Nearer to God Devotional
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Daily devotional
August 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 that he does, he prospers.” – Psalm 1:3 Scripture reading Psalm 1:1-3 The first verses…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 19 – Baptized with the Spirit and God’s mission (1)
And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 18 – Conceived and born by the Spirit and God’s mission
The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 17 – Becoming a new creation and God’s mission
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 16 – The promise of a new covenant and God’s mission
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah……
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Daily devotionalFebruary 15 – Jerusalem and God’s mission for His glory
If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne. For the…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 14 – God’s covenant with David and His mission
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever. – 2 Samuel 7:16 Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 13 – God’s mission and the failure of his covenant with Israel
And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you,…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 12 – God’s law and God’s mission
Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life… – Ezekiel 20:25 Scripture reading: Psalm 19:7-14…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 11 – Circumcision of the heart and God’s mission
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 10 – God’s third covenant with Israel and His mission
These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 9 – Obedience of faith and God’s mission
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. – Leviticus…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 8 – The Sabbath and God’s mission for His glory (2)
Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 7 – The Sabbath and God’s mission for His glory (1)
It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 6 – God’s second covenant with Israel and His mission
And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 5 – The blood of the covenant and God’s mission
And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 4 – The theatre of God’s mission for His glory
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 3 – God comes to the rescue of His mission
….And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to…
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Daily devotionalFebruary 2 – God mission for his glory and his covenants
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant… – Exodus 19:6 Scripture reading: Exodus 19:1-6 I’m sure those who are…
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Daily devotionalIntroduction to February – God’s Mission for His Glory…
These meditations continue the series I did a year ago about God’s mission for His glory. To ensure continuity, I repeated two meditations from the…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 31 – God is the God of peace
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 30 – God is the God of all comfort
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort. – 2 Corinthians 1:3 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 29 – God’s name is Jehovah
And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 28 – God is unchangeable
For I am the LORD, I do not change: therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. – Mal 3:6 Scripture reading: Mal 3:1-7a…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 27 – God is glorious
…so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God. – 2…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 26 – God is beautiful
One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 25 – God is perfect
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. – Matthew 5:48 Scripture reading: Matthew 5:37-48 Jesus never shied away from…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 24 – God is wrathful
God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; The Lord avenges and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 23 – God is jealous
For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. – Exodus 34:14 Scripture reading: Exodus 34:1-17…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 22 – God is just
For I proclaim the name of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God. He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 21 – God is righteous
I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 20 – God is merciful
Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 19 – God is patient
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 18 – God is good
So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.” – Luke 18:19 Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 17 – God is love
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God,…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 16 – God is holy
And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!” – Isaiah…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 15 – God is faithful
Great is Your faithfulness. – Lamentations 3:23b Scripture reading: Lamentations 3:22-25 In preparation, I read this question, “How many people do you know who, no…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 14 – God is true
God, who cannot lie, promised before time began… – Titus 1:2b Scripture reading: Titus 1:1-4 Paul wrote to Titus who was in a culture similar…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 13 – God is wise
Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, For wisdom and might are His. – Daniel 2:20b Scripture reading: Daniel 2:14-23 Yesterday, we considered…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 12 – God is all-knowing
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! – Psalm 139:17 Scripture reading: Psalm 139:11-24 We…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 11 – God is every-where present
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? – Psalm 139:7 Scripture reading: Psalm 139:1-10 The Puritan Stephen…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 10 – God is sovereign
For the Lord is our Judge, The Lord is our Lawgiver, The Lord is our King; He will save us. – Isaiah 33:22 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 9 – God is all-powerful
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 8 – God is infinite
But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 7 – God is eternal
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 6 – God is self-existent
For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen. – Romans 11:36 Scripture reading: Romans 11:33-12:2…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 5 – God is transcendent
The Lord is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, who dwells on high? – Psalm…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 4 – God is triune
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen. –…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 3 – God is Spirit
God is Spirit: and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. – John 4:24 Scripture reading: John 4:15-26 We all have both…
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Daily devotionalJanuary 2 – God is simple
And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy…
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Daily devotionalIntroduction to the month of January
What a blessing it is to be able to begin another year together! For many of us, new beginnings can be unsettling. We don’t know…
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Daily devotionalDecember 31 – Time and eternity
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God…
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Daily devotionalDecember 30 – Till the end
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. – Hebrews 3:14 Scripture reading: Hebrews…