Daily Devotionals
Moses // Crossing the Red Sea
Daily Time With Truth
As you read these daily scriptures, ask yourself these three questions:
- What is God saying to me?
- What do I want to say to God in response?
- How will I live out this truth?
Day 1: Exodus 14:10-12
As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
Day 2: Psalm 106:9
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.
Day 3: Exodus 14:29-31
But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.
Day 4: Exodus 14:14
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Day 5: Exodus 15:2
“The Lord is my strength and my defense[a]; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Moses // The Call of Moses – Part 2
Daily Time With Truth
As you read these daily scriptures, ask yourself these three questions:
- What is God saying to me?
- What do I want to say to God in response?
- How will I live out this truth?
Day 1: Exodus 12:40-42
Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt. Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.
Day 2: Exodus 13:17-18
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.
Day 3: Exodus 13:21-22
By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
Day 4: Numbers 33:3 (KJV)
And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Day 5: Exodus 14:31
And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.
Moses // The Call of Moses
Daily Time With Truth
As you read these daily scriptures, ask yourself these three questions:
- What is God saying to me?
- What do I want to say to God in response?
- How will I live out this truth?
Day 1: Acts 7:21-22
When he was placed outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
Day 2: Exodus 2:11
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Day 3: Proverbs 22:6
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
Day 4: Exodus 3:2-4
There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
Day 5: 2 Corinthians 6:1
As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
Christmas: Bethlehem Style // The Birth of Christ
Daily Time With Truth
As you read these daily scriptures, ask yourself these three questions:
- What is God saying to me?
- What do I want to say to God in response?
- How will I live out this truth?
Day 1: Deuteronomy 7:6-7
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
Day 2: Philippians 2:7
He made himself nothing by taking the very nature[a] of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Day 3: Isaiah 49:6
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
Day 4: Psalm 17:6
I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.
Day 5: Matthew 1:21
“She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[a]because he will save his people from their sins.”
Christmas: Bethlehem Style // Journey to Bethlehem
Daily Time With Truth
As you read these daily scriptures, ask yourself these three questions:
- What is God saying to me?
- What do I want to say to God in response?
- How will I live out this truth?
Day 1: Luke 2:4-5
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
Day 2: Luke 1:37
For no word from God will ever fail.
Day 3: Micah 5:2
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
Day 4: Luke 1:44-45
As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!
Day 5: Luke 2:7
And she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
Christmas: Bethlehem Style // And He Shall Be Called
Daily Time With Truth
As you read these daily scriptures, ask yourself these three questions:
- What is God saying to me?
- What do I want to say to God in response?
- How will I live out this truth?
Day 1: Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Day 2: Luke 1:32-33
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
Day 3: Luke 2:14
“Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
Day 4: John 14:16-17
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
Day 5: Judges 13:18
He replied, “Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding.”