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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Ezra 6:1-5 Put them in the house of God
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 6:1-5 Click to listen to this devotion. 6:1 So King Darius made a decree, and they searched in the treasury of the archives where the documents were stored in Babylon. 2 And then in Ecbatana, the capital of the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 5:11-17 A keyword search in Persia
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 5:11-17 Click to listen to this devotion. (Tattenai continues his letter to King Darius): 11 “And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 5:6-10 Peace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 5:6-10 Click to listen to this devotion. 6 This is a copy of the letter which Tattenai the governor of the Trans-Euphrates and Shethar Bozenai and his associates, officials of the Trans-Euphrates, sent to King Darius. 7 They sent him a report, written as follows: “To King Darius, all peace. 8 […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 5:1-5 Grey heads
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 5:1-5 Click to listen to this devotion. 5:1 Now Haggai the prophet and the prophet Zechariah the son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. 2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 4:17-24 the chief gifts of God on earth
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 4:17-24 Click to listen to this devotion. 17 The king sent this reply: The reply from King Artaxerxes was the response that the enemies of Israel had hoped for. He had looked for a document that confirmed what they claimed about Israel’s rebelliousness. The records went back in time before the […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 4:11-16 Told on by the Trans-Euphrates
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 4:11-16 Click to listen to this devotion. And now 11 this is a copy of the letter that they sent: This letter is from quite a bit later than the history we’ve read from the beginning of the book, but I think that Ezra includes it here to show that opposition […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 4:6-10 Something in Aramaic
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 4:6-10 Click to listen to this devotion. 6 And then in the reign of Xerxes, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the people who lived in Judah and Jerusalem. 7 And even later, in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of […]
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 4:1-5 Click to listen to this devotion. 4:1 Now when the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel, 2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families and said to them, “Let us build with you; for […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 3:10-13 The old men wept
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 3:10-13 Click to listen to this devotion. 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, took their places with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 3:7-9 Cedar logs and messy pancakes
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 3:7-9 Click to listen to this devotion. 7 So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon by sea to Joppa, according to the grant which they had from Cyrus king of […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 3:4-6 The Feast of Tabernacles
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 3:4-6 Click to listen to this devotion. 4 They celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written. They offered the burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required. 5 After this they offered the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 3:1-3 The altar, fear, and trust
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 3:1-3 Click to listen to this devotion. 3:1 When the seventh month came, and the Israelites were settled in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. 2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his colleagues, rose up […]
