Daily Devotions on the One Year Bible by Pastor Gary Combs Pastor Gary Combs

“By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion (Psalm 137:1 ESV). The Jewish captives composed this melancholy song while exiled in Babylon. Having lost their homes in Judah and seeing their holy city Jerusalem with its Temple destroyed, they gathered somewhere on the shores of the Euphrates, and

And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God (1 Kings 19:8 ESV). After God had used Elijah to win the victory over Baals prophets on Mount Carmel, he had no doubt expected a revival to break out

‘And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” (1 Kings 18:21 ESV). The prophet Elijah challenged the people of Israel to stop limping, or wavering back and forth between two

And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends (Acts 10:24 ESV). The Roman centurion, Cornelius, had sent for the apostle Peter and upon hearing that he was on the way, he called together his relatives and close friends to meet and hear

And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven (Acts 10:15-16 ESV). While praying on the rooftop of Simon the Tanner, Peter saw a vision of unclean animals lowered down from

“Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda (Acts 9:32 ESV). After Pauls conversion there was a season of peace for the church. During this time, the apostle Peter traveled throughout Judea, Samaria and Galilee visiting the new believers and strengthening them