"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

October 28, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Stand Firm in the Faith" 1 Corinthians 16:13 English Standard Version 13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. God looks for special people at difficult times. God needed a special man to shine the light in the blackness of those days. But God didn't find him in the palace or the court. He didn't find him walking around w...

October 27, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Orison"  Hebrews 4:16 New International Version 16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. As Christians, we know that we should pray, even if doing so seems daunting. But far more than any sense of obligation we may feel, it’s wise to recognize that God in...

October 26, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Faith Empowers Us to Pay Attention" Matthew 8:13 New International Version 13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that moment. In some situations, we must believe what He says despite evidence to the contrary; at other must trust while still waiting to know anything at all. C...

October 25, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Be Strong and Do the Work" 1 Chronicles 28:9-10 New International Version 9 “And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he w...

October 24, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The One Who Lights Up Our Darkness"  2 Samuel 22:26-30 New International Version  26 “To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, 27 to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd. 28 You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low. 29 You, Lord, are my...

October 23, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Lord Will Fulfill His Purpose" Psalm 138:7-8 New International Version 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; with your right hand you save me. 8 The Lord will vindicate me; your love, Lord, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands. David walked through tro...

October 22, 2023 Daily Devotion: "I am a Blessed Person" 2 Samuel 7:18-20 New International Version 18 Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and he said: “Who am I, Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? 19 And as if this were not enough in your sight, Sovereign Lord, you have also spoken about the future of the house of your servant—and this...

October 21, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Angry Hearts Interfere with Such Blessings" Proverbs 19:19 New International Version 19 A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty; rescue them, and you will have to do it again. When’s the last time you were angry, and how did you respond? We all get agitated at one point or another—even God Himself feels anger. However, because we’re human, we don’t al...

October 20, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Lord Will See You Through It" 2 Samuel 12:21-23 (New International Version) 21 His attendants asked him, “Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!” 22 He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to...

October 19, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God's Answers Are Never Wrong" 1 Chronicles 22:5-6 New International Version 5 David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord should be of great magnificence and fame and splendour in the sight of all the nations. Therefore, I will make preparations for it.” So David made extensive preparations before h...

October 18, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Seek and All These Things Will Be Added" Luke 12:19-31 (ESV) 29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. We don’t have to do without when we choos...

October 17, 2023 Daily Devotion:  "God is the Strength of Our Heart"  Psalm 73:25-28 New International Version 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 27 Those who are far from you will perish; you destroy all who are unfaithful to you. 28 But as for me, it...

October 16, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Joyful Expectancy" Acts 17:24-31 New International Version 24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man, he made...

October 15, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Dangerous Sin" Proverbs 16:17-19 New International Version 17 The highway of the upright avoids evil those who guard their ways preserve their lives. 18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. 19 Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud. Pride is dangerous because it hinders our...

October 13, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Keep On Asking" John 16:23-24 New International Version 23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. We can be confident in God’s responses to what we pray “in...

October 12, 2023 Daily Devotion: "After God's Heart" 2 Samuel 6:6-9 New International Version 6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. 7 The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore, God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God. 8 Then David was ang...

October 11, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Benefits of Waiting" 1 Samuel 25:32-34 New International Version 32 David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. 33 May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. 34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Isr...

October 10, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God Rules Overall" 1 Chronicles 29:11-12 English Standard Version 11 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In y...

October 09, 2023 Daily Devotion: "A Purpose for a Living” 1 Samuel 25:23–25 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed low before him. She fell at his feet and said, “I accept all blame in this matter, my lord. Please listen to what I have to say. I know Nabal is a wicked and ill-tempered man; please don’t pay any attention to him. He is a fool, just as his name suggests...

October 08, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Blossom After Winter" James 1:2-8 New International Version 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, [a] 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. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you...

October 07, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Reset"  Isaiah 43:19 God says, “Behold, I am going to do a new thing.” And, in this season of divine reset, God is doing something we have never seen. The pandemic has caused us to rethink structures, rethink systems, rethink our personal walk and holiness, and double down on what is essential to our faith. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a...

October 06, 2023 Daily Devotion: "A True Confidant" 1 Samuel 23:14-18 New International Version 14 David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day, Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands. 15 While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that[a] Saul had come out to take his life. 16 And Saul’s son Jo...

October 5, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Power of Obeying God's Word" Genesis 12:1-8 New International Version 12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people, and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you,...

October 04, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Blessed is the One Who Trusts in the Lord" Jeremiah 17:7-8 New International Version 7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. 8 They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and...

October 03, 2023 Daily Devotion: "When You believe" John 1:12 New International Version 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. It’s easy to say that we believe in God, even at times, that our heart remains far from Him. That’s a factor of the human condition—not something to punish ourselves over. But it’s wise t...