Category: Daily Devotion

  And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion, 24 he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him. Matthew 9:23-24 – Honoring the request made by the girl’s father, Jesus came to the house where the daughter who had just died was…

  He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him. Matthew 8:15 – After finishing with the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus finds Himself in a string of healings. He heals a leper of his leprosy, He heals a soldier’s servant from afar, and begins healing all who…

  Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. Matthew 7:6 – What is Jesus saying here? Jesus just finished talking about how we are not to be unjustly judging and condemning other’s when we ourselves have our own sins…

  …so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. Matthew 6:4 –Much of what was outlined in this chapter was Jesus teaching how to properly worship the Lord, yet also how one can use even something like worship of the Lord to bring glory upon themselves.…

  And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: Matthew 5:2 – After Jesus had been preaching and doing His miraculous work, a great following of people gathered around Him. In chapter 5 Jesus, seeing the crowds, sat down on a mountain and began to teach His disciples and all those who were gathered there…

  From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 4:17 – This chapter unpacks for us the very beginning of Jesus’ earthly ministry. After being baptized and tested in the wilderness, Jesus started doing the things we know all about form the Gospel stories. Jesus was…

  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Matthew 3:7 – Fast-forwarding about 30 years from the stories within chapter 2, we now see John the Baptist baptizing flocks of people in the Jordan river.…

  …and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. 5 They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:6 “‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for…

  When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife. Matthew 1:24 – After coming off the Christmas season recently, likely we all have the nativity story well in our minds. We see the scriptural truths that Mary conceived Jesus as a virgin and our…

  Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rulesthat I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. Malachi 4:4 – The prophet has been calling God’s people to a serious change in behavior through this book. We’ve seen them turn to all sorts of sin and a turn from such sin needed to…