Daily Devotion: A Life of Investing Your Life in Others

Bible Reading:  Romans 16 

Key Verse: Verse 1 – “I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:” 

Key Words: I commend unto you

Daily Devotion: A Life of Hope Deferred

Bible Reading:  Proverbs 13:1-12

Key Verse: Verse 12 – “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”

Key Words: Hope deferred

Daily Devotion: A Life of a Pessimist

Bible Reading:  John 11:1-17

Key Verse: Verse 16 – “Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.”  

Key Words: Let us go, that we may die with him

Daily Devotion: A Life of a Wrong Decision

Bible Reading:  I Kings 12:1-19

Key Verse: Verse 15 – “Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Neba”

Key Words: Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people

Daily Devotion: A Life of Sacrifice

Bible Reading:  II Corinthians 11:23-33

Key Verse: Verse 23 – “Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths of”

There is no question that the church at Corinth was Paul’s heavenly sandpaper. There is also no doubt that Paul had a great love for them, for he had sacrificed tremendously for them; but it appears that the church at Corinth had very little appreciation for Paul’s sacrifice. 

A harried waitress approached the table where a young girl was sitting by herself. She quickly asked the girl what she wanted. “How much is an ice cream sundae?” the little girl inquired.

The waitress snapped, “A dollar seventy-five.”

The girl looked at her fistful of change and then asked, “How much is a dish of just plain ice cream?”

“One fifty,” retorted the waitress.

“Then I’ll take the plain ice cream, please,” said the young customer. The waitress returned with the bowl of ice cream and delivered it with a rude silence.

After the little girl finished her ice cream and left, the waitress went to clear off the table. To her shame, she found two dimes and five pennies. Her tip was the exact amount the little girl needed to get a sundae rather than just plain ice cream. In each of our lives, others have made sacrifices for our well-being. The question is, are we grateful; or do we treat those who have sacrificed for us with a rude, unappreciative spirit?

What to do:
    ✞ Make a list of those who have sacrificed for your benefit.

    ✞ Send those you list a word of thanks.

    ✞ Ask God everyday to give you a thankful spirit for others who have sacrificed that you might have.

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Daily Devotion: A Life of Putting Up With People

Bible Reading:  James 1:1-8

Key Verse: Verse 4 – “But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

Key Words: But let patience have her perfect work

Daily Devotion: A Life of Secular Humanism

Bible Reading:  I Corinthians 14:33-40

Key Verse: Verse 40 – “Let all things be done decently and in order.”

Key Words: decently and in order

Daily Devotion: A Life of Determination

Bible Reading:  II Chronicles 2:1-10

Key Verse: Verse 1 – “And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.”

Key Words: And Solomon determined to build an house

Daily Devotion: A Life of Trials & Triumphs

Bible Reading:  Acts 14:1-22

Key Verse: Verse 22 – “Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”

Key Words: through much tribulation

Daily Devotion: A Life of Earnest Giving

Bible Reading:  II Corinthians8:16-24 

Key Verse: Verse 16 – “But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.”

Key Words: earnest care

Daily Devotion: A Life of Prayerlessness

Bible Reading:  Matthew 26:30-40 

Key Verse: Verse 40 – “And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?”

Key Words: What, could ye not watch with me one hour

Daily Devotion: A Life of Credibility

Bible Reading:  Mark 9:14-32

Key Verse: Verse 18 – “And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.”

Key Words: and they could not

Daily Devotion: A Life of Purity

Bible Reading:  I Timothy 5:17-25 

Key Verse: Verse 22 – “Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure”

Key Words: keep thyself pure

Daily Devotion: A Life of Abiding in Christ

Bible Reading:  John 15:1-14

Key Verse: Verse 7 – “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”

Key Words: If ye abide in me

Daily Devotion: A Life of Stewardship

Bible Reading: I Corinthians 4

Key Verse: Verse 2 – “Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.”

Key Words: Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

Daily Devotion: A Life of Avoiding Compromise

Bible Reading:  Joshua 16

Key Verse: Verse 10 – “And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.”

Key Words: And they drave not out the Canaanites

Daily Devotion: A Life of Boundaries

Bible Reading:  Joshua 15:1-20

Key Verse: Verse 1 – “This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.”

Key Words: even to the border

Daily Devotion: A Life of Serving One Another

Bible Reading:  Galatians 5:1-13

Key Verse: Verse 13 – “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”

Key Words: but by love serve one another

Daily Devotion: A Life of Surrender

Bible Reading:  Romans 7:7-25

Key Verse: Verse 24 – “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death”

Key Words: O wretched man that I am

Daily Devotion: A Life of Wasted Time

Bible Reading: Psalm 39

Key Verse: Verse 5 – “Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.”

Key Words: Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth  (the span of the hand)

Daily Devotion: A Life of Determination

Bible Reading: Psalm119:153-160

Key Verse: Verse 157 – “Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.”

Key Words: Many are my persecutors and mine enemies

Daily Devotion: A Life of Proving God

Bible Reading:  Jeremiah 23:1-14

Key Verse: Verse 13 – “And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.”

Key Words: And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

Daily Devotion: A Life of Resisting the Spirit

Bible Reading:  Acts 7:51-60

Key Verse: Verse 51 – “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.”

Key Words: ye do always resist the Holy Ghost

Daily Devotion: A Life of Truth

Bible Reading:  Proverbs 13

Key Verse: Verse 6 – “Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.”

Key Words: Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way

Daily Devotion: A Life of Priorities

Bible Reading:  Proverbs 23: 1-12

Key Verse: Verse 4 – “Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.”

Key Words: Labour not to be rich

Daily Devotion: A Life of Faith

Bible Reading:  Genesis 22:1-14

Key Verse: Verse 2 – “And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.”

Key Words: offer him there for a burnt offering

Daily Devotion: A Whining Life

Bible Reading:  Numbers 11:1-9

Key Verse: Verse 1 - “And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.” 

Key Words: the people complained

Daily Devotion: The Food of Life

Bible Reading:  I Peter 2:1-8

Key Verse: Verse 2 – “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”

Key Words: desire

Daily Devotion: A Future Life

Bible Reading:  Isaiah 11:1-11

Key Verse: Verse 8 – “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.”

Key Words: to recover the remnant of his people

Daily Devotion: The Life of Little Humans

Bible Reading:  Psalm 51

Key Verse: Verse 5 – “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”

Key Words: in sin did my mother conceive me