DEVOTION THE GIFT OF DAILY PROVISION April 11, 2019 Matthew 6:25–33 Stacey Utecht, a Moody alumna, gave up her job to follow God’s leading. This meant financial risk, but God provided. “Yesterday, my pastor shared how God provides for His people. Today, I had friends in town visiting. Before we parted, they put an envelope […]
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DEVOTION April 10, 2019 Exodus 16:1–30 FOOD FROM HEAVEN If you or someone you love served in the military, you may be familiar with the acronym MRE, “Meal, Ready to Eat.” In 1963, the Department of Defense began developing a food ration that would utilize modern food preparation technology to create a lighter version of […]
DEVOTION 9/04/2019 GOD FILLS AND FEEDS US April 9, 2019 | Psalm 65:9–13 For centuries, people have celebrated the beginning and the end of harvest season by offering thanks to God for His provision. Churches would hold a special service titled Lammas, during which farmers brought loaves of bread from their first crop to use […]
MONDAY APRIL 08, 2019 TOPIC: SMALL BUT GREAT TEXT: Joshua 15:21-47 KEY VERSE: “Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof.” – (Joshua 15:47). It is an undisputable fact that God can create something from nothing […]
THE GIFT OF ABUNDANT CREATION April 7, 2019 | Job 5:8–16; 37:2–13 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue According to Charity Water, an organization whose mission is to provide clean water to people worldwide, 663 million people in the world live without clean water. That means 1 in every 10 people, or twice the population of the […]
AN UNEXPECTED GIFT April 6, 2019 | Genesis 17:1–8; 15–22 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue What will you be doing when you are 99? While the average life expectancy has increased to 76 for men and 81 for women, most of us cannot begin to imagine what happens in today’s passage. God appears to Abram, just […]
THE GIFT OF KNOWING GOD April 5, 2019 | Acts 17:16–34 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue A great number of people today consider themselves agnostic, meaning they don’t believe there is enough evidence to confirm or deny the existence of God. British philosopher Bertrand Russell explained the difference between a Christian, an atheist, and an agnostic: […]
GOD KNOWS YOU April 4, 2019 | Psalm 139:1–16 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Pregnant mothers are given a fascinating chart detailing the stages of growth of their unborn child. For example, in Month 1, circulation begins and the tiny heart beats 65 times a minute. The baby is only about a quarter-inch long. In Month […]
THE BREATH OF LIFE April 3, 2019 | Genesis 2:4–23 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation, better known as CPR, dates to 1740 when the Paris Academy of Sciences officially recommended a mouth-to-mouth method of resuscitation for victims of drowning. But it did not gain popularity in the United States until endorsed by the […]
ASKING OUR FATHER April 2, 2019 | Luke 11:1–13 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Ricky Smith’s 14-year-old daughter Nevaeha had found the perfect dress for her school dance, but her family simply could not afford it. Ricky took on additional hours at his three jobs so he could purchase it. He hid the dress in a […]