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Bring some Spirit-filled peace into your hectic schedule every weekday morning with this new Daily Devotional.
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  • February 5th - Proverbs 3:9-10

    February 5th - Proverbs 3:9-10
    Feb 5 2026
    Proverbs 3:9-10 Honour the LORD with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine. There are many different ways of giving. Some people give in order to impress. Jesus once spotted rich people placing their gifts in the temple treasury, no doubt giving a significant amount of money which would be a great help to the temple. Then, Jesus noticed a poor widow, who put two very small copper coins into the treasury. Her gift was tiny and unlikely to be much help to the temple’s accounts. However, it was her gift which really impressed Jesus. He commented: “For they have given a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she has” (Luke 21:4). The writer of Proverbs encourages us to give God our best. It was King David who pointed out that when we give to God, all we are doing is giving what he first gave to us. We will never be able to outgive God. It has been wisely said that you make a life out of what you give, not out of what you get. In our deeply acquisitive society, that is a very important insight. Learning how to give is vital if we are to know the blessings that God wants us to experience. I love the straightforwardness of Proverbs. The writer has a no-nonsense approach to serving God. He tells us how to live our lives to the full but also tells us the outcome. He has learned that if you give generously and put God first in your life, there will be a wonderful result. It will work differently for us all, but we can be confident that if we get our giving right, God will bless us. You will never become poor by giving generously. Question How generous are you in your giving? Prayer Lord God our Father, you have always been generous to me. Help me to learn how to be generous in every aspect of my life. Amen
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    3 min
  • February 4th - Proverbs 3:5-6

    February 4th - Proverbs 3:5-6
    Feb 4 2026
    Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Trusting is something we do all the time. We trust mechanics, electricians, gas engineers, teachers, police, judges, doctors, nurses – the list could go on and on. However, our trust in them can never be complete, because they are human. They will have good days, but they will have some bad ones as well. Occasionally, there are some people who are totally untrustworthy and let us down completely. God is different. When we trust in God, we can rely on him unreservedly. We can trust him with the whole of our heart and be confident that he will never let us down. Proverbs is an amazingly practical book that is concerned with how to live life to the full, and the writer is clear that trusting God is the most crucial issue. Every detail of our lives in our families, work and leisure turns on this, so he encourages us to make sure that God is at the centre of all of our decisions. He will show us the right way to go. This doesn’t mean that God’s guidance comes to us immediately and, at times, that can be very frustrating. We would like guidance to work like a slot machine where we put in our request and get a complete answer instantly. God doesn’t work like that. He wants a dynamic, daily relationship with us that is built on trust. As our relationship with God deepens, our trust in him grows. As a result, we can live with absolute confidence that God will guide us, even when deep fog has descended on us and we can’t see the way to go. Whatever challenge you are facing at the moment, you will never make a better decision than to trust God. Question In what aspect of your life are you seeking God’s guidance at the moment? Prayer Thank you, living Lord, that you are completely trustworthy. Help me to lean more and more heavily on you day by day. Amen
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    3 min
  • February 3rd - Proverbs 3:1-2

    February 3rd - Proverbs 3:1-2
    Feb 3 2026
    Proverbs 3:1-2 My child, never forget the things I have taught you. Store my commands in your heart. If you do this, you will live many years, and your life will be satisfying. What’s your memory like? Time and again, I trudge upstairs to get something and haven’t a clue what I’m looking for by the time I get there! Pathetically, I try to find something else useful to do while I’m there to justify the journey. Forgetting things is part of the human condition and always has been, and the writer of Proverbs often addresses the issue. He urges us not to forget what we’ve been taught, whether it was by our parents or our spiritual teachers. This involves planning. We need to pepper our lives with reminders of essential truths. We need to evolve a rhythm to our lives so that we are repeatedly reminded of what matters most. From earliest times, Jews had a variety of articles which gave them a constant reminder of the law. Phylacteries are small leather boxes which contain the Hebrew texts on vellum and are worn by some Jewish men at morning prayer as a reminder to keep the law. On the door frame of their homes, they affix a mezuzah, a decorative case containing the Jewish prayer: “Hear O Israel. The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” It's good for us all to build into our lives reminders of God’s love and faithfulness – prompts that will keep us on track and prevent us from forgetting about God. It doesn’t matter how we do this. Some people have Bible verses on their walls or on fridge magnets or receive verses by email or app. What matters is that we don’t forget. Supremely, we have the communion service or Eucharist, which Jesus gave to us as a way of ensuring that we would not forget his sacrificial death for us on the cross. Question What do you find the most effective way of reminding you of God’s love? Prayer Loving Father, help me never to forget your perfect love for me and for this needy world. Amen
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    3 min
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