"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

December 19, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Hope" 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 world that predicts th...

December 18,2022 Daily Devotion: "New dimension, A New Direction, and A New Power in Life" Psalm 61:2 When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. When you become a Christian, it doesn’t mean that you will live on a perpetual “high.” The Psalmist David went down to the very depths, and so did the Apostle Paul. But in the midst of all circumstances God’s grace, peace, an...

December 17, 2022 Daily Devotion: "God Has Equations and Rules in the Spiritual” Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust . . . The trouble with our modern thinking is that we have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that e...

December 16, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Binding Obligation" Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Certain relationships in life require from the parties involved only moderate degrees of devotion. A certain degree of reserve and distance seems to be suitable in such relations as these. But there are other relationships in life where all this is changed...

December 15, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Think Before We Speak..." James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. The problems of the world could be solved overnight if men could get victory over their tongues. Suppose there was no anger, no profanity, no lying, no grumbling or complaining; suppose there were n...

December 14, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Invest Wisely... " Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time . . . We are stewards of our time. God has given each one of us a little “chunk of eternity” called time. These golden moments of opportunity are doled out to us for our benefit and for God’s glory. If we use them wisely, they are woven by God’s omnipotent hand into the fabric of eternity. You cannot kill time...

December 13, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Transform you from the inside out" John 11:40 Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? If you are a young man or young woman hooked on dissent or despair, ready to split, then lend me your attention. My answer concerns your dreams, and the element in your make-up called “faith.” All that God requires of anyone in...

December 12, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Divine love, like a reflected sunbeam" 1 John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light… This age in which we live could hardly be described as conducive to a sensitiveness of the needs of others. We have developed a veneer of sophistication and hardness. Abraham Lincoln once said, characteristically, “I am sorry for the man who can’t feel the whip whe...

December 11, 2022 Daily Devotion: "A Friend... " Proverbs 18:24 There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. How many lonely people there are today! God did not create man to live in miserable inner loneliness. In that first Eden, God Himself came down to keep the man He had made from being lonely. One of the most heartening things Jesus said to His disciples was, “Lo, I am with you alwa...

December 10, 2022 Daily Devotion: "What Makes You Tick? " Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Experts have told us that society is sick. Their solutions have treated human frailty with infusions of low-income housing, welfare payments, integrated education, and psychological conditioning. But we are learning that this is not the total answer. The world does need changing,...

December 09, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Naked Truth" Psalm 51:6 The Living Bible Translation You deserve honesty from the heart; yes, utter sincerity and truthfulness. Oh, give me this wisdom. 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 a...

December 08, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Unspeakable Gift" Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born . . . and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. To Christians the joy of Christmas is not limited to His birth. It is built even more on the triumph of His death and resurrection—that gave meaning to His birth. The mysterious spirit o...

December 07, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Sword of the Spirit" Proverbs 13:13 The Living Bible Translation Despise God's Word and find yourself in trouble. Obey it and succeed. As Christians, we have the Spirit of God in us. But ours is the responsibility to keep sin out of our lives so that the Spirit can produce His fruit in us. Become grounded in the Bible. As Christians, we have only one authorit...

December 06, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Code Book" 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 key to our dilemmas?...

December 05, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Only One Who Conquered Death" Luke 24:6 He is not here, but is risen. Something distinguishes Christianity from all the religions of the world. Not only does it carry the truth of the redemption, by the death of our Savior for our sins on the cross, but it carries the fact that Christ rose again. Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again...

December 04, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Pleasure That Runs Deep" Acts 13:52 The disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. The Bible speaks of three kinds of pleasure. There is lustful pleasure, the lust of the flesh, and Scripture says it is sinful and wrong. There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes th...

December 03, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Everyday Process... " 1 Corinthians 3:1 The Living Bible Translation Dear brothers, I have been talking to you as though you were still just babies in the Christian life . . . Some people have received Christ but have never reached spiritual maturity. They have been in church all their lives, and yet they have never become mature Christians. They are still consid...

December 02, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Total Surrender" John 11:40 Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? If you are a young man or young woman hooked on dissent or despair, ready to split, then lend me your attention. My answer concerns your dreams, and the element in your make-up called “faith.” All that God requires of anyone in taking his first s...

November 30, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Unity is the key to Victory" John 15:12 Love one another, as I have loved you. As I study the subject of “separation” in the Old and New Testaments, I discover that the weight of Scripture lies in the direction of fellowship rather than separation. What is the great overwhelming evidence that we have passed from death unto life? It is love! Jesus Christ clearly w...

November 29, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Law" Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. When God gave the law, He knew that man was incapable of keeping it. Many persons are confused as to why God gave the law, if He knew man could not possibly keep it. The Bible teaches that the law was given as a mirror; I look into the law...

November 28, 2022 Daily Devotion: "A Living Soul" Psalm 33:20 Our soul waiteth for the Lord . . . I am a soul—and I have a body! The body is the house in which the soul lives. In this materialistic age we often forget that the real, the abiding part of us is invisible. Much time, money, and effort are expended to perpetuate the physical part of us, and too many are unconcerned about their spiritua...

November 27, 2022 Daily Devotion: “The Internal Revenue Service” Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, who then is that faithful and wise steward . . . It is not wrong for men to possess riches. But the Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the Kingdom of God. Often money is a hindrance to...

November 26, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Worship in Particular Place and in Particular Time” Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together . . . I will not argue with you about nature inspiring thoughts of God. David said, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” But at the same time, I would give you no comfort about absenting yourself from the...

November 25, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Putting Less Confidence in Ourselves" Lamentations 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Our modern philosophy of self-reliance and self-sufficiency has caused many to believe that we can make the grade without God. “Religion,” they argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can’t beat a man who believes in himself.”...

November 24, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Mourning to Joy" Psalm 34:18 The Living Bible Translation The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking; he rescues those who are humbly sorry for their sins. In God’s economy, you must go down into the valley of grief before you can scale the heights of spiritual glory. You must become tired and weary of living alone before you seek and find the fellowshi...