Devotional
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Daily Reading: Genesis 12:1-9 This week our focus shifts to God’s desire that once we have drunk deeply from the well of His Living Water for ourselves, we should turn outward and allow the Living Water to become a river that flows out of us to bring life and beauty and abundance to those around…
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Daily Reading: Acts 2:42-47 “46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.” This passage describes the earliest Christian Community, freshly filled with the Holy Spirit. The word “Christian” had not yet been created (that only came later in…
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Daily Reading: Mark 3:13-19 By Mark 3, Jesus’ ministry had started to attract such intense opposition that “the Pharisees began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.” (v.6) So Jesus “withdrew with His disciples” (v.7) to Lake Galilee where He entered an intense season of teaching, healing, and driving out “impure spirits”…
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Daily Reading: Psalm 133 Psalm 133 is a “Psalm of Ascents”, which means that it was composed to be sung as a hymn by a group of worshippers headed for the Temple. A group of travellers going up to a Festival in Jerusalem would band together in a travelling “caravan” for the sake of safety…
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1 Samuel 20 Today’s reading gives us an Old Testament example of the sort of covenant “connectedness” to which we are called by God in the Body of Christ. Jonathan was the son of king Saul, and therefore next in line for the throne according to royal custom. David was the young man whom God…
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Daily Reading: Exodus 18 18 You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone… 21 … Select capable men from all the people – men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain – and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds,…
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Romans 12:1-8 “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 and proper worship.” (v.1) Through this inspired verse, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the truest and most proper form of worship is not…
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Matthew 22:34-37 Jesus replied: ‘“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” (v.37) This one verse is spiritual treasure chest containing many beautiful ‘jewels’ of truth and grace. Some of those ‘jewels’ shimmer with practical beauty and reveal truth to us about the importance of…
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Psalm 73:23-26 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. (v.25-26) Psalm 73 as a whole expresses the journey of Asaph, the psalmist, from a place of almost losing his faith (v.2)…
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1 Chronicles 16 “Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always.” (v.11) The Israelites had not truly worshipped according to the design God gave them in the wilderness since entering the Promised Land. They had erected the tabernacle (the place of worship) at Shiloh, but steadily the sinfulness and corruption of the…
