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Bob Lewis 9 · NOVEMBER 8 AUDIO 2026

     Daily Devotional 

    November 8

Life isn’t always easy!

Life Isn’t Always Easy: The Quiet Strength of Trusting God!


Life isn’t always easy. That simple truth meets every person sooner or later.


Storms come without warning—sickness, loss, financial pressure, fractured relationships, or the slow weight of years. Scripture never pretends otherwise. Jesus said plainly, “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33, TLB). The Living Bible renders it with the clarity of a friend who has walked the same road and will not lie to you!


The Bible’s honesty is one of its greatest mercies:


Job lost everything yet refused to curse God.


Joseph was sold by his brothers, imprisoned unjustly, and forgotten—until the day God lifted him.


David fled for his life from King Saul, hiding in caves while writing psalms that still comfort us.


The Apostle Paul catalogued beatings, shipwrecks, hunger, and imprisonment, then wrote, “These troubles and sufferings of ours are, after all, quite small and won’t last very long. Yet this short time of distress will result in God’s richest blessing upon us forever and ever!” (2 Corinthians 4:17, TLB).


God does not promise a painless path. He promises His presence in the pain. “The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking; He rescues those who are crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18, TLB).


Trials become the classroom where faith is strengthened, character is refined, and dependence on Christ grows deeper than comfort ever could.


James reminds us to count it all joy when we fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of faith produces endurance (James 1:2-4).


For the one who has trusted Jesus, difficulty is not the final word. The cross proves that God can bring resurrection life out of the worst that sin and death can do.


The empty tomb declares that every hardship is temporary when measured against eternity. Until that day, we are invited to cast every care upon Him, to open the Bible daily for strength, and to pray with the honesty of children who know their Father hears.


Life isn’t always easy. But the God who holds the universe also holds you. When the road is hard, look to the One who has already overcome.


His grace is sufficient, His peace is real, and His promise stands: “I will never, never fail you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5, TLB).


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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!

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

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

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

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

6 He 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


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 8 in Proverbs for today: (NOVEMBER 8 (MT) (ESV)

  1. 8 Does not wisdom call?
        Does not understanding raise her voice?
    2 On the heights beside the way,
        at the crossroads she takes her stand;
    3 beside the gates in front of the town,
        at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
    4 “To you, O men, I call,
        and my cry is to the children of man.
    5 O simple ones, learn prudence;
        O fools, learn sense.
    6 Hear, for I will speak noble things,
        and from my lips will come what is right,
    7 for my mouth will utter truth;
        wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
    8 All the words of my mouth are righteous;
        there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
    9 They are all straight to him who understands,
        and right to those who find knowledge.
    10 Take my instruction instead of silver,
        and knowledge rather than choice gold,
    11 for wisdom is better than jewels,
        and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

    12 “I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,
        and I find knowledge and discretion.
    13 The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
    Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
        and perverted speech I hate.
    14 I have counsel and sound wisdom;
        I have insight; I have strength.
    15 By me kings reign,
        and rulers decree what is just;
    16 by me princes rule,
        and nobles, all who govern justly.[a]
    17 I love those who love me,
        and those who seek me diligently find me.
    18 Riches and honor are with me,
        enduring wealth and righteousness.
    19 My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold,
        and my yield than choice silver.
    20 I walk in the way of righteousness,
        in the paths of justice,
    21 granting an inheritance to those who love me,
        and filling their treasuries.

    22 “The Lord possessed[b] me at the beginning of his work,[c]
        the first of his acts of old.
    23 Ages ago I was set up,
        at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
    24 When there were no depths I was brought forth,
        when there were no springs abounding with water.
    25 Before the mountains had been shaped,
        before the hills, I was brought forth,
    26 before he had made the earth with its fields,
        or the first of the dust of the world.
    27 When he established the heavens, I was there;
        when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
    28 when he made firm the skies above,
        when he established[d] the fountains of the deep,
    29 when he assigned to the sea its limit,
        so that the waters might not transgress his command,
    when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
    30     then I was beside him, like a master workman,
    and I was daily his[e] delight,
        rejoicing before him always,
    31 rejoicing in his inhabited world
        and delighting in the children of man.

    32 “And now, O sons, listen to me:
        blessed are those who keep my ways.
    33 Hear instruction and be wise,
        and do not neglect it.
    34 Blessed is the one who listens to me,
        watching daily at my gates,
        waiting beside my doors.
    35 For whoever finds me finds life
        and obtains favor from the Lord,
    36 but he who fails to find me injures himself;
        all who hate me love death.”

    1. Proverbs 8:16 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint govern the earth
    2. Proverbs 8:22 Or fathered; Septuagint created
    3. Proverbs 8:22 Hebrew way
    4. Proverbs 8:28 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
    5. Proverbs 8:30 Or daily filled with

CHAPTER 34 ISAIAH for today:

(NOVEMBER 8 (RF) ESV)

   

34 Draw near, O nations, to hear,
    and give attention, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
    the world, and all that comes from it.
2 For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
    and furious against all their host;
    he has devoted them to destruction,[a] has given them over for slaughter.
3 Their slain shall be cast out,
    and the stench of their corpses shall rise;
    the mountains shall flow with their blood.
4 All the host of heaven shall rot away,
    and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
    as leaves fall from the vine,
    like leaves falling from the fig tree.

5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom,
    upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
6 The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
    it is gorged with fat,
    with the blood of lambs and goats,
    with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 Wild oxen shall fall with them,
    and young steers with the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
    and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 And the streams of Edom[b] shall be turned into pitch,
    and her soil into sulfur;
    her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched;
    its smoke shall go up forever.
From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 But the hawk and the porcupine[c] shall possess it,
    the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
He shall stretch the line of confusion[d] over it,
    and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
    and all its princes shall be nothing.

13 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
    nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of jackals,
    an abode for ostriches.[e]
14 And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
    the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird[f] settles
    and finds for herself a resting place.

15 There the owl nests and lays
    and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there the hawks are gathered,
    each one with her mate.
16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
    Not one of these shall be missing;
    none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
    and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 He has cast the lot for them;
    his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
    from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

  1. Isaiah 34:2 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5
  2. Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams
  3. Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
  4. Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness
  5. Isaiah 34:13 Or owls
  6. Isaiah 34:14 Identity uncertain

Revelation 4

for today: (NOVEMBER 8 (NN) ESV)

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4 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. 3 And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings[a] and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, 6 and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.

And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: 7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
    who was and is and is to come!”

9 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
    to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
    and by your will they existed and were created.”

  1. Revelation 4:5 Or voices, or sounds

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Please Remember:

“CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS

AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD!”

 

 

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.

Additionally, if you feel you need someone to Pray for you,

please call the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,

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

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My name is Bob Lewis.

I have published my Blog: www.ourdailybread101.com
since 2011 and am a devout Christian and an active member of Sagemont Church in Houston.

I was born in Arkansas where I graduated from High School;

I attended Memphis State Univ. on a Track & Field Scholarship and graduated with a BS Degree in Math and a 2nd LT USAF Commission;

In USAF, I was on a B52 Crew, was on the Wing Commander's Staff at Travis AFB where I attended night-school at USC and obtained an MS Degree in Systems Management; flew in B52's out of Kadena AFB in Okinawa during the Vietnam War;

After 6-years in USAF, I resigned to take a position with IBM in Houston, TX where I had the entire Houston Medical Center as my territory;

After 5-years with IBM, I resigned to start my own computer service bureau serving the savings & loan industry in Texas, building it up to having 444 S&L Branches on-line;

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