Daily Devotional
February 7, 2025
Genesis 40: Joseph, still in prison, interprets the dreams of Pharaoh’s cupbearer and baker. He predicts the cupbearer’s restoration and the baker’s execution, both of which come true. However, the cupbearer forgets to mention Joseph to Pharaoh.
Mark 10: Jesus teaches on divorce, blesses children, and challenges the rich young ruler to give up his wealth. He predicts His death a third time, corrects James and John’s request for glory, and heals blind Bartimaeus, emphasizing faith and service.
Job 6: Job responds to Eliphaz, expressing the depth of his suffering and his frustration with his friends' lack of understanding. He pleads for true comfort and challenges them to show him where he has sinned.
Romans 10: Paul declares that salvation comes through faith in Christ, not by the law. He emphasizes that all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved and highlights Israel’s rejection of the gospel, despite its clear proclamation.
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February 6, 2025
Genesis 39: Joseph, now a slave in Egypt, prospers under God's blessing in Potiphar’s house but is falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife and thrown into prison. Even in prison, God grants him favor, and he is placed in charge of the prisoners.
Mark 9: Jesus is transfigured before Peter, James, and John. He heals a boy possessed by a demon, teaches about true greatness through servanthood, and warns about causing others to stumble. He calls His disciples to radical holiness and to have peace with one another.
Job 5: Eliphaz continues his speech, advising Job to seek God for help, emphasizing that God disciplines those He loves. He describes how God protects the weak and frustrates the plans of the wicked, urging Job to accept divine correction.
Romans 9: Paul expresses sorrow over Israel’s rejection of Christ. He explains God's sovereign choice, using the examples of Isaac, Jacob, and Pharaoh, and emphasizes that salvation comes through faith, not works. He highlights how Gentiles have obtained righteousness by faith, while Israel stumbled by seeking it through the law.
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February 5, 2025
Genesis 32: Jacob prepares for a potentially hostile reunion with Esau by sending gifts ahead and splitting his camp for safety; he wrestles with a divine figure, earning the name Israel for prevailing in the struggle.
Mark 3: Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath, leading to Pharisaic plots against Him; He appoints the Twelve Apostles and teaches about the unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit, emphasizing true familial bonds as those who do God's will.
Esther 8: Esther and Mordecai write an edict allowing Jews to defend themselves against impending attacks, reversing Haman's orders; the Jews rejoice and many locals declare themselves Jews out of fear and respect.
Romans 3: Paul argues that both Jews and Gentiles are guilty of sin under God’s law, but all can be justified by faith in Jesus Christ, establishing that righteousness comes not from the law but through faith for all who believe.
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February 4, 2025
Genesis 37: Joseph, Jacob’s favored son, dreams that his family will bow to him, fueling his brothers’ jealousy. They sell him into slavery, deceiving their father by faking his death. Joseph is taken to Egypt and sold to Potiphar.
Mark 7: Jesus confronts the Pharisees about their empty traditions, emphasizing that true defilement comes from within. He heals a Syrophoenician woman’s daughter and restores hearing and speech to a deaf man.
Job 3: Job laments his birth, wishing he had never been born due to his suffering. He longs for death as relief from his anguish.
Romans 7: Paul explains how the law reveals sin but cannot save. He describes the struggle between sinful desires and the desire to follow God, concluding that only Christ can rescue us from this conflict.
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February 3, 2025
Genesis 35–36: Jacob returns to Bethel, where God reaffirms His covenant with him, renaming him Israel. Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin, and Isaac passes away. Esau’s genealogy is listed, showing the formation of Edom.
Mark 6: Jesus is rejected in His hometown, sends out the Twelve, and feeds five thousand. John the Baptist is beheaded by Herod, and Jesus walks on water, astonishing His disciples.
Job 2: Satan afflicts Job with painful sores, but Job remains faithful. His wife urges him to curse God, and his three friends arrive, mourning in silence for seven days.
Romans 6: Paul teaches that believers, united with Christ in His death and resurrection, are no longer slaves to sin but slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification and eternal life in Christ.
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February 2, 2025
Genesis 34: Shechem defiles Dinah and seeks to marry her, but her brothers Simeon and Levi deceive and slaughter the men of the city, bringing conflict to Jacob’s household.
Mark 5: Jesus casts demons out of a possessed man, heals a woman suffering for twelve years, and raises Jairus’s daughter from the dead, demonstrating His power over spiritual and physical affliction.
Job 1: Job, a righteous man, is tested as Satan takes away his wealth, children, and servants, yet he remains faithful, worshiping God despite his great loss.
Romans 5: Paul explains that justification by faith brings peace with God, and through Jesus, grace abounds even more than sin, offering eternal life to all who believe.
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February 1, 2025
Genesis 33: Jacob humbly approaches Esau, but Esau embraces him with love and forgiveness; after refusing Esau’s offer to travel together, Jacob settles in Shechem and builds an altar to God.
Mark 4: Jesus teaches in parables, explaining the sower, the growing seed, and the mustard seed, emphasizing faith and spiritual growth; He calms a storm, demonstrating His authority over creation.
Esther 9-10: The Jews defeat their enemies and establish the festival of Purim to commemorate their deliverance; Mordecai rises to power and continues to seek the prosperity of his people.
Romans 4: Paul explains that Abraham was justified by faith, not works or circumcision, making him the father of all who believe in God's promise, which is fulfilled through Jesus Christ.
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January 31, 2025
Genesis 32: Jacob prepares for a potentially hostile reunion with Esau by sending gifts ahead and splitting his camp for safety; he wrestles with a divine figure, earning the name Israel for prevailing in the struggle.
Mark 3: Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath, leading to Pharisaic plots against Him; He appoints the Twelve Apostles and teaches about the unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit, emphasizing true familial bonds as those who do God's will.
Esther 8: Esther and Mordecai write an edict allowing Jews to defend themselves against impending attacks, reversing Haman's orders; the Jews rejoice and many locals declare themselves Jews out of fear and respect.
Romans 3: Paul argues that both Jews and Gentiles are guilty of sin under God’s law, but all can be justified by faith in Jesus Christ, establishing that righteousness comes not from the law but through faith for all who believe.
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January 30, 2025
Genesis 31: Jacob flees from Laban after God instructs him to return to his homeland; despite Laban's pursuit and confrontation, they establish a covenant at Galeed, marking a peaceful separation.
Mark 2: Jesus heals a paralytic to demonstrate His authority to forgive sins, calls Levi the tax collector, and teaches about the appropriate time for fasting, also asserting His lordship over the Sabbath.
Esther 7: Queen Esther reveals Haman's plot against her people at a banquet, leading to Haman's execution on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai, thereby saving the Jewish people from annihilation.
Romans 2: Paul discusses God's righteous judgment, emphasizing that both Jews and Gentiles are accountable to God's law, and true circumcision is a matter of the heart, not merely external compliance.
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January 29, 2025
Genesis 30: Rachel, unable to bear children, gives her maid Bilhah to Jacob to conceive sons, leading Leah to do the same with her maid Zilpah; Rachel eventually bears Joseph.
Mark 1: John the Baptist prepares the way for Jesus, who then begins His ministry in Galilee, calling His first disciples and performing various miracles, including healing and exorcism.
Esther 6: King Ahasuerus, unable to sleep, learns of Mordecai's earlier loyalty and orders Haman to honor him publicly, ironically thwarting Haman's plan to have Mordecai executed.
Romans 1: Paul expresses his eagerness to visit Rome to strengthen the church, outlines the gospel's power for salvation to all who believe, and discusses the unrighteousness and idolatry prevalent among the Gentiles.
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