"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

April 29, 2023 Daily Devotion: "GREAT HONOR TO THOSE WHO ENDURE UNDER SUFFERING" James 5:11 We give great honor to those who endure under suffering. For instance, you know about Job, a man of great endurance. You can see how the Lord was kind to him at the end, for the Lord is full of tenderness and mercy. The nation to whom the prophet Isaiah wrote was going through the empty motions of...

April 28,2023 Daily Devotion: "A Lifetime Journey" 2 Corinthians 11:12 New Living Translation 12 But I will continue doing what I have always done. This will undercut those who are looking for an opportunity to boast that their work is just like ours. The Christian life isn't an eleven-day race. It's a lifetime journey full of more dangers and pitfalls than a hundred Iditarod. So...

April 27, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Be an Effectuator" Deuteronomy 31:6 New International Version 6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” Leaders must go beyond analysis to action. One cannot lead without energy, motion, risk. Leaders are pathfinders, road makers, action takers....

April 26, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God Can Still Shine into The Darkest Part of Your Life"  Titus 2:13 New International Version 13 while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, One of the best ways to get rid of discouragement is to remember that Christ is coming again. The most thrilling, glorious truth in all the world is the Sec...

April 25, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Someone's Pursuit" Colossians 1:3-8 English Standard Version   3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gos...

April 24, 2023 Daily Devotion: "SET FREE…" Ephesians 4:32 New International Version   32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Do you need to be set free? Honestly now, is your next step the need to forgive? Do it. Don't let anything or anyone talk you out of it. After all the misery you have had to endure, why should you h...

April 23, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise” Matthew 6:25 (NIV) Do not worry about your life. . . Some people ask, “Do you think God has time for me? You don’t know how mixed up my life is, how confused it is; the pressures, the tension at home, the business problems, so many things I couldn’t possibly tell you about, including the sins in my life that I somehow cann...

April 22, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Without God It Is Restless" Mark 8:36,37 (TLB) And how does a man benefit if he gains the whole world and loses his soul in the process? For is anything worth more than his soul? In the world in which we live, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul. Consequently, we are one-sided. We become fat physi...

April 21, 2023 Daily Devotion: “For Those Who Have Known God" Jeremiah 4:22 For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me . . .   No man is more pathetic than he who is in great need and is not aware of it. Remember Samson? Standing there in the valley of Sorek, surrounded by the lords of the Philistines, ” … he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.” It has been truly said, “No...

April 20,2023 Daily Devotion: “Forgiven" Mark 1:4 And so John came, baptizing in the desert region and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins John announced this great word: that repentance is the way people come to God, and the result is the forgiveness of sins. The greatest blessing people can experience is to have their sins forgiven. This is what the people who stre...

April 19,2023 Daily Devotion: "Make It Happen" Mark 6:33-34 New International Version 33 But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. 34 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things. Feeling a little overwhelmed? St...

April 18, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Omniscience” (Isaiah 29:13–16) The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught. You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed i...

April 15, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Stand Steady" 2 Timothy 4:5 (TLB) Stand steady, and don't be afraid of suffering for the Lord. Bring others to Christ . . .  All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is one filled not only with sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty. The greatest musicians, as a rule, are those who know how t...

April 14, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Stop and Think" (Luke 10:30–37) A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went off leaving him half dead . . . . But a certain Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion, and came to him, and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and...

April 13, 2023   Daily Devotion: "God Has a Plan for Us" Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. The longer we walk with the Lord, the more we realize that we really don't know what each new day may bring. God alone knows our future. And there's no safer, no better, no more rewarding place to be than in the n...

April 11, 2023 Daily Devotion:   "Follow God's Direction" Exodus 20:9-10 (NIV) Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.   Life on Planet Earth is fast becoming a rat race and a mad scramble to get ahead that is leaving brokenness everywhere. We desperately need a pattern to live by that will enable us to live our lives succ...

April 10, 2023 Daily Devotion: "To Walk in the Spirit" Galatians 5:16 (TLB) I advise you to obey only the Holy Spirit's instructions. He will tell you where to go and what to do, and then you won't always be doing the wrong things your evil nature wants you to. To walk in the Spirit is a challenging and inspiring exercise, for it combines activity with relaxation. To walk means t...

April 8, 2023   Daily Devotion: "Rejoicing in Hope" Romans 12:11-12 New International Version 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living. Oppressed by a sense of triviality and thwarted purpose, men...

April 07, 2023 Daily Devotion: "A Glorious Exhibition of His Love" Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.    As we stand at the cross of Christ we see a glorious exhibition of His love. Paul wrote to the Christians in Rome, “While we were powerless to help ourselves . . . Christ died for sinful men.” In human experience,...

April 06, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "The Lamb That Takes Away“  John 1:29 (TLB) Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the world's sin.     At the cross of Christ, sin reached its climax. Its most terrible display took place at Calvary. It was never blacker or more hideous. We see the human heart laid bare and its corruption fully exposed. Some people have said that man has improved s...

April 05, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "The Existence of God" Psalm 19:1–3 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.   There is a language in nature that speaks of the existence of God. It is the language of order, beauty, p...

April 04, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "Choose Right"  James 4:1 (NIV) “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?”   Every second of your life, there’s a battle in your brain. There’s a mental battle going on right now! It could be between right and wrong, between what’s easy and what’s hard, or what’s healthy and what’s unhealthy. All...

April 03, 2023   Daily Devotion:   “God Knows What Will Get Through To Us" 2 Corinthians 1:3–7 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Chris...

April 02, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "The Rewards" 1 Corinthians 3:10–14 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gol...

April 01, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Honesty from the Heart" Psalm 51:6 (TLB) You deserve honesty from the heart; yes, utter sincerity and truthfulness. Oh, give me this wisdom. March   The Bible teaches that purity of conduct includes truthfulness. The Bible teaches that we should be truthful in our representation of ourselves. With what scorn Christ denounced the hypocrisy of the scribes an...