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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:11 herald, apostle, teacher
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:11 Click to listen 11 into (the service of) which I was placed as herald and apostle and teacher, Verse 10 ended with Paul saying that Christ works “through the gospel,” and now adds, “into which I was placed….” We take this to mean “into the service of which I […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:9b-10 Death is dead
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:9b-10 Click to listen and the grace given to us in Christ Jesus even before ancient times, 10 and now has revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, the one who destroyed death and who shone light on life and immortality through the gospel. In verse 9, we […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:8-9a Not by our works
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:8-9a Click to listen 8 Do not be ashamed of testifying to our Lord or about me his prisoner, but join me in suffering for the gospel while relying on the power of God. 9 He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our works […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:6-7 The laying on of hands
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:6-7 Click to listen 6 For this reason I remind you to stir up the fire of the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; 7 for God did not give us a spirit that is timid, but a spirit of power and […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:5 Faith
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:5 Click to listen 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that was living first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and now, I am convinced, lives in you. What is the difference between a faith and a sincere faith? Faith consists of knowledge, […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:4 Your tears
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:4 Click to listen 4 I remember your tears. I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. I take this to mean that when Paul and Timothy last saw one another, perhaps when Paul left Ephesus, or perhaps as Paul was arrested and taken to […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:3 a clear conscience
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:3 Click to listen 3 I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, just as my forefathers did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers. Having begun the letter the way that he has, Paul has got to thinking about his friend, his “beloved child” and now […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:2 Grace, mercy and peace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:2 Click to listen 2 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. By this time, Timothy was no longer a “child” in the physical sense. Paul invited Timothy to join him in ministry at the beginning of the Second […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:1 The promise of life
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:1 2 T i m o t h y Click to listen It was 66 or 67 AD. Quotations from this letter by the very earliest of the Apostolic Fathers (2 Clement 11:1; Ignatius to the Magnesians 15:1; Ignatius to Polycarp 2:3; 6:2; Polycarp to the Philippians 5:2; 7:1; 9:2; […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:19b The doctrine of hell
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:19b Click to listen Everyone who hears the news about youclaps their hands over you,for who has not felt your endless cruelty? 1, First, hell is the ultimate manifestation of God’s holy and righteous justice. Isaiah says, “The LORD is a consuming fire…. the voice of the LORD will shatter Assyria; […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:18-19a Sins covered
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:18-19a Click to listen 18 O king of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep;your nobles lie down to rest.Your people are scattered on the mountainsand there is no one to gather them.19 Nothing can heal your wound;your injury is fatal. This is why the prophet compared the leaders to grasshoppers flying away […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:14-17 The stars of the sky
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:14-17 Click to listen 14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses!Work the clay, tread the mortar, use the brick mold! One ancient king of Assyria, Sennacherib (704-681) dug an impressive number of canals, eighteen in all, to bring water to the city in case of a siege (the Tigris […]
