“But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.” — Luke 24:21 (NIV84) If hope is more a certainty than a wish, then there is nothing worse than being certain in your hope for the future […]
05/02/22 Daily devotion – Throughout your day, is your hope in God?
“Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” — Psalm 25:5 (NIV84) The reason that the psalmist, and you and I, can have hope all day long is because God is more than a supreme ruler: He is also a savior. […]
01/06/22 Daily Devotion – The Spirit is in you, too!
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day […]
01/02/22 Daily Devotion – We are on a rescue mission!
“The Sovereign Lord declares — he who gathers the exiles of Israel: ‘I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.’” — Isaiah 56:8 (NIV) There is an inevitable temptation that comes our way once we are redeemed and added to God’s Kingdom. It is the temptation to believe all the work is done. […]
11/28/2021 Daily Devotion – Jesus prays for us!
“Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” — Isaiah 53:12 (NIV) “For he bore the sin of […]
11/25/2021 Daily Devotion – Why was Jesus silent before His accusers?
“He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.” — Isaiah 53:7 (NIV) When it came to the day of the crucifixion, Jesus was strangely quiet before His […]
11/23/2021 Daily Devotion – What do you do when all you have is a question mark?
“By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?” (Isaiah 53:8, NASB95) Notice the question mark at the end of this verse. Jesus was taken away […]
11/22/2021 Daily Devotion – Jesus understands our pain and suffering!
“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” (Isaiah 53:3, NIV) I have to join the ranks of those who have falsely accused God of not being able to understand the suffering and […]
11/21/2021 Daily Devotion – Jesus’ state of humiliation
“He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” (Isaiah 53:2, NIV) The King of kings and the Lord of lords took on human flesh, and there was […]
11/17/2021 Daily Devotion – How can we get them to believe our message?
“Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ” (Isaiah 53:1, NASB95) We are going to spend some time in Isaiah 53. Along with Psalm 22, it is the longest connected section of Messianic prophecies about Jesus. Read Isaiah 53 sometime today and tell me if you don’t get the […]
