StudyLight.org Daily Devotional RSS Feed https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals.html Biblical resources for the study of God's Word en Copyright 2026, StudyLight.org Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST rss@studylight.org jgarrison@studylight.org https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/votl.html Devotional for 'Iyyar 03'

Ya'akov was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak (Genesis 32:24).

Weighing most heavily on Ya'akov's (Jacob's) mind when he fled his home was that his brother Eysav (Esau) was planning to kill him. Twenty years later, Eysav approached with an army of four hundred men, apparently unappeased by the passage of time. Ya'akov sent away his wives, children, servants and livestock to protect them from the impending attack. However, before the encounter with Eysav took place,…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/bdm.html Devotional for 20

"He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." ― Psalms 55:22. Some one may say: " He will never allow the righteous to fall away; but what right have I to regard myself as righteous? Of what avail is this promise to me? Well, it is of none, if thou art not righteous. In that case, the wrath of God abideth on thee; there are no promises for thee. But are there no promises for such as hunger and thirst after righteousness? Yes, for they are righteous. The Publican went down to his house,…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/bkt.html Devotional for 20

WHEN THE MAN IS THE PRAYER James 5:13-18 Emergencies call for intense prayer. When the man becomes the prayer nothing can resist its touch. Elijah on Carmel, bowed down on the ground, with his face between his knees, that was the prayer—the man himself. No words are mentioned. Prayer can be too tense for words. The man’s whole being was in touch with God, and was set with God against the powers of evil. They couldn’t withstand such praying. There’s more of this embodied praying…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/csr.html Who's Number One?

The college football season is winding down rapidly. Just three weeks of college football left before the most whacked up method of choosing a national champion in a major sport will take place. The pollsters will determine who's number one in college football just in time for post season bowl games to be determined and the Bowl Championship Series to be set to determine who will be crowned as national champs.So, who's number one in baseball? The Boston Red Sox.…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/dhb.html Devotional for 20

Naboth’s Vineyard 1 Kings 21 The work of Elijah went on after the Lord had dealt so gently with him, restoring his courage. Elisha is found at the plow, and is called to go with Elijah as his disciple and friend. Elijah seems to have been deeply affected by the lessons learned at Horeb. He worked after that more quietly and patiently. He did not try any more to suppress Baalism by force but sought to kindle zeal for the Lord, and then to wait for the slow working in men’s hearts and lives. In the…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/dhe.html Devotional for 20

“There they dwelt with the King for His work” (1 Chronicles 4:23) It is easy for water to run down from the upper springs, but it requires a divine impulse to flow up from the valley in the nether springs. There is nothing that tells more of Christ than to see a Christian rejoicing and cheerful in the humdrum and routine of commonplace work, like the sailors that stand on the dock loading the vessel and singing as they swing their loads, keeping time with the spirit of praise to the footsteps and…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/dlp.html Devotional for 20

Morning: There shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand. Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/dow.html Devotional for 20

I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you cannot have eternal life within you. (John 6:53 NLT) Let us remember that this way is a way that is a constant offence to the flesh, to the natural man. The Jews strove with one another, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?” But not only did Jews, the religious people in their religious self-satisfaction, strive together, but it is also written,“Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/edl.html "No condemnation now I dread"

For Reading and Meditation: John 8:21-36
We saw yesterday that the phenomenon of catharsis comes about not simply through telling someone else our troubles, but when that other person is a warm, accepting and understanding individual. Psychologists believe the explanation for this to be the fact that the warm, accepting manner of the helper is so directly opposite to the harsh, judgmental attitudes of those who caused the hurts that repressed feelings easily surface and are released. What has this law…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/ewj.html Devotional for 20

Behold, I am vile. - Job 40:4. LET us with regard to this self-accusation observe three things. In the first place, the quality acknowledged,-“vileness.” “Behold, I am vile.” “Vile,” says Johnson in his dictionary, is “base, mean, worthless, despicable, impure.” There is nothing in the world to which this will apply so much as to sin, and to sin Job referred when he said, “Behold, I am vile.” He does not call himself vile because he was a man reduced,…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/fcb.html Devotional for 20

“By Faith Not Feeling ” - Romans 1:17 I shall not die, I can, I do, believe in the LORD my God, and this faith will keep me alive. I would be numbered among those who in their lives are just; but even if I were perfect I would not try to live by my righteousness; I would cling to the work of the LORD Jesus and still live by faith in Him and by nothing else. If I were able to give my body to be burned for my LORD Jesus, yet I would not trust in my own courage and constancy, but still would live by…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/fdc.html Devotional for 20

Today’s Reading: 1 Kings 20-21 “Thy Servant was Busy Here and There” 1 Kings 20:40 Hugo Grotius of Holland was one of the most brilliant and influential men of the 17th century. He was a poet and a philosopher of recognition. He was a theologian, whose commentaries on the scriptures are regarded by many to be of great value. And Grotius was, perhaps, the most significant historian of his day. But when he laid dying from wounds he suffered in a shipwreck, he made this statement — “I…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/gft.html Devotional for April 20

2 Corinthians 9:7 ‘God loveth a cheerful giver’ Read 2 Corinthians 9:1-15 There is an abundance of instruction in the New Testament about Christian giving. All of 2 Corinthians 8 and 2 Corinthians 9 are taken up with this subject. But there are no commands to the people of God anywhere in the New Testament about how much we are to give, when we are to give, or where we are to give. Tithing and all systems like it are things altogether foreign to the New Testament. Like all other acts of worship,…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/gtd.html Devotional for 20

If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful, he cannot deny himself. 2 Timothy 2:13. Isaiah 42:3. Romans 10:13. Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6. Whoever has such a hungering and thirsting heart, desiring grace above all things, calling upon the name of the Lord, and depending only upon Christ, as a justifying faith already, and is in a state of salvation, though as yet he has not the full assurance of it. This is a fruit of the former, but it is…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/jcp.html Devotional for 20

"And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all."- Ephesians 1:22; Ephesians 1:23 In the mind of God, and as chosen in Christ, the Church is a perfect body. It is, therefore, the fullness of Christ. Just as our head and members, in their union with each other, form one perfect harmonious body, so it is with Christ and the Church. As the natural head would be incomplete without the body, as the…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/ko1.html Devotional for 20

  Exodus 14:15-31 The people have concluded that they are unable to deliver themselves. Their position is desperate . . . now God can act. He says: "They are to go forward!" How, when the sea is in front of them can the LORD say: "Go forward"? But faith is obedient, and counts on God. The angel of God comes with the pillar of cloud to place himself between the camp of Israel and that of the Egyptians. Now, what are the people afraid of? Remember that God will always interpose Himself as a…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/ko2.html Devotional for 20

  2 Samuel 12:1-12 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife", said the Law. "Thou shalt not commit adultery". "Thou shalt not kill" (Exodus 20:17; Exodus 20:14; Exodus 20:13). In Psalms 19:7 David declares, "The law of the LORD is perfect . . .". But he has transgressed three of the commandments in succession. However, his conscience still does not pull him up. The LORD has to send Nathan to him. The touching parable of the stolen ewe-lamb, so fitted to reach…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/ko3.html Devotional for 20

Proverbs 13:7-25 "The light of the righteous rejoiceth . . ." (v. 9; cf. Psalms 97:11). The joy of the Lord is part of the witness of the children of light. A sad Christian is often a sorry looking Christian. A sullen humour is like a screen which hides all the brightness that a believer should have. By contrast, "the lamp of the wicked shall be put out" (v. 9; Proverbs 24:20). They lack oil, just as the foolish virgins in the parable (Matthew 25:8), for the life of the Spirit is not there to…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/ko4.html Devotional for 20

Ezekiel 45:21-25; ; Ezekiel 46:1-11 Ch. 45 ends with instructions about the Passover, the first of the three great annual feasts (Deuteronomy 16:1-22). Henceforward each Israelite will be able to understand its priceless significance and think of the Lamb of God, whose blood has sheltered him from judgment. The second feast, that of Pentecost, is not mentioned here, and we may understand why: it concerns the Church whose portion is heavenly, and it has no place in this picture of the earthly reign. By contrast, v.…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/ko5.html Devotional for 20

Song of Solomon 6:1-13 The passionate description which the Shulamite was able to give of her beloved leads others to seek him. This should be the result of our witness. Those around us should not be in any way mistaken as to where we stand. Only testimony flowing from the abundance of our hearts will lead them to the Lord Jesus. The "daughters of Jerusalem" have so far only heard about the beauty of the Bridegroom but the Bride’s splendour is already visible to them. She is the "fairest…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mae.html Devotional for April 20

Morning “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” 1 Samuel 7:1-13 , 1 Samuel 7:15-17 1 Samuel 7:1 Thus the candlestick was removed from Shiloh, but the candle shone on far more brightly than before. 1 Samuel 7:2 This was a happy sorrow. Whenever men lament after God he will soon appear unto them. It should be the business of any of us who have not yet found Jesus, to sigh and cry after him till he appear, and it will not be long before he looks upon us in love. God had already come back to Israel when…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mdm.html Devotional for 20

THE JOY OF THE LOVER Romans 12:9-18 LOVE finds her joy in seeing others crowned. Envy darkens when she sees the garland given to another. Jealousy has no festival except when she is “Queen of the May.” But love thrills to another’s exaltation. She feels the glow of another’s triumph. When another basks in favour her own “time of singing of birds is come!”And all this is because love has wonderful chords which vibrate to the secret things in the souls of others. Indeed, the gift…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mej.html Devotional for 20

Morning Devotional Behold, I am vile. - Job 40:4. LET us with regard to this self-accusation observe three things. In the first place, the quality acknowledged,-“vileness.” “Behold, I am vile.” “Vile,” says Johnson in his dictionary, is “base, mean, worthless, despicable, impure.” There is nothing in the world to which this will apply so much as to sin, and to sin Job referred when he said, “Behold, I am vile.” He does not call himself vile because he was…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mep.html Devotional for 20

April 20—Morning—1 Corinthians 15:20 "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept."—1 Corinthians 15:20.     One view more, my soul, while thou art meditating upon this delightful subject of thy Redeemer’s triumph over death and the grave, and now look at Jesus’s resurrection as a sure pledge and confirmation of thine own. Did Jesus’s holy body arise? Then so shall thine, sinful and polluted as it now is, but…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mfs.html Devotional for 20

COURAGE UNWAVERING AND IMMOVEABLE What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken with the wind? - Luke 7:24 "What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? a reed shaken with the wind? " Nay! an iron pillar that stood firm whatsoever winds blew against it. This, as I take it, is in some true sense the basis of all moral greatness, that a man should have a grip which cannot be loosened - like that of the cuttlefish with all its tentacles round its prey- upon the truths that dominate his…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mh1.html Devotional for 20

Leviticus 21:8; Leviticus 21:15; Leviticus 21:23—I the Lord, which Sanctify you. This chapter is full of restrictions and cautions against anything that might defile the priests, the sons of Aaron. The holiness of God was set in a clear light by the care that there should be no ceremonial pollution or personal defect in those who ministered before His presence. What Aaron and his sons were in the ancient typical worship, that Jesus and His people are in the spiritual dispensation which has taken its place.…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mh2.html Devotional for 20

Job 41:10—Who then is he that can stand before Me? (R.V.) The first catechism had been on Job’s knowledge; now it turns on his power. The pivot of the one was, Knowest thou? of the other, Canst thou? If a man cannot stand before one of God’s creatures, how much less before the Creator! If we dread the wrath of the enraged crocodile, what should not be our dread before the wrath of the Eternal? Canst thou stand before Him? Canst thou strive against Him, with any hope of success? Canst thou force…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mh3.html Devotional for 20

Ezekiel 41:1—He brought me to the Temple, and measured. This is the pattern of an ideal Temple, which was presented in thought to the prophet’s mind, as the pattern of the Tabernacle was shown to Moses on the Mount. It is interesting to notice the minute measurements and specifications—even to the ornaments of cherubim and palm trees. We cannot but remember that the plan of our life is also worked out before the face of God, and that we shall live to the best purpose when we make all things…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mtv.html Devotional for 20

“ Even as the Father Hath Loved Me, I Also Have Loved you ” - John 15:9 Abide in My love—We speak of a man’s home as his abode. Our abode, the home of our soul, is to be the love of Christ. We are to live our life there, to be at home there all the day: this is what Christ means our life to be, and really can make it. Our continuous abiding in the Vine is to be an abiding in His love. You have probably heard or read of what is called the higher, or the deeper life, of the richer or the…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/mwt.html Devotional for 20

"I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry." -- 40:1."Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope,"-- 5:3; 5:4.Lord, we have wandered forth through doubt and sorrow, And Thou hast made each step an onward one; And we will ever trust each unknown morrow,-- Thou wilt sustain us till its work is done.S. JOHNSON.It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/oet.html Devotional for 20

When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Elijah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. Matthew 8:16-17 IN one respect only may it be said, that our Divine and adorable Lord would seem to have been exempted from the physical infirmities peculiar to the nature which He so voluntarily and entirely assumed-it does not…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/rem.html Devotional for 20

"Christ hath made us free." Galatians 5:1 WE were once the slaves of sin, Satan, and the world; we were under the law as a covenant of life; but Jesus has made us free. We are now delivered from the law, and are under grace. We are dead to sin, and are justified from it. We are delivered from Satan, and are at war with him. We overcome the world, and are hastening out of it. We are at liberty to serve God, and walk with Him in friendship and holy love. The price of our freedom was the life and death of…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/sid.html Devotional for 20

"Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6). My way led up a hill, and right at the foot I saw a boy on a bicycle. He was pedalling up hill against the wind, and evidently found it a tremendously hard work. Just as he was working most strenuously and doing his best painfully, there came a trolley car going in the same direction-- up the hill. It was not going too fast for the boy to get behind it, and with one hand to lay hold of the bar at the back. Then you…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/stc.html Devotional for 20

Morning Devotional God hath chosen us in Christ, before the foundation of the world.- Ephesians 1:4. So the apostles wrote and preached, to comfort and establish their brethren in the faith of Christ, in the love of God, and in the sanctification of the Spirit unto all true holiness. The election of sinners, by God the Father in Christ Jesus, from all eternity, is the foundation from which all faith and hope spring. If this truth is rejected, the atonement of Jesus is made precarious, the work of the Spirit…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/tlb.html Devotional for April 20

“If it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.” (NASB) When a person gets grounded early in the doctrine of grace, he saves himself from a host of problems in later life. It is so basic to understand that salvation is a free gift of God’s grace and that it is given to those who not only do not deserve it but who in fact deserve the very opposite. There is nothing meritorious a person can do or become to earn eternal life. It is given to those who…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/toz.html Morning / Evening Devotional — April 20

Too many Christian leaders, acting like enthusiastic promoters, are teaching that the essence of faith is this: "Come to Jesus-it will cost you nothing!" The price has all been paid - "it will cost you nothing!" Brethren, that is a dangerous half-truth. There is always a price connected with salvation and with discipleship. God's… ]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/tqh.html Devotional for 20

There stood by me this night the angel of God . . . saying, Fear not, Paul. . . . God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. Wherefore . . . be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. Acts 27:23-25. An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not yet performed; knowing that God’s bonds are as good as ready money.—Matthew Henry.…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST https://www.studylight.org/daily-devotionals/eng/tre.html Devotional for 20

After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. 1 Corinthians 15:6-8. The Savior was seen not only by the chosen apostles and foreordained witnesses of His resurrection, but by all who loved His manifestation and would make sure of His life and His grace; who waited for Him, and put all their trust in Him. This must inspire you with the confidence that He most assuredly will not disappoint you any more than them, if you seek…]]> Mon 20 April 26 21:20:26 EST