"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

June 04, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Great Awakening" Romans 6:14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.   There is a "grace awakening" loose in the land. Will you become a part of it? While you take your turn with the sledgehammer and pound away, a host of us are standing near, a...

June 03, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Magnetic Effects of Giving"  1 Corinthians 9:7 You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure. “For God loves a person who gives cheerfully."   Try to consider the magnetic effects of gracious giving, four qualities immediately emerge. First, grace is so attractive: Grace individualizes th...

June 02, 2023 Daily Devotion:  "Accept and Go..."  Genesis 12:1 New International Version   12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.   Perhaps you have heard the living God of glory say to you, You must no longer depend upon what you have been depending on—the opinions, the attitudes, the philosophy in whic...

June 01, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Redeemed" Psalm 103:12 New International Version 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. You may be surprised to know that the apostle Paul had every reason to feel ashamed. He was one whose past was dreadful: "formerly a blasphemer . . . persecutor . . . violent aggressor." Then how could the...

May 31, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God is Working" Philippians 1:6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.   Want a boost of encouragement? Our God is working toward that end in all of His children. It is His constant pursuit, His daily agenda, as He points us toward our final dest...

May 30, 2023 Daily Devotion: "When Faith is Exercised" 1 John 5:10 New International Version 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son Is not God more dependable than people? If you will take the word of a stranger and act on it, can you...

May 29, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Issues and Various Viewpoints" 1 Corinthians 12:12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. In every disagreement, there are the same two ingredients: an issue and various viewpoints. The issue is usually objective and involves principles. The viewpoints are subjective and involve personaliti...

May 28, 2023 Daily Devotion: “When God Forgives … He Forgets" 1 Corinthians 12:12 New International Version 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. When God forgives, He forgets the transgression and removes it as far as east is from west. Perhaps you have heard of the man who loved the Lord, but he couldn't seem to conque...

May 27, 2023 Daily Devotion: "The Truth Will Set Us Free..." John 14:6 New International Version 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Did you know there is a difference between knowledge and truth? For example, knowledge will double and triple, but genuine truth does not. In school, there is a lot of study of the facts,...

May 26,2023 Daily Devotion: "All for God's Glory..." Colossians 3:17 New International Version 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Refusing to dictate to others allows the Lord freedom to direct their lives. I especially appreciate the statement at the end of verse 5: "Let each man...

May 25, 2023 Daily Devotion:  "Restless and Save"  Romans 5:6-8 New International Version 6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ die...

May 24, 2023 Daily Devotion:  "Upon the Cross of Calvary"  Romans 5:6-8 New International Version 6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person, someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,...

May 23, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Believe and Receive" Mark 11:24 New International Version 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. There are many who live under such a pressure of worry that they taste but little of the sweetness of God’s love. They do not know the meaning of the words, “That My joy might remain in yo...

May 22, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Pride Goes Before Destruction” Proverbs 16:18 (TLB) Pride goes before destruction and haughtiness before a fall. David, king of ancient Israel, found himself in the midst of a confused national situation. His kingdom was torn by internal strife. Slave hated master; master hated slave. People blamed the government, and the government blamed the people. David looke...

May 21,2023 Daily Devotion: "God's Prescription..." 2 Kings 20:1 Set thy house in order . . . Man condemns himself by his refusal of God’s way of salvation. In love and mercy, God is offering to men and women a way of escape, a way of salvation, a hope, and anticipation of better things. Man, in his blindness, stupidity, stubbornness, egotism, and love of sinful pleasure, refuses God...

May 20, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God is Doing His Job..." John 8:32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Some may be asking: Doesn't liberty have its limits? Shouldn't folks restrain their freedom and occasionally hold themselves in check? Yes, without question. Grace can be and sometimes is—abused. By that exercising one's liberty without wisdom, having...

May 19, 2023 Daily Devotion: "He Lives in Me, and I Live in Him" Romans 6:11 New International Version 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. In order for us to live free from sin's control, free from the old master, with the power to walk a new kind of life, we have to know something, we have to consider something, and we have to present s...

MAY 18, 2023 DAILY DEVOTION: "Stop Seeking the Favor of Everybody" Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery." Stand your ground. Ask the Lord to give you courage. Stop seeking the favor of everyone. This may be a stubborn habit to break, but it is really worth all the effort you can muster...

May 16, 2023 Daily Devotion: "God Brings a Freedom" (Romans 7:24-25) Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin. Grace brings a freedom to do something else—a fre...

May 15, 2023 Daily Devotion: "LIBERTY " Romans 7:24-25 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin. Liberty is freedom from slavery or bondage. It is initially fre...

May 14,2023 Daily Devotion: "Freeing Others from Bondage" 1 Corinthians 15:10 But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace. God does what He does by His grace. Paul's first claim for being allowed to live...

May 13, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "The Universal Good News of Salvation" Romans 14:22 You may believe there’s nothing wrong with what you are doing, but keep it between yourself and God. Blessed are those who don’t feel guilty for doing something they have decided is right. Grace is God's universal good news of salvation. The tragedy is that some continue to live lives in a deathlike bo...

May 12, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "Free from Slavery" 1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Because of grace we have been freed from sin, from its slavery, its bondage in our attitude, in our urges, and in our actions. But having been freed and now living by grace, we can actually go too far, set...

May 11, 2023 Daily Devotion: “FREE" John 8:30–32 As He spoke these things, many came to believe in Him. So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, 'If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" He spoke of the liberating power of the truth. Even though the official grace killers rejected H...

May 10,2023  Daily Devotion:  "Unfaithfulness Would Bring Judgment"  Jeremiah 7:23 Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you.   Living in a day when judging is a bad word, how do we reconcile the love of God and the justice of God? Isn’t God being harsh, overbearing, and tyrannical? How can we love a go...