Daily Devotionals

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way Week 2: Thursday

"Then he said to the woman, "I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you." And to the man he said, "Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I c...

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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way Week 2: Wednesday

"The man replied, "It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it." Then the Lord God asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied. "That's why I ate it." Genesis 3:12-13 ...

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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way Week 2: Tuesday

"When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees." Genesis 3:8 When my nephew got in trouble recently for bein...

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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way Week 2: Monday

"At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves." Genesis 3:7 When sin entered the world with Adam and Eve when they ate the f...

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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Saturday

"But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children." Galatians 4:4-5 Whe...

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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Friday

"The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life." John 10:10 I received a gift in the mail not long ago. The problem was that neither the gift nor the note atta...

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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Thursday

"Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death." James 1:14-15 I ruined one of my favorite sw...

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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Wednesday

"The serpent said to the woman, "Surely you will not die, for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil." Genesis 3:4-5 The other day my friends and ...

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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Tuesday

"In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" Genesis 2:9b We have come a long way with technology. The Amazon Alexa can pull up recipes, turn on and off lights, g...

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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Monday

"Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made." Genesis 2:8 Every springtime, my allergies set in. When this happens, I always remind myself, “It is not supposed to...

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