Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
Read Psalm 91
Many years ago, one of my mentors told me a story I have never forgotten. A missionary was home on furlough, travelling by car from church to church. Late one rainy evening, facing a long and lonely all-night journey, he asked the Lord to help him stay awake and make it safely to the next place he would minister.
Read Colossians 1
All of us are surrounded by and benefit from the results of someone’s quest. Let me name a few.
Above my head is a bright electric light. Thanks, Tom.
On my nose are eyeglasses that enable me to focus. Thanks, Ben.
In my driveway is a car ready to take me wherever I choose to steer it. Thanks, Henry.
Across my shelves are books full of interesting and carefully researched pages. Thanks, authors.
Flashing through my mind are ideas, memories, and creative skills. Thanks, teachers.
Read 1 Kings 18
Do you teach the Bible? If so, that’s great. No other calling is more needed or carries with it greater responsibility. My advice?
Read Mark 2
A Public Agenda Foundation study, coauthored by Daniel Yankelovich, came up with these top 10 qualities that today’s workers want in a job:
Read Ephesians 4:32
Do you need to be set free? Honestly now, is your next step the need to forgive? Do it. Don’t let anything or anyone talk you out of it. I know, I know. After all the misery you have had to endure, why should you have to be the one who humbles yourself and forgives?
Christ could have asked the same question at Golgotha. Perhaps He did at Gethsemane. But once He discerned the Father’s determination, there was no looking back...no turning back.
Remember His cry from the cross? “Father, forgive them...” (Luke 23:34).
Read 2 Samuel 12:7–14
Read Luke 5:4–11
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Now go out where it is deeper, and let down your nets to catch some fish.”
“Master,” Simon replied, “we worked hard all last night and didn’t catch a thing. But if you say so, I’ll let the nets down again.” And this time their nets were so full of fish they began to tear! A shout for help brought their partners in the other boat, and soon both boats were filled with fish and on the verge of sinking.
Read Mark 6:33–44
Centuries ago a little boy found himself in the midst of a vast crowd of people—larger than any group he’d ever seen. He had come out of curiosity, having heard that a man named Jesus was nearby.
Not knowing how far he would have to travel or how long he would be gone, the boy had packed a small lunch for himself, a couple of small fish and some bread.
Suddenly a man tapped the lad on the shoulder and asked what he had in his hand. And the next thing the boy knew, his lunch was feeding over five thousand people!
Read Isaiah 29:13–16
The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.
Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”
Read Genesis 50
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. (Genesis 50:20)
After a lengthy bout with despair, severe depression, and suicide attempts, writer and poet William Cowper (1731–1800) discovered comfort in God’s providence, which led him to write “Shining out of Darkness”:
God moves in a mysterious way,His wonders to perform;He plants his footsteps in the seaAnd rides upon the storm.
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