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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Luke 12:4-5 Do not fear
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 12:4-5 Fear God, Not People (Matthew 10:28-31) 4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5 But I will show you the one you should fear. Fear him who, after he has killed the body, […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:9-10 The God of heaven, sea, and land
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:9-10 9 He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.” 10 This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the LORD, because he had already told them […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 12:1-3 hypocrisy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 12:1-3 Warning Against Hypocrisy After the meal with the Pharisees, something extraordinary happened. A crowd that had gathered outside during the meal, in part because of what was being said in the house between Jesus and the Pharisees, was now turning into a very large number of, thousands of them […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:52-54 the key of knowledge
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:52-54 52 Woe to you experts in the law, because you took away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were trying to enter.” Jesus uses the word “key” (kleida, κλεῖδα) side by side with the idea of a door or entrance. […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:49b-51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:49b-51 They will kill and persecute some of them. 50 and then this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:49a The Wisdom of God
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:49a 49 For this reason the Wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles. This passage is mostly ignored by commentators but it will profit us to spend a little time in it. Some versions translate “God in his wisdom said” (NIV), but the Greek text […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:45-48 Tombs of the prophets
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:45-48 45 One of the experts in the law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you are insulting us, too.” Besides Pharisees at this meal at the Pharisee’s house (11:37), there was a group of experts in the law. Almost all of these lawyers were also Pharisees, and […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:8 What’s your business here?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:8 8 Then they said to him, “Tell us, on whose account has this calamity become ours? What is your business? Where do you come from? What is your country? What people do you come from?” All in a panic, the terrified sailors peppered the prophet with questions. It seems […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:44 unmarked graves
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:44 44 Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves that people walk over without realizing it.” Every year at the Passover, the Jews had a tradition of painting their tombs with an inexpensive homemade paint made from lime and water, known as whitewash. This was so that no […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:42-43 mint and stinkweed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:42-43 42 But woe to you Pharisees, because you give an exact tithe of your mint and rue and every plant in your gardens, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have done these things without neglecting the others. Luke began this quotation by noting that […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:37-41 inside you are full of greed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:37-41 Woes and Warnings (Matthew 23:13-39) 37 After Jesus finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to have a meal with him. He went in and reclined at the table. 38 When the Pharisee saw that Jesus did not wash first before the meal, he was amazed. Luke is referring to […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:35-36 light
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:35-36 35 Therefore, see to it that the light that is in you is not darkness. 36 So if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely full of light, as when a lamp shines on you with its bright light.” […]
