Category: Daily Devotional

Job 8-10 Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent 8 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 2 “How long will you say these things,    and the words of your mouth be a great wind?3 Does God pervert justice?    Or does the Almighty pervert the right?4 If your children have sinned against him,    he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.5 If you will seek God    and plead…

Job 5-7 5 “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?    To which of the holy ones will you turn?2 Surely vexation kills the fool,    and jealousy slays the simple.3 I have seen the fool taking root,    but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.4 His children are far from safety;    they are crushed in the gate,    and there is no one to deliver them.5 The hungry eat his…

Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as…Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews. Acts 11:19-30 After the religious leaders murdered Stephen, they instigated a persecution of the Christians in Jerusalem. Many were killed and others escaped to cities where there were Jewish populations.…

Job 3-4 Job Laments His Birth 3 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job said: 3 “Let the day perish on which I was born,    and the night that said,    ‘A man is conceived.’4 Let that day be darkness!    May God above not seek it,    nor light shine upon it.5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.    Let clouds…

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. Acts 11:1-18 After Peter’s preaching to Cornelius’ household and the Holy Spirit falling upon them all, the news travelled ahead of Peter back to the Jerusalem church. Peter was confronted by the “legalists” in the Church…

Job 1-2 Job’s Character and Wealth 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. 2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3 He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants,…

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality… Acts 10:34-48 In our verses yesterday, Peter, as he is on the roof of Simon’s house, becomes hungry and falls into a “trance.” Peter sees a vision of a large “sheet” that descended toward him and on the sheet were all kinds…

Esther 9-10 The Jews Destroy Their Enemies 9 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the…

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius…a devout man who feared God with all his household… Acts 10:1-33 Peter remains in Joppa for a time, staying with a man, named Simon, who was a tanner. Tanners were tradesmen who made leather goods from animal skins. Though leather making is more mechanized today, it is still…

Esther 6-8 The King Honors Mordecai 6 On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana[a] and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to…