Category: Daily Devotional
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Titus Commended
As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. 2 Corinthians 8:16-24 Raising money has always been a part of God’s purposes, giving His people a chance to participate in the ongoing of His kingdom. Throughout church history, God’s people have always given because their hearts are moved to do so out…
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God’s Holy Bible
Ezekiel 47-48 Water Flowing from the Temple 47 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. 2 Then he…
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Paul’s Joy
So although I wrote to you…in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God…Therefore we are comforted. 2 Corinthians 7:12-16 In John 13:20, Jesus said this, “He who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.” The Corinthian church would…
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God’s Holy Bible
Ezekiel 45-46 The Holy District 45 “When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits[a] long and 20,000[b] cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent. 2 Of this a square plot of 500 by 500 cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits…
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True Repentance and Prayer
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 God-honoring prayer requires us to know who God is and who we are, and that understanding who we are demands repentant prayer. Theologians and preachers typically distinguish two different attitudes that might be described as “repentance,” attrition…
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God’s Holy Bible
Ezekiel 42-44 The Temple’s Chambers 42 Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north. 2 The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits,[a] and the breadth fifty cubits. 3 Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and…
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Temple of the Living God
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 This passage identifies two opposing worlds. One is marked by righteousness, light, Christ, believers, and the presence of God. The other is marked by lawlessness, darkness, Satan, unbelievers, and the presence of false gods. And these two worlds are so utterly different and…
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God’s Holy Bible
Ezekiel 40-41 Vision of the New Temple 40 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me to the city.[a] 2 In visions of God he brought…
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Cooperating with God
For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 Most of the Corinthians were saved but hindered by legalistic teaching regarding sanctification. Others were not truly saved but deceived by…
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God’s Holy Bible
Ezekiel 37-39 The Valley of Dry Bones 37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley;[a] it was full of bones. 2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold,…