Category: Devotionals

These are devotional readings, composed by Grace at Wellington to aid in your reading of scripture and the application of it into your lives.

  • Exodus 3: The Call of Moses

    Exodus 3 records the Call of Moses by God, as God appears to Moses at Mount Sinai at the Burning Bush. There Moses encounters God’s presence, receives God’s commissioning, and hears God’s challenge to Israel and Egypt.

  • Exodus 2: God Remembers His Covenant

    In Exodus Chapter 2 we see God’s deliverance, of us through Jesus Christ, foreshadowed in the beginning of God’s delivery of his people from slavery. Moses, who will eventually lead God’s people out of Egypt is born. But God must deliver Moses at birth and in adulthood from Pharaoh, showing his hand working as he…

  • Exodus 1:8-22 – Oppression of God’s People

    The exploitation and enslavement of people, or opposition to progress and blessing, seems to occur quite often to God’s people. As God blesses his Church, various foes arise to attack it. This was the case for God’s people in Egypt. As they were blessed by God, they fell into oppression by the Egyptians. The rest…

  • Psalm 46 – Our refuge and strength (Elmir Pereira)

    Pastor Elmir Pereira shows us how we can find refuge and sustainment in difficult times through Psalm 46

  • Exodus 1:1-7 – According to Plan

    The beginning of the book of Exodus makes it very clear that God’s redemptive plan is continuing, and that Exodus continues that story. It gives us hope to rely on God in troubling times, like these current days, because it reminds us that God is still working out his plan of salvation. In the first…

  • Psalm 41 – God’s love for the righteous and the poor

    Psalm 41 describes God’s attitude. God loves the poor, and he loves the righteous who love the poor. This psalm, the last in “Book One” of the Psalms, encourages us to care for the poor because it reflects God’s love for the poor, and to take heart that God will see it even if we…

  • Psalm 40 – My Deliverer Then and Now

    Psalm 40 speaks very personally of the support that David received from God in his life. The first part of the psalm rejoices in God’s support and deliverance in past days. The second part of the psalm switches to a present time of distress, where David calls on God in confidence that he will again…

  • Psalm 39 – Numbering Our Days

    In Psalm 39, King David, perhaps approaching older age, reflects on how short life is. Acknowledging his silent suffering, David speaks out in prayer, asking God to make him aware of his life’s brevity, and appealing for deliverance from his sins and suffering.

  • Psalm 38 – I Am Sorry For My Sin

    Psalm 38 is a song of lament for the suffering caused by sin. The psalmist, David, suffers under God’s discipline for his sins, affecting his own personal health and his relationship to others. Yet despite God’s discipline so keenly felt, he turns to God for forgiveness of sins and rescue.

  • Psalm 37 – The Fate of the Wicked and the Righteous

    We live in a time in the Western World where it appears that the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer. The vulnerable and oppressed are walked over, God and his Church are marginalised and mocked, and immoral thoughts and deeds are celebrated by the cultural elites and media. Faced with this appearance, it seems tempting…