Category: Daily Devotional

For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. Romans 13 Paul explains, in these verses, the full extent of God’s control over His Creation. All that we see and know, as human beings, is under the control of the Creator of the universe in which we exist. And, that includes the systems…

Psalm 148-150 Praise the Name of the Lord 148 Praise the Lord!Praise the Lord from the heavens;    praise him in the heights!2 Praise him, all his angels;    praise him, all his hosts! 3 Praise him, sun and moon,    praise him, all you shining stars!4 Praise him, you highest heavens,    and you waters above the heavens! 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord!    For he commanded and they were created.6 And he established them forever and…

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Romans 12 Paul, having shown us that Christ sacrificed His life for all Christians, writes that each Christian is to make themselves a “living sacrifice, holy and, acceptable to God” as our spiritual worship to Him who has shown His great love…

Psalm 146-147 Put Not Your Trust in Princes 146 Praise the Lord!Praise the Lord, O my soul!2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live;    I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Put not your trust in princes,    in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth;    on that…

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! Romans 11 Paul now asks the question of whether or not God has rejected His chosen people, the Israelites. And, Paul answers the question, “By no means!” Paul’s statement is that the eternal God of all things, who is immutable, has not and, will never,…

Psalm 135-136 Your Name, O Lord, Endures Forever 135 Praise the Lord!Praise the name of the Lord,    give praise, O servants of the Lord,2 who stand in the house of the Lord,    in the courts of the house of our God!3 Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;    sing to his name, for it is pleasant![a]4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,    Israel as his own possession. 5 For I know that the Lord is great,    and that our Lord is above…

Psalm 132-134 The Lord Has Chosen Zion A Song of Ascents. 132 Remember, O Lord, in David’s favor,    all the hardships he endured,2 how he swore to the Lord    and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,3 “I will not enter my house    or get into my bed,4 I will not give sleep to my eyes    or slumber to my eyelids,5 until I find a place for the Lord,    a dwelling place for the Mighty One of…

…if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10 Paul begins this chapter by saying that he is concerned for his fellow Israelites because they have a zeal for God but they do not know the Scriptures that outline…

Psalm 129-131 They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth A Song of Ascents. 129 “Greatly[a] have they afflicted me from my youth”—    let Israel now say—2 “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,    yet they have not prevailed against me.3 The plowers plowed upon my back;    they made long their furrows.”4 The Lord is righteous;    he has cut the cords of the wicked.5 May all who hate Zion    be put to shame and turned backward!6 Let…

…though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” Romans 9 Paul deals with one of the most difficult and hard to accept doctrines of God’s…