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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – James 1:22-25 Forget what’s in the mirror?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 1:22-25 James the coach just said, to his people and to us, “Receive the word planted in you. It is able to save your souls.” Even though he does not repeat this gospel truth again and again, it is the basis for everything else that he says. We are saved […]
God’s Word for You – James 1:19-21 Quick to listen
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 1:19-21 19 Understand this, my dear brothers: Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. 20 For a man’s anger does not bring about God’s righteousness. James warns the scattered Christian Jews about what they say in every chapter of this letter. Here in […]
God’s Word for You – James 1:16-18 God does not change
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 1:16-18 Receive and Do What God’s Word Says 16 Do not be deceived, my dear brothers. 17 All giving that is good and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like a shifting shadow. 18 Just as he planned, he […]
God’s Word for You – James 1:12-15 God tempts no one
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 1:12-15 Temptation 12 Blessed is the man who endures a trial patiently. When he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God promised to those who love him. Verse 12 returns to the very first thing James said, which was to consider it to be […]
God’s Word for You – James 1:9-11 a flower in the grass
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 1:9-11 Rich and Poor 9 Now, let the lowly brother boast in his high position, 10 and the rich one in his lowly position, because like a flower in the grass he will pass away. James is addressing people he knows, members of his church who had to flee from […]
God’s Word for You – James 1:6-8 Pray bravely
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 1:6-8 The day after Jesus rode a donkey triumphantly into Jerusalem, he was hungry and decided to look urgently through the leaves of a fig tree to find some figs. Finding none, he cursed the tree saying, “May there never be fruit from you again!” It died on the spot, […]
God’s Word for You – James 1:5 without holding back
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 1:5 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives it to all without holding back and without finding fault, and it will be given him. An ancient Greek proverb states, “The beginning of knowledge is the knowledge of ignorance” (᾽Αρχὴ γνώσεως τῆς ἀγνοίας ἡ γνῶσις), […]
God’s Word for You – James 1:1-4 The joy of troubles
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 1:1-4 J A M E S Greeting 1 James, slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are scattered abroad: Greetings. This is a James who was not an apostle, neither the brother of John (killed in Acts 12:2) nor the other apostle James […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 14:23-28 The first journey ends
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 14:23-28 23 By a show of hands they appointed elders for them in each church. With prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe. “By a show of hands they appointed” is a single verb in Greek, cheirotonesantes (see also 2 Corinthians […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 14:21-22 Many hardships
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 14:21-22 The Return to Antioch in Syria 21 They preached the gospel in that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, then on to Iconium and Antioch. 22 They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “We must enter […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 28:6-8 Your life, your friends
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 28:6-8 6 Better to be poor and walk blamelessly than to be a rich man whose ways are crooked. There are many rich vs. poor proverbs, but this one stands out because it gets right to a person’s heart. God may bless us in different ways: those who would […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 14:19-20 Stoned and left for dead
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 14:19-20 19 Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowd. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, assuming that he had died. 20 But when the disciples gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day he […]
