The Morning Devotional for May 30, 2022
Genesis 3
Key points:
The disobedience of our first parents (3.1-7)
The irrationality of sin (3.8-13)
The promise of a Redeemer (3.15)
The atonement (3.22)
The prefiguring of the Tabernacle (3.23-24; Cp. Ex. 25.15-22; 26.31-33)
The Morning Devotional for May 26, 2022
Genesis 2
Key points:
The Sabbath Day / Lord's Day (2.1-3)
Creation of Man (2.7)
Covenant of Works (2.15-17)
Marriage (2.18-25)
The Morning Devotional for May 24, 2022
Genesis 1
Key points:
God made all things by the word of his power.
God made all things in the space of six days.
God made man, male and female, as the crown jewel of his creation.
God made man in his image.
God provides for man.
God gives commands to man. He is the Creator and man is the creature.
The Morning Devotional for May 23, 2022
An Introduction to Season Five
Read MoreAll Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Q. 107. What doth the conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?
A. The conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer, which is, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen,” teacheth us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only, and in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power, and glory to him; and in testimony of our desire and assurance to be heard, we say, Amen.
Matt. 6:13; Dan. 9:4-9, 16-19; 1 Chr 29:10-13; 1 Cor. 14:16; Rev. 22:20-21.
Read MoreQ. 106. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
A. In the sixth petition, which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” we pray, that God would either keep us from being tempted to sin, or support and deliver us when we are tempted.
Matt. 6:12; Matt. 26:41; 2 Cor. 12:7-8.
Read MoreQ. 105. What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
A. In the fifth petition, which is, And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” we pray, that God, for Christ’s sake, would freely pardon all our sins; which we are the rather encouraged to ask, because by his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others.
Matt. 6:12; Ps. 51:1-2, 7, 9; Dan. 9:17-19; Luke 11:4; Matt. 18:35.
Read MoreQ. 104. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
A. In the fourth petition, which is, Give us this day our daily bread,” we pray, that of God’s free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and enjoy his blessing with them.
Matt. 6:11; Prov. 30:8-9; Gen. 28:20; 1 Tim. 4:4-5.
Read MoreQ. 103. What do we pray for in the third petition?
A. In the third petition, which is, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven,” we pray, that God, by his grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey, and submit to his will in all things, as the angels do in heaven.
Matt. 6:10; Ps. 67; Ps. 119:36; Matt. 26:39; 2 Sam. 15:25; Job. 1:21; Ps. 103:20-21.
Read MoreQ. 102. What do we pray for in the second petition?
A. In the second petition, which is, Thy kingdom come,” we pray, that Satan’s kingdom may be destroyed; and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced, ourselves and others brought into it, and kept in it; and that the kingdom of glory may be hastened.
Matt. 6:10; Ps. 68:1, 18; Rev. 12:10-11; 2 Thess. 3:1; Rom. 10:1; John 17:9,20; Rev. 22:20.
Read MoreQ. 101. What do we pray for in the first petition?
A. In the first petition, which is, Hallowed be thy name,” we pray, that God would enable us, and others, to glorify him in all that whereby he maketh himself known, and that he would dispose all things to his own glory.
Matt. 6:9; Ps. 67:2-3; Ps. 83.
Read MoreQ. 100. What doth the preface of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?
A. The preface of the Lord’s Prayer, which is, Our Father which art in heaven,” teacheth us to draw near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as children to a father, able and ready to help us; and that we should pray with and for others.
Matt. 6:9; Rom. 8:15; Luke 11:13; Acts 12:5; 1 Tim. 2:1-2.
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