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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:4-7 O God of Armies
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:4-7 4 O LORD God of Armies, how long will your anger burn against the prayers of your people? In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Hebrew title Adonai Sabaoth (not “sabbath”) was translated “Lord Almighty” (pantokrator, παντοκράτωρ). Here and throughout the Psalms, pantokrator is not […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:1-3 Hear us O Shepherd
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:1-3 PSALM 80 You Have Cut Down the Son of Man and Raised Him Up Again This is the ninth of the twelve Psalms ascribed to Asaph in the Bible (50, 73-83). It is sometimes thought to be a Psalm written shortly before the fall of the Northern Kingdom due […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 2:14 nailing it to the cross
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 2:14 Paul ended verse 13 with the words, “He forgave us all our sins.” Verse 14 is not a new thought, but a continuation of the previous one. 14 he wiped out the record of our debt with its regulations which stood against us, which was hostile to us. This […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:66-71 before the Sanhedrin
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:66-71 66 When it was day, the elders of the people gathered together with the chief priests and scribes. Jesus was led before the Sanhedrin, Luke clearly uses the word “Sanhedrin” here (Συνέδριον), the convocation of the selected seventy (or seventy-one) elders who made judgments on cases in Israel. By […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:63-65 Who was it who hurt you!?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:63-65 63 Now the men who were guarding Jesus mocked him and beat him. 64 They blindfolded him and demanded, “Prophesy! Who struck you?” 65 And they said many other blasphemous things against him. Luke, the physician, would well have understood the difference between Matthew’s description of Jesus being “hit […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:58-62 the rooster crowed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:58-62 58 A little later someone saw him and said, “You are also one of them.” But Peter said, “Mister, I am not.” 59 About an hour went by and someone else insisted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.” 60 But Peter said, “Mister, I […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:54-57 I do not know him, girl
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:54-57 54 Then they seized him and led him away, taking him into the high priest’s house. Peter followed at a distance. 55 When they got a fire going in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat among them. 56 When a servant-girl noticed him as […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:52-53 the authority of darkness
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:52-53 52 Then Jesus said to those who had come out against him (chief priests, captains of the temple guard, and elders), “Have you come out against me with swords and clubs, as if I am leading a rebellion? 53 I was with you every day in the temple and […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 2:13 O former corpse
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 2:13 13 Also, when you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your sinful flesh, he made you alive together with him. He forgave us all our sins, The flow of verses 11-14 is as follows: 11, you were circumcised spiritually 12, when you were buried in baptism […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:49-51 Ecce cicatrix!
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:49-51 49 And when those with him saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?” 50 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear. 51 But Jesus said, “No more of this!” And he […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:47-48 the kiss
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:47-48 47 While he was still speaking, they saw a crowd coming, and the man who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came up to Jesus to kiss him, 48 but Jesus asked him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of man with a kiss?” […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:45-46 Let your sleepy sorrow end
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:45-46 45 And when he rose from prayer, he went to the disciples and found them sleeping out of sorrow, 46 and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray so that you may not enter into temptation.” Luke does not mention each of the several […]
