1 Praise God, my soul! With all my heartLet me exalt his holy name.2 Forget not all his benefits;His praise, my soul, in song proclaim.3 The LORD forgives you all your sins,And heals your sickness and distress;4 Your life he rescues from the grave,And crowns you in his tenderness. 5 He satisfies your deep desiresFrom […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th June 2019
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us […]
URC Daily Devotion 28th June 2019
This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth. There are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three agree. […]
URC Daily Devotion 27th June 2019
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th June 2019
This is quite a reading. On first glance, the reader may well pass over it, thinking it to be ‘yet another mushy reading about love’. But read on, and we’ll find it packs more of a punch than first we realised. Having a younger brother, I know how hard it is to love our siblings […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th June 2019
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Saviour of the world. God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and […]
URC Daily Devotion 24th June 2019
“You can have the sound of a thousand voices calling your name…” sang Shinedown; the song continued, “The one thing you leave behind is how did you love?” Paul tells us “I could speak in the tongues of mortals or of angels, but if I have not love, I am just a noisy gong” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]