Nearer to God Devotional
Directing you to faith in Jesus Christ and to Biblical truth.
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Daily devotionalAugust 31 – Trust the psalms of God
“I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.” – Psalm 52:8 Scripture reading: Psalm 52:1-9 We started with Psalm 1 and the…
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Daily devotionalAugust 30 – Worship of the fruitful tree
“But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. I will…
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Daily devotionalAugust 29 – Sing the truth in love
“See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”…
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Daily devotionalAugust 28 – Singing about the destruction of the wicked
“But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the…
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Daily devotionalAugust 27 – Evil men and the love of God
“You love evil more than good…” – Psalm 52:3 Scripture reading: Psalm 52:1-4 Are you ever surprised by evil? In my earlier life counselling teenaged…
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Daily devotionalAugust 26 – Evil men and the love of God
“Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.” – Psalm 52:1 Scripture reading: Psalm 52:1…
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Daily devotionalAugust 25 – Singing the truth about God
“The righteous shall see and fear.” – Psalm 52:6 Scripture reading: Psalm 52:1-9 Have you walked through a forest after a strong wind has blown? …
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Daily devotionalAugust 24 – Singing about our restoration to worship
“Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.” – Psalm 51:8 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:1-19 What if God did not…
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Daily devotionalAugust 23 – Singing to bless the church
“May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.” – Psalm 51:18 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:18-19 Do you think that…
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Daily devotionalAugust 22 – Singing to declare God’s praise
“My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.” – Psalm 51:17 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:16-17…
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Daily devotionalAugust 21 – Singing to declare God’s praise
“Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.” – Psalm 51:15 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:13-15 David leads the church in repentance. Knowing…
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Daily devotionalAugust 20 – Sing for restoration
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” – Psalm 51:10 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:10-12 How can I…
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Daily devotionalAugust 19 – Cleanse me with hyssop
“Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.” – Psalm 51:7 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:7-9…
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Daily devotionalAugust 18 – Singing a confession about ourselves
“For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.” – Psalm 51:3 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:3-6 It is perhaps the most challenging…
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Daily devotionalAugust 17 – A song begging for mercy
“Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.” – Psalm 51:1 Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalAugust 16 – A personal lament for sin
“Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so that you are right in your verdict and justified…
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Daily devotionalAugust 15 – Singing of the covenant blessings and curses
“The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” –…
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Daily devotionalAugust 14 – Singing of the covenant faithfulness of the Lord
“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver.” – Psalm 50:22 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:22-23…
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Daily devotionalAugust 13 – Singing to love God and our neighbour
“These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay…
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Daily devotionalAugust 12 – Singing about the judgment of God
“But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?”” – Psalm 50:16 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalAugust 11 – Singing to call others to repentance
“Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I…
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Daily devotionalAugust 10 – Singing to call the church to respect the Lord
“If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.” – Psalm 50:12 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:12-13 The…
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Daily devotionalAugust 9 – Enter his gates with thanksgiving
“I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds.” – Psalm 50:9 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:8-11 Yesterday we considered God….
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Daily devotionalAugust 8 – Singing the testimony of God
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.” – Psalm 50:7 Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalAugust 7 – Singing a call to worship
“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” – Psalm 50:5 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:5-6 Here is the Church…
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Daily devotionalAugust 6 – Singing our theology
“Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.” – Psalm 50:2 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:1-4 The Psalms are not just songs to sing,…
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August 5 – The church sings of the Lord’s rights
“The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.” – Psalm 50:1 Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalAugust 4 – The Lord knows his people
“…the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.” – Psalm 1:6 Scripture reading: Psalm 1:1-6 Psalm 1…
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Daily devotionalAugust 3 – Curses for covenant breakers
“The wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.” – Psalm 1:5 Scripture reading: Psalm 1:4-6 The beatitude,…
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Daily devotionalAugust 2 – Blessing for covenant keepers
“He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all…
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Daily devotionalAugust 1 – A psalm of the covenant
Scripture reading: Psalm 1:1-6 The 150 psalms are given by God on which to meditate on and sing. More than just songs to sing or…
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Daily devotionalJuly 31 – The promise of a future King secured
“and Jesse the father of David the king … of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.” – Matthew 1:6,16b Scripture reading: Isaiah 11:1-5…
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Daily devotionalJuly 30 – The need for an immediate king realized
““A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.” – Ruth 4:17b Scripture…
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Daily devotionalJuly 29 – Ruth’s hand
“Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance,…
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Daily devotionalJuly 28 – Naomi’s land
“You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion…
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Daily devotionalJuly 27 – That other “Redeemer”
“Then the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance.”” – Ruth 4:6a Scripture reading: Ruth 4:1-6 The first…
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Daily devotionalJuly 26 – Lie down
“Lie down until morning” – Ruth 3:13b Scripture reading: Ruth 3:1-18 Given her character Ruth could have had the pick of the men of Bethlehem….
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Daily devotionalJuly 25 – May you be blessed
“And he said, “May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter.”” – Ruth 3:10a Scripture reading: Ruth 3:6-13 How Ruth’ s heart must have…
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Daily devotionalJuly 24 – You are a Redeemer
“… for you are a redeemer.” – Ruth 3:9b Scripture reading: Leviticus 25:23-25; 35-38; 47-55 Ruth completes her request for Boaz to cover her with…
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Daily devotionalJuly 23 – Spread your wings (II)
“The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another…” – Exodus 25:20a Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalJuly 22 – Spread your wings (I)
“He [Boaz] said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings over your servant…”” – Ruth 3:9a Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalJuly 21 – Instructions
“Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the…
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Daily devotionalJuly 20 – Seeking rest
“Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?”” – Ruth…
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Daily devotionalJuly 19 – Another key word
“This man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.” – Ruth 2:20b Scripture reading: Isaiah 43:1-3 If the key word of chapter…
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Daily devotionalJuly 18 – Something is still not right
“And she lived with her mother-in-law.” – Ruth 2:23b Scripture reading: Matthew 1:1-6a It’s almost a perfect picture now. We just need to wait for…
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Daily devotionalJuly 17 – Almost picture perfect
“So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests.” – Ruth 2:23a Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalJuly 16 – Blessed be the man
“And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.””…
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Daily devotionalJuly 15 – Boaz, a worthy man
“Now Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.” – Ruth 2:1 Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalJuly 14 – Gleaning (III)
“You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.” – Deuteronomy 24:22 Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalJuly 13 – Gleaning (II)
“So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.” –…
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Daily devotionalJuly 12 – Gleaning (I)
“So she set out and went and gleaned…” – Ruth 2:3a Scripture reading: Ruth 2:8-16 This word “glean” appears twelve times just in this one…
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Daily devotionalJuly 11 – She happened to…
“And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight…