November 2001 Daily Devotionals

Thursday 1 Nov

Mark 8:17-21

"Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?" "And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?" "Do you still not understand?"

Friday 2 Nov

Mark 8:27,29

"Who do people say I am?" "But what about you?" "Who do you say I am?"

Saturday 3 Nov

Mark 8:33-34

"Get behind me, Satan!" "You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men." "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Sunday 4 Nov

Mark 8:35

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.

Monday 5 Nov

Mark 8:36-37

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Tuesday 6 Nov

Mark 8:38

If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels."

Wednesday 7 Nov

Mark 9:1

"I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."

Thursday 8 Nov

Mark 9:12-13

"To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected? But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him."

Friday 9 Nov

Mark 9:19,21,23,25,29

"O unbelieving generation," "how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy to me." "How long has he been like this?" "‘If you can’?" "Everything is possible for him who believes." "You deaf and mute spirit," "I command you, come out of him and never enter him again." "This kind can come out only by prayer."

Saturday 10 Nov

Mark 9:31

"The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise."

Sunday 11 Nov

Mark 9:33,35

"What were you arguing about on the road?" "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all."

Monday 12 Nov

Mark 9:37

"Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."

Tuesday 13 Nov

Mark 9:39-40

"Do not stop him," "No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us.

Wednesday 14 Nov

Mark 9:41-42

I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward. "And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.

Thursday 15 Nov

Mark 9:43,45,47-49

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where" ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’ Everyone will be salted with fire.

Friday 16 Nov

Mark 9:50

"Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."

Saturday 17 Nov

Mark 10:3,5-9,11-12

"What did Moses command you?" "It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law," "But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

Sunday 18 Nov

Mark 10:14-15

"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."

Monday 19 Nov

Mark 10:18-19,21,23-25

"Why do you call me good?" "No one is good — except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’" "One thing you lack," "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!" "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Tuesday 20 Nov

Mark 10:27

"With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God."

Wednesday 21 Nov

Mark 10:29-30

"I tell you the truth," "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.

Thursday 22 November

Mark 10:31

But many who are first will be last, and the last first."

Friday 23 November

Mark 10:33-34

"We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise."

Saturday 24 November

Mark 10:36

"What do you want me to do for you?"

Sunday 25 November

Mark 10:38-40

"You don’t know what you are asking," "Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with? You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared."

Monday 26 November

Mark 10:42-45

"You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Tuesday 27 November

Mark 10:49-52

"Call him. What do you want me to do for you? Go, your faith has healed you"

Wednesday 28 November

Mark 11:2-3

"Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’"

Thursday 29 November

Mark 11:14

"May no one ever eat fruit from you again."

Friday 30 November

Mark 11:17

"Is it not written: "‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’"