God tells Abraham that Sodom and Gomorrah are going to be destroyed. And Abraham — instead of just accepting it and walking away — starts to plead. Fifty righteous. Forty-five. Forty. Thirty. Twenty. Ten. He kept going. And God heard him every time. Today’s devotional looks at what this conversation reveals about bold prayer — and why the confidence to plead with God comes not from how we feel but from knowing who He is. Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Abram believed God — and then got impatient and made a mess. God went quiet for thirteen years. And I imagine Abram wondered: did I ruin it? Has God moved on? Then chapter 17 opens. God comes back — not with accusation, but with a reminder: “I am God Almighty.” And He adds a breath — the letter h — to Abram’s name, turning Abram into Abraham. The breath of God changes what had failed. Today’s devotional is for anyone who has made a mess of something and wondered if they’ve disqualified themselves from what God promised.
God told Abram to leave his country, his people, and his father’s household — and go to a land He would show him. No map. No destination. Just a direction and a promise. And Abram packed up the very next morning and went. No arguing like Moses. No running like Jonah. Today’s devotional explores why Abram could move so quickly — and what it means that God always gives the assurance before the instruction. The test is never the end of the story. God tests in order to entrust.
When you hit the genealogies in your Bible, what do you do? Most of us skip them. But God chose to include page after page of names — and chose NOT to include most of Jesus’s life between twelve and thirty. That’s not an accident. Then Jesus says in Luke 12:7 that the hairs of your head are numbered — not totalled, but individually known. The Greek tense means they HAVE BEEN numbered, they ARE numbered right now. Nothing about your life is too small for His attention.
God didn’t spare Noah from the flood — He took him through it. The ark wasn’t escape from the crisis; it was God’s provision within it. And Noah built it for 100 to 120 years before a single drop of rain fell to validate what he was doing. Partial obedience is not obedience. Either you are obeying God, or you are deciding which parts of His instruction are worth following. Today’s devotional is for anyone in a season they’ve been asking God to remove them from.
Day 20 · Genesis 3:1–6 📖 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE Genesis 3:1, 4–6 (NIV) Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent…
Of all the things God made — light, sky, sea, sun, creatures of every kind — only one carries His image. You do. Genesis 1:27 isn’t just a creation statement. It’s an invitation: stay close to the One who carries His image fully, and let the reflection show — not because you worked harder, but because you stayed closer.