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Daily Devotion

Start or finish each day in God’s word, with devotions written by LCANZ members. Sign up to receive Daily Devotion in your inbox every morning. Permission is granted to print and publish these devotions with this acknowledgement: ‘Reproduced with permission: Lutheran Church of Australia 2025.’ If possible, please provide a link to the Daily Devotion archive page: www.lca.org.au/daily-devotion. LCA Communications is producing a week of devotions in advance in ready-to-print format for congregations to deliver to members. To receive a link to the printable sets each week, simply ask us at lca.comms@lca.org.au. Click here to find the print versions of Daily Devotion.

25
Oct2022

God will restore

by Kathy Matuschka

I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite (Isaiah 57:15b).

24
Oct2022

Standing (or kneeling) in the gap

by Kathy Matuschka

I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you (Nehemiah 1:6b).

23
Oct2022

I’ve got nothing

by Kathy Matuschka

But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner’ (Luke 18:13).

22
Oct2022

The joy of the journey

by Pastor Fraser Pearce

Happy are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion (Psalm 84:5).

21
Oct2022

Confession and healing

by Pastor Fraser Pearce

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed (James 5:16).

20
Oct2022

Thanksgiving: sight for the blind

by Pastor Fraser Pearce

Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving. At the same time pray for us as well that God will open to us a door for the word (Colossians 4:2,3a).