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Daily Devotions

  • Wednesday, October 2nd: Scripture –  Psalm 26:4-5


    4 I do not sit with the worthless,     nor do I consort with hypocrites; 5 I hate the company of evildoers     and will not sit with the wicked. Prayer Focus: In contrast to walking with integrity or faithfulness with the Lord, the psalmist describes sitting with the worthless, hypocrites, evildoers, and the wicked.…

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  • Tuesday, October 1st: Scripture – Psalm 26:2-3


    2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me;    test my heart and mind. 3 For your steadfast love is before my eyes,    and I walk in faithfulness to you. Prayer Focus: For the second day in this psalm we encounter the image of walking. Yesterday it was walking with “integrity” – a concept we…

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  • Monday, September 30th: Scripture – Psalm 26:1


    1 Vindicate me, O Lord,    for I have walked in my integrity,    and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Prayer Focus: This week we turn to the songbook of Israel, the Psalms, and will be reading and praying through Psalm 26. Throughout this psalm, we hear the psalmist asking God to “vindicate,”…

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  • Sunday, September 29th: Scripture – Esther 7:4


    4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace, but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.” Prayer Focus: Esther shares that there has…

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  • Saturday, September 28th: Scripture – Esther 7:3


    3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me—that is my petition—and the lives of my people—that is my request.   Prayer Focus: Esther finally has the courage to make the request on behalf of her people. For such…

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  • Friday, September 27th: Scripture – Esther 7:1-2


    1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 On the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”…

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  • Thursday, September 26th: Scripture – Esther 4:15-17


    15 Then Esther said in reply to Mordecai, 16 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king,…

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  • 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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