Devotionals, 317 total items found

The Unbroken Bond     By Esther Chin        
How does your bond with God look like?

The Widow's Choice     By Daniel Jeng        
In today’s turbulent economic times, we face a similar dilemma as the widow of Zarephath. Do we use the precious time we have to serve God first in His church? Or do we put ourselves first to ensure our survival?

The Wisdom of Heeding Advice        
So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said. —Exodus 18:24

Three Things We Lack        
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. —James 1:4

Time and Chance Happen to Them All        
It’s tempting just to sit back and slack off when dedicated service and hard work seem irrelevant and unappreciated. After all, what use is it?

To Behold God’s Beauty in His House     By Shuhong Lin        
We can either be part of the beauty to be found in God’s house or part of what is contrary.

To Drink Water     By Daniel Jeng        
How do we regain our spiritual thirst for simple, but life-sustaining, water?

To Stand Out Among Tares     By Rebecca Lee        
We are to live among the tares until the harvest at the end of the age, as Jesus instructed, “[L]est while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest” (Mt 13:29, 30a). But, as we live among tares, have we become assimilated with them? Do we still shine forth as the wheat that await the harvester’s coming?

To the Rock that Is Higher than I     By Sarah Lin        
When David was at his wits’ end, he asked to be led to the Rock that is higher than him. It is all so easy to feel overwhelmed when troubles flood our days. Whether it is something requiring our action or things beyond our control, we often find ourselves troubled and weary, even harboring grievances. That’s why we need to turn to God, and move up to the Rock higher than all our troubles.

Transformation        
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed... For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. —1 Corinthians 15:51-52