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Daily Devotions

  • Thursday, May 20: Scripture – Acts 2:5-8, 11


    5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7 Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is…

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  • Wednesday, May 19: Scripture – Acts 2:4


    4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.   Prayer Focus: All were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages. This was not of their own doing. Jesus had told them to go to Jerusalem…

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  • Tuesday, May 18: Scripture – Acts 2:2-3


    2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.   Prayer Focus: As I am writing these devotions, a huge thunderstorm…

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  • Monday, May 17: Scripture – Acts 2:1


    1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.   Prayer Focus: The Easter season ends with the Feast of Pentecost. When the day of Pentecost had some, the disciples were all together in one place. While we are more readily able to gather than last year, we need…

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  • Sunday, May 16: Scripture – John 17:17-19


    17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth. Prayer Focus: You are sent into the world. You have been…

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  • Saturday, May 15: Scripture – John 17:14-16


    14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. 16…

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  • Friday, May 14: Scripture – John 17:11-13


    11 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them in your…

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  • Thursday, May 13: Scripture – John 17:9-10


    9 I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.   Prayer Focus: Jesus now makes a request. He asks…

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  • Wednesday, May 12: Scripture – John 17:6-8


    6 “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8 for the words that you gave to me I have…

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  • Tuesday, May 11: Scripture – John 17:4-5


    4 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.   Prayer Focus: In his prayer, Jesus says that he has glorified the Father by finishing…

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