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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Psalm 141:5-7 Plowing is done to sow seed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 141:5-7 Click to listen to this devotion. 5 Let a righteous man strike me– it is mercy.Let him rebuke me– it is oil on my head.Do not let my head refuse it.For my prayer is still against their evil deeds. Here David says what his son Solomon would phrase in a […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 141:3-4 a guard over my mouth
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 141:3-4 Click to listen to this devotion. 3 O LORD, set a guard over my mouth;keep watch over the door of my lips!4 Do not let my heart lean toward any evil,to take part in wicked deedsin company with men who do wicked things.Let me not eat any of their delicacies! […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 141:1-2 Before you as incense
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 141:1-2 Click to listen to this devotion. The Psalm has since ancient times been used as the song of the evening prayer by the Christian church. Verses 1 and 2 in particular are used in Vespers services even today. Luther said, “Let the [Psalm] chants in the Sunday masses and Vespers […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 10:44 Their crosses and ours.
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 10:44 Click to listen to this devotion. 44 All these had married foreign wives, and some of the wives had even given birth to children. There is perhaps a problem with the Hebrew text in this final verse. The issue is with the second phrase, which says: “Some of them (masculine) […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 10:18-43 The atonement for guilt
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 10:18-43 Click to listen to this devotion. The next twenty-five verses are the list of those men from Israel who had married foreign women. I have included verses 20-43 after the devotion for the sake of thoroughness. 18 As for those men who had married foreign women:Some were from the priests: […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 10:16-17 Marriage and divorce
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 10:16-17 Click to listen to this devotion. 16 So that is what the exiles did. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers’ houses, according to families, each of them identified by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the cases. 17 By the […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 10:9-15 Separate yourselves from them
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 10:9-15 Click to listen to this devotion. 9 Within those three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the open square in front of the house of God, trembling because […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 10:5-8 The oath
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 10:5-8 Click to listen to this devotion. 5 So Ezra got up and put the leading priests and Levites and all Israel under oath to deal with this matter. They took the oath. 6 Then Ezra got up and withdrew from the front of the house of God and went to […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 10:1-4 They wept bitterly
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 10:1-4 Click to listen to this devotion. 10:1 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down in front of the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites gathered around him, including men, women and children. They too wept bitterly. 2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 9:13-15 Ask for his help
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 9:13-15 Click to listen to this devotion. 13 “What has happened to us is because of our evil deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins have deserved and have given us a remnant like this. 14 Should we break your commands […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 9:8-12 Guard your doctrine closely
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 9:8-12 Click to listen to this devotion. 8 “But now, for a short time, the LORD our God has been gracious in leaving us a remnant and giving us a space in his holy place, and so our God gives light to our eyes and a little relief in our slavery, […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 9:5-7 Shame
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 9:5-7 Click to listen to this devotion. 5 Then, at the time of the evening sacrifice, I got up from my self-humiliation, with my clothes and cloak torn, and got down on my knees and spread my hands out to the LORD my God. 6 I prayed: “O my God, I […]
