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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 14:1-3 Pursue love
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 14:1-3 Click to listen to this devotion. 14 Pursue love! Yet eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially that you prophesy. 2 For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God because no one understands him. He speaks mysteries in the spirit. 3 But whoever prophesies […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 13:13 These three remain
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 Click to listen to this devotion. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love. Paul finishes his chapter on the spiritual gift of love by assuring us that the three gifts to be treasured the most are these: faith, hope, […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:36-37 Turn my heart, turn my eyes
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:36-37 Click to listen to this devotion. 36 Turn my heart toward your testimoniesand not toward selfish gain.37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things.Give me life according to your way. The pairing of heart and eyes is so common in the Old Testament that we are led to understand that […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:35 The third use of the law
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:35 Click to listen to this devotion. 35 Make me walk in the path of your commandments,for there I find delight. The law or commandments of God are described in the Bible as having three uses. One is for all people but especially for unbelievers. The law works in the conscience […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 13:11-12 In a mirror, darkly
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 13:11-12 Click to listen to this devotion. With two simple examples, childhood and first-century mirrors, Paul describes the difference between knowing Christ fully in heaven versus knowing him in the partial way we do now. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 13:8b-10 We know only in part
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 13:8b-10 Click to listen to this devotion. But where there are gifts of prophecy, they will fade away; where there are tongues, they will cease; where there is knowledge, it will fade away. 9 For we know only in part and we prophesy only in part, 10 but when the […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 13:7-8a Love always…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 13:7-8a Click to listen to this devotion. 7 It always endures, always believes, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never ends. Love, Paul goes on to say, is “always” doing certain crucial things. Using the Greek term panta (πάντα) “always” four times in a row and then concluding with the […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 13:6 Love rejoices
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 13:6 Click to listen to this devotion. 6 It does not rejoice in unrighteousness but rejoices with the truth. Paul’s continuing description of love doesn’t leave any room for a “live and let live” attitude toward theology or religion. Our behavior in the world is a direct extension of our […]
God’s Word for You – 1 Corinthians 13:5 Love does not tally up wrongs
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU1 CORINTHIANS 13:5 Click to listen to this devotion. We are in the middle of Paul’s discourse about Christian love. Paul teaches the people not to exalt themselves but to serve one another in unity of spirit. 5 It does not behave improperly, it is not selfish, it is not irritable, it […]
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. […]
