Where is Your Faith?
Read: John 6:1-15 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” (v. 5) Would you be prepared to answer Jesus’s question to Philip? John tells us why Jesus asked Philip: “He said […]
Your House of Mercy
Read: John 5:1-15 I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. (v. 7) Today we read again about the paralyzed man, waiting for the water in the pool of Bethesda to be stirred up, even though he had no one to help him get into it. When […]
Beyond Your Last Chance
Read: John 5:1-15 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” (v. 6) What would it look like if we all were as willing as the man in today’s reading to be healed spiritually as we […]
When All You Have is God
Read: John 4:43-54 At Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. (v. 46) Imagine for just a second that you are in a very difficult situation, a situation you have tried to solve with everything you have, without success. What do you do? When everything seems to be to your disadvantage, where do […]
Unexpected Surprises
Read: John 2:1-12 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” (v. 3) When you go hiking, it is very important to pay attention to the trail markers. These guides make sure that you are walking in the right direction. It would be really foolish to stand […]
Near and Far
Read: Ephesians 2:11-22 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. (v. 17) From my desk at Words of Hope, the country of Albania is about 5000 miles away. For me, traveling to the capital city of Tirana and sitting down with the writers […]
March 2025 Prayer Guide
NIGER — The team in Niger is focusing on the theme “Year of Encounter with God” to encourage believers to draw closer to him for strength and hope. Pray that many will deepen their faith and experience Christ’s presence. Ask that those who do not know Christ will encounter his love and place their trust […]
Complete Unity
Read: John 17:20-26 . . . I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. (v. 23) A hymn written by John Fawcett echoes Jesus’s prayer: “Blest be the tie that binds our […]
Set Apart
Read: John 17:13-19 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. (vv. 17-18) What a privilege to get to listen to this divine conversation in John 17, the only one like it in Scripture. Jesus asks his Father that […]