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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Psalm 129:3-4 Sliced through the ropes
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 129:3-4 Click to listen 3 Plowmen have plowed my back.They have made their furrows long. The two verses we’re looking at here present two different images. First in verse 3 the speaker complains that his oppressors have treated him like a field, “plowing my back.” The furrows that they made doing […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 129:1-2 Ever since my youth
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 129:1-2 Click to listen A song of ascents. 1 They have afflicted me greatly ever since my youth–Let Israel say–2 They have afflicted me greatly ever since my youth,but they have not been able to defeat me. “We Survived.” There is nothing in this Psalm to suggest a date, either early […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:28-30 Pastors
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:28-30 Click to listen 28 Therefore I am eager to send him, so that when you see him again you can be glad and I can be relieved of anxiety. 29 Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him, 30 because he almost died for the […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:25-27 sorrow upon sorrow
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:25-27 Click to listen 25 Also, I have decided that it is necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker and fellow soldier, besides being the one you sent to take care of my needs. 26 For he was longing for all of you and he was distressed […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:24 God’s will is done
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:24 Click to listen 24 But I am also confident in the Lord that I myself will come soon. In Greek, this verse is paired with verse 23 in a classic construction that less elegantly might be translated, “On the one hand, I hope to send Timothy, but on the other […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:21-23 like a son
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:21-23 Click to listen 21 For everyone looks out for his own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. 22 But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because like a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel. 23 Therefore, I hope to send […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:19-20 No one else like him
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:19-20 Click to listen 19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you. 20 I have no one else like him, who will be genuinely concerned about your welfare. Paul moves on now from rejoicing […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:17-18 The happy hiss
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:17-18 Click to listen 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering over the sacrifice and the offering of your faith, I am glad, and I rejoice with all of you. 18 In the same way, be glad and rejoice with me. The drink offering was […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:14-16 Shine like stars
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:14-16 Click to listen 14 Do everything without complaining or arguing 15 so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish among a crooked and perverted generation in which you shine like stars in the cosmos 16 holding on to the word of life, so that I […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:13 Divine Monergism
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:13 Click to listen 13 for God is the one who works in you, to will and also to work for his good pleasure. Paul continues his call to sanctified living by using the gospel to encourage the Philippians and everyone who reads his letter. God is the one working in […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:12 With fear and trembling
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:12 Click to listen 12 Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; Paul turns now to the subject of obedience. Why? In a letter so filled with […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:11 The exaltation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:11 Click to listen 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. The “and” here (καὶ) connects this with verse 10; the same people who bow their knees to Christ also confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and this gives glory […]
