The Daily Devotional
The Two Things Every Person Needs
What are the most critical needs you have in your life? While your list might be long, Ezekiel 36 reveals that every person has two basic needs.
Ezra Byer
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How Much Does God Consume Your Thoughts?
Do you think about God often? Unfortunately, many do their best to avoid this thought altogether. Even professing Christians often relegate God to an afterthought.
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Are You Trying Too Hard to Get Rich?
How do you know the difference between working hard and working too much? As someone who had tremendous wealth, King Solomon had much to say on this topic.
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Do You Reflect God’s Beauty Well?
Are you a beautiful person? This might seem like a strange question, but it’s one the Prophet Ezekiel addresses in Ezekiel 16.
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What Part Do I Play in Saving Others?
Have you shared Jesus with someone, but they never came to faith? The prophet Ezekiel certainly knew this reality.
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Do You Avoid Preachers Who Speak About Judgment?
Is it ever right for a preacher or Christian leader to speak about the judgment of God? For many professing Christians today, their natural response is, “No, God is a God of love and not judgment.” But this is often an overcorrection...
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Does Life Feel Hopeless?
What do you do when life doesn’t feel worth living, and all hope seems gone? This was a question the minor prophet Habakkuk faced somewhere around 612 and 605 B.C.
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Why Some Biblical Books Only Resonate in Truly Difficult Times
If you were to edit Scripture, are there any parts you’d want to delete? Ask the casual reader of the Old Testament, and they might well pick the book of Nahum as an example.
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How Do I Find Lasting Rest?
Do you struggle to rest in God? As the various psalmists illustrate, there are numerous ways to pray. Sometimes, we whisper; other times, we yell. But as Psalm 62 demonstrates, sometimes the best thing we can do is just be silent.
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Is It My Fault If My Kids Don’t Love Jesus?
Am I to blame if my kids don’t love Jesus? This is a tough question, and at first glance, Proverbs 22:6 seems definitive when it says, “Start a youth out on his way; even when he grows old he will not depart from it.”
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What Does God Require of Me?
“What does God want me to do?” Many have asked this question, and thankfully, the Book of Micah gives us some answers.
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Do You Despise Those God Loves?
Have you ever put your life at risk for someone you disliked? In a dog-eat-dog world, this kind of thinking is foreign to many, and it certainly felt foreign to the prophet Jonah.