Posts Categorized: Devotional

God Who Delivers

Posted July 4, 2016 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Matthew 27:45-46 (NIV)

From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—which means, “My God, my God, why have your forsaken me?”

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When Jesus cried out in anguish from the cross, in what way did his Father respond? Or did he?

God’s answer to my prayer may not be in the form I want or expect. Jesus, the beloved Son of the Father, suffered and died on that cruel cross. God did not stop his death, but he delivered him from death by raising him three days later.

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Someone Knows

Posted June 27, 2016 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Psalm 56:8 (NLT)

You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.

Consider

When we’ve been hurt in a relationship, we naturally want justice. We want to see the offender punished. We want compensation for our injury. We want an apology. Perhaps more than anything, we want to set the record straight. We need the relief of saying out loud what happened to us and to know that our truth has been heard, believed, and valued by another human being.

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Good Like God

Posted June 20, 2016 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Psalm 145:8-9 (NRSV)

The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The LORD is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.

Consider

David composed this song to praise his Creator God. Elsewhere in the psalm he describes a sovereign God who inspires awe and obedience in his people. In the verses quoted above, David describes a personal God, whose goodness draws us into loving and grateful relationship with him.

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Worthy to Judge

Posted June 13, 2016 | Judith Ingram

Scripture Ecclesiastes 7:13; 8:16-17 (NLT) Accept the way God does things, for who can straighten what he has made crooked? In my search for wisdom and in my observation of people’s burdens here on earth, I discovered that there is ceaseless activity, day and night. I realized that no one can discover everything God is […]

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Heirs to the Promise

Posted June 6, 2016 | Judith Ingram

Scripture

Galatians 3:28-29 (NLT)

There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.

Consider

What was God’s promise to Abraham, and what can it mean for us?

God’s Old Testament covenant with Abraham was twofold. There was the material promise that Abraham would father a great nation and inherit property in the land of Canaan. More important for us was the spiritual promise.

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