June 15, 2026

Daily Devotional

Be Still and Know That I Am God!

In the Living Bible’s vivid rendering, Psalm 46 opens with one of Scripture’s most comforting declarations. God is not a distant observer but our refuge—a secure shelter amid life’s storms—and our strength, the very power sustaining us when our own fails. The psalmist, inspired by the Holy Spirit, calls Him “a tested help,” meaning God has proven Himself reliable through generations of trials.

This truth shines brightest in chaos. Verses 2–3 describe catastrophic upheaval: The earth shaking, mountains crumbling into the sea, oceans roaring. Yet the people of God “need not fear.” Why? Because the Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress (v. 7, 11). For ancient Israel, this spoke of deliverance from invading armies or natural disasters. For us today, it addresses every modern trouble—financial collapse, health crises, political rage, personal loss, or the quiet battles of aging and regret.

As a Vietnam veteran who flew B-52 missions in 1968, I have known seasons when the “mountains” of life seemed ready to crumble. In the air or later in business and ministry: Human strength proved insufficient. But time after time, the Lord became my tested help. He sheltered me through combat, career shifts, and the daily pressures of real estate development and family life. His strength empowered me to keep serving at 85—whether advocating for veterans’ housing, leasing apartments for teachers and first responders, selling hi-rise buildings in downtown Houston or writing these daily devotionals since 2011.

The psalm pivots from turmoil to triumph. A gentle river flows through the city of God, bringing joy because “God dwells in that city” (v. 4–5). He is “a very present help”—not occasionally available, but immediately near.

This foreshadows the ultimate refuge we have in Jesus Christ. On the Cross, He absorbed the ultimate storm of God’s wrath so we could run to Him as our hiding place! Through the Holy Spirit, the same power that calmed the seas and raised the dead now lives in every believer, making us “more than conquerors” (Romans 8:37).

Practical Application: When anxiety rises or circumstances overwhelm, stop and declare Psalm 46:1 aloud. Run to your Refuge through prayer and Scripture. Draw strength from worship, fellowship, and obedient service. Let go of self-reliance and rest in the One who commands the nations and stills the seas.

Dear friend, in this age of rage and uncertainty, anchor your soul in the unchanging, All-Powerful God. He has been our refuge in the past, He is our strength today, and He will be our fortress forever. “Be still, and know that I am God” (v. 10). Trust Him completely—He will never fail you!

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 15 in Proverbs for today: (JUNE 15 (MT) (ESV)

15 A soft answer turns away wrath,
    but a harsh word stirs up anger.
²The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
    but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
³The eyes of the Lord are in every place,
    keeping watch on the evil and the good.
⁴A gentle^[a] tongue is a tree of life,
    but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
⁵A fool despises his father’s instruction,
    but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
⁶In the house of the righteous there is much treasure,
    but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.
⁷The lips of the wise spread knowledge;
    not so the hearts of fools.^[b]
⁸The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
    but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
⁹The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
    but he loves him who pursues righteousness.
¹⁰There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way;
    whoever hates reproof will die.
¹¹Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord;
    how much more the hearts of the children of man!
¹²A scoffer does not like to be reproved;
    he will not go to the wise.
¹³A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
    but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.
¹⁴The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge,
    but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
¹⁵All the days of the afflicted are evil,
    but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.
¹⁶Better is a little with the fear of the Lord
    than great treasure and trouble with it.
¹⁷Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
    than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
¹⁸A hot-tempered man stirs up strife,
    but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
¹⁹The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns,
    but the path of the upright is a level highway.
²⁰A wise son makes a glad father,
    but a foolish man despises his mother.
²¹Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense,
    but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.
²²Without counsel plans fail,
    but with many advisers they succeed.
²³To make an apt answer is a joy to a man,
    and a word in season, how good it is!
²⁴The path of life leads upward for the prudent,
    that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.
²⁵The Lord tears down the house of the proud
    but maintains the widow’s boundaries.
²⁶The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord,
    but gracious words are pure.
²⁷Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household,
    but he who hates bribes will live.
²⁸The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer,
    but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
²⁹The Lord is far from the wicked,
    but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
³⁰The light of the eyes rejoices the heart,
    and good news refreshes^[c] the bones.
³¹The ear that listens to life-giving reproof
    will dwell among the wise.
³²Whoever ignores instruction despises himself,
    but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
³³The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,
    and humility comes before honor.

Footnotes

Proverbs 15:4 Or healing
Proverbs 15:7 Or the hearts of fools are not steadfast
Proverbs 15:30 Hebrew makes fat

CHAPTER 22 ISAIAH for today: (JUNE 15 (JJ) (ESV)

22 The oracle concerning the valley of vision.

What do you mean that you have gone up,
    all of you, to the housetops,
²you who are full of shoutings,
    tumultuous city, exultant town?
Your slain are not slain with the sword
    or dead in battle.
³All your leaders have fled together;
    without the bow they were captured.
All of you who were found were captured,
    though they had fled far away.
⁴Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
    let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
    concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

⁵For the Lord God of hosts has a day
    of tumult and trampling and confusion
    in the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
    and a shouting to the mountains.
⁶And Elam bore the quiver
    with chariots and horsemen,
    and Kir uncovered the shield.
⁷Your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
    and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
⁸He has taken away the covering of Judah.

In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest, ⁹and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, ¹⁰and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. ¹¹You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.

¹²In that day the Lord God of hosts
    called for weeping and mourning,
    for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
¹³and behold, joy and gladness,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating flesh and drinking wine.
“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”
¹⁴The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,”
    says the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁵Thus says the Lord God of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: ¹⁶What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? ¹⁷Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you ¹⁸and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master’s house. ¹⁹I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. ²⁰In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, ²¹and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. ²²And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. ²³And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house. ²⁴And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father’s house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. ²⁵In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”

Revelation 16

for today: (JUNE 15 (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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