"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

February 20, 2024 Daily Devotion: "He Is the Most Exalted One" Colossians 1:18 TPT   He is the Head of his body, which is the church. And since he is the beginning and the firstborn heir in resurrection, he is the most exalted One, holding first place in everything. God is prominent and preeminent. He is majestic in His power, magnificent in His person, and marvelous in His purposes. How...

February 19, 2024 Daily Devotion: "God's World" Psalms 19:1-6 TPT God’s splendor is a tale that is told, written in the stars. Space itself speaks his story through the marvels of the heavens. His truth is on tour in the starry vault of the sky, showing his skill in creation’s craftsmanship. Each day gushes out its message to the next, night by night whispering its knowledge to all—...

February 18, 2024 Daily Devotion: "The Fear of the Lord" Proverbs 9:10 The starting point for acquiring wisdom is to be consumed with awe as you worship YAHWEH. To receive the revelation of the Holy One, you must come to the one who has living-understanding. How terribly important it is that we stand firm in wisdom, responding in understanding. Neither can be found by our own effort or a...

February 17, 2024 Daily Devotion: "Seventy Times Seven Times" Matthew 18:21-22 The Passion Translation   Later Peter approached Jesus and said, “How many times do I have to forgive my fellow believer who keeps offending me? Seven times?” Jesus answered, “Not seven times, Peter, but seventy times seven times!   Jesus then shared the parable of a slave who owed the king a great debt. The k...

February 16, 2024 Daily Devotion: "The Glory of the Lord Will Be Revealed" Isaiah 40:1-5 New International Version   40 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. 3 A voice of one calling: “In the...

February 15, 2024 Daily Devotion: "God's Handiwork" Psalm 139:14 New International Version   14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. We believers are each a unique blend of personality, gifts, and experiences that God has mixed together and continually applies so we simultaneously enhance and are enhanced by those...

February 14, 2024 Daily Devotion: "My Champion Defender" Psalms 62:1-2 TPT I stand silently to listen for the one I love, waiting as long as it takes for the Lord to rescue me. For God alone has become my Savior. He alone is my safe place; his wrap around presence always protects me. For he is my champion defender; there’s no risk of failure with God. So why would I let worry paralyze me...

February 13, 2024 Daily Devotion: "God is Alive, Just and Good"   Proverbs 3:5-6 English Standard Version   5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.   There is nothing like hope in the truth to clarify perspective and keep you going. Enduring a painful journey can be done...

February 12, 2024 Daily Devotion: "He Came So We Can Have Life" 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. There’s a reason why life feels empty: God created us with a yearning—one that He alone can satisfy. We can’t be fulfilled until we experience the Lord’s transforming and...

February 11, 2024 Daily Devotion: "In His Perfect Time" John 13:7 New International Version   7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Refuse to believe that life is based on blind fate or random chance. Everything that happens, including the things you cannot explain or justify, is being woven together like an enormous, beautiful piece of...

February 10, 2024 Daily Devotion:   "Work Everything for Good"   Acts 16:5-10 New International Version   5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers. 6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. 7 When they came to the border of Mysia, t...

February 09, 2024 Daily Devotion: "Seek The Path of Jesus" Matthew 7:7-8 New International Version   7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.   Jesus is the door through which we find abundant, eternal life. When we kn...

February 08, 2024 Daily Devotion:   "Ask Seek Knock"   Matthew 7:7-11 New International Version   7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he...

February 07, 2024 Daily Devotion:   "Warmth of His Compassion"   Psalm 34:1-7 New Life Version   I will honor the Lord at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. 2 My soul will be proud to tell about the Lord. Let those who suffer hear it and be filled with joy. 3 Give great honor to the Lord with me. Let us praise His name together. 4 I looked for the Lord, and He answered me....

February 05, 2024 Daily Devotion:   "Liberating Power of Love"   Ephesians 4:25-32 New International Version   25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. 26 “In your anger do not sin” Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. 28 Anyone who has been stealing...

February 04, 2024 Daily Devotion:   "Immeasurable Love" Romans 5:6-8 New International Version   6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Chr...

February 03, 2024 Daily Devotion:   "The Path of Christ" Matthew 18:15-20 New International Version   15 “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses....

February 02, 2024 Daily Devotion:   "Greater Love" John 15:13 New International Version   13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.   When we encounter someone who stands by us through thick and thin, who lends a listening ear without judgment, who offers support and encouragement, we glimpse the reflection of Christ’s love. Just as Jesus said, “Grea...

February 01, 2024   Daily Devotion: "Victorious Over the Grave" Deuteronomy 18:18 New International Version   18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.   It was the humility of another like Moses that got Moses into heaven. Jesus is the prophet God chose to lead his...

January 31, 2024 Daily Devotion: "Be Grateful"   Psalm 23:4-6 New International Version   4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the day...

January 30, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Stand Firm" 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 New International Version   13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 14 He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory...

January 29, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "We Are God's People" Isaiah 64:8-9 English Standard Version   8 But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. 9 Be not so terribly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.   While the Lord is sovereign, He is also loving, gracio...

January 28, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Vessels Designed and Moulded by God"   Jeremiah 18:1-6 New International Version   1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his han...

January 27, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "An Essential Concept" Ephesians 2:8-10 New International Version   8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.   God’s grace...

January 26, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Perfect Peace" (Isaiah 26:3, ESV)   You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you”   For many of us, these last few years have felt a bit unstable. We have all experienced some form of worry, stress, and anxiety from the unknown future. From viruses, suddenly losing loved ones, empty store shelves, job losses, ri...