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Daily Devotions

  • Thursday, September 8: Scripture – Psalm 51:10


    Thursday, September 8: Scripture – Psalm 51:10 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Prayer Focus: It is only God who can cleanse us from our sins. It is only God who can create a clean heart and put a new and right spirit within…

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  • Wednesday, September 7: Scripture – Psalm 51:6-9


    Wednesday, September 7: Scripture – Psalm 51:6-9 6 You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice. 9…

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  • Tuesday, September 6: Scripture – Psalm 51:3-5


    Tuesday, September 6: Scripture – Psalm 51:3-5 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment. 5 Indeed, I was born guilty, a…

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  • Monday, September 5: Scripture – Psalm 51:1-2


    Monday, September 5: Scripture – Psalm 51:1-2 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Prayer Focus: The psalmist begins with a petition for mercy and a reminder of God’s…

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  • Sunday, September 4: Scripture – Psalm 1:4-6


    Sunday, September 4: Scripture – Psalm 1:4-6 4 The wicked are not so but are like chaff that the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous, 6 for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will…

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  • Saturday, September 3: Scripture – Psalm 1:1-3


    Saturday, September 3: Scripture – Psalm 1:1-3 1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers, 2 but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night. 3…

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  • Friday, September 2: Scripture – Luke 14:33


    Friday, September 2: Scripture – Luke 14:33 33 So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions. Prayer Focus: It is too bad that we are not in Stewardship season as this might be an appropriate text to use! None of you can become my disciple…

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  • Thursday, September 1: Scripture Luke 14:31-32


    Thursday, September 1: Scripture Luke 14:31-32 31 Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 If he cannot, then while the other is still far away,…

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  • Wednesday, August 31: Scripture – Luke 14:28-30


    Wednesday, August 31: Scripture – Luke 14:28-30 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin…

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  • Tuesday, August 30: Scripture – Luke 14:27


    Tuesday, August 30: Scripture – Luke 14:27 27 Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.   Prayer Focus: This verse at first seems to be unrelated, but perhaps is an appropriate summary of what Jesus is trying to say about our relation to our family in the text we…

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