Our Daily Bread

Daily Devotionals

• Always There
  

  The radio engineers who work at RBC Ministries were getting ready to broadcast a program via satellite. They had prepared everything, including the satellite link. But just as they were to begin uploading, the signal to the satellite was lost. Confused, the engineers labored to reconnect the link, but nothing worked. Then they got the word—the satellite was gone. Literally. The satellite had suddenly and surprisingly fallen from the sky. It was no longer there.

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• Botox For The Soul
  

  Got Botox? A lot of people do. Some take Botox treatments for health matters, but many take them be-cause they want to look young again.

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• Loopholes
  

  Five-year-old Jenna was not having a good start to her day. Every attempt to arrange the world according to her liking was having the opposite result. Arguing didn’t work. Pouting didn’t work. Crying didn’t work. Finally her mother reminded her of the Bible verse she had been learning: “Your Word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You” (Ps. 119:11).

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• Silence, Please!
  

  Our world has become increasingly noisy. But according to a news report, science has found a way to achieve absolute silence: “Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an ‘acoustic cloak,’ which could make objects impervious to sound waves. The technology, outlined in the New Journal of Physics, could be used to build sound-proof homes, advanced concert halls, or stealth warships.”

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• Jennifer Benson Schuldt
  Jennifer Benson Schuldt has been writing professionally since 1997 when she began her career as a technical writer with an international consulting firm. She writes for Our Daily Journey and first appeared in Our Daily Bread in September 2010. Jennifer lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, Bob, and their two children. One of [...]

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Daily Devotionals By Oswald Chambers

• The Far-Reaching Rivers of Life
  

  He who believes in Me . . . out of his heart will flow rivers of living water —John 7:38

  A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, “rivers of living water” will flow out of us, reaching in blessing even “to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8 ) regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives…

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• Watching With Jesus
  

  Stay here and watch with Me —Matthew 26:38

  Watch with Me.” Jesus was saying, in effect, “Watch with no private point of view at all, but watch solely and entirely with Me.” In the early stages of our Christian life, we do not watch with Jesus, we watch for Him. We do not watch with Him through the revealed truth…

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• His!
  

  They were Yours, You gave them to Me . . . —John 17:6

  A missionary is someone in whom the Holy Spirit has brought about this realization: “You are not your own” ( 1 Corinthians 6:19 ). To say, “I am not my own,” is to have reached a high point in my spiritual stature. The true nature of that life in actual everyday confusion…

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• Pouring Out the Water of Satisfaction
  

  He would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord —2 Samuel 23:16

  What has been like “water from the well of Bethlehem” to you recently— love, friendship, or maybe some spiritual blessing (  2 Samuel 23:16 )? Have you taken whatever it may be, even at the risk of damaging your own soul, simply to satisfy yourself? If you have, then you cannot…

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• A Life of Pure and Holy Sacrifice
  

  He who believes in Me . . . out of his heart will flow . . . —John 7:38

  Jesus did not say, “He who believes in Me will realize all the blessings of the fullness of God,” but, in essence, “He who believes in Me will have everything he receives escape out of him.” Our Lord’s teaching was always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a…

Upper Room Daily Reflections

Daily words of wisdom and faith

• On the Palm of God’s Hand
  Monday’s Reflection ON THE PALM OF YOUR HAND you write my name, O God.Through the pages of creation, my life unfolds.In the chambers of your heart, I have a home, O God,where every cry is heard, every tear seen,every thanks whispered in the dark or sung to the morning is known to you.And still, I am [...]

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• God of Creation
  Sunday’s Reflection GOD IS MUCH MORE CREATIVE than our comfort level tends to allow–much more in tune with the tempo of our lives and the various places we find ourselves. In fact, those are the points where God seeks us–through most everything that happens, in every incongruent and often confusing aspect of our personal experience. >As Jesus [...]

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• Attentive to God
  Saturday’s Reflection WHY BE ATTENTIVE TO GOD? Because it will give you a spiritual high? because you will have a wonderful experience? to get something for yourself? No. Because you are loved. Give yourself in gratitude for that love. The love God gives to you calls for your love in response. You are “called” to overflowing [...]

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• Christ Hears Our Prayers
  Friday’s Reflection EVERY MORNING, I give thanks for all God has given me–for my bed, my breakfast, my cup of tea from my leaf-shaped teapot. But as I pray, I know that beyond my home, beyond my country where freedom and peace are taken for granted, beyond all the blessings of my life lie poverty, slavery, [...]

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• You Are Loved by God
  Thursday’s Reflection THIS PROCLAMATION IS THE HEART of the gospel: I am loved by God. My favorite way of stating it is this: There is a place in God’s heart that only I can fill–only you can fill. . . . God’s desire for a relationship with us is declared on boldfaced billboards visible from almost [...]