Daily Devotion: Negativism

Bible Reading: Numbers 13:17-33

Key Verse: Verse 6 - ”But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

Key Words: But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people

Daily Devotion: The Spiritual Cliff

Bible Reading: II Chronicles 7:8-22

Key Verse: Verse 14 – “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Key Words: If my people

Daily Devotion: Murphy’s Law for Parenting

Bible Reading: Proverbs 4:1-13

Key Verse: Verse 1 – “Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.”

Key Words: attend to know understanding

Daily Devotion: Thankful: Blake Smith

Bible Reading: I Thessalonians 5:16-22

Key Verse: Verse 18 - “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

Key Words: In everything give thanks

Daily Devotion: Martyrs

Bible Reading: Philippians 1:16-24

Key Verse: Verse 21 – “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

Key Words: For me to live is Christ

Daily Devotion: Biblical Integrity

Bible Reading: II Timothy 2:1-15

Key Verse: Verse 15 – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

Key Words: Study to show thyself approved unto God

Daily Devotion: Consistency

Bible Reading: Matthew 7:1-12

Key Verse: Verse 3 – “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”

Key Words: considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye

Daily Devotion: Goals

Bible Reading: I Corinthians 2:1-11

Key Verse: Verse 2 – “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

Key Words: save Jesus Christ, and him crucified

Daily Devotion: The Home

Bible Reading: Hebrews 13:1-8

Key Verse: Verse 4 – "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

Key Words: Marriage is honorable

Daily Devotion: “I”

Bible Reading: Ecclesiastes 2:12-17

Key Verse: Verse 12 - “And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.”

Key Words: And I turned

Daily Devotion: A Dilemma

Bible Reading: II Kings 18:19-27

Key Verse: Verse 19 - “And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?”

Key Words: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest

Daily Devotion: Heaven

Bible Reading: John 14:1-14

Key Verse: Verse 2 – “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you..”

Key Words: I go to prepare a place for you

Daily Devotion: Determination

Bible Reading: Joshua 14:2-12

Key Verse: Verse 12 – “Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.”

Key Words: give me this mountain

Daily Devotion: Values

Bible Reading: Matthew 26:6-16

Key Verse: Verse 15 - “And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.”

Key Words: for thirty pieces of silver

Daily Devotion: Education

Bible Reading: II Timothy 3:1-8

Key Verse: Verse 7 - “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Key Words: Ever learning

Daily Devotion: Lot’s Children

Bible Reading: Genesis 19:14, 24-36

Key Verse: Verse 32 – “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.”

Key Words: Come, let us make our father drink wine

Daily Devotion: The Cleaving Soul

Bible Reading: Psalm 119:25-32

Key Verse: Verse 25 – “DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.”

Key Words: My soul cleaveth unto the dust

Daily Devotion: Success, Pt. 2

Bible Reading: Joshua 1:1-8

Key Verse: Verse 8 - "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success."

Key Words: and then thou shalt have good success

Daily Devotion: Success, Pt. 1

Bible Reading: Revelation 2:8-11

Key Verse: Verse 10 – “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”

Key Words: be thou faithful unto death

Daily Devotion: The Battle Over Salvation

Bible Reading: Genesis 4:1-5

Key Verse: Verse 3 – “And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.”

Key Words: Cain brought of the fruit of the ground

Daily Devotion: Eagle’s Wings

Bible Reading: Isaiah 40:18-31

Key Verse: Verse 31 – “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

Key Words: they shall mount up with wings as eagles

Daily Devotion: Failure Is Often A Success

Bible Reading: Luke 15:11-24

Key Verse: Verse 19 – “And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”

Key Words: no more worthy

Daily Devotion: A Quarrel Among the Tools

Bible Reading: I Corinthians 3:1-9

Key Verse: Verse 3 – “For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”

Key Words: there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions

Daily Devotion: Respect, Honor, Dignity

Bible Reading: Exodus 20:1-17

Key Verse: Verse 12 – “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

Key Words: Honour thy father

Daily Devotion: I Have Failed

Bible Reading: Joshua 7:1-9

Key Verse: Verse 7 – “And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!”

Key Words: Alas O Lord

Daily Devotion: The Spiritual Warfare of Depression

Bible Reading: Psalm 77

Key Verse: Verse 3 - “I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.”

Key Words: my spirit was overwhelmed

Daily Devotion: The Importance of Truth

Bible Reading: John 8:21-32

Key Verse: Verse 32 – “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Key Words: the truth shall make you free

Daily Devotion: Violence

Bible Reading: Ezekiel 7:10-15

Key Verse: Verse 11 – "Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.”

Key Words: Violence

Daily Devotion: Complaining

Bible Reading: Psalm 77

Key Verse: Verse 3 –  “I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.”

Key Words: I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed

Daily Devotion: The Pessimist

Bible Reading: Ecclesiastes 2:4-11

Key Verse: Verse 11- “Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.”

Key Words: there was no profit under the sun

Daily Devotion: Facing Adversity

Bible Reading: II Corinthians 11:21-28

Key Verse: Verse 21– “I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.”

Key Words: I speak as concerning reproach

August 2019: In the "What It’s Worth Department"