A free daily devotional from Mountain View Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Daily Devotion: Grandmother Says
Bible Reading: Galatians 2:15-21
Key Verse: Verse 20 – “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
Key Words: I am crucified with Christ
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Galatians
Monday, December 30, 2019
Daily Devotion: Satanism
Bible Reading: James 4:1-10
Key Verse: Verse 7 – “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Key Words: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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James
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Daily Devotion: Online Predators
Bible Reading: Proverbs 21:1-11
Key Verse: Verse 11 – “When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.”
Key Words: when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
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Proverbs
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Daily Devotion: Shoplifting
Bible Reading: Joshua 7:10-21
Key Verse: Verse 21 – “When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.”
Key Words: I coveted them, and took them
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Joshua
Friday, December 27, 2019
Daily Devotion: Suicide
Bible Reading: Matthew 27:1-14
Key Verse: Verse 5 – “And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.”
Key Words: and went and hanged himself
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Matthew
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Daily Devotion: Gambling
Bible Reading: I Timothy 6:1-12
Key Verse: Verse 10 – “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
Key Words: For the love of money
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I Timothy
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Daily Devotion: If Christ Had Not Come
Bible Reading: Isaiah 9:1-7
Key Verse: Verse 6 – “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Key Words: The Prince of Peace
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Isaiah
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Daily Devotion: Education Can Kill
Bible Reading: II Timothy 3:1-13
Key Verse: Verse 7 – “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
Key Words: Ever learning
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II Timothy
Monday, December 23, 2019
Daily Devotion: The Occult Part 2
Bible Reading: Romans 12:1-8
Key Verse: Verse 2 – “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Key Words: by the renewing of your mind
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Romans
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Daily Devotion: The Occult Part 1
Bible Reading: I Samuel 28:1-20
Key Verse: Verse 7 – “Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.”
Key Words: Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit
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I Samuel
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Daily Devotion: Teens, Twenty-Something & Church
Bible Reading: Hebrews 10:22-39
Key Verse: Verse 25 “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”
Key Words: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together
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Hebrews
Friday, December 20, 2019
Daily Devotion: Cigarettes and Tobacco
Bible Reading: I Corinthians 3:16-17
Key Verse: Verse 16 – “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
Key Words: Know ye not that ye are the temple of God
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I Corinthians
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Daily Devotion: Intimidation
Bible Reading: I Kings 19:1-18
Key Verse: Verse 2 – “Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.”
Key Words: if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time
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I Kings
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Daily Devotion: Being Teachable
Bible Reading: Proverbs 1:1-9
Key Verse: Verse 8 – “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
Key Words: hear the instruction of thy father
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Proverbs
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Daily Devotion: Worship
Bible Reading: John 4:1-26
Key Verse: Verse 24 –“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
Key Words: they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
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John
Monday, December 16, 2019
Daily Devotion: Indecent Exposure
Bible Reading: Proverbs 7:1-10
Key Verse: Verse 10 – “And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.”
Key Words: attire of a harlot
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Proverbs
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Daily Devotion: Social Networking
Bible Reading: Romans 14:1-13
Key Verse: Verse 13 – “Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.”
Key Words: no man put a stumblingblock
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Romans
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Daily Devotion: Homosexuality
Bible Reading: I Kings 15:1-15
Key Verse: Verse 12– “And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.”
Key Words: sodomites
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I Kings
Friday, December 13, 2019
Daily Devotion: Physical Abuse
Bible Reading: Ephesians 6:1-10
Key Verse: Verse 4 – “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
Key Words: provoke not your children to wrath
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Ephesians
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Daily Devotion: Sexual Abuse
Bible Reading: Proverbs 3:1-26
Key Verse: Verse 23– “Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.”
Key Words: Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely
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Proverbs
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Daily Devotion: Drugs
Bible Reading: I Corinthians 16:13-24
Key Verse: Verse 15- “I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)”
Key Words: that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of saints
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I Corinthians
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Daily Devotion: Emotional Abuse
Bible Reading: Proverbs 18:15-24
Key Verse: Verse 24– “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
Key Words: there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother
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Proverbs
Monday, December 9, 2019
Daily Devotion: Depression
Bible Reading: Psalm 77
Key Verse: Verse 9 – “Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.”
Key Words: Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
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Psalm
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Daily Devotion: Cheating
Bible Reading: Numbers 32:20-33
Key Verse: Verse 23– “But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.”
Key Words: be sure your sin will find you out.
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Numbers
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Daily Devotion: Cutting
Bible Reading: John 14:15-27
Key Verse: Verse 27- “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Key Words: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid
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John
Friday, December 6, 2019
Daily Devotion: Bullying
Bible Reading: Esther 3
Key Verse: Verse 6 –“And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.”
Key Words: And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone
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Esther
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Daily Devotion: Being Bullied
Bible Reading: Isaiah 26:1-11
Key Verse: Verse 3 – “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
Key Words: whose mind is stayed on thee
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Isaiah
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Daily Devotion: Body Piercing and Tattoos
Bible Reading: James 1:21-27
Key Verse: Verse 27–“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
Key Words: keep himself unspotted from the world
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James
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Daily Devotion: Bulimia
Bible Reading: Romans 14:1-12
Key Verse: Verse 8 –“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.”
Key Words: we are the Lord’s
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Romans
Monday, December 2, 2019
Daily Devotion: Alcohol
Bible Reading: Proverbs 23:29-35
Key Verse: Verse 29 – “Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?”
Key Words: Who hath woe
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Proverbs
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Daily Devotion: Anorexia Nervosa
Bible Reading: I Corinthians 10:24-33
Key Verse: Verse 31 - “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
Key Words: Whether therefore ye eat [not if you eat]
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II Corinthians
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