Monday 16th December Reading: Isaiah 29: 17-24 Shall not Lebanon in a very little while become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll,and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the […]
URC Daily Devotion 15th December 2019
Sunday 15th December 1 Unless the LORD builds up the house,its builders toil in vain;Unless he keeps the city safe,they vainly watch maintain. 2 In vain you rise before the dawnand late hours vainly keepThat you may toil for food to eat—he gives his loved ones sleep. 3 Sons are a precious heritage,a blessing from […]
URC Daily Devotion 14th December 2019
Saturday 14th December 2 Kings 13:14-21 Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, King Joash of Israel went down to him, and wept before him, crying, ‘My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!’ Elisha said to him, ‘Take a bow and arrows’; so […]
URC Daily Devotion 13th December 2019
Friday 13th December 2 Kings 9:1-13 and 10:15-17, 28 Then the prophet Elisha called a member of the company of prophets and said to him, ‘Gird up your loins; take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. When you arrive, look there for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi; go […]
URC Daily Devotion 12th December 2019
Thursday 12th December 2 Kings 8:1-15 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, ‘Get up and go with your household, and settle wherever you can; for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.’ So the woman got up […]
URC Daily Devotion 11th December 2019
Wednesday 11th November 2 Kings 6:32b-7:2, 16-20 Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, ‘Are you aware that this murderer has sent someone to take off my head? When the messenger comes, see that you shut the door and […]
URC Daily Devotion 10th December 2019
Tuesday 10th December 2 Kings 6: 1-23 Now the company of prophets said to Elisha, ‘As you see, the place where we live under your charge is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for each of us, and build a place there for us […]
URC Daily Devotion 9th December 2019
Monday 9th December 2 Kings 5:1, 8-19a, 25-27 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favour with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy.___But when Elisha the man of God […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th December 2019
1 When Zion’s fortunes God restored,it was a dream come true.2 Our mouths were then with laughter filled,our tongues with songs anew. The nations said, “The LORD has donegreat things for Israel.”3 The LORD did mighty things for us,and joy our hearts knew well. 4 Restore our fortunes, gracious LORD,like streams in desert soil.5 A […]
URC Daily Devotion 7th December 2019
Saturday 7th December 2 Kings 4:38-44 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the company of prophets was sitting before him, he said to his servant, ‘Put the large pot on, and make some stew for the company of prophets.’ One of them went out into the field to gather […]