URC Daily Devotion 23rd June 2019

1 LORD, listen to my prayer,And hear my cry for aid.2 Hide not your face from me,For I am so afraid.Incline your ear to me in need;And, when I call, be swift to heed. 3 Like smoke my days are gone;My bones are burned away.4 My appetite is lost;My heart is parched like hay.5 Because […]

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URC Daily Devotion 22nd June 2019

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.  By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does […]

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URC Daily Devotion 21st June 2019

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he […]

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URC Daily Devotion 20th June 2019

Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.  Beloved, if our hearts do […]

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URC Daily Devotion 19th June 2019

A compass is a simple instrument but very effective. When we have lost our bearings we can be re-orientated. Throughout the Scriptures we discover the ‘compass’ of God’s love. Invariably it points away from us.  In this passage we read once more that our love should be directed to others. We are mistaken if we […]

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URC Daily Devotion 18th June 2019

Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.  No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who […]

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URC Daily Devotion 17th June 2019

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do […]

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URC Daily Devotion 16th June 2019

1 I’ll praise your love and justice, LORD;I’ll praise you cheerfully.2 I’ll strive to lead a blameless life—when will you come to me? Within my home the life I leadwill show a blameless heart.3 My eyes will view no worthless thing;from sin I will depart. I hate what faithless people do;it shall not cling to […]

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URC Daily Devotion 15th June 2019

There are many jokes, proverbs, stereotyping sayings – whatever you wish to call them – that play on where people come from. As I was growing up in Derbyshire, I used to hear that people said of us, “Derbyshire born and Derbyshire bred, strong in t‘arm and thick in t’head”. I guess we’ve all heard […]

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URC Daily Devotion 14th June 2019

I write these things to you concerning those who would deceive you. As for you, the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and so you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as […]

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