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August 27, 2026

Daily Devotional

God Created us to Love Him!

From the very first breath of creation, God’s purpose for humanity has been clear and glorious: He made us to love Him!
In the beginning, the Lord formed man from the dust and breathed into him the breath of life, creating beings in His own image who could know Him, walk with Him, and return the love He freely poured out.
The Living Bible captures this heart of God when it records Jesus’ own words: “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment” (Matthew 22:37-38, TLB). Love for God is not an afterthought or optional add-on; it is the reason we exist!
God did not create us because He needed anything. He is complete in Himself—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit dwelling in perfect love from eternity. Yet out of the overflow of that infinite love, He desired creatures who could freely choose to love Him back. That is why He placed Adam and Eve in a garden of abundance and relationship, walking with them in the cool of the day.
Sin shattered that fellowship, but it never changed God’s design. Throughout Scripture the call remains the same: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength” (Deuteronomy 6:5, TLB).
The entire Bible is the story of a loving Creator pursuing His people so that they might love Him in return!
To love God is more than warm feelings or occasional church attendance. It means giving Him first place in every decision, trusting His character when life is hard, obeying His Word even when it costs us, and delighting in His presence above every earthly treasure.
Jesus said, “If you love me, obey my commandments” (John 14:15, TLB). True love shows itself in surrendered lives. It is the grateful response of hearts that have been rescued by the Cross, where the Son of God laid down His life so that we might live forever with Him.
Friend, you were not made for lesser loves. Careers, families, comforts, and achievements are good gifts, but they were never meant to be the center. God created you to love Him—with everything you are.
When that great commandment becomes the passion of your heart, every other relationship finds its proper place, every trial gains eternal meaning, and every ordinary day becomes an act of worship. That is why you were born. That is your highest calling. Love Him!
AMEN!

Reference – A Living Example of Unselfish Love in Action
Dolly Parton’s remarkable, selfless contributions to society stand as a powerful modern illustration of love that seeks the good of others. Through the Dollywood Foundation she founded in her hometown of Sevier County, Tennessee, she launched the “Buddy Program” in the early 1990s. Seventh- and eighth-grade students each chose a partner (a “buddy”), signed a contract pledging to help one another stay in school, and were promised $500 apiece from Dolly herself—but only if both graduated.
The results were dramatic: the high-school dropout rate in the participating classes fell from roughly 30–35 percent (graduation rate around 65 percent) to about 6 percent (graduation rate climbing toward 90–94 percent). Peer accountability, mutual support, and a tangible incentive combined to transform outcomes.
This simple contract is a vivid picture of collectivism versus pure individualism—young people succeeding not merely by looking out for themselves, but by committing to the success of another. Dolly’s quiet generosity (alongside her Imagination Library, scholarships, and countless other acts of kindness) continues to model the kind of outward-focused love that reflects the greater truth of today’s dissertation: we were created to love God—and, in loving Him, to love our neighbors as ourselves.

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 27 in Proverbs for today: (AUGUST 27 (MT) (ESV)

27 Do not boast about tomorrow,
    for you do not know what a day may bring.
²Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
    a stranger, and not your own lips.
³A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty,
    but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
⁴Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming,
    but who can stand before jealousy?
⁵Better is open rebuke
    than hidden love.
⁶Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
    profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
⁷One who is full loathes honey,
    but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
⁸Like a bird that strays from its nest
    is a man who strays from his home.
⁹Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
    and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.^[a]
¹⁰Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend,
    and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near
    than a brother who is far away.
¹¹Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad,
    that I may answer him who reproaches me.
¹²The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
    but the simple go on and suffer for it.
¹³Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
    and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.^[b]
¹⁴Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice,
    rising early in the morning,
    will be counted as cursing.
¹⁵A continual dripping on a rainy day
    and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
¹⁶to restrain her is to restrain the wind
    or to grasp^[c] oil in one’s right hand.
¹⁷Iron sharpens iron,
    and one man sharpens another.^[d]
¹⁸Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and he who guards his master will be honored.
¹⁹As in water face reflects face,
    so the heart of man reflects the man.
²⁰Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,
    and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
²¹The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,
    and a man is tested by his praise.
²²Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
    along with crushed grain,
    yet his folly will not depart from him.

²³Know well the condition of your flocks,
    and give attention to your herds,
²⁴for riches do not last forever;
    and does a crown endure to all generations?
²⁵When the grass is gone and the new growth appears
    and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,
²⁶the lambs will provide your clothing,
    and the goats the price of a field.
²⁷There will be enough goats’ milk for your food,
    for the food of your household
    and maintenance for your girls.

Footnotes

Proverbs 27:9 Or and so does the sweetness of a friend that comes from his earnest counsel

Proverbs 27:13 Hebrew a foreign woman; a slight emendation yields (compare Vulgate; see also 20:16) foreigners

Proverbs 27:16 Hebrew to meet with

Proverbs 27:17 Hebrew sharpens the face of another

CHAPTER 27 JEREMIAH for today: (AUGUST 27 (LN) (ESV)

27 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah^[a] the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord. ²Thus the Lord said to me: “Make yourself straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck. ³Send word^[b] to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. ⁴Give them this charge for their masters: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters: ⁵“It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me. ⁶Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him. ⁷All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

⁸“‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand. ⁹So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ ¹⁰For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish. ¹¹But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the Lord.”’”

¹²To Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live. ¹³Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the Lord has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? ¹⁴Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. ¹⁵I have not sent them, declares the Lord, but they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.”

¹⁶Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the Lord‘s house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. ¹⁷Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation? ¹⁸If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, then let them intercede with the Lord of hosts, that the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon. ¹⁹For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, ²⁰which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem— ²¹thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: ²²They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the Lord. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.”

Footnotes

Jeremiah 27:1 Or Jehoiakim
Jeremiah 27:3 Hebrew Send them

Revelation 21

for today: (AUGUST 27 (NN) ESV)

21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. ²And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place^[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,^[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.^[c] ⁴He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

⁵And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ⁶And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. ⁷The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. ⁸But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

The New Jerusalem

⁹Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. ¹²It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed— ¹³on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. ¹⁴And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. ¹⁶The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia.^[d] Its length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷He also measured its wall, 144 cubits^[e] by human measurement, which is also an angel’s measurement. ¹⁸The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, ²⁰the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

²²And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, ²⁵and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. ²⁶They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. ²⁷But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Footnotes

Revelation 21:3 Or tabernacle
Revelation 21:3 Some manuscripts peoples
Revelation 21:3 Some manuscripts omit as their God
Revelation 21:16 About 1,380 miles; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 meters
Revelation 21:17 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

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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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