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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Philippians 4:4-5 After guilt in gone, joy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 4:4-5 Click to listen 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. “Rejoice” in verse 4 is a command, an order. Not like the old show tune, “Forget your troubles, come on, get happy,” but it’s […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 4:2-3 Women in service
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 4:2-3 Click to listen 2 I appeal to Euodia and I appeal to Syntyche to come to an agreement in the Lord. 3 Yes, and I ask you, loyal Syzygus, help these women who have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 4:1 six vocatives and the circle of faith
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 4:1 Click to listen 4:1 So then, my brothers and sisters, my loved ones, and my longed-for ones! O my joy and my crown, in this way stand firm in the Lord, my dear friends. The Philippians were a great personal joy to Paul. They received their faith through his preaching […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:20-21 what joys await us there
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:20-21 Click to listen 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. We eagerly wait for our Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. 21 By the power that enables him to subject all things to himself, he will transform our lowly bodies to be like his glorious body. Paul just can’t […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:18-19 the belly and other gods
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:18-19 Click to listen 18 For as I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, there are many who walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Who were these enemies of the cross of Christ? Is Paul thinking of a new group that might soon threaten […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:17 Press on
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:17 Click to listen 17 Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who are walking according to the example you have in us. Paul is offering himself to the Philippians as an example of the Christian life, a man to be imitated. Here he says […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:16 Let us walk in step
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:16 Click to listen 16 Only let us walk in step with what we have attained. Let’s understand what Paul is saying as well as we can. When he says “let us walk in step,” as I have translated, it is the verb stoichein (στοιχεῖν). It’s noun form is stoichos (στοῖχoς), […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:15 Perfection
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:15 Click to listen 15 Let those of us who are perfect think this way, and if you think otherwise in anything, God will reveal that to you as well. This verse says two important things, and we should address both of them. First, we must examine what Paul means by […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:12-14 The paradox
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:12-14 Click to listen 12 Not as though I have already attained this or have already reached the goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have taken hold of it. But […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:10-11 that somehow I may arrive
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:10-11 Click to listen 10 I do this that I may know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 in the hope that somehow I may arrive at the resurrection from the dead. Paul considers all the advantages […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:7-9 as useless as armor in the desert
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:7-9 Click to listen 7 But whatever things were gain for me I now consider loss because of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of what is worth so much more: knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost all things. I consider […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:4b-6 a Hebrew of Hebrews
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:4b-6 Click to listen If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 in regard to […]
