Daily Devotion: Thoughts Of Peace And Not Of Evil by J. R. Miller

Bible Reading: Jeremiah 29:8-15 KJV 

Key Verse:  "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."
- Jeremiah 29:11 KJV

It is better that we should not know our future. If we did, we would often spoil God's plan for our life. If we could see into tomorrow, and know the troubles it will bring, we might be tempted to seek some way of avoiding them, while really they are God's way to new honor and blessing.

Daily Devotion: Deliverance In Trouble by John MacDuff

Bible Reading: Psalm 50:15-23 KJV 

Key Verse:  "And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me."
- Psalm 50:15 KJV

How varied are our days of trouble! Sickness, with its hours of restlessness and languor. Bereavement, with its rifled treasures and aching hearts. Loss of substance; the curtailment or forfeiture of worldly possessions; riches taking to themselves wings and fleeing away! Or, more severe than all — the wounds from friends; abused confidence; withered affections; hopes scattered like the leaves of autumn!

Daily Devotion: Mercies Abused by James Meikle

Bible Reading: Ephesians 2:1-8 KJV 

Key Verse:  "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us," - Ephesians 2:4 KJV

Many are the mercies we receive from heaven. It is shocking to think how we convert these mercies into an occasion of sin, and make them the cause of awful miseries. By the senses of the body the soul is wounded. Our eyes, which should look straight on, and by which we may search the scriptures of truth—are full of adultery, and used only in conveying vain objects to our mind. Our ears, which should hear the sound of the everlasting gospel, the words of life—take in only blasphemies, backbitings, evil reports, impure discourse, vain blasphemies, and contentions; and, alas! are entertained with these evil things! Our lips and tongues, which should move only to mutual edification—are employed in detraction and slander, and dwell on profane and trifling themes. Our feet, that should carry us to the house of God, and about our lawful affairs—run only to mischief, and are swift in the ways of wickedness.

Daily Devotion: Evidence that Demands Our Faith by Wil Pounds

Bible Reading: Hebrews 12:1-8

Key Verse:  "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."
- Hebrews 12:2 KJV

How do I know that God has fully accepted the death of Jesus Christ as payment for my sins? “When Jesus died, He died as my representative, and I died in Him; when He rose, He rose as my representative, and I rose in Him. . . . I look at the cross of Christ, and I know that atonement has been made for my sins; I look at the open sepulcher and the risen and ascended Lord, and I know that the atonement has been accepted. There no longer remains a single sin on me, no matter how many or how great my sins may have been. My sins may have been as high as the mountains, but in the light of the resurrection the atonement that covers them is as high as heaven. My sins may have been as deep as the ocean, but in the light of the resurrection the atonement that swallows them up is as deep as eternity” (R. A. Torrey, The Bible and Its Cross, pp. 107-08).

Daily Devotion: Bible Word – Atonement by J.E. Smith

Bible Reading: Romans 5:6-13 KJV 

Key Verse:  "And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement."
- Romans 5:11 KJV

The word atonement carries a beautiful, life-changing meaning: it is the act of making reconciliation between God and man. Sin created a separation, an unbridgeable gap between a holy God and fallen humanity. But through atonement, that gap is closed.

Daily Devotion: Where The Redeemer Ascended by Octavius Winslow

Bible Reading: Luke 24:46-53 KJV

Key Verse:  "And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them."
- Luke 24:50 KJV

Let us approach the spot where the Redeemer ascended. It was from Mount Olivet, near to Bethany; so that the two accounts of Christ's ascension recorded by Luke, the one in his Gospel, and the other in his Acts of the Apostles, 1:12, perfectly, agree. How full of great, and holy, and solemn, yes, awful, associations would be that spot to Jesus! 

Daily Devotion: Goings Forth by Charles Spurgeon

Bible Reading: Micah 5:1-8 KJV 

Key Verse:  "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."
- Micah 5:2 KJV

The Lord Jesus had goings forth for His people as their representative before the throne, long before they appeared upon the stage of time. It was "from everlasting" that He signed the compact with His Father, that He would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, agony for agony, and death for death—in the behalf of His people. It was "from everlasting" that He gave Himself up without a murmuring word—that from the crown of His head to the sole of His foot He might sweat great drops of blood, that He might be spit upon, pierced, mocked, rent asunder, and crushed beneath the pains of death. His goings forth as our Surety were from everlasting.