Devotional Archives for Encouragement for Today

"You must each make up your own mind as to how much you should give. Don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure. For God loves the person who gives cheerfully." 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NLT)

Blessed is the (wo)man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers, but her delight is in the Lord... and she will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water. Psalm 1:1-3

"... so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:9

"David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the LORD with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets" (2 Samuel 16:14-15 NIV).

"Yet the news about Him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed." Luke 5:15-16 (NIV)

"Because of this [Jesus' obedience to the point of death], God raised him up to the heights of heaven and gave him a name that is above every other name" (Philippians 2:9 NLT).

And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. Hebrews 13:16 (NIV)

Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8 NIV

"Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" Declares the Lord. "This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word," Isaiah 66:1-2 (NIV)

Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD. Psalm 150:6