Daily Devotionals

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way Week 3: Monday

"For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin an...

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

The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a Whether experienced or new, any driver knows that what we set our eyes on determines our...

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

"And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife." Genesis 3:21 When Adam and Eve brought sin into the world, they deserved punishment. They faced the consequences of dis...

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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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