Daily Devotions

Mt. 6:6 But when you pray, go into your most private room, close the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you. There are certain things without which a relationship cannot thrive.  Imagine that your husband or wife is openly…

Mt. 6:5-8 Also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the street so that they may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they have their reward in full. But when you pray,…

Heb. 12:7-11 You must submit to correction for the purpose of discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? Now if you are exempt from correction and without discipline, in which all share, then you are illegitimate children and not sons at all.…

Jn. 8:43-45 Why do you misunderstand what I am saying?  It is because your spiritual ears are deaf and you are unable to hear the truth of my word.  You are of your father the devil, and it is your will to practice the desires of your father.  He was a murderer from the beginning,…

2 Cor. 6:14-18 Do not be unequally bound together with unbelievers.  For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness?  Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?  What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial?  Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?  What agreement is there between the temple of…

1 Pet. 2:1-3 So put aside every trace of malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander and hateful speech; like newborn babies long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may be nurtured and grow in respect to salvation, if in fact you have tasted the…

Mt. 18:2-5 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them.  And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. …

Jn. 1:9-13 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.  He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.  He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  Yet to all who did receive…

Rom. 8:14-16 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.  The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.  And by him we cry, “ Abba, Father.”  The Spirit himself…

1 Cor. 15:51-52 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. When I was a freshman…