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Daily Devotions

  • Wednesday, September 25th: Scripture – Esther 4:14


    14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.”  Prayer Focus: Perhaps the most well-known verse in the book of…

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  • Tuesday, September 24th: Scripture – Esther 4:12-13


    12 When they told Mordecai what Esther had said, 13 Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.   Prayer Focus: Mordecai responds to Esther’s message about the risk of approaching the king with a reminder that there…

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  • Monday, September 23rd: Scripture – Esther 4:10-11


    10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach and gave him a message for Mordecai: 11 “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that, if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law: to be put to death. Only if…

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  • Sunday, September 22nd: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18


    16 For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the…

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  • Saturday, September 21st: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 4:14-15


    14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. 15 For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means…

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  • Friday, September 20th: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 4:13


    13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. Prayer Focus: The next few days reflect upon one of the more memorable passages in 1 Thessalonians. Paul speaks a word of hope to…

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  • Thursday, September 19th: Scripture -1 Thessalonians 4:9-10-12


    9 Now concerning love of the brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anyone write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another; 10 and indeed you do love all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, beloved, to do so more and more,…

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  • Wednesday, September 18th: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 4:8


    8 Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you. Prayer Focus: Paul’s claim is that if the Thessalonians reject the call to a life of holiness, they are not rejecting his authority as an apostle. They are rejecting the authority of God who gives us…

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  • Tuesday, September 17th: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7


    3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passion, like the gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one wrong or exploit a brother…

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  • Monday, September 16th: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 4:1-2


    1 Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.…

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