Daily Devotion: Looking To Jesus by Octavius Winslow

Bible Reading: Hebrews 12:1-8 KJV

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

Be careful of making a savior of faith. There is a danger, and it cannot be too vigilantly guarded against, of substituting the work of the Spirit for the work of Christ; this mistake it is that leads so many of God's saints to look within, instead of outside of themselves, for the evidences of their calling and acceptance; and thus, too, so many are kept, all their spiritual course, walking in a state of bondage and fear, the great question never fully and fairly settled; or, in other words, never quite sure of their sonship.

Daily Devotion: Christians Win Others To Christ by Charles Spurgeon

Bible Reading: John 1:35-42 KJV

Key Verse:  "He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ."
- John 1:41 KJV

This case is an excellent pattern of all cases where spiritual life is vigorous. As soon as a man has found Christ—he begins to find others. I will not believe that you have tasted of the honey of the gospel if you can eat it all yourself. True grace puts an end to all spiritual monopoly. Andrew first found his own brother Simon, and then others. Relationship has a very strong demand upon our first individual efforts. Andrew, you did well to begin with Simon.

Daily Devotion: To Him That Overcomes by J.C. Philpot

Bible Reading: Revelation 2:14-21 KJV 

Key Verse:  "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."
- Revelation 2:17 KJV

How often God's word is to you a sealed book; how often you hear from the pulpit the most encouraging preaching, yet get no encouragement from it; how often you hear Christ held forth in his Person, blood and righteousness, and go away as you came, without any sensible relief. What is the reason? Because you are overcome. Unbelief, bondage, darkness of mind, insensibility rest upon your spirit, and all these keep you from feeding upon the manna.

Daily Devotion: He Refuses To Give A Sign To The Pharisees by Favell Lee Mortimer

Bible Reading: Matthew 12:38-45 KJV 

Key Verse:  "But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:" - Matthew 12:38-42 KJV

It was not with a sincere desire to be convinced of the truth that the Pharisees wished for a sign. They had already witnessed so many miracles that they could not avoid knowing that Jesus was the Son of God. This was their great sin, that when they knew the truth they would not confess it. As our Savior afterwards said, (in John 15:24,) "If I had not done among them the works that no other man did, they had not had sin—but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father."

Daily Devotion: It Was Sin by J. R. Miller

Bible Reading: Matthew 27:46 KJV 

Key Verse:  "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" - Matthew 27:46 KJV

There is a picture which represents the after-scenes on that day of the crucifixion. It is all over. The crowds have gone away. The evening sun is shining out again on Calvary. The body of the Savior has been borne to the sepulcher. The cross has been taken down, and lies on the ground. A company of little children, bright with the glow of childhood's innocence, led to the place by accident or curiosity, are seen bending over the signs of the day's terrible work. One of the children holds in his hand a nail which a little time before, had pierced a hand or a foot of the patient Sufferer, and stands spellbound with horror as he gazes at it. His gentle heart is shocked at sin's dreadful work! On all the children's faces, the same expression of horror is depicted.

Daily Devotion: The Resurrection And The Life by John MacDuff

Bible Reading: John 11:19-26 KJV 

Key Verse:  "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:"
- John 11:25 KJV

What a voice is this breaking over a world which for six thousand years has been a dormitory of sin and death! For four thousand of these years, heathendom could observe no light through the bars of the grave; her oracles were speechless on the great doctrine of a future state, and more especially regarding the body's resurrection. Even the Jewish Church, under the Old Testament dispensation, seemed to enjoy little more than fitful and uncertain glimmerings, like men groping in the dark!

Daily Devotion: Life Begins In The Womb by J.E. Smith

Bible Reading: Jeremiah 1:1-8 KJV

Key Verse:  "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." - Jeremiah 1:5 KJV     

From the very first moments of life, before human eyes can see or understand, God is already at work. The prophet Jeremiah was reminded that even before his birth and before he ever took a breath, God knew him, formed him, and set him apart for a divine purpose.