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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:4 Your tears
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:4 Click to listen 4 I remember your tears. I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. I take this to mean that when Paul and Timothy last saw one another, perhaps when Paul left Ephesus, or perhaps as Paul was arrested and taken to […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:3 a clear conscience
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:3 Click to listen 3 I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, just as my forefathers did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers. Having begun the letter the way that he has, Paul has got to thinking about his friend, his “beloved child” and now […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:2 Grace, mercy and peace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:2 Click to listen 2 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. By this time, Timothy was no longer a “child” in the physical sense. Paul invited Timothy to join him in ministry at the beginning of the Second […]
God’s Word for You – 2 Timothy 1:1 The promise of life
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 TIMOTHY 1:1 2 T i m o t h y Click to listen It was 66 or 67 AD. Quotations from this letter by the very earliest of the Apostolic Fathers (2 Clement 11:1; Ignatius to the Magnesians 15:1; Ignatius to Polycarp 2:3; 6:2; Polycarp to the Philippians 5:2; 7:1; 9:2; […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:19b The doctrine of hell
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:19b Click to listen Everyone who hears the news about youclaps their hands over you,for who has not felt your endless cruelty? 1, First, hell is the ultimate manifestation of God’s holy and righteous justice. Isaiah says, “The LORD is a consuming fire…. the voice of the LORD will shatter Assyria; […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:18-19a Sins covered
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:18-19a Click to listen 18 O king of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep;your nobles lie down to rest.Your people are scattered on the mountainsand there is no one to gather them.19 Nothing can heal your wound;your injury is fatal. This is why the prophet compared the leaders to grasshoppers flying away […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:14-17 The stars of the sky
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:14-17 Click to listen 14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses!Work the clay, tread the mortar, use the brick mold! One ancient king of Assyria, Sennacherib (704-681) dug an impressive number of canals, eighteen in all, to bring water to the city in case of a siege (the Tigris […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:12-13 Figs and fire
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:12-13 Click to listen 12 All your fortresses will be like fig treeswith their first ripe fruit.When they are shaken,the figs fall into the mouth of the one who eats them. The prophet compares the people of Nineveh with ripe figs. The Ninevites thought that they were safe behind their many […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:10-11 Lots were cast
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:10-11 Click to listen 10 Yet even she became an exile and went into captivity.Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner.Lots were cast for her honored men,and all her great men were put in chains.11 You too will get drunk and hide yourself,you will seek refuge from the […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:8-9 Better than Thebes
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NAHUM 3:8-9 Click to Listen 8 Are you better than Thebes that sat on the Nile,with water all around her?A sea was her defense,the seas were her wall.9 Cush was her strength, and Egypt too;strength without limit!Put and Libya were among her allies. Nahum compares Nineveh with another great city that […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:5-7 An echo of other warnings
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:5-7 Click to listen 5 “I am against you,” declares the LORD of Armies.“I will strip off your clothes.I will show the nations your nakedness;I will show the kingdoms your shame. Displaying a person’s naked body, especially that of a woman, was nothing but a display of shame in the ancient […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:3-4 lightning and witchcraft
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:3-4 Click to listen 3 Horsemen charging, flashing swordsand spears like flashes of lightning!Many wounded, masses of dead,bodies without number,people stumbling over the corpses– In verse 3, the imagery continues of the middle of battle. Nahum describes weapons with the language of a storm. The flashing of the swords and the […]
