VITAL Life Application Devotions

Luke 5:27-30New Living Translation (NLT) Jesus Calls Levi (Matthew) 27 Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. 28 So Levi got up, left everything, and...

Luke 5:12-16New Living Translation (NLT) Jesus Heals a Man with Leprosy 12 In one of the villages, Jesus met a man with an advanced case of leprosy. When the man saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground, begging to be healed. “Lord,” he said, “if you are...

Luke 5:8-11New Living Translation (NLT) 8 When Simon Peter realized what had happened, he fell to his knees before Jesus and said, “Oh, Lord, please leave me—I’m such a sinful man.” 9 For he was awestruck by the number of fish they had caught, as were the others with...

Luke 5:1-7New Living Translation (NLT) The First Disciples 5 One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God. 2 He noticed two empty boats at the water’s edge, for the fishermen had left...

Matthew 2:22-23New Living Translation (NLT) 22 But when he learned that the new ruler of Judea was Herod’s son Archelaus, he was afraid to go there. Then, after being warned in a dream, he left for the region of Galilee. 23 So the family went and lived in a town...

Matthew 2:17-21New Living Translation (NLT) 17 Herod’s brutal action fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: 18 “A cry was heard in Ramah—     weeping and great mourning. Rachel weeps for her children,     refusing to be comforted,     for they are...

Matthew 2:12-16New Living Translation (NLT) 12 When it was time to leave, they returned to their own country by another route, for God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod. The Escape to Egypt 13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared...