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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You: Judges 16:13-17 A sharp answer
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:13-17 13 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You’ve been making a fool of me all along and you’ve been lying to me! Tell me how you can be tied up.” Was Delilah a liar or a fool? Or was everything she said and did coming from cold, calculating greed? David […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 16:10-12 Forgiveness
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:10-12 10 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and told me lies! Now please tell me how you can be tied up. ” We don’t know if this happened all at once, or over the course of time with many days or weeks passing. Delilah’s accusation is a […]
Ruth 3:16b-18 Not emptily
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU RUTH 3:16b-18 Then Ruth told her everything that the man had done for her. 17 She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley. He said, ‘Don’t go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.’” 18 Then Naomi said, “Wait patiently, my daughter, until you know how this turns out. The man will […]
Judges 16:4-9 Seven magic strings
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:4-9 4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman from the Valley of Sorek. Her name was Delilah. 5 The Philistine rulers went to her and said, “Persuade him to tell you where his great strength comes from and how we can overpower him, so that we […]
Judges 16:3 The Gaza gate
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:3 3 But Samson lay there only until midnight. Then he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate along with the two gateposts, and tore them out, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the mountain that […]
Judges 15:14-20 and 16:1-2 From Jawbone Hill to The house of the rising sun
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 15:14-20 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the LORD came on him in power, and the ropes that were on his arms became like burnt flax and they fell from his hands. 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey. […]
Judges 15:10-13 Passive obedience
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 15:10-13 10 So the men of Judah said, “Why have you come to attack us? ” The Philistines replied, “We have come to tie Samson up and pay him back for what he did to us.” The Philistines certainly missed the irony. They were used to the idea of allowing a […]
Ruth 3:14-16a Who are you?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU RUTH 3:14-16a 14 She lay at his feet until the morning, but then got up before anyone could recognize anybody else. He said, “Don’t let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.” The inspired writer does not tell us that the couple slept together in the marital […]
Judges 15:6-9 Samson’s revenge
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 15:6-9 6 The Philistines asked, “Who did this? ” They were told, “It was Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because the Timnite took Samson’s wife and gave her to his wedding companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death. The tragedy and irony of Samson’s first […]
Judges 15:1-5 Flaming foxtails
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 15:1-5 In this chapter, God shows that he is with Samson, even though Samson is a naïve firebrand, a big boy with a bruised ego in a superhero’s body. But with burning foxtails, burst bonds, the jawbone of a donkey and a miraculous spring of water, God shows that preserving […]
Judges 14:15-20 Samson is betrayed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 14:15-20 15 On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Persuade your husband to explain the riddle to us. If you don’t, we will burn you and your father’s family to death. Did you invite us here to rob us? ” This passage is amazing to me because of the […]
Judges 14:12-14 Samson’s riddle
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 14:12-14 12 “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer during the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. 13 But if you can’t give me the answer, you must give […]
