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Daily Devotion

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20
Nov2024

Detested?

by Ruth Olsen

You should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock … all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians’ (Genesis 46:34).

19
Nov2024

Liberating truth

by Ruth Olsen

Then he sent his brothers away … [saying] ‘Don’t quarrel on the way!’ (Genesis 45:24)

18
Nov2024

‘God sent me ahead of you’

by Ruth Olsen

[Joseph] wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it (Genesis 45:2).

17
Nov2024

Birth pains

by Ruth Olsen

Many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he’, and will deceive many (Mark 13:6).

16
Nov2024

The safest place

by Pastor Mark Gierus

Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge (Psalm 16:1).

15
Nov2024

God shapes you

by Pastor Mark Gierus

Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers. How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father (Genesis 44:33,34).