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Daily Encounter: Transformative Power for Tuesday, May 19, 2026

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional: May 19th “He purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit” (John 15:2) Recently we passed a garden. The gardener had just finished his pruning, and the wounds of the knife and saw were just beginning to heal, while the warm April sun was gently nourishing the stricken plant into fresh life and energy. We thought as we looked at that plant how cruel it would be to begin next week and cut it down. Now, the gardener’s business is to revive and nourish it into life. Its business is not to die, but to live. So, we thought, it is with the discipline of the soul. It, too, has its dying hour; but it must not be always dying: Rather reckon ourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Death is but a moment. Live, then, ye children of the resurrection, on His glorious life more and more abundantly, and the fulness of your life will repel the intrusion of self and sin, and overcome evil with good, and your existen...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: May 19th Morning “Let us fall now into the hands of the Lord.” 2 Samuel 24:1-4 , 2 Samuel 24:9-15 After many trials, David again enjoyed a period of repose, but his leisure again proved a temptation to him, and he resolved to form an estimate of his own greatness that he might have whereof to glory. 2 Samuel 24:1 In the Book of Chronicles, Satan is said to have provoked David to this deed, and so indeed he did, and thus the moral evil of the action belongs to the tempter and his ready victim; but the writer of the present passage saw the hand of the Lord in it, using the sin of David as the means of punishing the sins of the people. Both statements are true, and there is no need to attempt a reconciliation, since one truth must agree with another whether we see it or not. 2 Samuel 24:2 , 2 Samuel 24:3 Joab was not only right, but courteous on this occasion. He knew that the people would judge that either a new taxati...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional: May 19th “We May Speak for God ” - Jeremiah 15:19 Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the choicest servants of God and honored by Him above many. He was hated for speaking the truth. The word which was so sweet to him was bitter to his hearers, yet he was accepted of his LORD. He was commanded to abide in his faithfulness, and then the LORD would continue to speak through him. He was to deal boldly and truthfully with men and perform the LORD’s winnowing work upon the professors of his day, and then the LORD gave him this word: "Thou shalt be as my mouth." What an honor! Should not every preacher, yea, every believer, covet it? For God to speak by us, what a marvel! We shall speak sure, pure truth; and we shall speak it with power. Our word shall not return void; it shall be a blessing to those who receive it, and those who refuse it shall do so at their peril. Our lips shall...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional: May 19th Tozer in the Morning Living by Faith in the Night To do His supreme work of grace within you He will take from your heart everything you love most. Everything you trust in will go from you. Piles of ashes will lie where your most precious treasures used to be. . . . All this God will accomplish at the expense of the common pleasures that have up to that time supported your life and made it zestful. Now under the careful treatment of the Holy Spirit your life may become dry, tasteless and to some degree a burden to you. While in this state you will exist by a kind of blind will to live; you will find none of the inward sweetness you had enjoyed before. The smile of God will be for the time withdrawn, or at least hidden from your eyes. Then you will learn what faith is; you will find out the hard way, but the only way open to you, that true faith lies in the will, that the joy unspeakable of which the apostle speaks is not its...

 Worthy Brief - May 19, 2026  You were grafted in by mercy! Romans 11:18-20  do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.  19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." 20  Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.  Paul’s warning is blunt: “Do not boast against the branches” [Romans 11:18]. He is not warning pagans outside the faith. He is warning believers. He knows how quickly grace can be twisted into superiority. People brought in by mercy can begin to speak as though they arrived by merit. A branch grafted into another life can look at broken branches and forget the knife that made room for it. Paul does not deny that some branches were broken off because of unbelief. He says it plainly. He does not teach that Jewish people are saved apart from faith in Yeshua (Jesus). He never ...

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 19th May 2026 May 19 1 Samuel 17:36-37 36Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you." David had been going back and forth from playing music for the king to tending his father's flock. His father asked him to take some food to his older brothers and get their promise that they would share the spoils of war. When he delivered the food, he saw the enemy army send out one giant man who asked for a one on one to determine the outcome of the battle without the two armies clashing. Whoever lost would be servants of the other nation. David inquired about the reward for fighting Goliath and spoke boldly that someone needed to kill this heathen. It was r...

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