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.
The Lord is My Shepherd
For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.”Ezekiel 34:11-12
Remember Who is Ultimately in Control
Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “Because the great cedar towered over the thick foliage and because it was proud of its height, I gave it into the hands of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with according to its wickedness. I cast it aside...”Ezekiel 31:10-11
Can You Keep a Promise?
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.”Ezekiel 28:25
Does God Really Understand?
“Son of man, with one blow I am about to take away from you the delight of your eyes. Yet do not lament or weep or shed any tears.”Ezekiel 24:16
Faithfully Stand in the Gap
“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it but I found no one.”Ezekiel 22:30
Always Put God First
“Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not just.” Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?”Ezekiel 18:25
You Can’t Decide for Others
Even if these three men - Noah, Daniel and Job - were in it (Jerusalem), they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord.Ezekiel 14:14
Actions Are Better Than Words
“Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people and I will be their God.”Ezekiel 11:20
Be Content to Do Your Best!
“But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.”Ezekiel 3:19
Learn From Your Own Mistakes
“The Lord is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.”Lamentations 1:18
Our God Remains Faithful to the End
“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place.”Jeremiah 50:6
There is No Escape Clause
“Whoever flees from the terror will fall into a pit, whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare; for I will bring on Moab the year of her punishment,” declares the Lord.Jeremiah 48:44
Don’t be Afraid!
“Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear. Do not be afraid of him, declares the Lord, for I am with you and will save you and deliver you from his hands.”Jeremiah 42:11
How Many Times do You Need to Hear?
...Jeremiah replied. “Obey the Lord by doing what I tell you. Then it will go well with you and your life will be spared.”Jeremiah 38:20
God’s Word is Indestructible
Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe’s knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.Jeremiah 36:23
We are All Included in God’s Plans
“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.”Jeremiah 31:31
Maybe You Need to Look a Little Harder
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13
Why Don’t You Listen?
“But you did not listen to me,” declares the Lord, “and you have aroused my anger with what your hands have made and you have brought harm to yourselves.”Jeremiah 25:7
I’m not One to Complain but...
“Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?”Jeremiah 20:18
Return to God and Serve Him
Therefore this is what the Lord says: “If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them.”Jeremiah 15:19
Be Gentle - I’m No Match for You God!
“Discipline me Lord, but only in due measure - not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.”Jeremiah 10:24
Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned
“Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction.”Jeremiah 6:1
Learn From Other People’s Mistakes
“...Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there... In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me...“Jeremiah 3:6,10
I Am Here For You
All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations.Isaiah 65:2
Live Today to The Full
I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of His righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.Isaiah 61:10
Your Move!
Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear but your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.Isaiah 59:1-2
Beauty is Only Skin Deep
He grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him.Isaiah 53:2
Watch What You Say and Do
”...all day long my name is constantly blasphemed.”Isaiah 52:5
There is No Alternative
“…so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting people may know there is none besides Me. I am the Lord and there is no other.”Isaiah 45:6
God Knows You Individually
But now, this is what the Lord says - He who created you, Jacob, He who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.”Isaiah 43:1
Just Offer What You Are
A bruised reed He will not break and a smouldering wick He will not snuff out. In faithfulness He will bring forth justice.Isaiah 42:3
Are You Prepared For Today?
In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”Isaiah 38:1
Until He Comes
...Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, He will come with vengeance; with divine retribution He will come to save you.Isaiah 35:4
Today is The Day to Repent
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says:“In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength but you would have none of it”.Isaiah 30:15
God Always Knows Best
...When Your judgements come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.Isaiah 26:9
Eat Drink and be Merry…
But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”Isaiah 22:13
Standing Out From the Crowd
…at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.Isaiah 20:2
Be Godly in a Godless Culture
You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon”.Isaiah 14:13
Total Certainty with God
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord Himself, is my strength and my defence; He has become my salvation.Isaiah 12:2
Jesus Came for Jew and Gentile
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.Isaiah 9:2