovered a sunken axe head, showing God's care a...

Your Nightly Prayer 🙏🏾 Proverbs 22:4 By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life. PROVERBS 22:4 DEVOTION Based on Proverbs 22 This verse flips worldly wisdom upside down. True abundance doesn’t come from pride or power but from humility and reverence for God. Humility opens our hearts to wisdom, and fearing the Lord aligns our priorities. Riches, honor, and life may loo...