Abraham died. The man God called His friend. The man who believed the impossible promise. He died. And the very next verse says: “God blessed his son Isaac.” The work carried on. God does not retire when His people do. He buries His workers — but He never buries His work. Today’s devotional is for anyone who has watched a season end and quietly wondered if God’s purposes ended with it. He is the I AM — and He is already in the next chapter.
God asks Abraham for the thing he loves most — his son, his only son, whom he loves. The living proof of the promise. The boy he waited decades for. And the very next morning, Abraham got up and went. No hesitation. No bargaining. No day to think about it. Today’s devotional explores why Abraham could move so quickly — and what it looks like to hold everything God has given you with open hands. FAITH: Forsaking All I Trust Him.
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.
We didn’t plan to spend seventeen days here. But John 15 has a way of doing that. Seventeen verses — the vine and the branches, pruning, abiding, laying down your life, being called a friend, being chosen — all of it closing with the same sentence it opened with: “Love one another.” This post is a look back at all seventeen days before we move forward. Because John 15 doesn’t end when the series does. It becomes the lens for everything that follows — Genesis to Revelation.
The Greek word for “remain” is menō — to stay, to dwell, to make your home somewhere. Jesus uses it four times in one verse. He is not filling space. He is pressing a point. And here is the thing: we were not made to drift. God walked with Adam in the garden every day — that was the original design. Jesus is not asking us to do something new. He is calling us back to what we were always made for.