Little by Little Daily Devotional

I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love... for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.Psalms 59:16

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.Psalms 51:10

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.Psalms 42:1

I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help. I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly.Psalms 40:10

Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.Psalms 37:3

Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord” and you forgave the guilt of my sin.Psalms 32:5

For His anger lasts only a moment but His favour lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes ​in the morning.Psalms 30:5

Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.Psalms 23:6

How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?Psalms 13:1

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!Psalms 8:1

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take … but whose delight is in the law of the Lord and who meditates on His law ​day and night.Psalms 1:1+2

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.Job 42:10

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.”Job 38:4

“How great is God - beyond our understanding! The number of His years is past finding out.”Job 36:26

“For God does speak - now one way, now another - though no one perceives it.”Job 33:14

“If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit - let God weigh me in honest scales and He will know that I am blameless.”Job 31:5-6

“I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I dwelt as a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.”Job 29:25

“…as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in ​my nostrils …”Job 27:3

“If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tent.”Job 22:23

“Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation ​you give me.”Job 21:2

“I know that my Redeemer lives and that in the end ​He will stand on the earth.”Job 19:25

“Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?”Job 16:3

“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble. They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting ​shadows, they do not endure.”Job 14:1-2

I say to God “Do not declare me guilty but tell me what charges You have against me”.Job 10:2

“If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together.”Job 9:33

“Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.”Job 5:17

When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathise with him and comfort him.Job 2:11

For the Jews it was a time of happiness and joy, gladness and honour. In every province and in every city to which the edict of the king came, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating…Esther 8:16-17

When Haman entered, the king asked him “What should be done for the man the king delights to honour?” Now Haman thought to himself “Who is there that the king would rather honour than me?”Esther 6:6

having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.Esther 3:6

Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by ​Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon …Esther 2:5-6

When the priests and Levites had purified themselves ceremonially, they purified the people, the gates and the wall.Nehemiah 12:30

The rest of the people … join their fellow Israelites … and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the Lord our Lord.Nehemiah 10:29

Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and teacher of the Law and the Levites who were instructing the people said to them all “This day is holy to the Lord your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.Nehemiah 8:9

Remember me with favour, my God, for all I have done for these people.Nehemiah 5:19

Meanwhile, the people in Judah said “The strength of the labourers is giving out and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”Nehemiah 4:10

So the king asked me “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.” I was very much afraid.Nehemiah 2:2

While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites - men, women and children - gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.Ezra 10:1

For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the Lord, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.Ezra 7:10

So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.Ezra 6:14