Daily Devotionals for 2024

Published every morning at 6 am

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Jesus’ 40 Days

Early the next morning Jesus went out to an isolated place. The crowds searched everywhere for him, and when they finally found him, they begged him not to leave them.

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Navigating The Peaks & Valleys Of Faith

The account of Elijah in 1 Kings 19:1-18 unveils profound truths about the spiritual journey—sometimes success is uncelebrated, God provides in both low and high seasons, and each believer's journey is uniquely tailored.

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2 Kings 2

When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal. And Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has told me to go to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, I will never leave you!” So they went down together to Bethel.

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2 Kings 1

One day Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover.

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1 Kings 19

When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed all the prophets of Baal. So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them.”

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1 Kings 18

Later on, in the third year of the drought, the Lord said to Elijah, “Go and present yourself to King Ahab. Tell him that I will soon send rain!” So Elijah went to appear before Ahab.

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1 Kings 17

Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”

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Elijah’s 40 Days

Then he went on alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die.

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Moses’ 40 Days on Mount Sinai

In the hustle and bustle of life, where shortcuts often tempt us, God consistently chooses the path of establishing long-lasting foundations.

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Exodus 19:7-20

So Moses returned from the mountain and called together the elders of the people and told them everything the Lord had commanded him. And all the people responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded.” So Moses brought the people’s answer back to the Lord.

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Exodus 34

Then the Lord told Moses, 'Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones. I will write on them the same words that were on the tablets you smashed.

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Exodus 33

The Lord said to Moses, 'Get going, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt. Go up to the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I told them, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’

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Exodus 20

Then God gave the people all these instructions: “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.”

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Exodus 19

Exactly two months after the Israelites left Egypt, they arrived in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Moses’ 40 Days

The Lord passed in front of Moses, calling out, “Yahweh! The Lord! The God of compassion and mercy!

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The Divine Reset

The narrative of Noah and the Great Flood unfolds in Genesis 6:5-9, providing profound insights into God's intervention to reset humanity.

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Genesis 6:5-8

The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.

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Genesis 9

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.

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Genesis 8

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.

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Genesis 7

When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.

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