Daily Devotion
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Psalm 12:1-8 When you feel deserted, alone in standing for what’s right, read Psalm 12. The emphasis in this psalm is on words, on speaking. First, David speaks in prayer (vv. 1-3). Where are the godly? People today don’t want to take a stand for the truth, but…
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Psalm 1:1-6 Have you ever read the preface to the hymnal used in your church? Few people ever do. The preface to God’s hymnal (the Book of Psalms) is Psalm 1. It begins with a word we often use–blessed. Nowhere does Scripture tell us that God blesses programs…
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Psalm 8:1-9 Psalm 8 deals with sovereignty. “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, You who set Your glory above the heavens!” (v. 1). The first Lord means “Jehovah,” the covenant-keeping God, the God who keeps His promises. The second Lord means…
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Psalm 18:7-15 These verses present one of the greatest descriptions of a storm found in the Bible. It is a graphic picture of the way God works when He comes to the aid of His children. David was saying in these verses that God the Creator, God the…
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Psalm 9:13-16 Have you ever looked at a beautiful rose and watched it slowly blossom day after day? Have you ever tried to help it open? If you try, you might kill it. God makes everything beautiful in His time. He causes everything to straighten out and line…
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Psalm 10:1-11 As we read the Book of Psalms, we find that David was constantly in and out of trouble. Some people say that Christians who really love the Lord will never be in difficult places. But that wasn’t true of Moses; it wasn’t true of David; and…
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Psalm 27:4 Lately, something deeper has been stirring in my heart. In the quiet moments, in prayer, in worship, in stillness, there’s a single prayer that rises again and again from the depths of my soul: “I only want You, Lord Jesus… only You.” Yes, I am grateful…
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Psalm 18:20-29 No matter how difficult our trials are, if we have clean hands, God will fill them with blessing. “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me” (v. 20). “Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according…
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Psalm 13:1-6 Have you ever been impatient with God? Impatience is one of my big problems. I always get into the wrong lane on a toll road. Someone’s in front of me with foreign currency, trying to buy his way through the tollbooth. I get into the wrong…
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FONT SIZE | A A A Read Romans 12:1 As worship team ministers, we don’t lead from talent—but rather, we lead from the truth. Romans 12:1 (NIV) “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true…