"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

September 08, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Degree of Pain ..." Psalm 126:5-6 New International Version 5 Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. 6 Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them. Today's featured passage is all about pain and gain. About exile and restoration. Resignation and exhilaration. Hopelessness and hope. Seve...

September 07, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Anointed One…" Zechariah 4:6 New International Version 6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty. For those of us who believe, the question is not what God can do but what he will do, or perhaps does do. Could the answer to that question lie in the particular task at...

September 06, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Go to Worship…" Zechariah 7:5 New International Version 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? Here's a reality check. Think back on last Sunday. Assuming you went to church, can you recall having any conscious thought about...

September 05, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Glorious Rest..." Daniel 12:13 New International Version 13 “As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.” If one lives long enough, advancing age has a way of becoming a battle for survival. Body parts just don't work like they used to. The mind itself begins to play tri...

September 04, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Unflinching Faith… " Daniel 6:5 New International Version 5 Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.” If someone wanted to dig up dirt on you, how difficult would it be? To his eternal credit, Daniel was squeaky clean. No matter how hard they tried, Daniel's E...

September 03, 2022 Daily Devotion: "God is too Touched" Daniel 9:23 New International Version 23 As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision Wouldn't it be great if every time we prayed (or even occasionally) Gabriel would show up to tell us God's response? But he doesn't, does he?...

September 02, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Eternal Kingdom" Daniel 7:14 New International Version 14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. What Daniel sees in his marvelous vision is a being that looks ever so human, bu...

September 01, 2022 Daily Devotion: "When Bad things happen to good people…" Psalm 44:20-22 New International Version 20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, 21 would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart? 22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. In a variety of different...

August 31, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Deliciously Right... Disgustingly Wrong…" Job 34:3-4 New International Version 3 For the ear tests words as the tongue tastes food. 4 Let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good. All of us can instantly taste the difference between sweet and sour. The same goes for salty and unsalty, spicy and bland, frothy and smooth. We certainl...

August 30, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Blameless… " Job 22:2-3 English Standard Version 2 “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? Jobs friend Eliphaz could hardly be more cynical in asking these questions. Because he doesn't believe Job is as righte...

August 29, 2022 Daily Devotion: “Every Nature of God... " Job 22:2-3 New International Version 2 “Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him? 3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless? God, would need that kind of fulfillment. It's not as if God is somehow incomplete or lacking anything...is he? By his n...

August 28, 2022 Daily Devotion: “Your Victory Shall be Easy, and Your Treasure Shall be Beyond All Count… “ Micah 2:13 New International Version 13 The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord at their head.” In as much as Jesus has gone before us, things remain not as they would have been ha...

August 27, 2022 Daily Devotion: “Astounded…” Job 14:14-15 New International Version 14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal[a] to come.15 You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made Although for the Jews in exile the concept of resurrection was vague, it is clear from passages such as today's...

August 26, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Praise Him in any Event… " Job 2:10 New International Version 10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[a] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said. Listen to virtually any newscast reporting some calamity, and you are likely to hear some survivor say, “I just thank God that I was spared!" Maybe God t...

August 25, 2022 Daily Devotion: "A Grand Vision… " Ezekiel 43:10-11 New International Version 10 “Son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their sins. Let them consider its perfection, 11 and if they are ashamed of all they have done, make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement, its exits and entrances—its whole design and all its regulat...

August 24, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Extraordinary God with Extraordinary Power in Extraordinary Ways…" Daniel 3:17-18 New International Version 17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us[a] from Your Majesty’s hand. 18 But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the im...

August 23, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Saved and Safe..." Ezekiel 33:13 New International Version 13 If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done. Are you sure you are going to heaven? Before any of us answers that question, p...

August 22, 2022 Daily Devotion: "God's Direction…" Jeremiah 42:19-20 New International Version 19 “Remnant of Judah, the Lord has told you, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Be sure of this: I warn you today 20 that you made a fatal mistake when you sent me to the Lord your God and said, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us; tell us everything he says and we will do it.’ Conscientious believers are always in pray...

August 21, 2022 Daily Devotion: "God's Constancy... " Lamentations 3:22-23 New International Version 22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consume for his compassions never fail.23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day "And the next. And the next. Praise God for mornings! If creative types ever see a sunrise, it...

August 20, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Horrendous Spiritual Despair..." Lamentations 1:20 New International Version 20 “See, Lord, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves inside, there is only death. When was the last time you were in the depths of genuine despair? What moment was so spiritually harrowing t...

August 19, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Coaxed and Caught by God..." Jeremiah 39:17-18 New International Version 17 But I will rescue you on that day, declares the Lord; you will not be given into the hands of those you fear. 18 I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the Lord.” Nothing is sweeter than watching a young child's firs...

August 18, 2022 Daily Devotion: "A Trust Worthy Friend... " Jeremiah 38:22 New International Version 22 All the women left in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon. Those women will say to you:. “ ‘They misled you and overcame you those trusted friends of yours. Your feet are sunk in the mud; your friends have deserted you.’ In times of crisis...

August 17, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Pride the Root of All Sin… " Ezekiel 28:17 English Standard Version 17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings to feast their eyes on you. Most often the devil is grotesquely depicted in his notorious red suit, complete with horns and carrying a pitchf...

August 16, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Vengeance is God's Job... " Ezekiel 25:15-17 New International Version 15 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah, 16 therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, an...

August 15, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Obligation and Desire…" Jeremiah 31:31-33 New International Version 31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a...