Números 25:3

It is great to be near the God who showers us with blessings and loves us unconditionally. We wander away and don’t even notice how distant we’ve become from God. How can we return to our senses and return to His loving arms? This is the first part of Naomi and Ruth’s story and their return to a covenant relationship with the Father.

The book of Ruth is one of Scripture’s most beautiful and moving stories, but it begins in darkness. Set during the turbulent days of the Judges, it opens with famine, displacement, grief, and death. These details help us understand the difficult choices, painful losses, and surprising faithfulness of God at work beneath the surface. Before Ruth becomes a story of loyalty, redemption, and new beginnings, it’s first a story of disappointment and survival. This six-part plan explores Ruth in its original context, revealing how God meets us in emptiness and uncertainty and keeps hardship from defining our lives.

In the book of Revelation, John receives revelations from Jesus Christ for events that were to take place. As part of these revelations, John is instructed to write down what he saw and to send it to seven churches in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). The messages of these letters served the purposes of encouraging, correcting, admonishing, and exhorting the churches. This fourteen-day reading plan dives into each of the 7 letters with an aim to understand what Jesus was saying to the churches then and what He is saying to the modern church.

The call to serve and work with God is for all Christians. When it comes to our work with the Master, it must be done as unto the Lord and not unto man, with integrity of heart and skillfulness of hands. In this devotional, you will learn the qualifications required to work with God effectively in a way that pleases Him.