Category: Daily Devotional

We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 In our verses today, Paul offers encouragement in practical ways for us to build up fellow believers. Two of these admonitions are…

Deuteronomy 16-18 Passover 16 “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there. 3 You shall eat…

For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ… 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Jesus is coming back to consummate His kingdom. We do not know exactly when that will happen, date or time. But, He could come at any moment. Paul unfolds what that means for Christians, in Thessalonica and…

Deuteronomy 13-15 13 “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the…

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again…this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep (died). 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Though we do not know what the Thessalonian Christians misunderstood about Christ’s return, it…

Deuteronomy 7-9 A Chosen People 7 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you, 2 and when the Lord your God gives them…

For this is the will of God, your sanctification… 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 Learning how to find God’s will for things like our vocations, spouses, and so on has been important, but in the final analysis the Lord is concerned first and foremost with our holiness. Certainly, our pursuit of the right spouse or vocation cannot finally…

Deuteronomy 4-6 Moses Commands Obedience 4 “And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules[a] that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor…

…now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought…good news of your faith and love and…that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you… 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Having heard from Timothy about the perseverance of the Thessalonians in faith and love, Paul was greatly comforted in…

Deuteronomy 1-3 The Command to Leave Horeb 1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the…