Devotions for Faith and Prayer

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.—Isaiah 55:9 (NIV)

When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”—Jonah 4:8 (NIV)

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.—Romans 8:1 (ESV)

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.—Psalm 27:14 (NIV)

I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.—Psalm 89:1 (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.—Philippians 3:13–14 (NIV)

Then he fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he fell asleep.—Acts 7:60 (NIV)

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.—Genesis 50:20 (NIV)

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.—Ecclesiastes 2:11 (NIV)

I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ.—Philemon 1:6 (NIV)

Rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.—Colossians 2:7 (NIV)