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.

Daily Devotion: The Body Of Christ by J.C. Philpot

Bible Reading: Ephesians 1:16-23 KJV 

Key Verse:  "Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all."
- Ephesians 1:23 KJV

In the mind of God, and as chosen in Christ, the Church is a perfect body. It is, therefore, the fullness of Christ. Just as our head and members, in their union with each other, form one perfect harmonious body, so it is with Christ and the Church. As the natural head would be incomplete without the body, as the body would be incomplete without the head, so it is with Christ mystical, and his body the Church. Each needs the other, and the union of both makes the whole complete.

Daily Devotion: Christ Heals The Woman Who Touched His Garment by Favell Lee Mortimer

Bible Reading: Luke 8:40-48 KJV 

Key Verse:  "Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched."
- Luke 8:44 KJV

Though the Gadarenes desired the Lord Jesus to depart out of their coasts, there were others who gladly received him. So it is now—while some find religious privileges a burden, there are others who are longing to possess them. While some occupy seats in the house of God, and count the service a weariness; there are others, confined at home by various causes, envying, as David did, the happiness of the swallow, who builds his nest on God's altars.

Daily Devotion: As The Father Has Sent Me I Also Send You by J. R. Miller

Bible Reading: John 20:21-28 KJV

Key Verse:  "Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you."
- John 20:21 KJV

The Son of God came down and lived in human form on the earth—that men might see God in the flesh. He said, "He who has seen me, has seen the Father." All the love, the gentleness, the patience, the compassion, the purity, the truth, the righteousness, which people saw in the life of Jesus—was simply a revealing of God. That is what God is like.