Devotions

We invite you to spend a few moments and take in this encouragement from our Women’s Ministry team member, Allison Greenwald. We pray...

We hope you enjoy this devotion below as Taylor Demmon encourages us to lift our eyes to Jesus and listen to His Words that He speaks over...

Ruth 2:19-20 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice...

Ruth 2:2-7 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I...

Ruth 1:15-18 And Naomi said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your...

Ruth 1:11-13 But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your...

Ruth 1:1-5 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem went to sojourn in the country of Moab,...

Job 40:1-9 And the Lord said to Job, “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer...

Job 19:23-27 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were...

Job 28:12-19 “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man does not know its worth, and it is not...

Job 4:1-7 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from...

Job 3:1-4, 23-26 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And Job said: “Let the day perish on which I was...

Job 2:11-13 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz...

Job 2:7-10 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of...

Job 2:3-7 And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and...

Job 1:20-22 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came...

Job 1:13-21 “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down...

Job 1:10-12 [Satan] “Have You not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work...

Job 1:8-11 And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and...

Job 1:6-8 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. The Lord...

Job 1:1-5 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away...

Ephesians 1:11-14 In Christ we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things...

Psalm 73 Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly...

Romans 8:28-30 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his...

1 Peter 4:12-15 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were...

1 John 4:17-19 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is so also are we...

1 Peter 4:12-14 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were...

1 Peter 3:13-17 Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake, you...

2 Corinthians 1:3-7 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us...

Hebrews 12, James 5 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what...

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in...

Romans 8:29, Hebrews 5:7-10 For those whom He foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son…In the days of his...

Romans 15:9-13 As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.” And again it is said,...

Romans 8:23-25 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for...

Job 42:1-6 Job answered the Lord and said, “I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted....

Acts 9:1-5 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for...

2 Timothy 4:10, Philemon 1:24 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you, and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and...

Proverbs 16:5,18-19, 21:24 Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished. Pride...

1 Peter 5:8-11 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist...

Ephesians 6:10-12 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to...

Psalm 51 and Romans 7 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, You delight in truth in the...

Genesis 3:17-19 Then to Adam God said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which...

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow....

Hebrews 4:14-16 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our...

Hebrews 2:17-18 Therefore, he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high...

Hebrews 2:14-16 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death...

Hebrews 2:9-11 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of...

Genesis 3:14-15 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the livestock and above all...

Genesis 3:6–9 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was...

Revelation 21:3-4 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with...

Revelation 3:19-20 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone...

1 John 2:12-14 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. I am writing to you,...

1 John 1:5-7 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say...

1 Peter 2:21-25 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in...

Hebrews 12:5b-10 My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord… It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is...

Hebrews 4:11-13 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God...

2 Timothy 4:16-18 At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! But the Lord...

2 Timothy 4:9-13 Do your best to come to me soon. For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica....

2 Timothy 3:14-17 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from...

1 Timothy 4:1-5 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful...

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do...

1 Thessalonians 2:13 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you...

Colossians 3:16-17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns...

Philippians 3:8-10 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have...

Ephesians 6:13-17 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to...

2 Corinthians 3:15-18 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is...

1 Corinthians 2:11-13 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends...

The Book of the Acts All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus,...

John 15:1-5 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every...

John 4:39-42 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever...

John 1:38-40, 43-46 Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him,...

Luke 19:1-10 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. And there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich....

Luke 10:38-42 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a...

Luke 2:36-38 And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with...

Mark 1:35-39 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he...

Matthew 6:1, 5-6 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them… And when you pray,...

Matthew 4:1-4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And, after fasting forty days and forty...

Daniel 6:10-11 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open...

Psalm 119:10-11, 15-16 With my whole heart I seek You; let me not wander from Your commandments! I have stored up Your word in my heart,...

Psalm 16:7-8 I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the LORD always before me; because...

Psalm 15 O LORD, who shall sojourn in Your tent? Who shall dwell on Your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and...

Psalm 5:1-3, 7-8 Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning. Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you...

Psalm 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;...

1 Samuel 3:10-13 And the LORD came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for...

Joshua 23:14 & 24:24-26 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you,...

Joshua 8:30-35 At that time Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, …And they offered on it burnt...

Joshua 1:5, 9 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will...

Joshua 1:7-8 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not...

Exodus 34:29-30, 34-35 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai…he did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been...

Exodus 33:12-15 Moses said to the LORD, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom...

Exodus 33:9-11 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would...

Exodus 33:7-9 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting....

Exodus 3:6-8, 10-12 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And...

Exodus 3:4-6 When the LORD saw that Moses turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said,...

Exodus 3:1-5 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of...

Genesis 32:24-32 And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not...

Genesis 25:29-34 Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me...

Genesis 22:10-12 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. But the angel of the LORD called to him from...

Genesis 18:17-19, 22-25 The LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, seeing that Abraham shall surely become a...

Genesis 12:7-8 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar...

Genesis 5:21-24 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years, and...

Genesis 4:8-11 Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother and killed him. Then the...

Genesis 4:4-7 And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry,...

Genesis 3:9-11 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of...

Genesis 3:7-8 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves...

Genesis 3:4-6 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be...

Genesis 3:1-3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,...

Genesis 2:18-20 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”...

Genesis 2:8-9, 16-17 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the...

Genesis 2:7, 15-18 Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man...

Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea...

Genesis 1:3-5, 2:2 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God...

The Lord has given our Christ Community Church team 6 Life Questions to ask and answer regularly. They measure our participation in the...