"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

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...

January 25, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Lost and is Found" Luke 15:31-32 New International Version   31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”   Jesus’ parable about the prodigal son never mentions the word love directl...

January 24, 2024 Daily Devotion:   "Our Comfort Abounds Through Christ"   2 Corinthians 1:5 New International Version   5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.   When life gets difficult, how do you respond? Do you begin to doubt God, wondering why He’d let adversity happen? Or do you turn to Him, seeking to better unders...

January 23, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "The Lord Is Our Helper"  Hebrews 13:5-8 New International Version   5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”[a] 6 So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”[b]7 Remember your...

January 22, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Divine and Perfect Love"  1 John 4:18 New International Version   18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.   Divine love compels us. God—who created this world, who took on flesh to walk among us and redeem us, who died to save us—has given us...

January 21, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Sympathy and Comfort" Job 2:12-13 New International Version   12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. 13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him because they saw how great his su...

January 20, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Seventy-Seven Times" Matthew 18:15-22 New International Version   15 “If your brother or sister[a] sins,[b] 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 wit...

January 19, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Gain Through Loss" Matthew 18:10-14 New International Version   10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. [11] 12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go...

January 18, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "God We Serve Has a Game Plan"   Jeremiah 29:11 New International Version   11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.   We serve a God who has the right to do whatever He does and is never obligated to explain it or ask permission. Stop and consider—shoul...

January 17, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Keep Waiting"   Philippians 3:13-14 New Living Translation   No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.   Waiting involves a l...

January 16, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Trust in The Lord with All Your Heart"   Proverbs 3:5-12 New International Version   5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;.6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. [a] 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. 8 This will bring health to your body and nouri...

January 15, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Love and Faithfulness" Proverbs 3:1-4 New International Version   Wisdom Bestows Well-Being My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, 2 for they will prolong your life many year and bring you peace and prosperity. 3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your hea...

January 14, 2024   Daily Devotion:   " A Testimony of Faithfulness"  Genesis 21:6-7 New International Version   6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”   Isaac’s name means “one who laughs.” Sarah’s earlie...

January 13, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "I Can Do Everything Through Christ"   Philippians 4:13 New Living Translation   13 For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.   There IS greatness in you. God designed you to reach your full potential, to be powerful beyond measure, to have success and joy and abundance in your life. Don’t let fear make you quit. Don’t let the ter...

January 12, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Full Obedience"   Genesis 12:1-4 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, and whoever c...

January 11, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "God Works for the Good"  Romans 8:28 New International Version   28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.   There is a plan that we explore, which we will not understand, but it is best. Though each segment of it may not seem fair or pleasant, it works together f...

January 10, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "God's Knows Best"   2 Corinthians 5:7 New King James Version   7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.   We never know what a day will bring, whether good or ill. Our heavenly Father's plan unfolds apart from our awareness. Ours is a walk of faith, not sight. Trust, not touch. Leaning long and hard, not running away. No one knows ahead of time...

January 09, 2024   Daily Devotion:   "Unchanging Faith"   Job 23:13-14 New International Version   13 “But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases. 14 He carries out his decree against me, and many such plans he still has in store. At times when we’re experiencing hardship, we too may find ourselves on the receiving end of judgmental “consolation.” Early in t...