Year: 2026
October 2026
- Devotional Psalm 49: How To Live When You Are Going To Die
In Psalm 49, we are taught how to live when we are going to die. Psalm 49 teaches us about where to put our…
September 2026
- Devotional Psalm 48: Meeting God in His City
In Psalm 48, the psalmist uses Jerusalem as a way to praise God. God is identified with the city of Jerusalem, in a way…
- Devotional Psalm 47: King of the Universe
Read Psalm 47 At its height, it was said of the British Empire that it was an empire on which the sun never set.…
- Devotional Psalm 46: Refuge When Disaster Strikes
The promise of God as a refuge when disaster strikes is a promise that we are safe not because we flee somewhere, but because…
- Devotional Psalm 45: Wedding Song
Psalm 45 is a wedding song for royalty, praising the king, calling of the new queen, and anticipating the future. But why do we…
August 2026
- Devotional Psalm 44: Hope Despite Distress
Times of distress come on individuals (as we saw in Psalms 42 and 43), and they come on groups like countries and the Church.…
- Devotional Psalm 43: Hope For The Longing
Only restoration to God’s presence will completely vindicate him before his enemies and answer the gaping maw of his feelings, so he asks that…
- Devotional Nehemiah 13: Same Again, Same Again
Some twelve years later, Nehemiah went back to the King’s Court to report on his governorship of Judea. While he was away, Eliashib the…
July 2026
- Devotional Nehemiah 12:27-47: Dedication
In Nehemiah 12, the completed walls of Jerusalem are dedicated, accompanied by worship and giving. This passage, which sees an external object purified for…
- Devotional Nehemiah 11-12:26: City List
Scripture does not view cities as inherently evil things, but places where people and resources can pool together for mutual support and benefit. God…
- Devotional Nehemiah 10: Putting It In Writing
In Nehemiah 10, God’s People put their renewed spiritual commitment down in writing. As was common in the Bible and in their times, they…
- Devotional Nehemiah 9: Model Confession
The prayer of Nehemiah 9 comes at the end of the first celebration of the Feast of Booths in many years. After finding joy…
- Devotional Nehemiah 8:13-18: Faithful Obedience
As they read through the Scriptures, “they found it written in the Law that the LORD had commanded by Moses that the people of…
June 2026
- Devotional Nehemiah 8:9-12: Joy and Strength in Christ
For the believer, our joy and strength is found in the Lord. God’s unchanging goodness and mercy to us, expressed through his Word, demonstrated…
- Devotional Nehemiah 8:1-8: Explaining the Scriptures
Passages like Nehemiah 8:1-8 demonstrate this principle of expository teaching. Ezra the Scribe, who led an earlier return of Jews from exile, is called…
- Devotional Nehemiah 7:4-73: Town Planners Rejoice
No wonder they would be called upon to repopulate Jerusalem. It was not just time for the town planners to rejoice, but for all…
- Devotional Nehemiah 6:15-7:4: Rebuilding Out And In
The right character was important because what was most needed was not walls (though they were needed and important) but right hearts which sought…
May 2026
- Devotional Nehemiah 6:1-14: Conspiracy Against Character
The conspiracy against Nehemiah’s character was designed to demonise him in the face of the authorities. Sadly, Satan and enemies of God’s Church try…
- Devotional Nehemiah 5:14-19: Generous Sacrifice
Twelve years later, many of those under Nehemiah’s governance still faced the same hard scrabble to live. While Nehemiah could have enjoyed the benefits…
- Devotional Nehemiah 5:1-13: Money Misery
For the Jewish population of Nehemiah’s day, money misery was very real. Most lived close to starvation, one bad event away from disaster. Many…
- Devotional Nehemiah 4:15-23: Sword and Trowel
Nehemiah’s citizens were faced with attack by the devil, and were forced to defend themselves from what was a spiritual attack (with physical consequences).…
April 2026
- Devotional Nehemiah 4:1-14: Darts of the Devil
Nehemiah’s building project certainly caught the devil’s attention. Here God’s People were rebuilding the walls to protect God’s temple, and Satan couldn’t have that!…
- Devotional Nehemiah 3: All Hands on Deck
Nehemiah’s arrival in Jerusalem was followed by careful, and quiet, planning. It was only when Nehemiah had his plan ready that he explained the…
- Devotional Nehemiah 2:9-20: Trusting God More
Nehemiah’s actions show how his experience of God’s good hand caused him to trust God more. Even so, Nehemiah knew the world he lived…
- Devotional Nehemiah 2:1-8: The Good Hand of God
In Chapter 1 we were introduced to Nehemiah as a man of prayer. Confronted by the defenceless state of Jerusalem, Nehemiah turned to the…
- Devotional Nehemiah 1:1-11: Man of Prayer
The book of Nehemiah introduces us to the man, and his personal character. But most importantly, it introduces us to a man of prayer.…
March 2026
- Devotional Ezra 10:18-44: No Sin Left Uncovered
Read Ezra 10:18-44 Any parent or adult who has supervised children knows that the time that is most fearful is when they go suddenly,…
- Devotional Ezra 10:1-17: Holiness and Repentance
That repentance brought the same from many of God’s People who observed him, and were convicted by the Holy Spirit to do the same.…
- Devotional Ezra 9:1-15: Prayer for God’s Mercy
We need to understand the point of the laws, and what they meant for the Jewish people and for us today in the light…
- Devotional Ezra 8:21-36: Stepping out in faith
Ezra’s example is one we can follow as well as we walk through our own seasons of change. As believers, we know that for…
February 2026
- Devotional Ezra 8:15-20: Lacking Levites
Ezra was returning to Jerusalem to bring about further reform of the worship and rule of God's People there. He went as a man…
- Devotional Ezra 8:1-14: Exiles Come Home
This list also gives us a cultural check. In our culture, youth is idolised. Everyone wants to look young. Sometimes it feels like everything…
- Devotional Ezra 7:11-28: Doing the King’s Bidding
Ezra was a man who was placed in the blessed position. Ezra wanted to return to Jerusalem to reform worship and life there. Thankfully,…
- Devotional Ezra 7:1-10: Ezra Arrives On Scene
Nearly sixty years pass between the end of chapter 6 and the beginning of chapter 7. At the end of chapter 6, a group…
