Devotions

“Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 10:39). You have been given the gift of life. …

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does…

“For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of…

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34). For the earth, there will…

“Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in…

“And even the hairs of your head are all counted.  So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:30-21). Every particle of the universe…

“Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.  Are not two sparrows sold…

“What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops” (Matthew 10:27). Keep the focus of your mind and…

“So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known” (Matthew 10:26). The Lord reminds us…

“A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master.…