"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

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...

August 14, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Whatever Happens Here, Stays Here..." Jeremiah 23:23-24 New International Version 23 “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord “and not a God far away? 24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord. Signs often seen in well-known tourist destinations promise that "whatever happe...

August 13, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Dedicated Warriors… " Jeremiah 48:10 New King James Version 10 Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood. No, you didn't misread that second sentence. For all the times God has condemned bloodshed, this time it is his idea! In fact wielding the sword is characterized as being “the Lord's work"! What...

August 12, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Culpable Ignorance" Jeremiah 36:23 New International Version 23 Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe's knife and threw them into the fire pot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire. Few would be so called as to cut up a God-inspired scroll, as Jehoiakim did, or to literally rip out disturbing pas...

August 11, 2022 Daily Devotion: "The Book of the Law... " 2 Chronicles 34:19-21 New International Version 19 When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his robes. Why then should Josiah be so grieved that in anguish and remorse he tears his robes? Has he not inherited from his ancestors the basic teachings of the Book of the Law and absorbed its fundamental moral standards virtually bysmosi...

August 10, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Fully Devoted... " 2 Kings 23:25 New International Version 25 Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the Lord as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses. If you could have anything at all said about you, what would you most want to hear? One would be hard-pre...

August 09, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Planting and Watering…" Isaiah 55:10-11 New International Version 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: I will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I de...

August 08, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Greatest Disappointments to become Precious Fruitful Gift… " Isaiah 47:13 New International Version 13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. This is one of several analogies Isaiah uses to predict Israel's fruit...

August 07, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Practice Humility" Isaiah 50:6-7 New International Version 6 I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.7 Because The Sovereign Lord helps me. I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint and I know I will not be put to shame. Three layers of teaching are e...

August 6, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Leave This Way… " Isaiah 30:10-11 New International Version 10 They say to the seers “See no more vision and to the prophets “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things prophesy illusions. 11 Leave this way get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!” Psychiatrists must surely have a word to describe folks who insis...

August 5, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Christian Nation…" 2 Kings 17:33-41 New International Version 33 They worshiped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought. Previous examples of fickle faith have focused on Israel herself. For Israel, having mixed religious loyalties was a perennial problem. But our featured passage t...

August 04, 2022 Daily Devotion: "God's Boat Sails Best... " Isaiah 33:23-24 New International Version 23 Your rigging hangs loose: The mast is not held secure; the sail is not spread. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided and even the lame will carry off plunder. Have you seen pictures of sailboats leaning so far over they seem to be on the brink of overturning? Only those who have experienc...

August 03, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Hezekiah's Prayer" 2 Chronicles 30:18-20 New International Version 18 Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the Lord, who is good, pardon everyone 19 who sets their heart on seeking God—the...

Aug 02, 2022 Daily Devotion: "Beneath The Gravestones…" Isaiah 14:10-11 New International Version 10 They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.” 11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you. When we think of a cemetery, our mind's eye...