Today’s Reading: John 16:16-24 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “You will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy. When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers …
Category Archives: Devotion
22408.1 Choose Faith
Today’s Reading: John 14:1-7 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?…I am the way, and the truth and …
22408.2 Greater Works
Today’s Reading: John 14:8-14 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do and greater works than these …
22408.3 Another Helper
Today’s Reading: John 14:15-17 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever.” * * * * * True love always manifests itself in willing obedience. If you love your spouse, you …
22408.4 Your Heart: God’s Home
Today’s Reading: John 14:18-24 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “Jesus answered him, ‘If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear …
22408.5 Read God’s Word with Confidence
Today’s Reading: John 14:25-26 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” * …
22408.6 The Gift of Peace
Today’s Reading: John 14:27-31 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives to you…For the Father is greater than I.” * * * * * Jesus wants to give you the gift of his peace. The Hebrew word translated “peace” is shalom. …
22408.7 Created to Bear Fruit for God
Today’s Reading: John 15:1-11 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit…I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever …
22408.8 Jesus Is Your Friend
Today’s Reading: John 15:12-17 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full…Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends…No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does …
22408.9 The Proof of Faithfulness
Today’s Reading: John 15:18-25 Hearing God’s Voice for Today: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you…I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you…A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you…Whoever hates me hates my …