Daily Devotionals
Christmas: Bethlehem Style // The Shepherds and Angels
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 2:9-11
An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.
Day 2: Nehemiah 9:26-27
“But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies. So, you delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed, they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.
Day 3: 2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
Day 4: Luke 2:15-16
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” So, they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger.
Day 5: Luke 2:20
The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
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.”