WELS Daily Devotions

About WELS Daily Devotions

Find inspiration, comfort and spiritual growth each day in these 5 to 10 minute devotions from God’s Word.

Publisher

WELS

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Mar 2024

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

385 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   A Glorified Body – October 7, 2026

   https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261007dev.mp3 (https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261007dev.mp3) Listen to Devotion (https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261007dev.mp3) And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. Philippians 3:20-21 A Glorified Body What do you think about your body? Maybe you appreciate some things about it. Maybe there are things you wish you could change. Perhaps your body reminds you that you are getting older. Your strength isn’t what it used to be. Your eyesight isn’t as sharp. Your joints hurt. Your body gets tired. And eventually, our bodies grow old, become weak, suffer, and return to the dust from which God made us. But death is not the end of the story. At the end of time, Jesus will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. Think about that. The body you may sometimes wish you could change is the body God promises to raise. The body that becomes weak will be made strong. The body that suffers will be freed from pain. The body that grows old will be made new. The body that dies will live again. And that glorified body will be like the glorious body of Jesus. Look at Jesus after his resurrection. His disciples could see him. They could touch him. He ate with them. He was truly alive. His resurrection body was real, but it was no longer subject to death. Jesus rose never to die again. That is the promise for you. Your hope is not that your soul will escape your body and live somewhere forever. Your hope is the resurrection. Jesus will raise your body from the grave and transform it by his almighty power. Why can you trust that promise? Because Jesus has already done it. He died for your sins and rose from the dead. His empty tomb is God’s guarantee that death does not have the final word. The Savior who conquered death will return, and when he does, he will make all things new, including you. So don’t despair when your body grows weak. Don’t fear the grave. On judgment day, your body will be glorified, perfectly suited for eternal life with Jesus. Prayer: Lord, keep my body and soul safe for eternal life with you. Amen. Daily Devotions is brought to you by WELS. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/) All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. ™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   A Friend of the Cross of Christ – October 6, 2026

   https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261006dev.mp3 (https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261006dev.mp3) Listen to Devotion (https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261006dev.mp3) For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven. Philippians 3:18-20 A Friend of the Cross of Christ Are you a friend of the cross of Christ? That might seem like an unusual question. After all, who would want to be friends with a cross? The cross was an instrument of suffering and death. Yet for Christians, the cross is the place where we see God’s greatest love. The apostle Paul warns us about those who are “enemies of the cross of Christ.” They may not look like enemies. They may be religious. They may be successful. Others may admire them. But their lives are centered on themselves. Their god is their appetite. Their glory is found in things of which they should be ashamed. Their minds are fixed on earthly things. Does that sound familiar? It can be easy for us to become enemies of the cross without realizing it. Whenever we make our own desires more important than God’s Word, we are turning away from the cross. Whenever we measure our worth by possessions, achievements, popularity, or pleasure, our hearts are looking in the wrong direction. Whenever we imagine that we can make ourselves acceptable to God, we have forgotten why Jesus went to the cross. The cross tells us the truth about our sin. Our sin is serious. We could never make things right with God by ourselves. But the cross also tells us something far greater: Jesus has made things right for us. At the cross, Jesus took our sin upon himself. He suffered the punishment we deserved. He gave his life in our place. He did not save us because we were good enough. He saved us because he is merciful. That is why Christians are friends of the cross. We do not love the cross because suffering is good in itself. We love the cross because Jesus was there for us. The cross is where God’s justice and mercy meet. It is where our Savior paid the price for our salvation. Prayer: Lord Jesus, teach me to look at the cross and see the heaven you won for me. Amen. Daily Devotions is brought to you by WELS. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/) All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. ™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

3. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Heading Toward the Goal – October 5, 2026

   https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261005dev.mp3 (https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261005dev.mp3) Listen to Devotion (https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261005dev.mp3) Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Philippians 3:12 Heading Toward the Goal Where are you headed? That may be a simple question, but it is an important one. Every day, we are headed somewhere. We have appointments to keep, work to finish, errands to run, and places to go. The same is true of our life with Jesus. The apostle Paul wrote, “I press on.” He knew where he was headed. Yet Paul was also honest enough to admit that he had not arrived. He had not already obtained everything God had promised. That is good news for us because we have not arrived either. Sometimes we may look at our Christian life and become discouraged. We still struggle with the same sins. We still lose our patience. We still worry. We still put ourselves first. We still fail to love God and our neighbor as we should. If our goal were perfection by our own effort, we would have no hope. But notice Paul’s reason for pressing on: “because Christ Jesus has made me his own.” Jesus is the reason we keep going. The Christian life is not a race in which we run fast enough to earn God’s love. Jesus has already accomplished what we could never accomplish. He lived the perfect life we have failed to live. He died on the cross to forgive our sins. He rose from the grave to give us the certain hope of eternal life. Through faith, we belong to him. That changes how we travel toward the goal. We do not press on to become Christ’s own. We press on because we already are Christ’s own. So today, keep heading toward the goal. When you stumble, hear God’s promise of forgiveness. When you become discouraged, look again to the cross. When you are tempted to turn aside, listen to Jesus’ Word and follow him. When the road seems long, remember where you are going. Prayer: Lord Jesus, keep my eyes on the finish line as I follow you through life. Amen. Daily Devotions is brought to you by WELS. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/) All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. ™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

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