God’s Ways Are Higher
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.—Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV)
Devotions
Servant of Christ
These things I command you, that ye may love one another.—JOHN 15:17 ASV
The Stone of Jacob
Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.—Genesis 28:18 (NIV)
Free at Heart
I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.—PSALM 119:45 NIV
Your Life Is His Masterpiece
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.—Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)
The Secret Record
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.—PROVERBS 28:13 KJV
God Will Hold Your Hand
I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.—Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)
It’s All Good
For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.—PSALM 84:11 KJV
Parenting Our Parents
“Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—“that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”—EPHESIANS 6:2–3 NIV
When You Stumble
As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”—Romans 9:33 (NIV)
Tears
Jesus wept.—JOHN 11:35 NIV
Do Mighty Things
David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.”—1 Samuel 17:45 (NIV)
