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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 2:1-2 Be strong… and entrust
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 2:1-2 Click to listen This chapter has two distinct parts. First (verses 3-13), Paul encourages Timothy to endure during many hardships, just like a soldier, or an athlete, or a farmer, with encouragement from the resurrection of Jesus and from Paul’s own life. In the second part (verses 14-26), he […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:15-18 those who fall away
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:15-18 Click to listen 15 You know that everyone who is in the province of Asia has turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes. Here we have news that is terrible to hear. After all of the work Paul had accomplished in Asia Minor (that is, western Turkey), there […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:14 the good deposit
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:14 Click to listen 14 Guard the good deposit entrusted to you. Do this through the Holy Spirit who lives in us. We saw the other of Paul’s two deposits in verse 12. To Christ, he gave his soul as a deposit. To Timothy, he entrusted the Gospel itself; the […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:13 sound doctrine
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:13 Click to listen 13 Keep to the pattern of sound teaching that you have heard from me, with faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. This pattern of sound teaching is that way that Paul expressed Christian doctrine to Timothy, as also to Titus and Paul’s other companions […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:12 Until that Day
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:12 Click to listen 12 and this is why I am suffering these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that Day. Paul was a […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:11 herald, apostle, teacher
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:11 Click to listen 11 into (the service of) which I was placed as herald and apostle and teacher, Verse 10 ended with Paul saying that Christ works “through the gospel,” and now adds, “into which I was placed….” We take this to mean “into the service of which I […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:9b-10 Death is dead
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:9b-10 Click to listen and the grace given to us in Christ Jesus even before ancient times, 10 and now has revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, the one who destroyed death and who shone light on life and immortality through the gospel. In verse 9, we […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:8-9a Not by our works
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:8-9a Click to listen 8 Do not be ashamed of testifying to our Lord or about me his prisoner, but join me in suffering for the gospel while relying on the power of God. 9 He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our works […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:6-7 The laying on of hands
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:6-7 Click to listen 6 For this reason I remind you to stir up the fire of the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; 7 for God did not give us a spirit that is timid, but a spirit of power and […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:5 Faith
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:5 Click to listen 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that was living first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and now, I am convinced, lives in you. What is the difference between a faith and a sincere faith? Faith consists of knowledge, […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:4 Your tears
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:4 Click to listen 4 I remember your tears. I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. I take this to mean that when Paul and Timothy last saw one another, perhaps when Paul left Ephesus, or perhaps as Paul was arrested and taken to […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:3 a clear conscience
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:3 Click to listen 3 I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, just as my forefathers did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers. Having begun the letter the way that he has, Paul has got to thinking about his friend, his “beloved child” and now […]
