Daily Archives: August 10, 2026

Turning Point

Turning Point; David Jeremiah – Don’t Even Think About It!

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August 10, 2026

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Don’t do as the wicked do, and don’t follow the path of evildoers. Don’t even think about it; don’t go that way. Turn away and keep moving.
Proverbs 4:14-15, NLT

Recommended Reading: Proverbs 4:14-18

One of the most recent studies in marital issues found that 20 percent of married men and 13 percent of married women admit to sexual infidelity—to cheating. But not all infidelity involves sex. More than 90 percent of women and nearly 80 percent of men admit to having had an emotional affair at some point. Where do affairs start? The study shows 37 percent begin in friendship groups, 31 percent in the workplace, and 25 percent begin with social media and online.1

We are all vulnerable! But we can also run. We can flee. We can do as Proverbs 4 says—don’t follow that path. Don’t even think about it. Don’t go that way. Turn away, and keep moving.

If you’re in a tempting situation, do everything you can to get out of it, and ask the Lord to keep you from temptation. In Genesis 39, Joseph literally ran from Potiphar’s wife, leaving his cloak in her covetous hands. Are your personal defenses weakening? Are you getting careless with your Internet use? Are you becoming too friendly in a platonic relationship? Take corrective steps now!

True love for Christ will mean hatred of sin.
John Benton

  1. Kayla Crane, “Infidelity Statistics 2026: Cheating Rates, Affairs & Research Data,” South Denver Therapy, January 27, 2026.

 

 

 

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Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread – Hope in God

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The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him. Lamentations 3:25

Today’s Scripture

Lamentations 3:19-26

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Because of his father’s alcoholism and mistreatment of his mother, Pablo left home when he was a teenager. He moved in with an uncle, graduated high school, married, and had three children. But sadly, Pablo began repeating the same destructive behavior he’d once fled. His own alcohol addiction and behavior began to tear his family apart. Soon, it was all gone—his marriage, family, job, and home. “My life was terrible, and it got worse,” he said.

Finally he turned to a treatment facility for help. “I was in bad shape, and God opened the door for me.” One day after praying, he experienced God through the beauty of nature. Soon his youngest daughter noticed he’d changed, and reconciled with him. Today he’s working to rebuild trust with his other children.

In Lamentations, the prophet Jeremiah grieved over the plight of his people, who had turned from God and were exiled to Babylon: “I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall . . . and my soul is downcast within me” (Lamentations 3:19-20). Like the Israelites, Pablo was far from God. And like Jeremiah, he found hope in God: “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness” (vv. 22-23).

Like Pablo, the Israelites got a fresh start. We can turn to God and find hope.

Reflect & Pray

Are you looking for hope? How is God inviting you to hope in Him?

Dear God, thank You for offering me a renewed relationship with You.

Today’s Insights

In the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), books are usually named for the first word or words in the text. As such, the Hebrew title for Lamentations is “How,” taken from verse 1: “How deserted lies the city.” Those who translated the Old Testament into Greek (the Septuagint) titled the book “Lamentations.” Both titles are apt. In many lament psalms, the psalmist’s cry is rooted in the phrase “How long, Lord?” (see Psalm 13:1). And Jeremiah’s laments in both his prophecies and in the book of Lamentations are so consistent that he’s generally regarded as “the weeping prophet.” In today’s text (Lamentations 3:19-26), he’s grieving over the city of Jerusalem, which was besieged and taken captive by the Babylonians. Now, seeing the city desolated, Jeremiah finds hope in the faithful God whose mercies are “new every morning” (v. 23). Even in our times of deepest despair and loss, we can hope in God.

 

 

 

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Denison Forum

Denison Forum – Todd Blanche’s DOJ confirmation and the rise in abortion

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The Senate voted early Saturday morning to confirm acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to permanently lead the Department of Justice. The decision was controversial and largely along party lines, as expected.

One aspect that has received less attention, however, was Blanche’s recent statement on a private call hosted by the White House Faith Office. Blanche assured faith leaders that the Justice Department is “working hand-in-hand” with federal health agencies and the White House “to get permanent solutions so the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.”

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, returning abortion legislation to the states, the Biden administration in 2023 permanently ended an in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone, one of two drugs used for medication abortion. The Trump administration left these regulations in place.

Consequently, mail-in pharmacies have been dispensing abortion medication even in states that have banned or severely limited access to abortion clinics. According to Blanche, the administration is “putting practices and policies in place so that other states and other organizations” cannot send abortion pills to states where they are banned.

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Greg Laurie

Harvest Ministries; Greg Laurie – Making Sense of God’s Will

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 Taste and see that the LORD is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him! 

—Psalm 34:8

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Psalm 34:8 

We need to remember that God’s will is good. It may not seem like it at times, but it is. His plan for us is good. However, He usually doesn’t give us a detailed blueprint. Usually, God reveals His will to us in bits and pieces. He sees the big picture, while we see just a little at a time.

If you had been the father of Joseph, surely, like all parents, you would have prayed for the welfare of your child. But when Joseph was sold into slavery by his own brothers, you could have easily said, “God, what are You doing? Why did You allow this?” Yet if God had not allowed it to happen, Joseph never would have been put into the position of influence that enabled him to save the country and his own family.

If you had been the mother of Moses, how your heart would have broken when you saw your child being taken into Pharaoh’s court! Yet it was all part of God’s plan to mold Moses into the person who would lead Israel out of Egypt and its bondage.

If you had been the mother of Jesus and watched your own Son hanging on the cross, how easily you could have said, “Lord, why did You let this happen?” But if Jesus had not died on that cross and taken our sins upon Himself, we could not know Him today.

The problem for us is that we have a limited perspective. We are confined by time and space. We can see only the things that are happening in the present and only things that occur in our vicinity. The future is obscured to us. And so is the big picture of God’s work.

The apostle Paul put it this way: “Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely” (1 Corinthians 13:12 NLT).

In the meantime, we can look to the past for reassurance. God has an unmatched track record for coming through for His people—not just in Scripture, but probably in your life as well. Think about those instances. Remember how He brought good from situations that seemed anything but good.

God’s history is why the psalmist was able to say with confidence, “Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!” (Psalm 34:8 NLT).

When you look at the will of God in progress, it may not always make sense. But you must believe that God knows what He’s doing. His will is good. Trust Him to finish what He has begun.

 

Reflection question: What unseen good might God be accomplishing in your life right now? Discuss this with believers like you on Harvest Discipleship!

 

 

 

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Days of Praise

Days of Praise – The Hand of the Lord

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by Henry M. Morris, Ph.D.

“This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.” (Ezra 7:6)

Neither Ezra, who was a scribe, nor Nehemiah, who was apparently a butler, had been prepared by either study or experience to supervise the great construction project of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem and the wall of the city. Both had been destroyed many years before by the armies of Babylon. Yet God called them to these ministries and led them and protected them as they carried them out.

They were both careful, then, to give God the credit for what they accomplished. No less than six times in Ezra and twice in Nehemiah they reminded their readers that God’s hand had been upon them as they supervised the work (see Ezra 7:6, 9, 28; 8:18–22, 31; Nehemiah 2:8, 18).

There had been many difficulties and much opposition, but as Paul would later say, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31).

We also need to be careful to give God the credit for anything He enables us to accomplish in His service. Even such a great and useful Christian as the apostle Paul had to say: “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10).

We remember, however, that the hand of the Lord can be a chastening hand as well as a guiding and providing hand. When a certain false prophet tried “to pervert the right ways of the Lord,” Paul said, “The hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind” (Acts 13:10–11). And so it was. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:31). HMM

 

 

 

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Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer – Why Taking Care of Yourself Matters

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Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?

1 Corinthians 6:19 (ESV)

It is amazing to think that God makes His home in His children. When we receive Christ as our Savior, He comes to live in us, and our bodies become His temple. It is therefore prudent and wise for each of us to take good care of our bodies.

I am sorry to say that I spent many years pushing myself too hard and not taking care of my body, a temple of God, before I realized how important it is.

I hope to spare you the same mistakes I made. I urge you to respect your body and give it proper rest, sleep, hydration, and nutrition. God wants to not only live in you, but also to work through you. However, if you feel bad all the time because you don’t take care of yourself, He won’t be able to do that.

I encourage you to meditate on how amazing it is that God lives in you. You are the home of God. Prayerfully, this will urge you to keep the house of God—your body— in good condition. We are representatives of God, and He makes His appeal to the world through us (2 Corinthians 5:20). Let’s commit to representing Him well.

Prayer of the Day: Father, forgive me for not taking better care of myself. I want to represent You well, and I ask You to help me work with You to repair any damage done to my body. Thank You. In Jesus’ name, amen.

 

 

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Max Lucado

Max Lucado – Step Out of the Traffic 

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God sent Elijah into the rocky, raw, and lonely land of the Kerith Ravine. He had no temple for worship, no faith fraternity for strength. It would be years before he enjoyed fellowship with faithful Jews. Preparation by separation. Purposeful silence and solitude are basic courses in Unbreakable Courage 101.

Jesus found his Kerith in the obscure days of Nazareth and the quiet days in the wilderness. In order to gather strength for the cross, he sought time alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. If Jesus needed Kerith-like solitude, how much more do we? God’s invitation is compelling. From Psalm 46:10 (MSG): “Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me…” When did you last “step out of the traffic” to be alone with your Father?

 

 

 

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Today in the Word – Moody Bible Institute – A Wise Tongue

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Read Proverbs 15:1–7

A proverb is a golden nugget of wisdom. While Proverbs are concise, “their brevity is dense with meaning and motivation,” said David Finkbeiner in The Moody Bible Commentary. Proverbs repeatedly uses the Hebrew poetical device of parallelism where the second line repeats, contrasts, or enhances the first. In Proverbs 15, we find a series of contrasts, describing the opposite effects of our differing communication decisions.

On the one hand, the tongue of the wise speaks with gentleness (kindness and responsiveness), which can neutralize hostility (v. 1). The wise tongue promotes truth and moral understanding (vv. 2 and 7). It brings healing and life (v. 4). A wise communicator listens well to constructive correction and makes appropriate life changes (v. 5). In contrast, the words of the fool are harsh. The fool uses speech that is unduly blunt, critical, or even cruel, causing mental distress for the receiver (v. 1). The mouth of the fool spews reckless and ill-informed ideas, revealing the state of the heart and inevitably leading to evil behavior (vv. 2 and 7).

Overall, Proverbs highlights that our words are never neutral; they carry the power to harm or to heal, to ignite conflict or foster peace, to destroy relationship or to deepen it. Chapter 15 also highlights the omnipresent nature of the Lord (v. 3). Our daily communication matters to Him, and He is attentive to all of it—the good and the evil. He sees the words we speak in public and whisper in private. He hears the life-giving messages we share with those we love and the harsh language we resort to when someone frustrates us. God’s presence should provide our primary motivation to speak with patience, wisdom, and love.

Go Deeper

When have you spoken with harsh or foolish words? When have you spoken with gentleness and truth? How can God’s presence motivate you to godly speech?

Pray with Us

Forgive us, Lord, for those moments we have spoken harshly out of frustration instead of patiently out of Your love. You are never harsh with us. Help us likewise to always speak kindly to others.

The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.Proverbs 15:2

 

 

 

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