The Morning Devotional: James 4:13-17 (Part One)
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 33
January 15, 2026
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
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The Morning Devotional: James 4:12
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 32
December 19, 2025
12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Season 10 | Edition 32
December 19, 2025
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The Morning Devotional: James 4:11
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 31
December 18, 2025
11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.[a] The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
(James 4:11, ESV)
Season 10 | Edition 31
December 18, 2025
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The Morning Devotional: James 4:6-10
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 30
December 17, 2025
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
(Jameas 4:6-10, ESV)
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The Morning Devotional: James 4:4-5
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 29
December 16, 2025
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
(James 4:4-5, ESV)
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The Morning Devotional: James 4:1-3
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 28
December 15, 2025
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
(James 4:1-3, ESV)
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Daily Prayer for the Lord's Day, December 14, 2025: Psalm 54
Daily Prayer
December 14, 2025
O God, save me by your name,
and vindicate me by your might.
O God, hear my prayer;
give ear to the words of my mouth.
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The Morning Devotional: James 3:17-18
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 27
December 12, 2025
17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
(James 3:17-18, ESV)
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The Morning Devotional: James 3:13-16
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 26
December 11, 2025
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
(James 3:13-16, ESV)
Season 10 | Edition 26
December 11, 2025
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The Morning Devotional: James 6b-12
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 25
December 10, 2025
The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
(James 3:6b-12, ESV)
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The Morning Devotional: James 3:2-6a
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 24
December 9, 2025
2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness.
(James 3:2-6a, ESV)
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The Morning Devotional: James 3:1
The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 23
December 8, 2025
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
(James 3:1, ESV)
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