August 13, 2026

Daily Devotional

GOD’S SHOES NEVER WEAR OUT & HIS LIFE VEST WILL ALWAYS HOLD YOU UP!

In the long wilderness journey, the Lord spoke a quiet miracle that still echoes: “For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet” (Deuteronomy 29:5, TLB). The people walked on dry ground and rocky trails, yet the shoes God provided never frayed, never failed. That same faithful God still outfits His children today. His shoes never wear out.

Life’s path is rarely smooth. There are seasons of hard ground, sudden storms, and long stretches that leave us weary. Yet the One Who walked with Israel still walks with us. He does not hand us flimsy footwear that collapses under pressure. He gives shoes of endurance, shoes of grace, shoes fitted for every mile He asks us to travel. When our own strength thins and our own resolve grows thin, His provision remains strong. We do not have to manufacture what only He can supply.

And more than shoes, He gives a life vest that will never fail. Scripture is full of the picture: the Lord is our rock, our fortress, the One Who lifts us from the deep waters (Psalm 18:16; Isaiah 43:2). When the waves rise higher than our heads, His life vest holds. It is not a thin foam of human optimism; it is the solid, unbreakable hold of the Savior Who already went under the waters of death and rose again. His grip does not slip. His buoyancy does not fail. Even when we feel ourselves sinking in fear, regret, or exhaustion, the life vest of His presence and His finished work keeps our heads above the flood.

This is the practical comfort of the gospel. The same God Who preserved sandals in the desert preserves souls in the storm. He does not grow tired of caring for us. He does not run out of strength. The shoes keep their shape. The life vest keeps its hold. Therefore we walk on—not because the path is easy, but because the Provider is faithful. Trust the shoes. Rest in the life vest. The God who never abandons His Own will carry you all the way home!

Amen!

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Let us Praise Him Daily!

A good way to learn to Praise God is to memorize the first 6 Verses of Psalms 148:

1 Praise the Lord, O heavens! Praise Him from the skies!

²Praise Him, all His angels, all the armies of heaven.

³Praise Him, sun and moon and all you twinkling stars.

⁴Praise Him, skies above. Praise Him, vapors high above the clouds.

⁵Let everything He has made give praise to Him. For He issued His command, and they came into being;

^{6 H}e established them forever and forever. His orders will never be revoked.

PLEASE read the last 6 Chapters of Psalms: 145-150 so that you will learn how to Praise God like David did!

If you don’t want to get your Bible, Here they all are, just click on each Chapter and I will read them to you:

PSALMS 145 PSALMS 146 PSALMS 147 PSALMS148 PSALMS 149 PSALMS 150

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JESUS IS:

THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH,

THE LEADER,

THE ORIGINATOR,

THE LORD & MASTER,

THE SUPREME LEADER,

OUR HOPE,

1ST BORN FROM THE DEAD WITH AN IMMORTAL BODY TO NEVER DIE AGAIN,

THE 1ST FRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION,

HE IS OUR FESTIVAL OF HOPE,

OUR PARDON,

GIVEN 1ST PLACE IN EVERYTHING,

HAS BEEN EXALTED AS SUPREME OVER EVERYTHING,

IS ENOUGH,

THE FULLNESS OF GOD DWELLS IN US THROUGH JESUS,

JESUS HAS BROUGHT US INTO HARMONY WITH GOD,

HE HAS BROKERED A PEACE TREATY BETWEEN GOD & MAN,

YOU WERE BORN ON THE WRONG SIDE, BUT BY ACCEPTING JESUS

YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE NOW,

YOU ARE BEYOND REPROACH,

JESUS WAS THE SOLUTION BEFORE YOU HAD A SIN PROBLEM,

NEVER GET OVER WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU!

NOW:

THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH:

TO TEACH US TO LEAD OTHERS TO CHRIST!

AMEN!

(You might want to copy those down and memorize them!)

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DAILY BIBLE READING:

>1. Chapter for the DAY in Proverbs;

>2. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the Old Testament AND

>3. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the New Testament Daily:

Chapter 13 in Proverbs for today: (AUGUST 13 (MT) (ESV)

13 A wise son hears his father’s instruction,
    but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
²From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good,
    but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
³Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
    he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
⁴The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
    while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
⁵The righteous hates falsehood,
    but the wicked brings shame^[a] and disgrace.
⁶Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless,
    but sin overthrows the wicked.
⁷One pretends to be rich,^[b] yet has nothing;
    another pretends to be poor,^[c] yet has great wealth.
⁸The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth,
    but a poor man hears no threat.
⁹The light of the righteous rejoices,
    but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
¹⁰By insolence comes nothing but strife,
    but with those who take advice is wisdom.
¹¹Wealth gained hastily^[d] will dwindle,
    but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
¹²Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
    but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
¹³Whoever despises the word^[e] brings destruction on himself,
    but he who reveres the commandment^[f] will be rewarded.
¹⁴The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
    that one may turn away from the snares of death.
¹⁵Good sense wins favor,
    but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.^[g]
¹⁶Every prudent man acts with knowledge,
    but a fool flaunts his folly.
¹⁷A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
    but a faithful envoy brings healing.
¹⁸Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction,
    but whoever heeds reproof is honored.
¹⁹A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul,
    but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.
²⁰Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
    but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
²¹Disaster^[h] pursues sinners,
    but the righteous are rewarded with good.
²²A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
    but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
²³The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food,
    but it is swept away through injustice.
²⁴Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
    but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.^[i]
²⁵The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite,
    but the belly of the wicked suffers want.

Footnotes

Proverbs 13:5 Or stench

Proverbs 13:7 Or One makes himself rich

Proverbs 13:7 Or another makes himself poor

Proverbs 13:11 Or by fraud

Proverbs 13:13 Or a word

Proverbs 13:13 Or a commandment

Proverbs 13:15 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); Hebrew is rugged, or is an enduring rut

Proverbs 13:21 Or Evil

Proverbs 13:24 Or who loves him disciplines him early

CHAPTER 13 JEREMIAH for today: (AUGUST 13 (LN) (ESV)

13 Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.” ²So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist. ³And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, ⁴“Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.” ⁵So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me. ⁶And after many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.” ⁷Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to me: ⁹“Thus says the Lord: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing. ¹¹For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the Lord, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.

The Jars Filled with Wine

¹²“You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’ ¹³Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁴And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”

Exile Threatened

¹⁵Hear and give ear; be not proud,
    for the Lord has spoken.
¹⁶Give glory to the Lord your God
    before he brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
    on the twilight mountains,
and while you look for light
    he turns it into gloom
    and makes it deep darkness.
¹⁷But if you will not listen,
    my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
    because the Lord‘s flock has been taken captive.

¹⁸Say to the king and the queen mother:
    “Take a lowly seat,
for your beautiful crown
    has come down from your head.”
¹⁹The cities of the Negeb are shut up,
    with none to open them;
all Judah is taken into exile,
    wholly taken into exile.

²⁰“Lift up your eyes and see
    those who come from the north.
Where is the flock that was given you,
    your beautiful flock?
²¹What will you say when they set as head over you
    those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?
Will not pangs take hold of you
    like those of a woman in labor?
²²And if you say in your heart,
    ‘Why have these things come upon me?’
it is for the greatness of your iniquity
    that your skirts are lifted up
    and you suffer violence.
²³Can the Ethiopian change his skin
    or the leopard his spots?
Then also you can do good
    who are accustomed to do evil.
²⁴I will scatter you^[a] like chaff
    driven by the wind from the desert.
²⁵This is your lot,
    the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord,
because you have forgotten me
    and trusted in lies.
²⁶I myself will lift up your skirts over your face,
    and your shame will be seen.
²⁷I have seen your abominations,
    your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings,
    on the hills in the field.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
    How long will it be before you are made clean?”

Footnotes

Jeremiah 13:24 Hebrew them

Revelation 08

for today: (AUGUST 13 (NN) ESV)

8 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. ²Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. ³And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, ⁴and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. ⁵Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings,^[a] flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

The Seven Trumpets

⁶Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

⁷The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

⁸The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. ⁹A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

¹⁰The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. ¹¹The name of the star is Wormwood.^[b] A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.

¹²The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.

¹³Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”

Footnotes

Revelation 8:5 Or voices, or sounds
Revelation 8:11 Wormwood is the name of a plant and of the bitter-tasting extract derived from it

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Please Remember:

“CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS

AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD!”

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The Steps to Salvation:

> Repent: Repentance means that you are turning away from sin to turn to Christ. It does NOT mean that you will be perfect.

> Believe/Receive: Salvation is through Faith in Jesus and by the Grace of God. Believing means putting your Faith in Jesus and receiving forgiveness of sin.

>Walk in the Newness of Life: Jesus died so that we might live. We walk in the Newness of Life being Born Again by His Blood.

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GOD THE FATHER IS THE SOVEREIGN KING
AND CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE
UNIVERSE AND BEYOND!

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