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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:5-8 bold persistence
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:5-8 Keep Praying (Matthew 7:7-11) 5 Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 6 because a friend of mine who is on a journey has come to me, and […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:5 They jettisoned the cargo
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:5 5 All the sailors became afraid and each one cried out to his own god. They jettisoned the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the hold. There he was lying down, and he had fallen into a deep sleep. These sailors […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:4c The Seventh Petition and Doxology
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:4c THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE SEVENTH PETITION AND THE DOXOLOGY but deliver us from evil. In this final petition, Jesus teaches us to pray for deliverance. This petition is not found in Luke except in a very few manuscript copies where this petition is carried over from Matthew 6:13, but […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:4b The Sixth Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:4b THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE SIXTH PETITION And lead us not into temptation. Would God ever lead me into temptation? No. “God,” James said, “cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone” (James 1:13). But we are tempted by other means. The first of these the Bible describes […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:4a The Fifth Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:4a THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE FIFTH PETITION 4 Forgive us our sins, as we also forgive everyone who sins against us. In this petition, Jesus turns our hearts from our personal needs to our most important spiritual need: the forgiveness of sins. We sin all the time, countless times every […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:4a The Fifth Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:4a THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE FIFTH PETITION 4 Forgive us our sins, as we also forgive everyone who sins against us. In this petition, Jesus turns our hearts from our personal needs to our most important spiritual need: the forgiveness of sins. We sin all the time, countless times every […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:3 The Fourth Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:3 THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE FOURTH PETITION 3 Give us each day our daily bread. “Daily” (epiousios, ἐπιούσιος) is a word unknown in earlier, classical Greek. Writing in the third century, the scholar Origen said that this word “is found with no Grecian, nor with the learned, nor in the […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:2d Variant: The Third Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:2d (Third Petition Variant) THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE THIRD PETITION Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This petition of the Lord’s Prayer was the one Jesus returned to in the Garden of Gethsemane during his Passion. This was the part of his work that the […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:2d Variant: The Third Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:2d (Third Petition Variant) THE LORD’S PRAYER: THE THIRD PETITION Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This petition of the Lord’s Prayer was the one Jesus returned to in the Garden of Gethsemane during his Passion. This was the part of his work that the […]
God’s Word for You – Jonah 1:4 The storm
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JONAH 1:4 4 But the LORD threw a mighty wind upon the sea, and there was such a violent storm on the water so that the ship threatened to break up. These are simple words, but the event was terrifying. Anyone who has ever been through some frightening, dangerous and life-changing […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:2c The Second Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:2c Your kingdom come. What is the kingdom of God? It isn’t a location, nor is it a single church or a single denomination. It isn’t found within a certain race or language. Jesus teaches us that the kingdom of God is the way in which God gathers his church. […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 11:2b The First Petition
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 11:2b let your name be made holy. The Greek word onoma (ὄνομα) means more than just “name.” Like its Hebrew counterpart shem (שֵׁם), it stands in this context for anything that designates God: all his names, all his titles, and also “all that God has been pleased to make known […]
