“I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.” — Psalm 52:9 (NIV84) Our hope in God is not a blind hope in the future. We certainly hope for a lot of things in the […]
05/04/22 Daily Devotion – Sometimes life can be tough!
“Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” — Psalm 43:5 (NIV84) Sometimes life is tough! Even the psalmist had to admit that sometimes he found his soul downcast and disturbed. Can you relate to a […]
05/03/22 Daily Devotion – Seriously, who else can we turn to for hope?
“Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it. But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.” — Psalm 39:6–7 (NIV84) I smiled when I read these verses. “But now, Lord, what […]
05/01/22 Daily Devotion – Hope for the needy and afflicted!
“But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.” — Psalm 9:18 (NIV84) The psalmist says, “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18). People who are in need and afflicted have every right to be hopeless, but many simply […]
04/30/22 Daily Devotion – Hope’s only source!
“Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me — even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons — would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is […]
04/29/22 Daily Devotion – Hope in the midst of suffering!
“Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.” — Job 13:15 (NIV84) The book of Job is difficult to get a full grasp of God allowed the suffering of one of His faithful children so that His will might be done, and He might be […]
02/25/22 Daily Devotion – We must walk by faith — our sight is too deceptive!
“They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts.” — Psalm 119:87 (NIV) One of my favorite memory verses is 2 Corinthians 5:7, “We walk by faith and not by sight.” This is such an essential quality of the Christian faith. There are very few moments in this life when we […]
11/14/2021 Daily Devotion – We are healed by His wounds!
“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. ” (Isaiah 53:5, NIV) For the last two days we have focused on Jesus’ suffering on our behalf. We have reminded ourselves that God understands us […]
11/05/2021 Daily Devotion – Remember: we are the clay, He is the Potter!
“Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker— An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’? ” (Isaiah 45:9, NASB95) For the third time now, the Lord, through the prophet Isaiah, warned the children […]
