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Daily Devotion Archive
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 […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 9:1-4 a least common denominator faith
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 9:1-4 Click to listen to this devotion. 9:1 After these things were done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 8:32-36 After the third day…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 8:32-36 Click to listen to this devotion. 32 We arrived in Jerusalem and rested there for three days. 33 On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and the vessels, and handed them over to Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 8:24-31 Three days to Passover
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 8:24-31 Click to listen to this devotion. 24 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them. 25 I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the articles which the king, his counselors and his lords and all Israel […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 8:21-23 Fasting and praying
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 8:21-23 Click to listen to this devotion. The section before us is the kind of passage that is skipped past by some readers; perhaps many readers. But for a moment Ezra is looking up as if we bumped into him in the hallway and he has something very quiet, very personal […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 8:15-20 Forethought and initiative
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 8:15-20 Click to listen to this devotion. 15 I gathered them at the canal that flows toward Ahava, and we encamped there for three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found that there were no Levites. Ezra stopped at one of the “pelegs” or canals (cp. Psalm […]
