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Daily Encounter: Be Still for Tuesday, May 5, 2026

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for May 5 “If ye then be risen” (Colossians 3:1) God is waiting this morning to mark the opening hours for every ready and willing heart with a touch of life and power that will lift our lives to higher pleasures and offer to our vision grander horizons of hope and holy service. We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. He was in advance even of the earliest seeker that Easter morning, and He will be waiting for us before the break of day with His glad “All Hail,” if we have only eyes to see and hearts to welcome and obey Him. What is His message to us this spring time? “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” It is not risen with Christ, but resurrected. It is not rising a little higher in the old life, but it is rising from the dead. The resurrection will mean no more than the death has meant. Onl...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for May 5 Morning  “David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.”  1 Samuel 30:1-13 , 1 Samuel 30:15-18  David again stepped aside from his right position, and went over to Achish the Philistine king, who received him kindly. War soon arose against Israel, and David was expected to march against his own people. When we walk by sight and not by faith, we are sure to be placed in embarrassments ere long, and so was David! Out of this difficulty the Lord delivered him, for the Philistine lords distrusted him, and therefore Achish sent him back to Ziklag, the city which he had allotted to him as his dwelling-place; but the Lord took care to chasten him, for on his return to Ziklag a sad scene awaited him.  1 Samuel 30:4  A sad sight to see strong men weep like women, but who would not do so in such a case.  1 Samuel 30:5 , 1 Samuel 30:6  Some time before, he had said, “There is nothing better for...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for May 5 “Why Remain Captive ”  - Deuteronomy 30:3 God’s own people may sell themselves into captivity by sin. A very bitter fruit is this, of an exceeding bitter root. What a bondage it is when the child of God is sold under sin, held in chains by Satan, deprived of his liberty, robbed of his power in prayer and his delight in the LORD! Let us watch that we come not into such bondage; but if this has already happened to us, let us by no means despair.  But we cannot be held in slavery forever. The LORD Jesus has paid too high a price for our redemption to leave us in the enemy’s hand. The way to freedom is, "Return unto the LORD thy God." Where we first found salvation we shall find it again. At the foot of Christ’s cross, confessing sin, we shall find pardon and deliverance. Moreover, the LORD will have us obey His voice according to all that He has commanded us, and we must do this with all our heart and...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for May 5 Tozer in the Morning EVERYONE MAY COME There is a strange beauty in the ways of God with men. He sends salvation to the world in the person of a Man and sends that Man to walk the byways, saying, "If any man will come after Me!" No fanfare; no tramp of marching feet! A kindly Stranger walks through the earth, and so quiet is His voice that it is sometimes lost in the hurly-burly; but it is the last voice of God, and until we become quiet to hear it, we have no authentic message. "If any man," He says, and teaches at once the universal inclusiveness of His invitation and the freedom of the human will. Everyone may come; no one need come, and whoever does come, comes because he chooses to. Every man thus holds his future in his hand. Not the dominant world leader only, but the inarticulate man lost in anonymity is "a man of destiny!" He decides which way his soul shall go. He chooses, and destiny wait...

 Worthy Brief - May 5, 2026 You are being prepared to reign!  Luke 19:15-17  When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business. 16  The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’  17  And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’  What you do now matters more than you realize. The Kingdom is not only about what is coming -- it is about how you are being prepared for it. Yeshua (Jesus) made this clear when He said, “Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities” [Luke 19:17]. Another was entrusted with five. The distinction was not favoritism -- it was faithfulness. In Scripture, faithfulness is not vague—it is something that can be seen and proven....

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 5th May 2026 May 5 Judges 7:20 20The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!" What a fascinating plan the LORD gave them. Each of the 300 men took a pitcher with a torch inside in one hand. In the other was a trumpet. On cue they smashed the pitchers and the light shown out. With the other hand they blew their trumpets and then shouted, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!" The enemy was thrown into a panic thinking that each light led a company of soldiers. Frightened in the dark, they killed one another. The dream Gideon had overheard came to pass. What sword were they shouting about? It was the Word of the LORD that they were faithfully obeying. We have a treasure in jars of clay. It is the Light of the world. At times we seem to be totally outnumbered. But w...

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