"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

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...

April 18, 2024 Daily Devotion: "Choose Life in Him" Deuteronomy 30:15-16 New International Version   15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you a...

April 17, 2024 Daily Devotion: "God Has in Store for You"   Luke 16:10-13 New Living Translation “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven? And if you are not fai...

April 16, 2024 Daily Devotion: "Unseen Realm Is Eternal" 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 The Passion Translation We view our slight, short-lived troubles in the light of eternity. We see our difficulties as the substance that produces for us an eternal, weighty glory far beyond all comparison, because we don’t focus our attention on what is seen but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary...

April 15, 2024 Daily Devotion: "Blessed Is the One Who Perseveres" James 1:12-13 New International Version 12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. 13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he temp...

April 14, 2024 Daily Devotion: "Promise Keeper" Genesis 46:2-4 New International Version 2 And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied. 3 “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. 4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back a...

April 13, 2024 Daily Devotion: "A Gift Opens the Way - Wisdom"   Proverbs 18:15-17 New International Version 15 The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out. 16 A gift opens the way and ushers the giver into the presence of the great. 17 In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right, until someone comes forward and cross-examines. God ensured the sur...

April 12, 2024 Daily Devotion: "He Has Specific Plans and Specific Future" Psalm 139:16 New International Version 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Joseph received a double portion of blessing, as Jacob blessed Joseph’s sons as his own. The faithfulness of Joseph allowed him to be blessed abundantly by...