Category: Daily Devotion

  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…

  Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. Malachi 3:10 – The state of worship…

  For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and peopleshould seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. 8 But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts… Malachi 2:7-8 – In speaking with the…

  “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” Malachi 1:2-3 – This can…

I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt. ‭‭Zephaniah‬ ‭3‬:‭7‬ ‭- God was watching over Jerusalem and was seeing how far into…