Daily Devotional

Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. John 21:12-13 I always thought that this statement was strange … “Now none of […]

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have

On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. Luke 23:56 When the Sabbath was past, … Mark 16:1 Now after the Sabbath, … Matthew 28:1 The one Sabbath that was really different. Jesus’ body laying in a tomb. Before resurrection Sunday. Can you ponder what the disciples and followers were going through on that

And calling the crowd to Him with his disciples, He said to them, “If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;     heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled. My soul also is greatly troubled.     But you, O Lord—how long? Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;     save me for the sake of your steadfast love. Psalms 6:2-4 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:22 For by the grace given to me I

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great

But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear]. For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane, [and they will be] unloving [devoid

Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses]. For by this [kind of] faith the men of old gained [divine] approval. Hebrews 11:1-2 AMP Oh the

Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, Matthew 13:5 Are you good soil? Do you have ‘depth’? Are you willing to go ‘deep’ to find the answers about yourself? Can the Holy Spirit speak to you about