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These daily devotionals are written to help you remain rooted and grounded in God's Word each day. We have one devotional for each weekday, and one for the weekend.
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Latest Devotional
The Waiting Room
Numbers 9:22a
Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out.A dark cloud of providence has been brooding over my home this week, not moving onward, not dissipating, and not letting much sunlight pass through, because yesterday marked the due date of our precious Shiloh who the LORD chose to call home at nine weeks.
It seems like just last week my wife and I were in the doctor’s office eagerly waiting to hear Shiloh’s little heartbeat for the first time, only to have that unspeakable silence meet us on the other end of the screen. Two weeks later, we arrived back for the second sonogram reading and our hearts leapt for joy at the undeniable rhythm of life pulsating through the once-mute screen, our revived hope pulsating with it. The new doctor, sharing our joy, told us to forget all the previous doctor’s warnings and prepared us to move forward. But the sunburst of that day didn’t last long. A week later, the cloud was back and blacker than ever. Starting with the sudden onset of my wife’s terrifying physical complications, it ended in a late-night rush to the ER where the miscarriage was confirmed and a surgery was needed.
The pilgrims in this commonwealth didn’t know why God chose to advance sometimes after only a night of camping and sometimes after months, and I’m sure they often begged Him to move when He stood still or begged Him to stay put when He moved forward. But learning to pray, “Father, not my will but Yours be done,” is imperative for spiritual progress. If we move before God moves, we’ll get lost. And if we stay behind when God moves, we’ll get lost too. Which is why I believe that it’s better to be confused and even angry in the will of God than it is to be blissful and happy outside it.
God always has perfect reasoning and perfect timing, friend. Even if you don’t presently feel that, believe it! If you go where He goes and stay where He stays, you’ll be far better off a day from now, and a year from now, and a lifetime from now, when the cloud clears.
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The One and the Many
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Sabbath Psalm (A revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn ‘A Student’s Prayer’)
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Transitions
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The Gold Standard
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Between the Angels
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An Acceptable Approach
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Waxing Lyrical
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John W. Peterson’s hymn, ‘Just One Step at a Time’)
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Locks of Love
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A Nazirite New Year
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Love is Jealous, Love is Kind
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Get Your Hard Hat Ready
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Blue Collar Cloth
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Fanny Crosby’s hymn ‘All the Way My Savior Leads Me’)
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Beyond the Blue
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A Most Sacred Order
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Awaiting the Dawn
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Tribal Standards
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Count Me In
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Hallelujah!
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Servant Status
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Enduring Love
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Don’t Light the Fuse!
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The Last Word
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Don’t Wait . . . Sing Now!
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God Knows Best
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Gunning for Bear
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Parental Endowment
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Steadfast, Immovable
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Paying Penance?
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Stone-Blind
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Going the Extra Mile
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A Priceless Pearl
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Revenge Denied
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Trying Your Patience
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By Faith, Not by Sight
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Begging Your Pardon
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Lift That Weight!
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Keep Swinging
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The Heavens Declare
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Let’s Go Fishing!
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Parking Space #23
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Measureless Grace
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No Man Left Behind
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Completing the Puzzle
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Skeletons in the Closet
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Deposits and Investments
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Piercing the Darkness
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You’re on Candid Camera!
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Dry Bones
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Without Love
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Father Knows Best
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Putting on the Dog
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The Dreaded Word: Practice!
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Walking in the Spirit
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Down Memory Lane
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The Stops of a Good Man
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Truly Good News
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The Good Shepherd
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People of the Word
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Imitating Christ
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The One Left Standing
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Invisibly Involved
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“Not Guilty!”
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But You, O Lord . . .
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God Uses Broken Things
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Then Comes the Good Part!
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Go to God
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Light Up the Runway!
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Faith is . . .
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I Believe I Will
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Under Evaluation
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Minority Rule
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Albert B. Simpson’s hymn, ‘Yesterday, Today, Forever’)
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The Melody of Raindrops
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Inverse Psychology
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Right Between the Eyes
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Bon Appetit
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Our Word
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Jane C. Bonar’s hymn, ‘Fade, Fade, Each Earthly Joy’)
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Dirt in the Divine
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Open Your Eyes!
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Gray Hair and Long Branches
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A Matter of Trust
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A Begrudging Virtue
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of William T. Sleeper’s hymn, ‘Jesus, I Come’)
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The Least of These
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Remedial Purity
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Mad Goat Disease
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Joyful Sorrow…And Other Paradoxes
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Seeing Double
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John M. Neale’s hymn ‘Art Thou Weary?’)
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Cleaning House
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The Buck Stops With You
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The Seminal Covenant
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Word from our Land-LORD
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Stop the Spread
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Sabbath Psalm (From Lidie Edmunds hymn, ‘My Faith Has Found a Resting Place’)
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A Less-Than-Perfect Conception