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Daily Devotions

  • Friday, November 10: Scripture – Matthew 25:7-9


    7 Then all those young women got up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise replied, ‘No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to the dealers and…

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  • Thursday, November 9: Scripture – Matthew 25:6


    6 But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Prayer Focus: The delay will one day come to an end. At midnight there was a shout that the bridegroom was here! It is time for everyone to come out to meet him. Pray that you might…

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  • Wednesday, November 8: Scripture –  Matthew 25:5


    5 As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept. Prayer Focus: The bridegroom was delayed. All of them became drowsy and slept. The problem is not that the young women fell asleep. The problem results from the unexpected delay. We’ve talked before about the challenge of delay to faithfulness and Christian…

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  • Tuesday, November 7: Scripture – Matthew 25:3-4


    3 When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. Prayer Focus: Ten young women take their lamps to meet a bridegroom, but only the wise take flasks of oil with their lamps. The foolish took no oil. They took their…

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  • Monday, November 6th: Scripture – Matthew 25:1-2


    1 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten young women took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. Prayer Focus: This week and next week we will be thinking about two of Jesus’ parables as recorded in the 25th chapter of…

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  • Sunday, November 5: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20


    17 As for us, brothers and sisters, when for a short time we were made orphans by being separated from you—in person, not in heart—we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face. 18 For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, wanted to again and again—but Satan blocked our way. 19…

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  • Saturday, November 4th: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16


    14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own compatriots as they did from the Jews 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove us out; they displease God and oppose…

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  • Friday, November 3rd: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 2:13


    13 We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God’s word, which is also at work in you believers. Prayer Focus: Perhaps the “life worthy of God”…

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  • Thursday, November 2nd: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 2:9-12


    9 You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God also, how pure, upright, and blameless our conduct was toward you believers. 11 As you know,…

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  • Wednesday, November 1st: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 2:8


    8 So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us. Prayer Focus: Today is All Saints Day in the church liturgical year. It’s a day to remember and give thanks…

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