Category Devotionals

“So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!” 1 Corinthians 10:12 (NIV) Falling feels like the end of your story with God. Paul warned proud people that they could fall like Israel did. But…

“And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.” 1 Corinthians 10:13b (NIV) “More than you can handle” is not what Paul wrote. Maybe your pain is a diagnosis, a job loss, or…

“But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13c (NIV) You expect the way out to appear right when needed. Most of us picture rescue arriving the moment…

“Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” 2 Corinthians 1:9 (NIV) You will be the one standing next to someone…

“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.” John 3:14-15 (NIV) Israel’s complaining finally caught up with them. Venomous…

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7 (NIV) You have said this verse to someone who needed hope. “Ask and you shall receive.” Maybe…

“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” Matthew 7:9 (NIV) You once prayed hard for something you were sure was good for you. Maybe it was getting back together with someone who kept…

“If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:11 (NIV) Your view of God as…

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” 1 John 5:14 (NIV) “I guess it just wasn’t God’s will” is one of the easiest sentences to say…

“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” Romans 8:32 (NIV) By now, some of you are tired of asking.…