Daily Devotions

Jer. 2:31-32 You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness?  Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more’?  Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments?  Yet…

2 Sam. 12:24‭-‬25 Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her.  So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon.  Now the Lord loved him, and He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.…

2 Sam. 7:4‭-‬7 But it happened that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, “Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Would you build a house for Me to dwell in  For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of…

Psa. 144:1‭-‬2 Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle—my lovingkindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and the One in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me. No one would have guessed that he would rise to…

Acts 13:20‭-‬24  After that He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.  And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.  And when He had removed him, He raised up for…

1 Sam. 19:13‭-‬17a And Michal took an image and laid it in the bed, put a cover of goats’ hair for his head, and covered it with clothes.  So when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”  Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to…

1 Sam. 18:23‭-‬25  So Saul’s servants spoke those words in the hearing of David.  And David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king’s son-in-law, seeing I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?”  And the servants of Saul told him, saying, “In this manner David spoke.”  Then Saul said,…

1 Sam. 18:6‭-‬9 Now it had happened as they were coming home, when David was returning from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women had come out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with musical instruments.  So the women sang as they…

1 Sam. 17:4‭-‬7 And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.  He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. …

Acts 13:36‭-‬37 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was buried among his fathers and experienced decay [in the grave]; but He whom God raised [to life] did not experience decay [in the grave]. No father should have to bury his son, but there would…