Nearer to God Devotional
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Daily devotional
August 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, but are the revelation of God. Psalm 50 provides a proper theology that leads to…
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Daily devotionalNovember 5 – More than we ask or think
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work in…
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Daily devotionalNovember 4 – The revelation of trials
“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”…
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Daily devotionalNovember 3 – The Lord’s assessment
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” – Matthew 22:37 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalNovember 2 – Covenant bears
“For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to…
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Daily devotionalNovember 1 – Introduction to Elisha
The word of God is living and active. It is not only something we study, it studies us. As the Bible reveals truths about itself,…
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Daily devotionalOctober 31 – Seeking wandering brothers and sisters
…let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins….
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Daily devotionalOctober 30 – Confessing our sins one to another
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. – James 5:16 Scripture reading: James 5:16-18 It is…
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Daily devotionalOctober 29 – Is anyone among you suffering?
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praises – James 5:13 Scripture reading: James 5:13-15 In life, our…
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Daily devotionalOctober 28 – Being steadfast in the Lord
We consider those blessed who remain steadfast – James 5:11 Scripture reading: James 5:11-12 When we think of or read about those who have remained…
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Daily devotionalOctober 27 – Being patient with our brothers and sisters
…the judge is standing at the door – James 5:9 Scripture reading: James 5:9-10 Living in this world with all its brokenness and pleasures, we,…
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Daily devotionalOctober 26 – Be patient until the Lord’s return
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord – James 5:7 Scripture reading: James 5:7-8 God’s children at times suffer at the hands…
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Daily devotionalOctober 25 – Seeing the emptiness of worldly treasures
You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter – James 5:5 Scripture reading: James 5:1-6 James is writing to Christians in this passage…
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Daily devotionalOctober 24 – If the Lord wills
If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that – James 4:15 Scripture reading: James 4:13-17 COVID19 has made us rethink a…
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Daily devotionalOctober 23 – Speaking with the love God has shown us
There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy – James 4:12 Scripture reading: James 4:11-12 Yesterday, we…
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Daily devotionalOctober 22 – Knowing and reacting to the jealous love of God
He yearns jealously over the spirit that He has made to dwell in us – James 4:5b Scripture reading: James 4:5-10 The fact that we…
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Daily devotionalOctober 21 – Friendship with the world makes one an enemy of God
whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. – James 4:4 Scripture reading: 1 Peter 1:1-2 As Christians,…
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Daily devotionalOctober 20 – Godly wisdom produces peacemakers
A harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. – James 3:18 Scripture reading: James 3:14-18 In today’s passage, James contrasts…
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Daily devotionalOctober 19 – The wisdom of meekness
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. – James 3:13 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalOctober 18 – Having love come from our hearts and out of our mouths
Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? – James 3:11 Scripture reading: James 3:3-12 In today’s passage, James…
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Daily devotionalOctober 17 – Not many should be teachers
We all stumble in many ways. – James 3:2 Scripture reading: James 3:1-2 One of the reasons we read the law of God each Sunday…
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Daily devotionalOctober 16 – Faith without works is dead
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. – James 2:24 Scripture reading: James 2:20-26 One of the main…
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Daily devotionalOctober 15 – Faith without works
My brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? – James 2:14 Scripture reading: James 2:14-19…
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Daily devotionalOctober 14 – Mercy triumphs over judgement
So speak and act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. – James 2:12 Scripture reading: James 2:8-13 In today’s…
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Daily devotionalOctober 13 – Showing no partiality as God’s children
My brothers show no partiality as you hold the faith in Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. – James 2:1 Scripture reading James 2:1-7 In…
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Daily devotionalOctober 12 – Pure religion before the Lord
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained…
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Daily devotionalOctober 11 – Praying with thankful hearts
Do not be anxious about anything, but by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. – Philippians 4:6 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalOctober 10 – Living in true freedom
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts,…
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Daily devotionalOctober 9 – Quick to listen and slow to speak
Put away all filthiness and rampart wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. – James 1:17 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalOctober 8 – The good and perfect gifts of God
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. – James 1:17 Scripture Reading: James 1:16-18 Today…
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Daily devotionalOctober 7 – Turning to God when tempted
God cannot be tempted with evil, and He Himself tempts no one. – James 1:13 Scripture reading: James 1:13-15 Have you ever been upset with…
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Daily devotionalOctober 6 – The crown for those who are steadfast under trials
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial. – James 1:12 Scripture reading: James 1:12 The world often persuades us that one is important…
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Daily devotionalOctober 5 – True riches
Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation. – James 1:9 Scripture reading: James 1:9-11 Yesterday we discussed the need to pray for wisdom to…
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Daily devotionalOctober 4 – Praying for wisdom
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. – James…
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Daily devotionalOctober 3 – Blessed through trials
…and let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and compete, lacking in nothing. – James 1:4 Scripture reading: James 1:2-4 For…
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Daily devotionalOctober 2 – Waiting for paradise
To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. – James 1:1b Scripture reading: John 14:1-6 James wants us to see something about who we are….
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Daily devotionalIntroduction to October: Living in a fallen world with faith
In living through a world pandemic we as Christians were called to deal with many different struggles and complications by our God. Not only have…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 30 – The authority of God challenged
The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. – Nahum 1:7 Scripture reading: Luke 20:1-8 Who are you to tell me what…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 29 – At the end of the warning there is Jesus
For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil? – Nahum 3:19b Scripture reading: Luke 10:1-21 Nahum ends with a question that can only, finally,…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 28 – Evil restrained
There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. – Nahum 3:19…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 27 – Undershepherds of our Shepherd-King
Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. – Nahum 3:18 Scripture reading: Ezekiel 34:1-16 Nahum’s prophecy is eloquently layered for New Testament…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 26 – The Prince who cares
Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on fences in a day of cold—when the sun rises, they fly away;…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 25 – Wealth and your citizenship in Babylon or Jerusalem
You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spread its wings and flies away. – Nahum 3:16 Scripture reading: Rev. 18:4-8;…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 24 – God is a consuming fire
There fire will devour you… – Nahum 3:15a Scripture reading: Heb. 12:18-29 What a picture Hebrews gives us. Our God is a consuming fire. Nahum…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 23 – Terrors no longer terrify Christians
There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like locusts. – Nahum 3:15 Scripture reading: Luke 10:13-20…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 22 – Living defensive stones
Draw water from the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold! – Nahum 3:14 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 21 – Are you trained for war?
Behold, your troops are women in your midst. – Nahum 3:13a Scripture reading: Ps. 144 Wait a minute, is the text sexist? Does the Bible…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 20 – Ripe for picking
All of your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs—if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater. – Nahum 3:12 Scripture reading: Heb….
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Daily devotionalSeptember 19 – Terrible wrath and greater mercy
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 18 – Wait, there is still more
…you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 17 – Prove it
See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 16 – Now is the day of salvation
Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts… – Nahum 3:5 Scripture reading: Nahum 3:5-7 and II Chron. 30:1-13 This, humanly speaking, may…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 15 – Appropriately warned
Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts… – Nahum 3:5a Scripture reading: Colossians 3:10-17 Why spend all this time on Nahum and a…