July 06, 2026

Daily Devotional

In every human heart is a God-shaped vacuum that only God can fill!

This timeless truth captures one of the deepest realities of human existence. God created us with an inner longing that nothing in this world can satisfy. In Ecclesiastes 3:11 (TLB), Solomon observed, “Everything is appropriate in its own time. But though God has planted eternity in the hearts of men, even so, many cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.”

The Creator placed within every person a sense of eternity—an awareness that we were made for more than temporary pleasures, achievements, or relationships.

That “God-shaped vacuum” explains the restlessness we feel even when life appears successful. We chase promotions, possessions, popularity, and entertainment, yet the emptiness remains. We were designed for intimate fellowship with our Maker, and only He can fill the space He created.

King David expressed this same spiritual thirst in Psalm 42:1-2 (TLB): “As the deer pants for water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God. Where can I find him to come and stand before him?”

Our souls instinctively reach for the living God. When sin broke our perfect relationship with Him, that longing became a painful void. No amount of success, comfort, or human love can permanently silence it.

Jesus met a woman at the well who had tried to fill her emptiness through broken relationships. He told her in John 4:13-14 (TLB), “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give them will never thirst again. It becomes a perpetual spring within them, watering them forever with eternal life.”

Only Jesus Christ can satisfy the vacuum. Through His death on the cross and glorious resurrection, He offers complete forgiveness, reconciliation with God, and the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. When we repent of our sins and trust in Him alone, the emptiness is replaced by His peace, purpose, and eternal life. The restlessness gives way to rest.

Dear friend, if you feel that deep ache inside, stop trying to fill it with substitutes that will always fail. Turn to Jesus today. He alone was made to occupy the God-shaped space in your heart. Open your life to Him, and you will discover the satisfaction your soul has been thirsting for all along. He is ready to fill you—completely and forever.

Friend: I beg you to PLEASE continue reading further down this blog to find out more about how to be SURE that you will get into Heaven when your time on Earth is over.

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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 06 in Proverbs for today: (JULY 06 (MT) (ESV)

6 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
    have given your pledge for a stranger,
²if you are snared in the words of your mouth,
    caught in the words of your mouth,
³then do this, my son, and save yourself,
    for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
    go, hasten,^[a] and plead urgently with your neighbor.
⁴Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;
⁵save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,^[b]
    like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶Go to the ant, O sluggard;
    consider her ways, and be wise.
⁷Without having any chief,
    officer, or ruler,
⁸she prepares her bread in summer
    and gathers her food in harvest.
⁹How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
    When will you arise from your sleep?
¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest,
¹¹and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

¹²A worthless person, a wicked man,
    goes about with crooked speech,
¹³winks with his eyes, signals^[c] with his feet,
    points with his finger,
¹⁴with perverted heart devises evil,
    continually sowing discord;
¹⁵therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
    in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

¹⁶There are six things that the Lord hates,
    seven that are an abomination to him:
¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
    and hands that shed innocent blood,
¹⁸a heart that devises wicked plans,
    feet that make haste to run to evil,
¹⁹a false witness who breathes out lies,
    and one who sows discord among brothers.

Warnings Against Adultery

²⁰My son, keep your father’s commandment,
    and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
²¹Bind them on your heart always;
    tie them around your neck.
²²When you walk, they^[d] will lead you;
    when you lie down, they will watch over you;
    and when you awake, they will talk with you.
²³For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
    and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
²⁴to preserve you from the evil woman,^[e]
    from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.^[f]
²⁵Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
²⁶for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,^[g]
    but a married woman^[h] hunts down a precious life.
²⁷Can a man carry fire next to his chest
    and his clothes not be burned?
²⁸Or can one walk on hot coals
    and his feet not be scorched?
²⁹So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
    none who touches her will go unpunished.
³⁰People do not despise a thief if he steals
    to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
³¹but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;
    he will give all the goods of his house.
³²He who commits adultery lacks sense;
    he who does it destroys himself.
³³He will get wounds and dishonor,
    and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
³⁴For jealousy makes a man furious,
    and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
³⁵He will accept no compensation;
    he will refuse though you multiply gifts.

Footnotes

Proverbs 6:3 Or humble yourself
Proverbs 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter
Proverbs 6:13 Hebrew scrapes
Proverbs 6:22 Hebrew it; three times in this verse
Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman
Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man’s wife

CHAPTER 43 ISAIAH for today: (JULY 06 (JJ) (ESV)

43 But now thus says the Lord,
he who created you, O Jacob,
    he who formed you, O Israel:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
    I have called you by name, you are mine.
²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
    and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
    and the flame shall not consume you.
³For I am the Lord your God,
    the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
I give Egypt as your ransom,
    Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
⁴Because you are precious in my eyes,
    and honored, and I love you,
I give men in return for you,
    peoples in exchange for your life.
⁵Fear not, for I am with you;
    I will bring your offspring from the east,
    and from the west I will gather you.
⁶I will say to the north, Give up,
    and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring my sons from afar
    and my daughters from the end of the earth,
⁷everyone who is called by my name,
    whom I created for my glory,
    whom I formed and made.”

⁸Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes,
    who are deaf, yet have ears!
⁹All the nations gather together,
    and the peoples assemble.
Who among them can declare this,
    and show us the former things?
Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right,
    and let them hear and say, It is true.
¹⁰“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord,
    “and my servant whom I have chosen,
that you may know and believe me
    and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
    nor shall there be any after me.
¹¹I, I am the Lord,
    and besides me there is no savior.
¹²I declared and saved and proclaimed,
    when there was no strange god among you;
    and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.
¹³Also henceforth I am he;
    there is none who can deliver from my hand;
    I work, and who can turn it back?”

¹⁴Thus says the Lord,
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“For your sake I send to Babylon
    and bring them all down as fugitives,
    even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
¹⁵I am the Lord, your Holy One,
    the Creator of Israel, your King.”

¹⁶Thus says the Lord,
    who makes a way in the sea,
    a path in the mighty waters,
¹⁷who brings forth chariot and horse,
    army and warrior;
they lie down, they cannot rise,
    they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:
¹⁸“Remember not the former things,
    nor consider the things of old.
¹⁹Behold, I am doing a new thing;
    now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
    and rivers in the desert.
²⁰The wild beasts will honor me,
    the jackals and the ostriches,
for I give water in the wilderness,
    rivers in the desert,
to give drink to my chosen people,
²¹    the people whom I formed for myself
that they might declare my praise.

²²“Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob;
    but you have been weary of me, O Israel!
²³You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings,
    or honored me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings,
    or wearied you with frankincense.
²⁴You have not bought me sweet cane with money,
    or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.
But you have burdened me with your sins;
    you have wearied me with your iniquities.

²⁵“I, I am he
    who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
    and I will not remember your sins.
²⁶Put me in remembrance; let us argue together;
    set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
²⁷Your first father sinned,
    and your mediators transgressed against me.
²⁸Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary,
    and deliver Jacob to utter destruction
    and Israel to reviling.

Revelation 16

for today: (JULY 06 (NN) ESV)

16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”

²So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

³The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.

⁴The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. ⁵And I heard the angel in charge of the waters^[a] say,

“Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was,
for you brought these judgments.
⁶For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets,
and you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”

⁷And I heard the altar saying,

“Yes, Lord God the Almighty,
true and just are your judgments!”

⁸The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. ⁹They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed^[b] the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.

¹⁰The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish ¹¹and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent of their deeds.

¹²The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. ¹³And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. ¹⁴For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. ¹⁵(“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”) ¹⁶And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

The Seventh Bowl

¹⁷The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” ¹⁸And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings,^[c] peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. ¹⁹The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. ²⁰And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. ²¹And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds^[d] each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.

Footnotes

Revelation 16:5 Greek angel of the waters
Revelation 16:9 Greek blasphemed; also verses 11, 21
Revelation 16:18 Or voices, or sounds
Revelation 16:21 Greek a talent in weight

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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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