Be Still and Know Daily Bible Devotion
Bring some Spirit-filled peace into your hectic schedule every weekday morning with this new Daily Devotional.
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September 1, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 17:22-23
Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.
Paul must have been delighted to get an opportunity to speak to the Areopagus. This was a highly respected body which brought together the leading t...
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August 31, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 17:17-18
[Paul] reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him.
We have much to learn from Paul. When he went to a new place, he normally visited the synagogue first. There he would find not only Jews but also people who were interested in the faith but hadn&rsqu...
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August 30, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 17:16
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.
We have no reason to think that Paul intended to spend time in Athens. He was merely there for a few days while he waited for Silas and Timothy to catch up with him. The threats to his safety had got too serious in Berea, so he had been escorted south to the relative safety of Athens. He surely needed a good bre...
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August 29, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 17:11
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
Every preacher longs to meet people like the Bereans. They were really open to the Christian message, but they didn’t simply accept everything that Paul and Silas had to say. They looked carefully at the Old Testamen...
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August 28, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 16:25-26
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken.
The ministry of Paul and Silas in Philippi soon hit the buffers when they healed a slave girl who was a fortune teller. She had made good money for her owners until the moment God healed her, and they were fu...
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August 27, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 16:15
When Lydia and the members of her household were baptised, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
Paul’s first convert in Europe was a businesswoman. Lydia came from what we now know as western Turkey and was a dealer in the purple cloth for which her home area was famous. As Paul travelled around...
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August 26, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 16:9-10
During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia.
We should never put a limit on the ways in which God might choose to speak to us. Yesterday, we saw God putting a block on Paul’s plans. Today, He makes it crystal clear where Paul should go next. In a vis...
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August 25, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 16:6
Paul and his companions travelled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.
This is a remarkable moment. Paul clearly had a carefully worked out plan for his missionary journey but, at the same time, was intensely sensitive to the guidance of the Spirit. He was travelling through what we now know as central Turkey, heading towards E...
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August 24, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 16:2-3
The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of [Timothy]. Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
This is a fascinating moment. Paul had just come away from the council of Jerusalem, where the decision had been made that it was unnecessary for Christians to obey all the Jewish law. He, more than an...
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August 23, 2026 • 3 mins
Acts 15:37-39
Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work. They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company.
This is a painful moment, but I’m so glad Dr Luke recorded it. He could quite easily have airbrushed it out of his account, but he didn’t. Paul and Barnabas ...
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August 22, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 15:28
It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements.
The council of Jerusalem, which we read about in Acts 15, had a massive problem to resolve. When the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Day of Pentecost, it came upon a huge gathering of Jews, so the first Christians brought with them the richness of their Jewish traditions. However, very quickly, the gospel s...
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August 21, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 14:23
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
Paul’s first missionary journey is incredibly impressive. Having been nearly killed in Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went on to Lystra where Paul was stoned so badly that some people thought he was dead. However, he summoned the strength to go on to Derbe, where he and...
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August 20, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 14:14-15
When the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting: “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you.”
After Paul and Barnabas were rudely bundled out of Iconium, they fled 19 miles south to the small Roman city of Lystra. A man who had been lame from birth had been healed while Paul was speaking, and the people were so excit...
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August 19, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 14:2-3
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders.
Paul and Barnabas were having an amazing time on their first missionary journey. A large number of people were accepting their message and b...
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August 18, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 13:5
When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their helper.
This is the start of the first missionary journey. It was an incredibly important moment for the Christian gospel. Saul (who from this point on was known by his Roman name, Paul) was happy to preach about Jesus anywhere, but it was his usual practice to start in the synagogue and work outwards from...
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August 17, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 13:2-3
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
This book of the Bible is often referred to as the Acts of the Apostles. A much better title for it would be the Acts of the Holy Spirit. Important as the apostles undoubte...
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August 16, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 12:14-15
When she recognised Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!” “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
What do you expect to happen when you pray? Does it occur to you that God might dramatically and immediately answer your prayer...
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August 15, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 12:11
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”
At this time, the early Church was growing fast, and this was making King Herod increasingly nervous. He was determined to tighten the screws, so he arranged for the killing of James, the brother of Joh...
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August 14, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 11:25-26
Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch…The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
Barnabas’ famous gift of encouragement was not only expressed in words. He also took action. He could see that the church in Antioch desperately needed a good leader, and he was convinced that he knew the right man. Antioch, in Syria, was a busy commercia...
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August 13, 2026 • 2 mins
Acts 11:22-23
News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts.
When the church leaders in Jerusalem heard about the rapid growth of the church in Antioch, they had lots of questions. Because the church in Jerusalem was strongly Jewish in character, there were...
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