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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:30 the last first
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:30 30 “You will see: There are those who are last who will be first, and those who are first who will be last.” Why is this both a comfort to us and a warning? This saying or something like it was repeated by Jesus several times during his ministry: […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:29 east and west, north and south
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:29 29 And people will come from east and west, from north and south, and they will sit down at the feast in the kingdom of God. Remember the context of this verse. Jesus was speaking to Jews in Israel, people who were used to thinking about seeing “Abraham and […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:17 (Part 2) Jonah and the Whale
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:17 Part 2 17 But the LORD provided a huge whale to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights. Previously we asked: What kind of fish or whale might this have been? I think it’s most likely that it was a […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:28 weeping and gnashing of teeth
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:28 28 “Then there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrown out. Jesus contrasts the state of the blessed in heaven with the state of the damned in hell. A […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:23-27 The narrow door
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:23-27 23 Someone asked him, “Sir, will only a few be saved?” The man’s question isn’t a classroom question about theory. He really means to ask: Will only a few be saved? Will I be one? He said to them, 24 “Try your hardest to enter by the narrow door, […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:22 toward the cross
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:22 22 Jesus went teaching city by city and village by village as he went on his journey to Jerusalem. The region through which Jesus went teaching began just south of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee. It was a narrow strip of territory on the east side […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:20-21 yeast
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:20-21 20 Again he said, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God with? 21 It is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until worked all through the dough.” In former years, yeast was one of the Bible’s many references that never […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:18-19 The Mustard Seed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:18-19 18 Then he said, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? 19 It is like a mustard seed which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its branches.” […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:17 pt. 1 Jonah and the whale
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:17 Part 1 17 But the LORD provided a huge whale to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights. Our Savior uses this passage as a sign of his own death and resurrection (Matthew 12:40). We do well to pause and […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:14-17 The endless maze of the law
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:14-17 14 The synagogue ruler was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. He said to the crowd, “There are six days to do work. Come to be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:14-17 The endless maze of the law
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:14-17 14 The synagogue ruler was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. He said to the crowd, “There are six days to do work. Come to be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:10-13 She stood straight up
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:10-13 Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman 10 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on a Sabbath day. 11 There was a woman there who had an evil spirit that had caused an illness in her for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up. 12 […]
