Daily Devotional from Psalm 107—Verses 6, 13, 19, 28Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.The poetry in this psalm is beautiful. It describes four groups of people: some lost in a wasteland, some sitting in the depths of the darkness of their rebellious hearts, some living a life of foolishness and sin, and some running the rat race of materialism ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Matthew 5--Verse 25First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. As you can see, right relationships are one of Jesus’s highest priorities. He says don’t even finish what you’re doing. First, go and be reconciled with your brother or sister, and then come back and finish what you were doing. In other words, don’t let the grass grow under your feet. T...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Matthew 4--Verse 1Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Jesus faced temptation just like every human on earth does. We don’t have a Savior who doesn’t relate to us—He understands! But we can learn so much from He Who Never Sinned about how to respond to temptation—with the Truth of the Word!This is why it’s so important that we ar...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Matthew 3--Verse 8Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.John knew what was up. He was proclaiming God’s Kingdom and calling the people to repent. I am so very thankful that we still get the opportunity to repent today. God is gracious because really His wrath is what we all deserve. God has always sent prophets to tell the people to repent. But now the Kingdom is here,...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Matthew 2--Verses 1-2After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.”The wise men in this story were not part of God’s covenant people. They were, though, men who paid attention to God’s wor...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Matthew 1--Verse 21She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.God had been silent. It had been about 400 years since God had spoken to His chosen people through Malachi’s Old Testament book of prophecy.But then an angel came to Joseph to announce good news of the virgin-birth arrival of a savior to be named Jesus. All t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Proverb 1—Verse 33…but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.“Me” in this verse is the voice of Wisdom. The best source for wisdom, then and now, is the Word of God. Sometimes we need godly men and women who understand the Bible and the times, to help us find the wisdom in God’s Word. That’s what Bible studies and reading buddi...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Malachi 3--Verse 10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. A tithe means a tenth, or 10% of one’s proceeds.  Some may say, “Well, that’s just Old Testament law.” But tithing is a practice that pre-dates the law by 500 years. This goes back to the time of Abraham. It’s a timeless practice that reveals one’s attitude of worship. You can cal...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Zechariah 13—Verse 9And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’Here God is promising the remnant of Israel that He would make them new.God’s promise to the Israelites was completed ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Zechariah 12--Verse 10And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.The Israelites have had a tough go and much of it was brought o...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Zechariah 8--Verse 23The Lord of Armies says this: “In those days, ten men from nations of every language will grab the robe of a Jewish man tightly, urging: Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” One thing that has become increasingly clear to me as I get older is that people are desperate for meaning, purpose, and knowing they are loved and known by Go...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Zechariah 4--Verse 6Then 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 of hosts."This was the answer given by the angel of the Lord to Zechariah’s request for explanation of the vision of a lampstand, bowl and olive trees.A lamp’s purpose is to provide light in darkness. The bowl would hold the oil (fue...  Read More