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These daily devotionals are written to help you remain rooted and grounded in God's Word each day. We have one devotional for each weekday, and one for the weekend.
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Latest Devotional
A Roll Call
Numbers 34:18-28
“You shall take one chief from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance. These are the names of the men: … Caleb … Shemuel … Elidad … Bukki … Hanniel … Kemuel … Elizaphan … Paltiel … Ahihud … Pedahel.”An encouraging message resounds through this list of ten names here in Numbers 34 and it’s this: a remnant is rising.
“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,” says our LORD in Isaiah 43:19, a promise that He fulfills every moment of every day. Almighty God is always doing a new thing: in our cities, in our local churches, in our outreach ministries, in our political systems, in our neighborhoods, in our schools, in our homes, and in our hearts. Even where the Kingdom is shrouded from view, like a little mustard seed growing underground, it’s still advancing. And because God, in unrivaled humility, sows and reaps through the weak but willing hands of His children, there has never been a single instant where His faithful servants, few or many, great or small, young or old, notorious or anonymous, are not shining as beacons to lighten the darkness.
No doubt a great light is going out in the world with the ending of Moses’ biography. I’m sure every pilgrim is dreading that impending moment and it’s the unspeakable trouble hovering over their minds as they approach this long-awaited crossroads into Canaan. “How will we go on without him?” The people must be thinking. But then ten men step forward. Ten leaders prepare to shepherd their tribes into the unknown terrain of the future. Some of them may not live up to the weighty expectations on their shoulders. Some may end up selling God out for thirty pieces of silver. Some may deny Him at crucial moments. But others will do what Abraham and Joseph and Moses did before them and lead with righteousness and justice. What matters now, at this juncture, is that there are godly men stepping up at all. They may never be as great as Moses, but as long as they share Isaiah’s passion in saying, “Here am I, LORD, send me!”, hell won’t overcome them.
You and me are part of God’s remnant for the twenty-first century, friend! He’s called us out by name as well! May we rise today to answer the call.
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Latest Devotional
A Roll Call
Numbers 34:18-28
“You shall take one chief from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance. These are the names of the men: … Caleb … Shemuel … Elidad … Bukki … Hanniel … Kemuel … Elizaphan … Paltiel … Ahihud … Pedahel.”An encouraging message resounds through this list of ten names here in Numbers 34 and it’s this: a remnant is rising.
“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,” says our LORD in Isaiah 43:19, a promise that He fulfills every moment of every day. Almighty God is always doing a new thing: in our cities, in our local churches, in our outreach ministries, in our political systems, in our neighborhoods, in our schools, in our homes, and in our hearts. Even where the Kingdom is shrouded from view, like a little mustard seed growing underground, it’s still advancing. And because God, in unrivaled humility, sows and reaps through the weak but willing hands of His children, there has never been a single instant where His faithful servants, few or many, great or small, young or old, notorious or anonymous, are not shining as beacons to lighten the darkness.
No doubt a great light is going out in the world with the ending of Moses’ biography. I’m sure every pilgrim is dreading that impending moment and it’s the unspeakable trouble hovering over their minds as they approach this long-awaited crossroads into Canaan. “How will we go on without him?” The people must be thinking. But then ten men step forward. Ten leaders prepare to shepherd their tribes into the unknown terrain of the future. Some of them may not live up to the weighty expectations on their shoulders. Some may end up selling God out for thirty pieces of silver. Some may deny Him at crucial moments. But others will do what Abraham and Joseph and Moses did before them and lead with righteousness and justice. What matters now, at this juncture, is that there are godly men stepping up at all. They may never be as great as Moses, but as long as they share Isaiah’s passion in saying, “Here am I, LORD, send me!”, hell won’t overcome them.
You and me are part of God’s remnant for the twenty-first century, friend! He’s called us out by name as well! May we rise today to answer the call.
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Kingdom Rising
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A Tale of Two Pilgrims
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Charles Wesley’s hymn ‘Depth of Mercy’)
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A Leprous Colony
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Word Spreads
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Dry Seasons Pt. 2
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Dry Seasons
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For the Record
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Sabbath Psalm (From Priscilla Owens’ hymn ‘Jesus Saves!’’)
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Monumental Letters
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A Second Impression
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Fighting Words
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Either-Or
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Striking Justice
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Sabbath Psalm (From Lidie H. Edmund’s hymn ‘My Faith Has Found a Resting Place’)
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The Fall of Balaam
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Justice—A Double-Edged Sword
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Spoken For
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A Divine Intervention
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Promises Performed
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Out of the Ordinary
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Dying Request
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Hand in Hand
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When God Speaks for You
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A New Genesis
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from John Peterson’ hymn ‘A Flag to Follow’)
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In Broad Daylight
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No Place Like Home
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Balaam’s Final Oracle
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Faith—An Oasis
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Balaam’s Second Oracle
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Henry F. Lyte’s hymn ‘Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken’)
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Balaam’s First Oracle
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A Language Barrier pt. 2
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A Language Barrier pt. 1
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No Solicitors!
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Out of the Shadows
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Palmer Hartsough’s hymn ‘I Am Resolved’)
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The Way of Kings
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Lost Books
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The Truth Bites
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The Hand-Off
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Rebels All
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Mary D. James’ hymn ‘All for Jesus’)
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Come to the Waters
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Eulogies for the Living
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Sin is Oh So Draining
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In Christ Alone
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Guardians of the Gift
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Sabbath Psalm (From E. W. Blandy’s hymn, ‘Take the World but Give Me Jesus’)
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A Sappy Symbol
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Rhetorical Righteousness
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A Powerful Posture
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Making Memories
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Tribes and Tongues, pt. 2
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Philip P. Bliss’s hymn, ‘Let the Lower Lights be Burning’)
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Tribes and Tongues, pt. 1
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Stop the Rot!
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Jesus Love the Little Children
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Beating Hearts
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One-Sided
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Joseph Scriven’s hymn, ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’)
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The Beginning of Wisdom
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The Grasshopper Principle
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Do You See What I See?
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Time Out
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A Reconciling Rebuke
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Sabbath Psalm (From Fanny Crosby’s beloved hymn, ‘Near the Cross’)
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Unrighteous Rhetoric
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A Story Shared
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Moses’ Complaint pt. 2
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Moses’ Complaint pt. 1
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Famished
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from George Matheson’s hymn ‘O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go’)
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Burning
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High Notes and Low Notes
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Silver Chords
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The Waiting Room
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The One and the Many
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Sabbath Psalm (A revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn ‘A Student’s Prayer’)
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Transitions
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The Gold Standard
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Between the Angels
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An Acceptable Approach
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Waxing Lyrical
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn, ‘Just One Step at a Time’)
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Locks of Love
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A Nazirite New Year
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Love is Jealous, Love is Kind
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Get Your Hard Hat Ready
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Blue Collar Cloth
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Fanny Crosby’s hymn ‘All the Way My Savior Leads Me’)
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Beyond the Blue
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A Most Sacred Order
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Awaiting the Dawn
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Tribal Standards
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Count Me In
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Hallelujah!
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Servant Status