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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Jonah 2:1-2 God will hear your cry
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 2:1-2 2 Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from inside the belly of the whale. 2 He said, “I called to the LORD in my distress, and he answered me. I called for help from the depths of the grave, and you listened to my cry. In the book […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:35 Your house is abandoned
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:35 35 “Look! Your house is abandoned to you. I tell you, you shall not see me until the time comes when you say: ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’” What does Jesus mean by “Your house is abandoned to you”? Let’s begin with what […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:34 the vocative of love
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:34 34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You that kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often have I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” Since my son is learning Latin in college […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 13:31-33 Jesus’ goal
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 13:31-33 31 Just at this time some Pharisees came and said to him. “Go away. Leave this place, because Herod wants to kill you.” 32 He replied, “Go tell that fox: See, today and tomorrow I am driving out demons and performing healings, and on the third day I reach […]
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.” […]
