How to use this DevotionalSimply read one page each day.Note the corresponding Scriptures for the particular days you read.Spend time reading those Scriptures and perhaps a few of the surrounding vers...  Read More

Day Twenty-One: It Was About the HeartDuring this 21-day devotional, we have explored a fast that God prefers.At no point in Isaiah 58 did God lay out a menu of the type of foods He prefers.Rather, th...  Read More

Day Twenty:  PromisesWhen we take care how we treat others, as well as how we speak about others, there are many promises of blessings that God explains will be ours…“And your gloom will become like m...  Read More

Day Nineteen:  Finger-pointing“If you take away from your midst the yoke [of oppression], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the Godly], and [every form of] wicked (sinful, unjust) s...  Read More

Day Eighteen:  A Good Life & Quick Answers to Prayer“Your righteousness will go before you [leading to peace and prosperity]…”. Isaiah 58:8 Another promise God explains can be ours has to do with us l...  Read More

Day Seventeen: The Dynamite Trio:  Praying, Fasting & GivingIn Matthew 6, Jesus lists three actions that are duties of every Christian:“When you pray…when you fast…when you give…”.At AGC, we call thes...  Read More

Day Sixteen:  Healing & Protection“And your healing (restoration, new life) will quickly spring forth…The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.”  Isaiah 58:8 HealingNot only will clarity and joy...  Read More

Day Fifteen:  Clarity & Joy“Then your light will break out like the dawn.” Isaiah 58:8 AMP“And if you offer yourself to [assist] the hungryAnd satisfy the need of the afflicted,Then your light will ri...  Read More

Day Fourteen:  Meeting the Needs of Others“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungryAnd bring the homeless poor into the house;When you see the naked, that you cover him,And not to hide yourself ...  Read More

Day Thirteen:  Freeing Others“Is this not the fast that I have chosen:To loose the bonds of wickedness,To undo the heavy burdens,To let the oppressed go free,And that you break every yoke?”   Isaiah 5...  Read More

Day Twelve:  Treating Others with Compassion“In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,And exploit all your laborers.4 Indeed you fast for strife and debate,And to strike with the fist of wic...  Read More

Day Eleven:  Being Fed with the Promises of Jacob“If you turn back your foot from {unnecessary travel on} the Sabbath, from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a {spiritual} d...  Read More