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Daily Devotions

  • Monday, April 26: Scripture – Acts 8:26-27a


    26 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) 27 So he got up and went. Prayer Focus: The Season of Easter often includes readings from the Book of Acts. As we…

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  • Sunday, April 25: Scripture – 1 John 3:23-24


    23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 24 All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit…

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  • Saturday, April 24: Scripture – 1 John 3:21-22


    21 Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God; 22 and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.   Prayer Focus: When you pray, do you pray with boldness? Do you make big requests of God? Or are you reluctant…

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  • Friday, April 23: Scripture – 1 John 3:18-20


    18 Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. 19 And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him 20 whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.   Prayer…

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  • Thursday, April 22: Scripture – 1 John 3:17


    17 How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?   Prayer Focus: Laying down one’s life for a brother or sister seems fairly unlikely for most of us. However, seeing a brother or sister in need is a daily…

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  • Wednesday, April 21: Scripture – 1 John 3:15-16


    15 All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them. 16 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.   Prayer Focus: In the Sermon on the…

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  • Tuesday, April 20: Scripture – 1 John 3:13-14


    13 Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death.   Prayer Focus: Following on the passage from yesterday, it appears that the authors are comparing the church to…

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  • Monday, April 19: 1 John 3:11-12


    11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.   Prayer Focus: The…

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  • Sunday, April 18: Scripture – 1 John 3:6-7


    6 No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.   Prayer Focus: Remember that to “abide” is to stay or remain or take up…

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  • Saturday, April 17: Scripture – 1 John 3:4-5


    4 Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.   Prayer Focus: We seek to purify ourselves because we sin. We are sinners. It is hard to admit that sometimes, but it is true.…

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