OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
Our Daily Bread for today 20th July 2026, is here. Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11).
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The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 20th July 2026 is “Pass It On”
Bible in a Year: Psalms 26-28, Acts 22
Memory Verse: 2 Corinthians 1:4
[God] comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
After a fifty-five year wait, England’s soccer team finally made it to the European Football Championship Cup finals. Locked in a tie with Italy, the game was decided by a penalty shootout. England’s last chance fell to a young player named Bukayo Saka. But as Saka kicked the penalty shot, Italy’s goalkeeper deflected it. England fans wept; the Cup was lost.
Few will forget what happened next, though. England’s manager, Gareth Southgate, walked over to the devastated Saka and embraced him. Southgate knew how Saka felt. In 1996 it was he, as a young player, who had missed the penalty shot that cost England a place in the semifinals, and England’s then-manager Terry Venables had comforted him in the very same way.
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,” Paul says, “who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). Just as Southgate passed on to Saka what he’d received from Venables, Paul discovered that God’s comfort in his distress enabled him to comfort others in theirs, building their endurance (v. 6). Our “God of all comfort” (v. 3) can use our disappointment for good.
So let’s do the same, passing on God’s comfort to create an endless chain of encouragement.
Reflect & Pray
How has God comforted you in a time of loss or distress? How can you pass that comfort on to someone else today?
God of comfort, through each trial I face, please help me pass on Your comfort to others.
Our Daily Bread 2026 Devotional is written by Sheridan Voysey and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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