"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

March 05, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Our Rock Is God" 1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom . . . I believe we ought to get all the education we can, but we dare not make it our god. John Dewey once defined education as the systematic, purposeful reconstruction of experience; but so much of modern education leaves out God. What we are actually doing is...

March 04, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Dedication ..." Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much . . . What God expects, and all God expects, is that we dedicate completely all of our talents and gifts to Him. That is the meaning of the parable of the talents in Matthew, chapter 25. Read this parable, and you will see that we are always rewarded because of our faithfu...

March 03, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Sunlight of His Love..." Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope . . . 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 Second Coming of Jesus Christ. When we look around and see pessimism on every side, we should remember the Bible is the only Book in the wo...

March 02, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Sin Shall Not Reign Over Us” 1 John 4:4 Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Paul once wrote, “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye can not do the things that ye would” (Galatians 5:17). This is the battle or the tension that is present in us to a gre...

March 01, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Where God Guides, He Provides" John 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. He (the Spirit) will never lead you contrary to the Word of God. I hear people saying, “The Lord led me to do this. … The Lord told me thus and so …” I am always a little suspicious unless what the Lord has said is in keeping with His Word. God never directs us to do...

February 28, 2023 Daily Devotion: “Future Life with God" Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure. There is no escape for the man who squanders his opportunity to prepare to mee...

February 27, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Conflict of the Ages" Luke 23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him . . . One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst. Why did the crowd ask for the release of Barabbas and the crucifixion of Jesus? The answer is in the biblical statement, “The...

February 26, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Ability to Believe" Romans 10:9 believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead . . . It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men believed it. The tomb was not emptied of Christ’s body that first Easter because some faithful persons believed it. The fact preceded the faith. We are psycholog...

February 25, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Christian Movement in Motion" Genesis 28:15 Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest. When Jesus uttered His words of comfort in the first few verses of the fourteenth chapter of John’s Gospel, concluding with, “And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know” (John 14:4), Thomas said unto Him, “Lord, we know not whither thou goes...

February 24, 2023 Daily Devotion: "A Humble Spirit" Matthew 23:12 He that shall humble himself shall be exalted. In almost every instance in the Bible, as well as in life, pride is associated with failure, not success. We hear a great deal about the inferiority complex, but the superiority complex of pride is seldom spoken of. It was pride that caused the fall of Lucifer, and he became Satan, the...

February 23, 2022 Daily Devotion: "I Can Do All Things Through Christ" Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives. Jesus had a loving heart. If He dwells within us, hatred and bitterness will never rule us. Jesus had a forgiving and understanding heart. If He lives within us, mercy wi...

February 22, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Believe... " Mark 11:24 What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe . . . We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become sel...

February 21, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Satan's Defeat..." Psalm 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. When temptations come, let me suggest that you ask God for strength—and also to show you the way He has prepared for your escape. One other word of counsel; be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted. All of us are not su...

February 20, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Future of Promise" Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Today many people are living in the bondage of fear. In a recent study a psychiatrist said that the greatest problem facing his patients was fear. Fear of going insane, committing suicide, being alone, or fear of heart disease, cancer, disaster, or death. We are becoming a...

February 19, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Hour of Decision" Psalm 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsteth for thee . . . Some Christians have learned little of a daily devotional life. Nothing can take the place of a daily devotional life with Christ. Your quiet time, your prayer time, the time you spend in the Word, is absolutely essential for a happy Christian life. You c...

February 18, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Associated with Christ" 1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree ... All life is a struggle—that is the nature of things. Even within our physical bodies, doctors tell us, a conflict for supremacy is going on. The bacteria in our bloodstream are waging a constant war against alien germs. The red corpuscles fight the white corpuscles...

February 17, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Ordinary People Did Extraordinary Feats." 2 Corinthians 3:4-6 Easy-to-Read Version 4 We can say this, because through Christ we feel sure before God. 5 I don’t mean that we are able to do anything good ourselves. It is God who makes us able to do all that we do. 6 He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. It is not an agreement...

February 16, 2023 Daily Devotion: "A Perfect Heart" Genesis 1:31 New International Version 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. God had written every day of our lives in His book before even one of them existed (Psalm 139:16). This means that He not only saw the good we would do, but He also saw every sin and mistake we...

February 15, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God's Voice" Isaiah 30:21 New International Version 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” How do we hear God's voice? It is not usually an audible voice, but a still, small voice in our spirit that causes us to know what to do. Elijah made many attempts to hear from God in a...

February 14, 2023 Daily Devotion: "He Will Bring It to Completion... " Isaiah 46:10 New International Version 10 I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’ God knows His will for you, and if you agree and cooperate with Him, it will come to pass. God's purposes always stand. He has begun a goo...

February 13, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Trust Requires Unanswered Questions... " Proverbs 16:9 says, “A man's mind plans his way, but the Lord Directs his steps and makes them sure” (AMPC). We used to have a plan for everything and sometimes grew frustrated if every aspect of it didn't go accordingly. In other words, you wanted the Lord to do things your way! However, God is smarter than we are, and He...

February 12, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Have Peace... " 1 Peter 3:11 New International Version 11 They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it. 1 Peter 3:11 is one of my favorite scriptures: “Let him search for peace...and seek it eagerly. [Do not merely desire peaceful relations with God, with your fellowmen, and with yourself, but pursue, go after them!]” (AMPC). Pursue is...

February 11, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Love Who God Has Made Us to Be" Matthew 22:39 New International Version And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Learning to accept and love ourselves is the pathway to authenticity, because if we reject ourselves and refuse God's love for us, we will not be free to be ourselves. Instead, we will live a life of pretense, choosing to do what we...

February 10, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Same Faith and Obedience Will Bless Your Life Today" Luke 1:17 Mary said, "I am the servant of the Lord. Let this happen to me as you say!” Mary, the mother of Jesus, is perhaps the best known of all the women of the Bible-people across the world know who she was and honor her. It was to Mary that God first Revealed His specific plan to “save his people from...

February 09, 2023 Daily Devotion: "He Will Lifted You Out of the Pit of Destruction..." Psalm 23:4 (New King James Version) Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. The word "depression" connotes a full range of meanings in our culture, from a quick, temporary feeling of hurt or disappointment,...