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Daily Devotion Archive
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 […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 141:9-10 Pass by in safety
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 141:9-10 Click to listen to this devotion. 9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me,from the traps set by evildoers.10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,while I pass by in safety. What kinds of snares are laid for us? There are snares of the devil, snares […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 141:8 A prayer for life
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 141:8 Click to listen to this devotion. 8 But my eyes are on you, LORD God.In you I take refuge. Do not pour out my life. David had confessed his faith in God’s protection and also in the resurrection. But there is for every believer the thought that follows every reassurance […]
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 […]
