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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Daniel 1:9-10 The good of fear
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUDANIEL 1:9-10 Click to listen to this devotion. 9 Now God gave the chief eunuch favor and compassion toward Daniel. 10 The chief eunuch said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink. Why should he see your faces looking worse than the […]
God’s Word for You – Daniel 1:8 Babylonian bacon and the Fourth Commandment
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUDANIEL 1:8 Click to listen to this devotion. 8 But Daniel had his heart set on not defiling himself with the king’s food or with the wine from his banquets. So he sought out the chief eunuch about not defiling himself. Daniel “had his heart set on not defiling himself.” This is […]
God’s Word for You – Daniel 1:6-7 Your new name
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUDANIEL 1:6-7 Click to listen to this devotion. 6 Among these were some from the Children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. 7 And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego. Giving captives […]
God’s Word for You – Daniel 1:5 Kickshaws
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUDANIEL 1:5 Click to listen to this devotion. 5 The king assigned them a daily portion of the special royal food, and also of the wine that he drank. They were to be brought up this way for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before […]
God’s Word for You – Daniel 1:3-4 Time for instruction
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUDANIEL 1:3-4 Click to listen to this devotion. 3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the young Israelite men, both from the royal family and from the nobility, 4 young men without blemish, of good appearance and insight in all sorts of wisdom, who had knowledge, […]
God’s Word for You – Daniel 1:2 In the land of Shinar
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUDANIEL 1:2 Click to listen to this devotion. 2 And the Lord handed Jehoiakim king of Judah over to him, along with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he sent these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in […]
God’s Word for You – Daniel 1:1 The third year of Jehoiakim
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUDANIEL 1:1 Click to listen to this devotion. THE CAPTIVITY AND APOCALYPSE OF DANIEL The three great prophets that follow after Isaiah (who lived in an earlier generation) are presented in the Bible in order of their length: Jeremiah (with Lamentations), Ezekiel, and then Daniel. They were more or less contemporaries with […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 142:7 He did so much for me
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 142:7 Click to listen to this devotion. 7 Set me free from my prison, so that I may praise your name.Then the righteous will gather around mebecause you did so much for me. The prison here is a prison with a lock, not just a pit or a guarded room. It […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 142:5-6 Not too strong for Jesus
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 142:5-6 Click to listen to this devotion. 5 I cry out to you, LORD. I say,“You are my refuge,my portion in the land of the living.”6 Listen to my cry, for I am so very weak.Rescue me from those who pursue me,for they are too strong for me. Here again David […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 142:3-4 Is my refuge ruined?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 142:3-4 Click to listen to this devotion. 3 When my spirit grows faint within meyou are the one who knows my way.In the path where I walk men have hidden a snare for me.4 Look to my right and see; no one is concerned for me.My refuge has been ruined;no one […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 142:2 What a great and wonderful God we have
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 142:2 Click to listen to this devotion. 2 I pour out my complaint before him;I tell my trouble before him. “Trouble” in the second line is tsaráh, which in certain contexts can mean a “rival wife” (Leviticus 18:18; 1 Samuel 1:6 ). Here it means a trouble that vexes, frustrates, or […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 142:1 Cry for mercy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 142:1 Click to listen to this devotion. 142:1 A maskil of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer.I cry aloud to the LORD;I lift up my voice to the LORD for mercy. The title reflects the one in Psalm 57, but while David wrote both, it’s by no means […]
