Daily Devotions by Steve Holm (Page 157)
Daily Devotions: January 30, 2019
January 30, 2019 To read full passage click: Psalm 71:1-6 …“Upon you I have leaned from my birth; it was you who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.” vs. 6 For the psalmist, the Lord was not some divine being who existed apart from creation and who periodically checked in to see how he was doing. Not at all! The God he loved and worshipped was intimately present to him. The Lord was a…
Daily Devotions: January 29, 2019
January 29, 2019 To read full passage click: Jeremiah 1:8-10 …“Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, ‘Now I have put my words in your mouth.’” Jeremiah’s call experience was so vivid! He could literally feel the touch of the Lord’s hand on his mouth. The vision changed his life, and from that point on he proclaimed the word of the Lord to all who would listen and even to…
Daily Devotions: January 28, 2019
January 28, 2019 To read full passage click: Jeremiah 1:4-7 …“But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not say, “I am only a boy”; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you.’” vs. 7 The story of Jeremiah’s call gives a perfect example of the special connection that some people of faith have to God. According to his own testimony, Jeremiah knew from his youth that God wanted…
Daily Devotions: January 27, 2019
January 27, 2019 To read full passage click: Luke 4:17b-21 …“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,” vs. 18 After his encounter with the Spirit in his baptism Jesus had gone into the wilderness for 40 days of meditation while he wrestled with his…
Daily Devotions: January 26, 2019
January 26, 2019 To read full passage click: Luke 4:14-17a …“Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country.” vs. 14 When the Spirit connected with Jesus in a divine epiphany on the day of his baptism, it wasn’t just a momentary experience. This dove had come to hang around! The power of the Spirit remained and continued to give support during the time in the…
Daily Devotions: January 25, 2019
January 25, 2019 To view full passage click: 1 Corinthians 12: 20-31a …“If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.” vs. 26 Contemporary culture, particularly in the Western World, is marked by a strong preference for rugged individualism, an attitude that has crept into the way we articulate our faith. Often we hear talk of personal relationships with Jesus and the resulting individual salvation that is ours. It’s…
Daily Devotions: January 24, 2019
January 24, 2019 To read full passage click: 1 Corinthians 12:12-19 …“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.” vs. 12 Paul uses the human body as a metaphor to help the Corinthians understand the nature of the church, which is, in turn, the Body of Christ. It’s a simple illustration, one easily understood by most readers. We know that…
Daily Devotions: January 23, 2019
January 23, 2019 To read full passage click: Psalm 19 …“The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard; yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.” vss. 1,3-4 Pastors, jealous of nature’s hold on our imagination, will often disparage those who would rather go to the mountains than sit in…
Daily Devotions: January 22, 2019
January 22, 2019 To read full passage click: Nehemiah 8:8-10 …“So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.” vs. 8 The Bible isn’t an easy read. Written by scribes in different languages, reflecting the culture and family systems of ancient times, it provides a real challenge to all who struggle to figure it out. In fact, with 66 different books, each the product of…
Daily Devotions: January 21, 2019
January 21, 2019 To read full passage click: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6 …“all the people gathered together into the square before the Water Gate. They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had given to Israel.” vs. 1 It was a big day for Israel. The exiles had brought with them from Babylon, scrolls containing what was likely portions of the book of Deuteronomy, and Ezra the scribe arranged to have it…
Daily Devotions: January 20, 2019
January 20, 2019 To read full passage click: John 2:5-11 …“Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.” vs. 11 Oenophiles have long rejoiced in John’s assertion that God’s glory was first revealed in Jesus through the turning of water into wine. In their estimation, it marks wine as the world’s most divine beverage and destroys whatever similar claims brew-masters might make for their products. Of…
Daily Devotions: January 19, 2019
January 19, 2019 To read full passage click: John 2: 1-4 …“And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.’” vs. 4 The gospel writer John choose seven signs to show how the glory of God was made known to observers in the life and ministry of Jesus. In his record, the first of these divine epiphanies took place at a wedding celebration in the village of Cana,…