"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

November 30, 2023 Daily Devotion: "We Belong to Jesus" Colossians 1:9-14 New International Version 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[a] 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in...

November 29, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Sweet Fellowship" Psalms 55:14 New International Version   14 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers. God has not designed us to live like hermits in a cave. He has designed us to live in friendship, fellowship, and community with others. That's why the church, the body of Christ, is so...

November 28, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Lord Your God Will Be With You"  Joshua 1:7-9 New International Version   7 “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. 8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you m...

November 27, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Serenity" Psalm 131:1-2 New International Version 1 My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted myself I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content. To enjoy this continuous inner peace, we must periodica...

November 26, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Inheritance" 2 Timothy 1:5 New International Version 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. Like Timothy, those of us with godly parents enjoy the fruit of their faithfulness. But if you’re the first believer in your family, then you’re c...

November 25, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Too Powerful to be Defeated" 1 Kings 18:40 New International Version 40 Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Don’t let anyone get away!” They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there. Nothing makes us more uncertain and insecure than not being sure we are in the will of God. And nothing...

November 24, 2023 Daily Devotion: "High Hopes" 1 Kings 18:44 New International Version 44 The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’” Do you live expectantly? Do the little things excite you? Do you imagine the improbable and expect the...

November 23, 2023 Daily Devotion: "New Life … New Hope ..." John 12:24 New International Version 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. We embrace the faith and hope Jesus provided. This happens in a powerful way every time we gather with other believers, confessing our sin an...

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...