Daily Devotion: October 17, 2025

The Water’s Edge

Have you ever sat by the water’s edge and felt the peaceful surroundings? You can feel serenity when being near the rushing waves along an oceans beach, lying by the sunny seaside, boating in a lake cove, sitting along a bank beside a lake or just watching the water run across the pebbles in a creek bed. It is easy to sense the tranquility that the water brings if you open your heart to its glistening qualities.

In John 7:37-39 Jesus spoke about “living wate

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Daily Devotion: October 16, 2025

We all face trials in life and sometimes those trials may bring us battles we are afraid to face. Life’s trials may bring with it many temptations to go against God’s truth. We have choices, we can give into those fears, let the battle consume us, let the temptations break us or...we can run to God and allow Him to lead the battle and trust Him to arm us with what we need to win. We must beware of those who cheer us on as we travel down paths that differ from God’s word. W

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Daily Devotion: October 15, 2025

Testing God is unacceptable when the test is rooted in doubt. Think about this one, if you have true faith then why would you take great risks and put God to the test? You must need proof and that is not faith, that is doubt. Faith is not believing that God can but it is knowing that God will. Some try to use Malachi 3:10 as a place where God approved of being tested but read on below.

The scripture says, “‘Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat

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Daily Devotion: October 14, 2025

We are the branches, Jesus is The Vine. What is our relationship with Jesus really like? What is it supposed to be like? We are given a clear example in John 15:1-17. "I am the true vine, you are the branches" Grape orchards were quite common in the hills and valleys of Israel back in biblical days. Give this thought for a moment. Jesus is the source of what we need as nutrients. He is The Vine He sinks His roots into the ground to gather all we need. Water, nutrients, etc

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Daily Devotion: October 13, 2025

We are encouraged to pray for others in church, for missionaries and different people from our lives. Often we are asked to commit to a prayer vigil for a person, a missionary, a situation and many churches have a prayer list. Sometimes we hesitate to make prayer commitments because we are not sure that we will be able to live up to it. We ask ourselves will we remember to pray every day? It isn’t that we don’t want to, we’re obviously taking the matter of prayer very seri

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Daily Devotion: October 12, 2025

Tasting Life

We have annual festivals in many areas and oftentimes local restaurants will have a booth or set up a table offering tastes of their specialities. The owners of those restaurants and their Chefs hope that by tasting their food it will entice us to try more of their recipes. They invite us to come, taste and see for ourselves how good their food is. In Psalms 34:8 David said “O taste and see that the Lord is good…” He continues to express how he sought the Lord

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Daily Devotion: October 11, 2025

Loving Jesus. We say we love Jesus, we often whisper it in prayer, say it when singing a hymn, when arriving or leaving church, when looking upon a cross or perhaps when taking communion. The phrase is said by most of us often enough. We say “I Love You” to our children and they say it to us. We say it to our spouse or a boyfriend, girlfriend or friend But what about “I Love You Jesus?” What if Jesus is waiting for us to say that to Him, how long would He have to wait to h

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Daily Devotion: October 10, 2025

A biblical understanding of pride shows it as the root of many sins, a self-worship that directly opposes God, who "opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble" (James 4:6). A life of humility, patterned after Christ, is the antidote to this insidious vice. This guide offers a Bible study and devotion to help you identify pride in your own heart and cultivate a humble spirit. 

Bible study: The path of pride versus the walk of humility

Opening Prayer: Begin with a moment

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Daily Devotion: October 9, 2025

This one-chapter book of Philemon with only 25 verses, a personal letter from the apostle Paul, is a powerful and practical illustration of the gospel in action. It addresses the difficult issue of a runaway slave, Onesimus, who has become a Christian and is now being sent back to his master, Philemon, a wealthy leader in the church at Colossae.

Bible study: Philemon 1

Background

The people: Paul writes this letter while in prison, possibly in Rome, to Philemon, a Christian...

Daily Devotion: October 8, 2025

This bible study and devotion is to explore the biblical understanding of spiritual apathy, examining its causes, consequences, and the path to renewal.

Introduction: Defining spiritual apathy

Spiritual apathy is a subtle and dangerous condition characterized by indifference, laziness, and a lack of zeal toward the things of God. It is not a sudden rejection of faith, but a slow, quiet drift away from an engaged relationship with Christ. A person experiencing spiritual apa

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Daily Devotion: October 07, 2025

Silence has its place vs Silence can be a sin

Silence can become a practice of humility. Life seems to require our performance but God doesn’t need us to do anything. He can make the rocks cry out in praise to Him if we don’t. We all should hope that God never has to do that because we failed to praise Him. Being silent does have its place. We sometimes should learn to listen and be slow to speak, the Bible tells us this, James 1:19-20. Our words can build up or tear down w

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Daily Devotion: October 7, 2025

What is our responsibility after we get saved? Once saved we do not become perfect. We never were and we never will be. We have all made mistakes and some of us have made what we would consider huge mistakes. However, to God sin is sin James 2:10. By the grace of God we have been forgiven when Jesus touched our hearts, convicted us of our sins and we confessed our sins to God and with a humbled heart we then asked for forgiveness and invited Jesus to come into our heart an

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Daily Devotion: October 6, 2025

Athaliah and Jehosheba

This study of the Bible we are looking at two women in the southern area of Israel known as Judah.  One was out to destroy the line of Judah and the other to preserve it.  Athelia was as bad a queen as any fairy tale could produce.  People feared her for her ruthlessness in killing her own grandsons and promoting Baal worship just like her parents Ahab and Jezebel. Athalia married the king of Judah thereby uniting the north and south. When the king di

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Daily Devotion: October 05, 2025

“There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors.” 1 John 4:18

THROW OUT YOUR FEARS

When you were young and said a bad word, your parents may have threatened to wash your mouth out with soap. Well, if FEAR is a DIRTY Word, then FAITH in God’s UNCONDITIONAL LOVE for you is like soap! Too many put the cart before the horse. We believe that God accepts us based on the degree of our love for Him rather than on the

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Daily Devotion: October 4, 2025

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 A Prayer for the Betrayed

Scripture: Psalm 55:22: "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken".

Reflection:

Psalm 55 is a raw and honest portrait of King David's anguish during a time of immense betrayal and fear. He laments the pain inflicted by his enemies but reserves his deepest grief for a companion, a close friend with whom he once shared "sweet fellowship" and worshiped "at the house of God" (Psalm 55:13–14)

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