OCTOBER 5, 2025 Psalm 106:44-45 He regarded their affliction, when He heard their cry; and for their sake He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercies. As related in the previous devotion, God loves His people too much to let them continue down the road to destruction unchallenged. Unfortunately for us, sometimes His […]
OCTOBER 6, 2025 Psalm 107:1-3 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. This psalm begins the fifth and final book […]
OCTOBER 5, 2025 Psalm 106:44-45 He regarded their affliction, when He heard their cry; and for their sake He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercies. As related in the previous devotion, God loves His people too much to let them continue down the road to destruction unchallenged. Unfortunately for us, sometimes His […]
OCTOBER 4, 2025 Psalm 106:42-43 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. Many times He delivered them; but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. In a previous devotion, we addressed the fact that our God is a jealous God, meaning that He […]
OCTOBER 3, 2025 Psalm 106:41-42 He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles, and those who hated them ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. You may be thinking, “How can anyone be inspired and encouraged by such a statement as this?” What can […]
OCTOBER 2, 2025 Psalm 106:39 Thus they were defiled by their own works, and played the harlot by their own deeds. If we are to truly appreciate the significance of the psalmist’s statement, “they played the harlot by their own deeds,” we need to recall what had occurred at Mount Sinai. In effect, God came down to the people […]
OCTOBER 1, 2025 Psalm 106:39 Thus they were defiled by their own works, and played the harlot by their own deeds. The Bible teaches us that people are tri-part beings — i.e. body, soul and spirit. Though there are distinctions between the three components, each combine as one person. Therefore, whatever is within the innermost man (his spirit) will […]
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 Psalm 106:34-36 They did not destroy the peoples, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them, but they mingled with the Gentiles and learned their works. They served their idols, which became a snare to them. Before the people of Israel entered Canaan, they received some explicit instructions as it related to the inhabitants of […]
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025 Psalm 106:32-33 They angered Him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses on account of them; because they rebelled against His Spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips. In the previous devotion, we highlighted Moses’ humility and self-sacrifice on behalf of God’s people; how he repeatedly interceded […]
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 Psalm 106:23 He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them. On more than one occasion, Moses bravely and humbly made the decision to stand in the gap for an errant nation. Think about it: […]
SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 Psalm 106:19-21 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molded image. Thus they changed their glory into the image of an ox that eats grass. They forgot God their Savior. In the previous devotion, we emphasized just how easy and how quickly people who have professed their devotion to God can […]
SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 Psalm 106:19-21 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped the molded image. Thus they changed their glory into the image of an ox that eats grass. They forgot God their Savior. To this day, the sin of the Golden Calf remains as one of the most egregious examples of rebellion and hypocrisy […]
