Little by Little Daily Devotional
Struggle to find the time each day for your Bible reading?Listen through the Big Picture of the Bible in one or two key verses each day.Starting 1st January 2025.A daily verse followed by the 'Big Picture' and 'Action Step' for the day.
We Are All Equally Different!
…and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.Luke 8:2-3
Positively The Best You Can Do!
They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: “We played the pipe for you and you did not dance; we sang a dirge and you did not cry.”Luke 7:32
I Just Don’t Feel Like It!
He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up and on the Sabbath day He went into the synagogue, as was His custom. He stood up to read.Luke 4:16
Everyone’s Included Right From the Start
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them and they were terrified.Luke 2:8-9
What’s Your Memory Like?
But Peter insisted emphatically, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you” and all the others said the same.Mark 14:31
Don’t Worry About Tomorrow
“Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back - whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.”Mark 13:35
Just Get On With It!
“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him.The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”Mark 10:51
Stick With The Job in Hand!
Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.”Mark 5:22-23
Don’t Look Down Your Nose Like That!
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”Mark 2:17
Don’t Argue With The Hard Facts
“He is not here; He has risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay.”Matthew 28:6
Always Be on Your Guard
“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.”Matthew 26:41
Don’t Miss Out!
“For many are invited but few are chosen.”Matthew 22:14
We Don’t Need Megaphone Diplomacy!
“If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.”Matthew 18:15
We All Have Our Part to Play
“And I tell you that you are Peter and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.”Matthew 16:18
God is Bigger than You Think!
“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”Matthew 12:40
One Small Step For a Man or a Woman
Then John’s disciples came and asked Him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often but your disciples do not fast?”Matthew 9:14
Are You Listening?
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”Matthew 7:24
Seek and You Will Find
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi (wise men) from the east came to Jerusalem… Matthew 2:1
Give God the Benefit of the Doubt!
‘Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of Heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.’Malachi 3:10
Don’t Be Such an Ostrich!
“...Great is the Lord - even beyond the borders of Israel”Malachi 1:5
How Big is Your God?
“It will be a unique day - a day known only to the Lord - with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.”Zechariah 14:7
Do You Earn What You Are Paid?
I told them, ‘If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.’ So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.Zechariah 11:12
Don’t Let Pride Get in the Way
“Rejoice greatly, Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”Zechariah 9:9
Hands Together, Eyes Closed
“But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets...”Zechariah 7:11-12
No Such Thing as a Little White Sin!
And he said to me, ‘This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.’Zechariah 5:3
With God We Can’t Fail
So he (an angel) said to me, ‘This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty’.Zechariah 4:6
Why Not Give It One More Go?
“Be still before the Lord, all mankind, because He has roused himself from His holy dwelling.”Zechariah 2:13
Trust God Now and Get On With It!
‘But now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ declares the Lord. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work. For I am with you,’ declares the Lord Almighty.Haggai 2:4
The Day of the Lord is Coming
“Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.”Zephaniah 2:3
Always Be Ready to Progress
“I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.”Habakkuk 2:1
What a Privilege We Have!
“Look, there on the mountains, the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace!...”Nahum 1:15
How Can You Be Godly Today?
“Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.”Micah 7:18
God Is Not a Vague Concept!
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”Micah 5:2
Have You Lost Your Focus?
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say, ‘Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.’Micah 3:11
Our God Cares
“Look! The Lord is coming from His dwelling place; He comes down and treads on the heights of the earth.”Micah 1:3
Get God’s Word Right
When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, He relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.Jonah 3:10
Real Self Exposed
From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.Jonah 2:1
Don’t Hold Grudges
“Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.”Obadiah 10
Make Haste - Slowly!
“...When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat -skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales?”Amos 8:5
Just Do It!
Amos answered Amaziah, ‘I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet but I was a shepherd and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees - but the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’Amos 7:14-15