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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:34 Without faith…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:34 Click to listen to this devotion. 34 Give me understanding, and I will guard your law.I will keep it with all my heart. To be given understanding in the Word of God was David’s prayer and blessing for Solomon when he conferred the crown to him (1 Chronicles 22:12). Gabriel […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:33 To throw and throw and throw
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:33 Click to listen to this devotion. Verse 33 begins the fifth stanza of the Great Psalm. Each verse begins with the letter heh ( ה ). Rather than choose words that begin naturally with “h,” our poet has chosen seven words in the hifil stem, a verb form that naturally […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient. Love is kind.
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 13:4 Click to listen to this devotion. 4 Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. Love does not boast. It is not arrogant. None of the words in this verse are adjectives. Adjectives would be words that describe what a noun (in this case, love) is like. […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 13:2-3 If I have… but don’t have
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 13:2-3 Click to listen to this devotion. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and have all knowledge, and if I have all faith, that could move mountains, but I don’t have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give everything I have to […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 13:1 a roaring gong
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 13:1 Click to listen to this devotion. 13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am only a roaring gong or a clanging cymbal. The “more excellent way” Paul was talking about at the end of chapter 11 is […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 12:29-31 the greater gifts
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 12:29-31 Click to listen to this devotion. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? 30 Are all healers? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But eagerly seek the greater gifts. And now I will show you a more excellent […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 12:28 Some to be apostles…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 12:28 Click to listen to this devotion. 28 Now, God appointed some in the church to be, first of all, apostles, second prophets, third teachers. Then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, leaders, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues. Now Paul lists some of the parts of the body […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:32 God’s hounds at work
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:32 Click to listen to this devotion. 32 I run in the path of your commandments,for you have opened my heart wide. This verse ends a neat string that describes the life of the believer, who has “chosen” the way of truth (v. 30), “holds fast” to it (v. 31) and […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:31 I cling…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:31 Click to listen to this devotion. 31 I cling to your testimonies, O LORD;do not let me be put to shame. “Cling” is a vivid word. Jonah’s great confession at the center of his book is, “Those who cling to worthless idols forsake the mercy that is theirs” (Jonah 2:8). […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 12:27 All and individually
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 12:27 Click to listen to this devotion. 27 Now you are Christ’s body, and individually a part of it. Paul is going to end the chapter with a listing of different kinds of spiritual gifts, and he begins with this sentence to summarize the whole list, as if he’s opening […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 12:26 Do not neglect your mother
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 12:26 Click to listen to this devotion. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. If the heart of the physical body suffers or dies, the whole body suffers and dies. But we know that in certain cases, […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 12:23b-25 Anxious for God’s people
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 12:23b-25 Click to listen to this devotion. The unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts do not need special treatment. But God brought the members of the body together and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there might […]
