One More Time! [My word] will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. — Isaiah 55:11 I remember hearing a professor say that during His earthly ministry Jesus probably repeated Himself more than five hundred times. In college I had a professor…
Serving and Sharing
As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. — 1 Peter 4:10 Serving others is not always easy. Since my earliest years, my father has lead a humanitarian organization called Samaritan’s Purse. One of the many great things that this group does…
All for Love
Editor’s Note: We have been so blessed to feature much of Billy Graham’s writing in Devotionals Daily over the last five years, and this season we can’t think of Holy Week without remembering him and his legacy. He had a lot to say over the years about Christ’s death and resurrection — what he has…
Love in Action
Since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. —1 John 4:11-12 (NIV) Jesus said, Everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another…
Who Will Go?
How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? — Romans 10:14 The risen Christ commands His followers to go into all the world and preach the good news. — Mark 16:15 God doesn’t promise that obedience will be easy or…
A Message in the Night
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. — Luke 2:8 The first Christmas worship service was conducted not in a temple, a cathedral, or a synagogue, but in the great outdoors. The tidings of Christ’s birth echoed in the skies as the angel of the…
History-Changing Prayer
[Hezekiah prayed,] “O Lord our God, deliver us from [the enemy’s] hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord, are God.” That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. — 2 Kings 19:19, 2…
Love By Your Actions
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ — Luke 10:27 Did you know that the religious leaders of Jesus’ day had more than six hundred man-made laws they were required to obey?…
Using Our Skills For God
Every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability… [is] to do the work just as the Lord has commanded. — Exodus 36:1 We sometimes forget that during most of His life Jesus was a carpenter, working with His hands among His neighbors in the town of Nazareth. “Isn’t this the carpenter?”…
Transforming Power of the Holy Spirit
They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire… All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit. — Acts 2:3-4 Within fifty days of Jesus’ death and the apparent collapse of His cause, the city of Jerusalem rang with the cries of those who boldly declared that God had raised Jesus from the dead, and…
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