Category: Daily Devotion

Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,Exodus 23:25. What a promise is this! To serve God is in itself a high delight. But what an added privilege to have the blessing of the Lord resting upon us in all things! Our commonest things become…

The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.Deuteronomy 28:12. This refers first to the rain. The Lord will give this in its season. Rain is the emblem of all those…

One of you routs a thousand, because the Lord your God fights for you, just as he promised. Joshua 23:10. Why count heads? One man with God is a majority though there be a thousand on the other side. Sometimes our helpers may be too many for God to work with them, as was the case with Gideon, who could…

For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help. Psalm 72:12. The needy cries; what else can he do? His cry is heard of God; what else need he do? Let the needy reader take to crying at once, for this will be his wisdom. Do not cry in…

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; with your right hand you save me.Psalm 138:7. Wretched walking in the midst of trouble. Nay, blessed walking, since there is a special promise for it. Give me a promise, and what is the trouble? What doth my…

“If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth.” Ecclesiastes 11:3. Why, then, do we dread the clouds which now darken our sky? True, for a while they hide the sun, but the sun is not quenched; He will shine out again before long. Meanwhile those black clouds are filled with…