The Daily Devotional
Does Your Conscience Ever Lash You?
Do you find sleep difficult when your conscience attacks you? According to Penn Medicine News, about 25% of Americans struggle with insomnia each year.
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How Do You Know If You’re Lazy?
What’s the difference between having sustainable rhythms and being lazy? Ask this question to individuals of different generations or ethnic backgrounds, and you’ll receive different answers.
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The Difference Between Grumbling and Asking
What’s the difference between asking God tough questions and grumbling? After God miraculously delivers the Israelites from Egypt, Exodus 15:24 says, “The people grumbled to Moses, ‘What are we going to drink?’”
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Have You Ever Felt Completely Stuck?
God asks for obedience and invites us to participate, but he is the one who saves us. How did God part the Red Sea? Some have suggested natural phenomena can explain this, but Scripture does not take this view.
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Why Do Things Get Harder Before They Get Better?
Have you ever cried out to God for help, only to see your situation go from bad to worse? That’s exactly how Moses and the Hebrews felt under Egyptian captivity. God tells Moses what he is going to do, but then everything gets decidedly worse.
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God Knows What You’re Going Through
Have you ever felt like God doesn’t understand what you’re going through? This was certainly something many ancient Hebrews wondered as they struggled for centuries in Egyptian captivity.
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An Attempt to Reverse Creation
Have you ever felt like this world is undoing everything God created as good? This is nothing new and was undoubtedly what the ancient Israelites experienced in Egypt.
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What Should You Do When Others Lie About You?
Have you ever had someone lie about you? If so, how do you respond? Psalm 12 provides some answers.
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How to Guard Against Having an Affair
Since life is short, why not have an affair? This is a challenge the online dating platform Ashley Madison poses to their nearly 75 million worldwide users who are looking for intimacy outside their marriages.
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We Are Who We Really Are When We Have Power
This desire for power manifests itself in many forms. It rises up when we're tempted to leverage our position at work to suppress others, use a cutting comment to hurt a family member or refuse to help others when they are at their weakest. These are the moments that define us.
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God's Purposes Can Never Be Thwarted
The real story of Joseph is not just his descent into slavery, rise to power, and forgiveness of his brothers. The real story is God, and what this story tells us about how he works in messy situations.
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What is the Joseph Story Really About?
What comes to mind when you think of Joseph? The familiar story of Genesis 37-41 tells the tale of Jacob's son, Joseph, his descent into slavery, and his rise to second in command over all of Egypt. It is a tale of trafficking and triumph.