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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.

06
Feb2022

Trusting Jesus when you think you know better

by Pastor Joshua Pfeiffer

Simon answered, ‘Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets’ (Luke 5:5).

05
Feb2022

How do you look from a distance?

by Kathy Matuschka

Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly; but the proud, he knows them from afar (Psalm 138:6).

04
Feb2022

Prophets keep walking and trusting

by Kathy Matuschka

All the people were amazed and said to each other, ‘What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!’ (Luke 4:36)

03
Feb2022

The hometown disadvantage

by Kathy Matuschka

And they took offence at him. But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honour except in his own town and in his own home’ (Matthew 13:57).

02
Feb2022

These words from our ultimate prophet

by Kathy Matuschka

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock (Matthew 7:24).

01
Feb2022

God goes ahead of prophets

by Kathy Matuschka

For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah (1 Kings 17:16).