VITAL Life Application Devotions

God deals with us as He dealt with the Israelites as He led them out of Egypt. The first crossing of the sea was made very easy. The guidance could not have been simpler: The east wind blew and divided the sea before the people had to cross. Not so much as a foot was...

Job was a righteous man, but he experienced many tragedies in his life. In a mysterious glimpse into God’s throne room, Satan is challenging God to a test, with Job as their subject. Satan presumes Job is only good because he is blessed; God contends Job will remain...

God’s people received innumerable blessings from the hand of God. In this passage, the Lord instructed Moses to tell Aaron and his sons to say a blessing on the people. This famous Aaronic benediction declared the blessing that would rest on all of the people by...

Mary Magdalene has become famous. All we know based on her name is that she came from Magdala, a city on the Sea of Galilee, and that Jesus drove seven demons from her. Having been healed by him, she dedicated her life to Jesus. Mark 16:9 New International Version...

Chances are you’ve made your share of nighttime kitchen raids. You know you won’t sleep again until you answer the call of that leftover lasagna in the fridge! Not wanting to wake your sleeping family or your dogs and cats, you slide out of bed and feel your way...

Living in this broken world, people know defeat all too well. Everyone has experienced a relationship where someone let them down, or a situation that didn’t work out the way they hoped. These moments of disappointment or frustration reveal the tragic fact that this...

Psalm 139:13-16 New International Version 13 For you created my inmost being;     you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;     your works are wonderful,     I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden...