OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
Our Daily Bread for today 21st June 2026, is here. Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11).
The word of God is food to the spirit man. “Eat and digest” the word of the Lord for today and let its unchanging power nurture your faith and help in your daily walk to Christ.
The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 21st June 2026 is “The Gift of Prayer”
Bible in a Year: Esther 3-5, Acts 5:22-42
Memory Verse: Ephesians 6:7
Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people.
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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY
I trudged into the grocery store to buy a Father’s Day card. I had forgiven my father. I’d tried reconciling over the years—prayerfully processing the hurts inflicted before and after I’d left home at fifteen. Sadly, decades later, I still couldn’t relate to the cards that had messages gushing with gratitude for the “greatest” dads. So, desperate to honor my heavenly Father, I stood in that card aisle and prayed for my earthly father.
From Adam and Cain to David and Absalom to my father and me, sin has caused multigenerational strife and heartbreak. Still, the apostle Paul encouraged children to obey their parents “in the Lord, for this is right” (Ephesians 6:1). Honoring parents is a command that comes with a promise and a reward (vv. 2-3). In turn, fathers were meant to raise children to know and love God (v. 4). God’s people are designed to serve each other “wholeheartedly, as if [we] were serving the Lord, not people” (v. 7). Unfortunately, sin can destroy these relationships.
No matter what our relationship status with our parents is, we can thank God for the people He chose to use when He gave us life, and we can pray they enjoy a life-transforming relationship with Christ. Prayer that leads to Jesus is a gift of love and honor that can lead to changed relationships and lives.
Reflect & Pray
How can you honor God when a relationship is difficult? How will you pray for someone who is estranged from you?
Good Father, please show me how I can honor You in and through both healthy and strained relationships.
Our Daily Bread 2026 Devotional is written by Xochitl Dixon and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more
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