May 27th, 2025
Read Romans 12:12 NIV Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Simple instructions: Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. But how? Joy starts with a desire for something good to happen. This desire…which is really hope… requires faith and belief in God’s promises. We are instructed to be […]
May 26th, 2025
Read John 16:20-24 ESV Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy. When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer […]
May 25th, 2025
Read James 1:2-3 NIV Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. What is pure joy? Pure joy comes from our faith in God, our Creator. Pure joy comes from trusting in His truth; His plans; His […]
May 24th, 2025
Read: Psalm 16:9-11 NRSV Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also rests secure. For you do not give me up to Sheol, or let your faithful one see the Pit. You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in […]
May 23rd, 2025
Read: Psalm 30:4-12 NRSV Sing praises to the Lord, O you his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger is but for a moment; his favour is for a lifetime.Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning. As for me, I said in […]
May 22nd, 2025
Read: Psalm 94:3-15 NRSV O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. They kill the widow and the stranger, they murder the orphan, and they say, […]
May 21st, 2025
Read: Psalm 32:3-5 NRSV While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Then I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not hide my […]
May 20th, 2025
Read: Psalm 137:1-3 NRSV By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps. For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying, ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion!’ To mourn […]
May 19th, 2025
Read: Psalm 10:1-2 NRSV Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor— let them be caught in the schemes they have devised. We often cry out with David when evil seems to have the upper hand. Injustice, suffering, and […]
May 18th, 2025
Read: Psalm 6:6-9 NRSV I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping. My eyes waste away because of grief; they grow weak because of all my foes. Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord […]
