"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

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,...

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...