"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

November 22, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Give and Receive Encouragement" Hebrews 10:23-25 New International Version 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the mor...

November 21, 2023 Daily Devotion: “The God of More Than Enough" Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. David understood that God was his provider. “I will not be in need,” he wrote in verse 1 of Psalm 23. In other words, because he belonged to the Lord, he was able to experience a life without lack. We can think about this in two ways. First, we can expect God to give us everythi...

November 20, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God Is Worthy of Our Adoration" Psalm 95:6 English Standard Version 6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! The desire to give praise is hardwired in the human spirit—it’s an impulse we can’t ignore. And as Christians, we’re called to direct that tendency to the One who made us. It’s a beautiful truth that we are...

November 19, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Put Your Hope in God” Psalm 42:5-11 New International Version 5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God. 6 My soul is downcast within me; therefore, I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep in the roa...

November 18, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Prayer of Faith" 1 Kings 18:19–21 So Ahab summoned all the people of Israel and the prophets to Mount Carmel. Then Elijah stood in front of them and said, “How much longer will you waver, hobbling between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him! But if Baal is God, then follow him!” But the people were completely silent. Perhaps you have known God...

November 17, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Our Access to God's Wisdom" Hebrews 5:11-14 New International Version 11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid f...

November 16, 2023 Daily Devotion: "We Are Here by God's Appointment" 1 Kings 17:24 New International Version 24 Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.” Remember, you are here by God's appointment, you are in His keeping, you are under His training, for His time. Give Him the corpse of your l...

November 15, 2023 Daily Devotion: "No Panic. No Fear. No Rush" 1 Kings 17:17-19 New International Version 17 Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. 18 She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?” 19 “Give me your son,” Elijah replied...

November 14, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Rested in The Lord's Hands" 1 Kings 17:21-22 New International Version 21 Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him!” 22 The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. That was some prayer. Elijah was not able to say, "Let this...

November 13, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Rejoice and Continue to Rejoice" Philippians 12:18-20 New International Provision 18 But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, 19 for I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Je...

November 12, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Perseverance Is a Virtue" James 1:2-4 New International Version 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. Don’t be discouraged or feel gui...

November 11, 2023 Daily Devotion: “Let Your Light Shine Before Others" Matthew 5:14-16 New International Version 14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they m...

November 10, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Greatest Inheritance” Deuteronomy 6: 4-7 New International Version 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home...

November 09, 2023 Daily Devotion: "His Glory Is for Our Good" 1 Peter 5:7 New International Version 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. When we face an urgent need, our prayers become fervent, and our desire for a quick answer intensifies. It seems that if the Lord doesn’t intervene soon, the very thing we dread could happen. And without a detectable response from Go...

November 08, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Tested but Not Abandoned"  1 Kings 17:8-9 New International Version 8 Then the word of the Lord came to him: 9 “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” No matter how many years we walk with the Lord, we must still, at times, pass through our own Gethsemane. It happens every t...

November 07, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Grow in Faith Grow in Christ"  Romans 4:18-21 New International Version 18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and th...

November 06, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Firm Foundation" James 5:17-18 New International Version 17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18 Again, he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. Our God is relentless. He never ceases His training regimens. He sh...

November 05, 2023 Daily Devotion: "On the Palms of His Hands"  Romans 8:18 New International Version 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. In times of pain and adversity, we might feel as if God has abandoned us. If He were here, we think, He would have done something by now. Hardships aren’t an indication that God h...

November 04, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Thanksgiving Offering" Psalm 69:30-31 New International Version 30 I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. 31 This will please the Lord more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hooves. David was certain God saw and heard him, and he recognized that gratefulness for such things is of great worth to the Lord. In fac...

November 03, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Gratitude Breaks the Chain of Bitterness" Ephesians 5:18-21 New International Version 18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, 20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everythi...

November 02, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Ingratitude Is Always a Mortal Sin"  2 Timothy 3:1-5 New International Version 3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lover...

November 01, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God's Plan is Always Full of Surprise and Mystery"  1 Kings 17:2-6 New International Version 2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.” 5 So he did what the Lord had told him...

October 31, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Choose Wisely" Genesis 25:29-34 New International Version 29 Once, when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom. 31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.” 32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said....

October 30, 2023 Daily Devotion: "True Confession" James 4:8 New International Version 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. True confession means agreeing with the Lord about sin, and it is inseparably linked with repentance; they’re two sides of the same coin. In the Greek, repent literally means “a cha...

October 29, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Through His Word" Matthew 13:10-13 New International Version 10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” 11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have,...