Category: Daily Devotional

Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem… Acts 13:13-52 With their mission in Cyprus now completed, Paul, Barnabas and John, the Apostle, sail back to the mainland arriving in Perga, in Pamphylia. The Apostle John travels from there back to Jerusalem…

Job 20-21 Zophar Speaks: The Wicked Will Suffer 20 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: 2 “Therefore my thoughts answer me,    because of my haste within me.3 I hear censure that insults me,    and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.4 Do you not know this from of old,    since man was placed on earth,5 that the exulting of the wicked is short,    and…

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. Acts 13:4-12 The first journey for Barnabas and Saul was to the island of Cyprus. Briefly, Cyprus, an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea near present day Israel and Turkey, had been settled by the Greeks…

Job 17-19 Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope? 17 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;    the graveyard is ready for me.2 Surely there are mockers about me,    and my eye dwells on their provocation. 3 “Lay down a pledge for me with you;    who is there who will put up security for me?4 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,    therefore you…

Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers…the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Acts 13:1-3 The church in Antioch was blessed with a number of prophets and teachers of all that Jesus had taught His Disciples, now Apostles. A list is given…

Job 14-16 14 “Mortals, born of woman,    are of few days and full of trouble.2 They spring up like flowers and wither away;    like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.3 Do you fix your eye on them?    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure?    No one!5 A person’s days are determined;    you have decreed the number of his months    and have…

…Herod…delivered an oration…the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory… Acts 12:20-25 Herod, the Tetrarch and ruler in Judea, was a son of the Herod who had built the Temple, completed during Jesus’ earthly ministry.…

Now when Herod was about to bring him (Peter) out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. Acts 12:6-19 Herod had seen his killing James pleased the religious leaders and He decided to do more by arresting Peter. Herod felt…

Job 11-13 Zophar Speaks: You Deserve Worse 11 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: 2 “Should a multitude of words go unanswered,    and a man full of talk be judged right?3 Should your babble silence men,    and when you mock, shall no one shame you?4 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure,    and I am clean in God’s[a] eyes.’5 But oh, that God would speak    and open his…

About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. Acts 12:1-5 Approximately one year after Jesus was crucified, Herod, the Tetrarch, who ruled in Judea, became violent with some Jerusalem church members. He had James, John’s brother, killed by the sword. This pleased the religious leaders in Jerusalem…