"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

March 30, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Fragile Clay Jars" 2 Corinthians 4:4–7 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious...

March 29, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "Light Shall Shine Out of Darkness"   2 Corinthians 4:5–7 For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ....

March 28, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "The Gift"   Luke 11:13 (TLB) Realize that your heavenly Father will . . . give the Holy Spirit to those who ask for him.     Before He left His disciples, Christ promised that He would send a Comforter to help them in the trials, cares, and temptations of life. This word comforter means “one that helps alongside.” He is the Holy Spirit, the powerful Th...

March 27, 2023   Daily Devotion:   “The Power of The Word"   Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.   Time is running out. The seconds are ticking away toward midnight. The human race is about to take the fatal plunge. Which way shall we turn? Is there any authority left? Is there a path we can follow? Can we find a code book that will give us the ke...

March 26, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "Too Good for This World"   2 Corinthians 11:27–28 I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure upon me of concern for all the churches.   Now that's being under pressure. Paul even mentioned the disillusi...

March 25, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "Start Doing What Is Right... "   Psalm 42:11 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.   Comparing the acts of forgiving and forgetting, I think forgetting is the tougher assignment. Why? Because forgetting is something shared with no o...

March 24, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "Broader Than Money "   2 Corinthians 8:2–3 In a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality. For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord.   The Christians in the Macedonian churches were servants who gave to the needs of...

March 24, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "That Thing Called Pain"   2 Corinthians 11:24–25 Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.   Can you imagine being beaten "times without number"? I cannot. Here is the awful reality of physical abuse....

March 22, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "God's Anointing Cannot Fail"   1 John 2:27   But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.   This anointing is God’s choice, not ours. But remaining or ab...

March 21, 2022   Daily Devotion:   "Write Injuries in Dust, Benefits in Marble"   Psalm 103:10 He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.   We say and hear that so much that it's easy to shrug it off as "only natural." That's the problem! It is the most natural response we can expect. Not supernatural. It also can result in...

March 20, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "The Spirit is God Himself"   Acts 11:12, 15 (NLT) ‘The Holy Spirit told me to go with them and not to worry that they were Gentiles. […] As I began to speak,’ Peter continued, ‘the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as he fell on us at the beginning.”   When God poured out the Holy Spirit, He changed the nature of His relationship with His people. The Spir...

March 19, 2023   Daily Devotion:   “Persecution Directs Us to Our Reward”   2 Corinthians 4:8–9 We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.   In yesterday's post, we were introduced to four common struggles all servants of God deal wi...

March 18, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "The Formula of Success"   1 Peter 5:5–7   You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety...

March 17,2023 Daily Devotion: "True Servant Doesn't Keep Score" Ephesians 4: 31-32 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. When wrong has been done against another person, there are only two possibilities of blame. But whether...

March 16, 2023 Daily Devotion: "One Thing is Certain" 1 Peter 2:20–24 He never sinned, nor ever deceived anyone. He did not retaliate when he was insulted, nor threaten revenge when he suffered. He left his case in the hands of God, who always judges fairly. He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are heale...

March 15, 2023 Daily Devotion: “Come to Our Senses" 2 Kings 5:1–14 A man named Naaman was a high-ranking Syrian soldier. He was influential, wealthy, proud—a man of dignity, courage, patriotism, and military clout. There was only one problem: the man had leprosy. Through a chain of interesting events, Naaman was led to Elisha for cleansing from his dread disease. It fell to Elisha's servant to be...

March 14, 2023 Daily Devotion: "When We Think Correctly” 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 NIV For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every tho...

March 13, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Press Toward the Goal" Philippians 3:14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. Those men and women who refuse to get bogged down in and anchored to the past are those who pursue the objectives of the future. People who do this are rarely petty. They are too involved in getting a job...

March 12, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Living Sacrifice" Romans 12:1-3 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his g...

March 11, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Have Life, and Have it to the Full" John 10:10 New International Version 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. This reminds us of God’s great promises for us. Even before we felt the breath of new life, when we were still separated from God because of our sin, through salvation, gave us t...

March 10, 2023 Daily Devotion: "New Dimension" 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, perfection, and intell...

March 09, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Put It into Practice" Philippians 4:9 New International Version 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in their elders is integrity, honesty, truthfulness, and faith. What they hate...

March 08, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Work with Enthusiasm" Ephesians 6:7 New Living Translation (NLT) 7 Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeki...

March 07, 2023 Daily Devotion: "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 our 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 our lives that We somehow cannot seem to give up...

March 06, 2023 Daily Devotion: "No Man Is So Ignorant As He Who Knows Nothing And Knows Not That He Knows Nothing." 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 wish not that the Lord was d...