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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Psalm 40:9-10 This is our salvation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 40:9-10 Listen to this devotion. 9 I preach righteousness in the great congregation;behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD.10 I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;I speak of your faithfulness and your salvation;I do not hide your mercy and your truthfrom the great congregation. […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 40:6-8 The Book of the Bible
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 40:6-8 Listen to this devotion. 6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,but you have given me a listening ear.Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.7 Then I said, “Here I am, I have come;the Bible written on a scroll tells about me.8 I delight in doing your will, […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 40:4-5 Types of Miracles
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 40:4-5 Listen to this devotion. 4 Blessed is the one who puts his trust in the LORD,who does not look to the proud,or to those who go astray after a lie! Quite a few psalms have at least one verse that begins, “Blessed….” A study of Jesus’ Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-11) is […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 5:19-20 “No.”
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 5:19-20 Listen to this devotion. 19 But Jesus would not let him. Instead, he told him, “Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you.” 20 The man left and began to proclaim in the Decapolis everything […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 5:18 Let me follow you
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 5:18 Listen to this devotion. 18 As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to stay with him. Mark tells a story the way you might, just to your spouse or between friends. He uses present tense verbs for something that happened, as he was […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 40:1-3 Out of the quicksand and bursting with song
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 40:1-3 Listen to this devotion. Psalms 36-41 fall under a general theme of suffering, and within that group, Psalms 37-40 describe waiting for the Lord to answer prayers. This psalm (40) shows the answer to the prayer. This psalm and the next one are also Messianic. Together they bring to an […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 62:11-12 Rewards in heaven
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 62:11-12 Listen to this devotion. 11 One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard:that you, O God, are strong,12 and that you, O Lord, are loving.Surely you will reward each personaccording to what he has done. Are there rewards in heaven? Let’s look carefully at what David says, not […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 62:9-10 The First Commandment
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 62:9-10 Listen to this devotion. NIV 1984 9 Lowborn men are but a breath,the highborn are but a lie;if weighed on a balance, they are nothing;together they are only a breath.10 Do not trust in extortionor take pride in stolen goods;though your riches increase,do not set your heart on them. I […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 62:5-8 What is the soul
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 62:5-8 Listen to this devotion. NIV-84 5 Find rest, O my soul, in God alone;my hope comes from him.6 He alone is my rock and my salvation;he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.7 My salvation and my honor depend on God;he is my mighty rock, my refuge.8 Trust in […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 62:3-4 A leaning wall
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 62:3-4 Listen to this devotion. There is no other psalm where waiting on the Lord, trust, and hope are repeated so often as they are here in Psalm 62. “The whole Psalm,” says Luther, “rings with faith in God.” As before, we read the NIV-84 and also my own private translation […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 5:14-17 dressed and in his right mind
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 5:14-17 Listen to this devotion. 14 The men herding the pigs ran and reported it in the town and in the countryside. Then the people came to see what had happened. 15 When they came to Jesus they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting […]
God’s Word for You – Mark 5:11-13 Demons and pigs
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUMARK 5:11-13 Listen to this devotion. 11 Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12 and the spirits begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs so that we can enter them.” 13 So he gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs, […]
