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Daily Devotions

  • Monday, August 23: Scripture – Mark 7:1-2


    1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. Prayer Focus: The disciples were not washing their hands before they ate. Yikes! When I read that, I’m right…

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  • Sunday, August 22: Scripture – John 13:12-15


    12 After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. 14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher,…

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  • Saturday, August 21 : Scripture – John 13:6-11


    6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered, “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” 8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no…

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  • Friday, August 20: Scripture – John 13:3-5


    3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, 4 got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the…

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  • Thursday, August 19: Scripture – John 13:1-2


    1 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon…

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  • Wednesday, August 18: Scripture – Jeremiah 1:9-10


    9 Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, “Now I have put my words in your mouth. 10 See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”…

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  • Tuesday, August 17: Scripture – Jeremiah 1:6-8


    6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.” 7 But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a boy; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you.…

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  • Monday, August 16: Scripture – Jeremiah 1:4-5


    4 Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Prayer Focus: This week in our daily devotions we are preparing for Youth Sunday as our youth…

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  • Sunday, August 15; Scripture – Ephesians 5:19-20


    19 as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, 20 giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Prayer Focus: As you are filled with the Spirit, that spirit flows…

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  • Saturday, August 14: Scripture – Ephesians 5:18


    18 Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, Prayer Focus: Be filled with the Spirit. With the contrast with wine, Paul indicates that there are a variety of other things we try to fill ourselves with. Most of them are destructive to our health and our…

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