Nearer to God Devotional
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Daily devotional
October 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 reading: Philippians 4:4-7 Today is…
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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…
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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. –…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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! –…
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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?…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 14 – Humbly serve the living God
The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 13 – The messenger of God
And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight,…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 12 – Haughty lion thrown down
Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered. – Revelation 5:5 Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 11 – The Lord’s Day restores clarity
You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. – Psalm 73:24 Scripture reading: Nahum 2:4-9 and Ps….
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Daily devotionalSeptember 10 – Believe it or not, judgment is on its way
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. – I…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 9 – Powerful imagery foreshadowing the New Testament
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 8 – Interesting name for the Lord: the Scatterer
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings… – Psalm 17:8 Scripture reading: Nahum…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 7 – Confronting worthless counsellors
For he [Jesus] must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. – I Corinthians 15:25 Scripture reading: Nahum 1:9-11…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 6 – An oracle, a burden
The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. – Nahum 1:7…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 5 – The sacred sanctuary in time
But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, until I went into the sanctuary of…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 4 – Where is Elkosh?
So that you are not lacking any gift, as you wait for the revealing of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 3 – A parade of God’s power
When he ascended on high he led a host of captives… – Ephesians 4:8 Scripture reading: Nahum 1:3-5 and Ephesians 4:1-17 Why…
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Daily devotionalSeptember 2 – The Lord the Avenger
The LORD is a jealous and avenging husband. – Nahum 1:2 Scripture reading: Nahum 1:1-3 and Isaiah 54:1-5 There is an expression…
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Daily devotionalIntroduction to the month of September
Nahum is a book that is likely not too familiar for many readers. To be honest, I can’t recall ever preaching from…
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Daily devotionalAugust 31 – The Bible ends with a menu
Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb! – Revelation 19:9a Scripture reading: Revelation 19:1-10 The Bible…
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Daily devotionalAugust 30 – The bountiful Tree of Life
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits,…
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Daily devotionalAugust 29 – Eating from the Tree of Life
To him who overcomes, I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise…
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Daily devotionalAugust 28 – Sanctification, not sanitation
Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in this world, do you…
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Daily devotionalAugust 27 – Eating and drinking to God’s glory
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. – 1 Corinthians 10:31 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalAugust 26 – One table or the other, not both
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of…
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Daily devotionalAugust 25 – Equally accepted by God
…for before certain men came from James, he [Peter] would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated…
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Daily devotionalAugust 24 – Joy overflowing from tables to tables
So continuing daily in one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness…
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Daily devotionalAugust 23 – Word, table and mission
Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and…
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Daily devotionalAugust 22 – A forward-looking supper
But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when…
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Daily devotionalAugust 21 – Still there is room
…and still there is room. – Luke 14:22b Scripture reading: Luke 14:15-24 A guest sitting with Jesus in the Pharisee’s home, exclaims,…
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Daily devotionalAugust 20 – Table etiquette for Jesus’ followers
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. – Luke 14:11 Scripture reading: Luke 14:1-14…