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Christian Devotional – November 11, 2025
The Voice of the Prophet, Day 4 Glory in the Lord. Read Isaiah chapter 4. Reading through Isaiah chapter 4 doesn’t take very long at all. It is a short, tiny chapter. It’s a reminder that the glory of the Lord is incredible and sustaining for everyone. As the prophecy continues regarding the judgment that God is going to bring, we see that after the judgment, God’s glory and beauty is beheld by all. And not only is it seen, it is what provides sustaining life and safety for everyone. God is the one who provides for all of us. His glory and his beauty is evident in everything we…
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Christian Devotional – November 10, 2025
The Voice of the Prophet, Day 3 Life against God. Read Isaiah chapter 3. What does a life look like that is set against the Lord? In this chapter of Isaiah, the people are seeking anything except the Lord, and he shows them just what that kind of life looks like. They are staggering. They’re falling because everything they are doing and saying goes against God. When we are living a life in rebellion to God, we are not going to be able to do anything correctly. We are not able to continue moving forward. God knows, and God sees, and God works in such a way that he keeps…
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Christian Devotional – November 9, 2025
The Voice of the Prophet, Day 2 Only God. Read Isaiah chapter 2. As Isaiah continues to prophecy about the ultimate judgment of God, he reminds us that every person who thinks they are prideful and all of the arrogant thoughts that we come up with, are nothing when compared with the holiness of God. On that final day of judgment, God is the only one that will be exalted. Everything we have done will crumble around us and be nothing. We will be nothing compared to God himself. Are we focusing on God and worshiping him and him alone? Now, one day, every knee will bow, and every tongue…
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Christian Devotional – November 8, 2025
The Voice of the Prophet, Day 1 Turn around! Read Isaiah chapter 1. We’re going to spend the next couple of months going through the book of Isaiah. Isaiah has some of the most profound prophecies in the entire Bible, and it’s one of the most quoted books of the Bible. New Testament books often quote from the book of Isaiah as they describe prophecy fulfillment. And even Jesus himself read from the book of Isaiah, when he was preaching. We know that Isaiah had a tremendous background history. He was a prophet to the kings of Israel. He had the reputation of being one of God’s servants and the…
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Christian Devotional – November 8, 2025
Life and Love, Day 23 True Life and True Love. Read 1 John 5:16-21 Many people will claim to be experiencing life and love, and yet not have a relationship with God. However, we must understand that true life and true love is only found through God. Anything else that people are experiencing is nothing more than a cheap substitute for the real thing. Only through God can we experience true life. Only through God can we experience true love. When we look at our lives, are we a reflection of those truths to people around us? Are we leading others to the truth? We must first know the truth…
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Christian Devotional – November 6, 2025
Life and Love, Day 22 The practice of Prayer. Read 1 John 5:13-15. The practice of prayer is one of the most defining characteristics of the Christian life. Prayer is communication with God. Prayer is God communicating to us through His word and us responding back to Him on the same subject. Many people pray, but not everyone uses prayer appropriately. Prayer is not just a wish list that we provide to God. Prayer is about a relationship and is a conversation that we have with God where he speaks to us through his word and we speak back to him. Because of this relationship, we can have tremendous confidence…
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Christian Devotional – November 5, 2025
Life and Love, Day 21 God is Life. Read 1 John 5:6-12. The last several days have shown us how God is love. Everything that we understand about love has come from God. And, we cannot understand love apart from God. However, God is also life. The life that we have, and the life that he has promised, is only found in God. When we think about eternal life or the promised life, we must understand that God himself is life. Knowing him is what provides us that life. Are we seeking after God knowing that he is the life? Are we trying to satisfy our desires through anything else…
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Christian Devotional – November 4, 2025
Life and Love, Day 20 How do we love God? Read 1 John 5:1-5. Over the past several days, we’ve read a lot about what love is and how God loves. Today, we see how we are to love God. You see, just saying that we love God or telling God that we love him is not enough. The way in which we show God that we love him is by obeying his commands. If we say that we love God, but we do not do what he has asked us to do, then we really don’t mean it. God showed us that he loved us through his actions, and…
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Christian Devotional – November 3, 2025
Life and Love, Day 19 We are not able to love on our own. Read 1 John 4:19-21. In order to truly understand love, we must understand that we really don’t understand anything at all about love. The only reason we are able to love is because God first loved us. God is love and in him there is no fear, as we learned about from the last couple of days. But we also have to admit that without him, we would not know what love is at all. The only reason we are capable of loving others is because God first loved us. God demonstrated love toward us. And…
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Christian Devotional – November 2, 2025
Life and Love, Day 18 Love and fear can’t coexist. Read 1 John 4:11-18. As we learn more about love, we understand that God is love. We learned that yesterday. When we understand God is love, then we must understand that fear and love cannot coexist together. The perfect love of God casts out fear. God is not afraid of anything. He knows exactly what’s going to happen. There is no fear in who he is or what he does. If we are filled with the love of God then we will not have fear. God is in control, and we can trust him. We don’t need to have any…