Daily Devotion: Take Up The Cross And Follow Me by Charles Spurgeon

Bible Reading: Mark 10:19-26 KJV

Key Verse:  "Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me."
- Mark 10:21 KJV

You have not the liberty of making of your own cross; although unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. Neither are you permitted to choose your own cross; although self-will would gladly be lord and master. Your cross is prepared and appointed for you by divine love—and you are cheerfully to accept it. You are to take up the cross as your chosen portion, and not to stand caviling at it.

Daily Devotion: The Many Names of God the Father (2 of 2) by J.E. Smith

Bible Reading: Psalm 8:1-8 KJV 

Key Verse:  "O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens."
- Psalm 8:1 KJV

In the Bible names are far more than labels. They often reveal character, purpose, authority, covenant, and destiny. God uses names to teach spiritual truths and to show His intimate involvement in human lives. The same is true about God's names.

Daily Devotion: The Secret Place by J.C. Philpot

Bible Reading: Psalm 91:1-8 KJV 

Key Verse:  "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."
- Psalm 91:1 KJV

What is "the secret place of the most High?" It is the same spot, of which Asaph speaks in the seventy-third Psalm--"Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end." It is the spot, of which the Lord speaks in Ezekiel--"I will be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come." Then this "secret place" is the secret bosom of God. It is an entrance by faith into Jehovah, by a spiritual manifestation of him, leading us into a spiritual acquaintance with him. "The secret place of the most High" is that solemn spot, where Jehovah meets with the sinner in Christ, and where he opens up to him the riches of his mercy, and leads him into his bosom, so as to read the secrets of his loving heart.

Daily Devotion: Communicate The Word by Favell Lee Mortimer

Bible Reading: Mark 4:21-29 KJV 

Key Verse:  "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear."
- Mark 4:23 KJV

This is part of a private conversation between our Lord and his apostles. If our minds were in a right state, how much more deeply should we be interested in such scenes than in the worldly trifles that surround us.

Daily Devotion: Always Keep Your Appointments With Jesus by J. R. Miller

Bible Reading: Matthew 28:13-20 KJV 

Key Verse:  "Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them."
- Matthew 28:16 KJV

We should always keep the appointments Jesus makes with us. If we fail—we shall surely be the losers. Suppose some of our Lord's disciples had stayed away, for some cause, from this meeting in Galilee. Think what they would have missed! They might have said: "It is such a long distance;" or, "The mountain is steep, and I will have difficulty climbing it;" or, "I fear it will rain or be stormy;" or, "Perhaps Jesus will not be there; I cannot understand how he can be risen from the dead."

Daily Devotion: Sovreignty by John MacDuff

Bible Reading: Psalm 93:1-8 KJV 

Key Verse:  "The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved."
- Psalm 93:1 KJV

No rainbow of promise in the "dark and cloudy day" shines more radiantly than this. God, my God, the God who gave Jesus — orders all events, and overrules all for my good! "When I," says He, "send clouds over the earth." He has no wish to conceal the hand which shadows for a time earth's brightest prospects. It is He alike who "brings the cloud," who brings us into it, and in mercy leads us through it! His kingdom rules over all. "The lot is cast into the lap — but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." He puts the burden on, and keeps it on — and at His own time will remove it!

Daily Devotion: Torment by James Meikle

Bible Reading: Luke 16:28 KJV 

Key Verse:  "For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment." - Luke 16:28 KJV

People generally have a mistaken notion of torment. I shudder to hear of protracted agonies on the dying malefactor—to hear of the rack, (invented by boundless rage, and improved by infernal cruelty,) decreed by the powerful offended party, to torture to death my fellow-creature. Yes, the groans of dying mortals pierce my ears, and make me sharer of their pains. But what are all human inventions—when we look beyond them, to eternal punishment? what is the glittering sword, or sharpened axe? What the musket, with its deadly explosion? What the gibbet, with ten thousand spectators? What the bastinado clubs, the stamping elephant, the quartering horses? What the piked barrels, the breaking wheel, the boots and thumbkins, the suffocating dungeon, or the calcinating flame? How do they all disappear before these words—DIVINE VENGEANCE—ETERNAL WRATH!