February 2002
Daily Devotionals

Friday 1 February

Mark 14:13-15

"Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there."

Saturday 2 February

Mark 14:18, 20-21

"I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me — one who is eating with me." "It is one of the Twelve," "one who dips bread into the bowl with me. The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."

Sunday 3 February

Mark 14:22, 24

"Take it; this is my body." "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,"

Monday 4 February

Mark 14:25

"I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God."

Tuesday 5 February

Mark 14:27-28

"You will all fall away," "for it is written: "‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee."

Wednesday 6 February

Mark 14:30

"I tell you the truth," "today — yes, tonight — before the rooster crows twice you yourself will disown me three times."

Thursday 7 February

Mark 14:32,34

"Sit here while I pray." "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death," "Stay here and keep watch."

Friday 8 February

Mark 14:36

"Abba, Father," "everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will."

Saturday 9 February

Mark 14:37-38

"Simon," "are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour? Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."

Sunday 10 February

Mark 14:41-42

"Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!"

Monday 11 February

Mark 14:48-49

"Am I leading a rebellion," "that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled."

Tuesday 12 February

Mark 14:62

"I am," "And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Wednesday 13 February

Mark 14:72

"Before the rooster crows twice you will disown me three times."

Thursday 14 February

Mark 15:34

"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Friday 15 February

Mark 16:15

"Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.

Saturday 16 February

Mark 16:16

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Sunday 17 February

Mark 16:17-18

And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."

Monday 18 February

Luke 2:49

"Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?"

Tuesday 19 February

Luke 4:4

"It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone.’"

Wednesday 20 February

Luke 4:8

"It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’"

Thursday 21 February

Luke 4:12

"It says: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’"

Friday 22 February

Luke 4:18-19, 21

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor." "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

Saturday 23 February

Luke 4:23-27

"Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’" "I tell you the truth," "no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed — only Naaman the Syrian."

Sunday 24 February

Luke 4:35

"Be quiet!" "Come out of him!"

Monday 25 February

Luke 4:43

"I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent."

Tuesday 26 February

Luke 5:4

"Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch."

Wednesday 27 February

Luke 5:10

"Don’t be afraid; from now on you will catch men."

Thursday 28 February

Luke 5:13-14

"I am willing," "Be clean!" "Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."