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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:40-43 Tabitha, get up
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:40-43 40 After Peter sent them all out of the room, he knelt down and prayed. He turned to the body and said, “Tabitha, get up .” She opened her eyes, and on seeing Peter, she sat up. 41 He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:39 Shirts and dresses
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:39 39 So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the upper room. All the widows stood there beside him, weeping and showing the shirts and dresses they were wearing that Dorcas had made while she was with them. Forgive my modernization, “shirts […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:37-38 The death of a Christian woman
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:37-38 37 At that time she became sick and died. After they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. 38 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him asking, “Please come to us without delay.” These two […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:36 Buttons and buttonholes
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:36 36 Now there was a disciple in Joppa named Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was full of good works, especially doing acts of charity. The church was still very young. Down on the coast of Judea, in the seaport of Joppa, was a woman who was a […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:36 Buttons and buttonholes
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:36 36 Now there was a disciple in Joppa named Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was full of good works, especially doing acts of charity. The church was still very young. Down on the coast of Judea, in the seaport of Joppa, was a woman who was a […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:32-35 A man named Aeneas
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:32-35 32 Now as Peter went here and there among all the believers, he also went to visit the saints living in Lydda. 33 He found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, for he was paralyzed. 34 Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 26:20-21 As wood is to fire
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 26:20-21 20 When the wood runs out the fire stops, and when no one gossips, a quarrel ends. 21 As charcoal is to embers and as wood is to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. These two proverbs tell the same truth in opposite terms. […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 26:18-19 Like a madman
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 26:18-19 18 Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows, 19 is someone who deceives a neighbor and says, “I am only joking!” The poetry of this proverb is obscured a little bit by a language problem. The Hebrew words rimah and ramah sound very much alike, and […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 26:17 Someone who grabs a wild dog by the ears
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 26:17 17 Like someone who grabs a wild dog by the ears is one who meddles in someone else’s quarrel. The Hebrew text only says “dog,” not “wild dog,” but most of the dogs in the Scriptures are not the friendly and loyal pets that sleep at our […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 26:16 Be willing to listen
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 26:16 16 The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who can answer with discretion. Here the lazy man comes close to the Proverbs’ description and understanding of the fool, except that while the fool might have some intelligence; the lazy man has none […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:30-31 A time of peace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:30-31 30 When the brothers learned about it, they brought Saul down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus. To better understand this verse, let’s listen to Paul’s own recollection from Galatians: “Later I went to Syria and Cilicia. I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:28-29 Speaking boldly
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:28-29 28 So he lived among them and move about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. 29 He spoke and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they were going to try to kill him. It didn’t take Paul very long (1) to show that he […]
