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What gifts can you thank God for today? How can you move toward a posture of gratitude?Dear God, please help me to live ...
15/07/2026

What gifts can you thank God for today? How can you move toward a posture of gratitude?

Dear God, please help me to live a life of gratitude to You.

15/07/2026

Today's devotional!

Always Giving Thanks

Bible in a Year: Psalms 13-15, Acts 19:21-41

Be very careful, then, how you live . . . . always giving thanks to God. Ephesians 5:15, 20

Today's Scripture: Ephesians 5:15-20

A fifty-ton, female humpback whale swam into a web of crab lines off the coast of California, trapping her in a tangled mess. Hundreds of feet of line and hundreds of pounds of traps wrapped around her body as she struggled to stay afloat. Four divers came to her rescue, swimming under her belly. For an hour, they cut rope—dangerous work since one flap of her tail could have killed them. After they freed her, rather than immediately escaping, she swam to and gently nudged each diver. “It felt to me like she was thanking us,” one rescuer said.

Whether or not whales are able to express gratitude, being thankful is truly an important part of being human. It’s vital for our life with God. Many of us thank Him for larger blessings (the birth of a child or healing from a disease). However, Paul tells us to offer gratitude for every gift we receive, for every bit of goodness we encounter. We’re to be “always giving thanks to God,” the apostle writes (Ephesians 5:20). Not sometimes. Not only for exceptional moments. Always. And to make sure he’s made his point, Paul adds a bit more. “[Make] the most of every opportunity” and give thanks “for everything,” he says (vv. 16, 20).

Genuine gratitude is more than an occasional word we offer; it’s the posture of our lives. Gratitude turns us to God over and over again, always giving thanks in celebration.

By: Winn Collier

Reflect & Pray
What gifts can you thank God for today? How can you move toward a posture of gratitude?

Dear God, please help me to live a life of gratitude to You.

Restful Moment with God🙏Nothing Good Withheld: Psalm 34:10 (NIV)
14/07/2026

Restful Moment with God🙏
Nothing Good Withheld: Psalm 34:10 (NIV)

How can you tell a sheep from a goat? By how they look? According to Jesus, it’s by how they live. In this parable, Jesu...
14/07/2026

How can you tell a sheep from a goat? By how they look? According to Jesus, it’s by how they live. In this parable, Jesus sits on His throne at the end of time. He splits the population of the whole world into “sheep” (who are blessed and invited to enter into their heavenly inheritance) and “goats” (who are cursed and sent to fiery destruction). It is clear, decisive, and final. So how is this monumental separation decided?
Jesus makes it very personal: “I was hungry, and you fed me”, “I was sick, and you cared for me. . .” The sheep are clearly distinguished by their self-sacrificial actions. They care
and pour their lives out in service of Jesus. Yet, strangely, they don’t even realise they’ve done it! “When, Lord? When did we feed and clothe you?” Jesus answers, “When you helped suffering people, you were tending to me.” The goats have the opposite track record. “I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was sick, and you did nothing to help.
By ignoring the vulnerable, you ignored me.” At first glance, this appears to contradict the Bible’s clear teaching that good works cannot contribute to our salvation, but there is a different, very important point to this parable. While salvation only comes by faith, salvation is always followed by works consistent with God’s heart. Or, as another Bible writer puts it, “I will show you my faith by my deeds.”

MATTHEW 25:31-46

What experiences have you had that seem beyond explanation? How do they help you see God at work?Thank You, dear Father,...
14/07/2026

What experiences have you had that seem beyond explanation? How do they help you see God at work?

Thank You, dear Father, that You hear my honest prayers and meet me where I am.

14/07/2026

Today's devotion!

God at Work

Bible in a Year: Psalms 10-12, Acts 19:1-20

Gideon replied, . . . “Give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.” Judges 6:17

Today's Scripture: Judges 6:36-40

Jay owned a Gideon Bible, yet his analytical mind didn’t permit him to accept its miracles. One thing haunted him, though: the genuine faith of his friend. So Jay offered a strange prayer. He told God, “If you want me to believe in You, then do something I can’t explain.”

One day, something drew Jay to look for his Bible. It was gone. How could that be? He never lost track of things.

He drove in the rain to his teaching job at the University of Zurich. Stepping out of his car, he spotted a Gideon Bible on the wet pavement. That’s strange, he thought. Picking it up, he noticed the Bible was totally dry despite the rain. Something he couldn’t explain!

Gideon Bibles are named for an Old Testament hero of Israel. When God chose Gideon to lead Israel into battle against a vast army, Gideon had huge doubts. He told God, “I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece . . . , then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand” (Judges 6:37). God answered Gideon’s challenge not once but twice (vv. 39-40).

Doubt-filled prayers aren’t a pattern for us to follow. They can, however, reveal God’s character. Gideon led a tiny army to a smashing victory (ch. 7). Jay put his faith in Jesus, recognizing that his prayer had been answered by a loving God who does things we can’t explain.

By: Tim Gustafson

Reflect & Pray
What experiences have you had that seem beyond explanation? How do they help you see God at work?

Thank You, dear Father, that You hear my honest prayers and meet me where I am.

Restful Moment with God🙏Choosing What Is Right: Psalm 34:14 (NIV)
13/07/2026

Restful Moment with God🙏
Choosing What Is Right: Psalm 34:14 (NIV)

Lord, help me find my confidence in You alone. Amen.🙏
13/07/2026

Lord, help me find my confidence in You alone. Amen.🙏

How have you felt that something or someone is missing? How can you respond to God’s drastic love for you?Dear heavenly ...
13/07/2026

How have you felt that something or someone is missing? How can you respond to God’s drastic love for you?

Dear heavenly Father, I love You very much. Thank You for loving me first.

13/07/2026

Today's devotion!

God’s Drastic Love

Bible in a Year: Psalms 7-9, Acts 18

God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son. John 3:16

Today's Scripture: John 3:16-21

Daniel was born into a Romanian orphanage. For seven years, he only left his crib to go to the bathroom. When he turned eight, a family from another country adopted him. They knew about attachment disorders—that Daniel could have difficulty attaching to them as his parents. Slowly, Daniel started to trust them. Over time, though, he began to rage to the point his parents hired a bodyguard to protect them from Daniel’s outbursts. They decided on a controversial therapy: For the next five years they were never away from Daniel even if he had a meltdown. On his thirteenth birthday Daniel broke down and, for the first time, told his parents he loved them very much. His mother summarized the experience: “Creating love is not for the soft and sentimental. Love is a battlefield.”

We’re all born knowing that something or someone is missing. Like Daniel, we have an attachment disorder. But God “so loved the world” so much that he took drastic action—“he gave his one and only Son” (John 3:16), meeting us on earth’s battlefield in what we call the Incarnation. “Light has come into the world” (v. 19).

God took drastic measures to demonstrate His great love for the world. For you. His strong, determined Father-heart beats to hear from us the words Daniel’s parents finally heard: “I love you very much.”

By: John Blase

Reflect & Pray
How have you felt that something or someone is missing? How can you respond to God’s drastic love for you?

Dear heavenly Father, I love You very much. Thank You for loving me first.

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