Daily Archives: November 28, 2025

Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread – A City Worth Seeking?

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What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. Philippians 3:8

Today’s Scripture

Philippians 3:1-9

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On May 29, 1925, Percy Fawcett sent a final letter to his wife before he ventured deeper into the unmapped jungles of Brazil. He was seeking a fabled lost city of great splendor, determined to be the first explorer to share its location with the world after years of searching. But his team of explorers got lost, the city was never found, and many expeditions failed to recover either.

Percy’s courage and passion, while admirable, was squandered on a lost city that could never be reached. If we’re honest, there are many unreachable goals in our lives that hold a similar power over us. But there is a real treasure for each person that’s worth seeking with all of our heart, mind, and strength.

In his letter to believers in Philippi, Paul put it this way: “I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:8). Unlike a fabled city—yielding riches, fame, or power—knowing Jesus and believing in Him is a treasure without equal. Worldly goals of power or status, or even the appearance of righteousness through keeping the law, are nothing compared to knowing Jesus (vv. 6-7). Are we spending our time and energy on something that can never satisfy? May Christ help us check what “city” we’re seeking.

Reflect & Pray

What treasure are you seeking today? How does meditating on the worth of knowing Jesus help rightly align your priorities?

 

Thank You, Jesus, that I don’t have to strive for something that can never satisfy. I have the treasure of knowing You.

 

For further study, read The Promised King.

Today’s Insights

Paul was tutored by Gamaliel, a leading authority of Judaism (Acts 5:34), and “carefully trained in [the] Jewish laws and customs” (22:3 nlt). He was a Pharisee par excellence, whose knowledge of religious learning was unrivaled among his peers (Philippians 3:4-6). Yet he considered “everything else . . . worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus” (v. 8 nlt). Because knowing Jesus is the key to living a life of faith in Him, the apostle made it his life goal “to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead” (v. 10 nlt). When we’re tempted to seek satisfaction in earthly things, we can remember that to experience life fully is simply to know “the only true God, and Jesus Christ” (John 17:3).

 

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Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer – Set Your Mind and Keep It Set

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And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.

Colossians 3:2 (AMPC)

In today’s scripture, the apostle Paul gives us valuable instruction about our thinking. He clearly tells us to think about things that are important to God (“the higher things”) and that doing so will always fill our minds with good thoughts.

“Setting” your mind is probably one of the greatest and most beneficial things you can learn to do. To set your mind means to make up your mind firmly. Wet concrete can be moved with ease and is very impressionable before it dries or sets. But once it does set, it is in place for good. It cannot be easily molded or changed.

The same principle that applies to concrete applies to set- ting your mind. To set your mind is to determine decisively what you will think, what you believe, and what you will or will not do—and to set it in such a way that you cannot be easily swayed or persuaded otherwise. Once you set your mind according to the truth of God’s principles for a good life, you need to keep it set and not allow outside forces to reshape your thinking. Setting your mind does not mean being narrow- minded and stubborn. We should always be open to learning, growing, and changing, but we must consistently resist the temptation to conform our thoughts to the world and its ideas.

To set your mind on things above means to be firm in your decision to agree with God’s ways of living, no matter who may try to convince you that you are wrong.

Prayer of the Day: Lord, help me set my mind firmly on Your truth. Keep me steady in my thoughts, open to growth, and resistant to anything that pulls me away from You, amen.

 

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Days of Praise

Days of Praise – Adam’s Failure, Christ’s Strength

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by John D. Morris, Ph.D.

“By the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.” (Romans 5:18)

When Adam rebelled against God, he experienced many new things—things that have haunted mankind ever since. All of these things were experienced by Christ in an intense way as He redeemed fallen mankind and the cursed creation.

Adam had never seen or experienced death (Genesis 2:17) until he sinned (3:19, 22). Adam and Eve had been naked and unashamed (2:25), but sin distorted everything (3:7, 21). Before sin, Adam and Eve had known only blessing (1:28), but the universal curse followed (3:14-19). They had known joy and fellowship, but then they knew sorrow (3:17) and separation (3:23). They had lived in a garden (2:8), but then the plants brought forth thorns (3:18). Prior to sin they had been given work (2:15), but because of sin they would sweat (3:19) as they toiled. The angel’s weapon kept them from returning to Eden (3:24), and outside violence reigned (4:8, 23; 6:13). Childbearing was originally created to be easy but then was accompanied by sorrow (1:28; 3:16).

Likewise, Christ experienced death on the cross (John 19:30), but by His resurrection He conquered death (1 Corinthians 15:54-57). He experienced nakedness (John 19:23; Psalm 22:18), the full thrust of the Curse (Galatians 3:13), sorrow (Isaiah 53:3), and separation from God (Matthew 27:46). Cruel thorns were placed on His head (John 19:2), and He sweat great drops of blood (Luke 22:44). The soldier’s weapon pierced Him (John 19:34), finally ending a series of violent acts (Luke 22:63; Matthew 27:26, 29-30; Isaiah 52:14; etc.). But through His suffering He overcame the Curse and redeemed His fallen creation. As a result, many children have been brought forth (Hebrews 2:9-10), reborn into a glorious state through His suffering. JDM

 

 

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My Utmost for His Highest

My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – The Bounty of the Destitute

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All are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. — Romans 3:24

The gospel of God’s grace awakens an intense longing in the human soul, but also an equally intense resentment. We resent the revelation that we are justified freely by God’s grace, that there’s nothing we have to do to receive it. Human beings take a certain pride in giving, but receiving is a different matter. To come and accept something freely offered to us offends our pride. I’ll gladly give my life to martyrdom; I’ll gladly give myself in consecration. But don’t humiliate me by placing me on the same level as the most hell-deserving sinner and tell me that all I have to do for my salvation is to accept it as a gift through Jesus Christ.

We have to realize that we can’t earn or win anything from God. We must either receive his grace as a gift or go without. The greatest blessing spiritually is the knowledge that we are destitute. Until we arrive at this knowledge, our Lord is powerless to help us. He can do nothing for us if we think we’re sufficient without him. As long as we believe ourselves to be rich, as long as we possess anything resembling pride or independence, we won’t be able to enter his kingdom. We have to enter it by the door of destitution.

Are you knocking at the door of destitution now? Are you spiritually hungry? Only when we get spiritually hungry do we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit makes effectual in us the very nature of God. By the Spirit, God imparts to us the quickening life of Jesus, the life that puts the “beyond” within us. The instant the “beyond” is inside us, it rises to the “above,” lifting us into the domain where Jesus lives.

Ezekiel 33-34; 1 Peter 5

Wisdom from Oswald

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.… We have to pitch our tents where we shall always have quiet times with God, however noisy our times with the world may be.My Utmost for His Highest, January 6, 736 R

 

 

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Billy Graham

Billy Graham – God Is Sufficient

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The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking; he rescues those who are humbly sorry for their sins.

—Psalm 34:18 (TLB)

In God’s economy, you must go down into the valley of grief before you can scale the heights of spiritual glory. You must become tired and weary of living alone before you seek and find the fellowship of Christ. You must come to the end of “self” before you can begin to live. The happiest day of my life was when I realized that my own ability, my own goodness, and my own morality were insufficient in the sight of God. I am not exaggerating when I say that my mourning was turned to joy, and my sighing into singing. Happy are they that mourn for the inadequacy of self, for they shall be comforted with the sufficiency of God.

Prayer for the day

Lord Jesus, I know that apart from You I can do nothing of lasting value. Help me to come to the end of self and allow You to control the reins of my life.

 

 

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GuidePosts

Guideposts – Devotions for Women – Navigating Grief with Grace

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Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.—Matthew 5:4 (NIV)

This time of year can bring memories and melancholy. If you find yourself grieving the past or a loved one, listen closely to the whispers of grace amid the sorrow. Lean into His divine comfort. Let yourself feel, let yourself heal. You are tenderly held in His arms.

Lord, wrap us in the tender embrace of Your love as we navigate complicated feelings.

 

 

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