The Word For Today
The Word For Today
The Word For Today is a daily devotional by authors Bob and Debby Gass. Every day, tens of thousands of people across New Zealand are encouraged and uplifted by its relevant insights. The daily readings resonate with people as they often speak into their current circumstances. Often readers express wonder at how a particular day’s devotion appeared to be ‘written just for me’Follow the podcast:
Revelation of God's love (3)
Paul asked: 'Who shall separate us from the love of Christ' (Romans 8:35 NIV)? And the answer is...nothing! Then he came up with a laundry list of worst-case scenarios, from trouble to danger and anything in between: 'Trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword'.…
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Revelation of God's love (2)
Thomas Aquinas was one of the most prolific writers and thinkers of the Middle Ages. His Summa Theologica is one of history's most exhausting and enduring theologies. But Aquinas never finished it because of something that happened on 6 December 1273, that caused him to give up writing. 'All tha…
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Revelation of God's love (1)
In the realm of general relativity, an event horizon is the point of no return. It's the point at which gravitational pull becomes so great that it's impossible to escape. The most obvious example is the black hole - a celestial object so massive that light can only enter but never exit its grav…
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Practise God-confidence
Pride promotes self-reliance. It tells us we can indeed do things on our own. In our attempt to walk in self-confidence, we slam the door in God's face and shut out the work of the Holy Spirit, our Helper. Paul was educated, sophisticated and consecrated, yet he humbly declared, 'I am the least …
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The whole world
In 1993, a group called AD2000 United Prayer Track came up with an innovative idea. To help realise their goal of 'a church for every people and the gospel for every person by AD2000', they established a programme called 'Praying through the Window'. The 'window' referred to an area on the globe…
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The life-giving word
Jesus was called 'Rabbi' eleven times in the Gospels. But he wasn't like any other rabbi. Rabbis quoted others, but Jesus said, 'Truly, I say to you...' In the gospel of John, he said it twice: 'Truly, truly, I say to you...' The reason Jesus wasn't like any other rabbi was because he was God ma…
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A spiritual mindset
Muscle memory isn't stored in your muscles. It's a procedural memory stored in your brain any time you repeat a muscle movement. Whether it's putting a golf ball or playing a violin, the muscle memory becomes stronger the more it's repeated. Have you heard about the 10,000-hour rule? Psychologis…
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Conquer your Jericho (2)
Before conquering Jericho, God told Joshua to 'circumcise the sons of Israel again the second time' (Joshua 5:2 NKJV). Six hundred years earlier, God had inaugurated the practice of male circumcision. He told Abraham that it would be 'a sign of the covenant between me and you' (Genesis 17:11 NKJ…
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Conquer your Jericho (1)
Jericho was the strongest city in the Promised Land. Its towering walls looked impregnable - intimidating to any would-be invader. So God told his people to remember and record what he'd done for them in the past. In essence he told them, 'Before you look forward to Jericho, look backward to Jor…
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Your inheritance
We share the same inheritance as Jesus! Whatever he has, we have! 'As [Jesus] is, so are we' (1 John 4:17 NKJV). So, if we are co-heirs with Jesus, why do we struggle through life? For two reasons: (1) We don't know about our inheritance: 'The exceeding greatness of his power towards us who…
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