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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:11-16 Seventy-five in all
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:11-16 11 “Then a famine came all through Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our fathers could not find food. 12 It was when Jacob heard that there was bread in Egypt that he sent our fathers down the first time. 13 On their second visit, Joseph made himself […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:8-10 fling wide open the double-doors of our hearts
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:8-10 8 He also gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And so, when Abraham became the father of Isaac, he circumcised him eight days after his birth. Stephen, a Hellenistic Jew who knew his Greek precisely and intimately as well as an English professor knows his English grammar, uses the […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:4-7 Strangers in the land
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:4-7 4 “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God sent him to this land where you are now living, 5 but he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give it […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:1-3 The God of glory appeared to Abraham
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:1-3 Stephen’s Apology 7 Then the high priest said to Stephen, “Are these things true?” 2 He said, “Brothers and fathers, hear me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran. 3 ‘Leave your land and your […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 6:15 the face of an angel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 6:15 15 All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen. They saw that his face was like the face of an angel. What should we think of Stephen’s face, “like the face of an angel”? We should apply the rest of Scripture to this passage to inform […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 4:15-16 Read the letter
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 4:15-16 15 Greet the brothers at Laodicea, and Nympha and the church in her house. Along with verse 13 we notice that Laodicea was not far from Colosse and on the same side of a river, with Hierapolis a little to the north. The church that met in the house […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 6:11-14 Before the Sanhedrin
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 6:11-14 11 Then secretly they put some men up to say, “We have heard him say blasphemous things against Moses and against God,” 12 and so they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin. 13 They also set […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 6:8-10 The Synagogue of the Freedmen
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 6:8-10 8 Now Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people. How long after the choosing of the seven did Stephen begin to perform miracles? We don’t know. Every now and then in the Bible, a group is set aside for a special […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 6:6-7 Laying on hands
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 6:6-7 6 They brought these men before the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them. This seems to be a kind of commissioning or rite of installation. It is not really ordination into the ministry, since these men were not called to preach the gospel but to “wait […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 6:5 Full of faith
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 6:5 5 This proposal pleased the whole gathering. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit. They also chose Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. Before we look at the names of these men, let’s notice Luke’s phrase, […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 6:3-4 Full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 6:3-4 3 Brothers, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this duty over to them, 4 and we will continue with prayer and the ministry of the word.” For some people, these verses drift past with […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 4:12-14 Always wrestling in prayer
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 4:12-14 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, sends greetings. This servant of Christ Jesus is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand and those who are made perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. 13 I vouch for him that he is working […]
