Category: Daily Devotion

  And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.” Deuteronomy 5:1 – The progression within this verse I believe is what every parent, boss, teacher, authority figure, etc.…

  To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him. Deuteronomy 4:35 – Moses, still speaking in this chapter to the people of Israel, is telling them all he can to help them remain faithful to the Lord after crossing the Jordan into their…

Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan. But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he…

  And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.’ Deuteronomy 2:19 – Moses…

  It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them… Deuteronomy 1:2-3 – “Deuteronomy” means “Second…

  Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me. Romans 16:7 – At the end of his letter of Romans, as he does for many of his letters, Paul shares some personal notes to be sent to the church…

  For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Romans 15:4 – In previous times of reading this verse, I must have simply read this assuming I knew what the point of this passage was. I took…

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. ‭‭Romans‬ ‭14‬:‭1‬ ‭- This chapter is all about our role in our brothers and sisters’ lives. We see in verse one that those who are weak in the faith (think those who aren’t yet as mature in the…

  Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Romans 13:1 – This certainly is not a command of scripture that is easy to follow, let alone understand. For is scripture saying that “every” authority that is…

  If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Romans 12:18 – Live at peace with everyone in your life. If that was the fullness of this command then we’d all be living in opposition to this command of scripture. For even if we stayed in that position of always…