Our Daily Bread Devotional For Friday 4th April 2025 – Our Father’s Treasures

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The Topic of Our Daily Bread For 4th April 2025 is “Our Father’s Treasures”

Bible in a Year: Ruth 1-4 Luke 8:1-25

Memory Verse: Revelation 5:8

They were holding golden bowls full of . . . the prayers of God’s people.

Today’s Scripture & Insight: Revelation 5:7-14

In Revelation 4, the apostle John heard a voice that said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place” (v. 1). Immediately, he was taken to heaven “in the Spirit” (v. 2), where he saw an incredible vision of heaven’s throne room (vv. 3-11). In chapter 5, Christ is introduced as “the Lion of the tribe of Judah” (v. 5). Almost immediately, though, He’s described as “a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain” (v. 6). This one who lovingly receives our prayers will also one day open the scroll we read of in today’s passage (vv. 7-14).

By: Tim Gustafson

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ODB MESSAGE FOR TODAY

It’s just an old pocketknife, worn and tarnished with time. The blade is chipped and the handle notched, but it was one of my father’s treasures, kept in a box on his dresser until he gave it to me. “It’s one of the few things I have from your grandfather,” he told me. My grandfather died when my father was young, and Dad treasured the knife because he treasured his father.

The Bible tells us that God also has an unlikely treasure, something we might not expect. In Revelation, we see a throne in heaven encircled by “four living creatures” and “twenty-four elders,” bowing before Jesus in worship (chs. 4-5). Each one is holding “golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people” (5:8).

In ancient times, incense was something precious, used by kings (think of the gold, frankincense and myrrh offered to Jesus in Matthew 2:11). Our prayers may not seem like much to us at times, but God wants them lifted before Him always.

Revelation 5 emphasises the worthiness of Jesus because of His sinless life and loving death for us. Jesus’ worthiness points us to why God values our prayers. Our prayers are precious to God because we’re precious to Him. Because He loves us with such selfless, priceless and merciful love, He longs for us to stay close to Him in prayer.

By: James Banks

Reflect & Pray

How will you love God with your prayers today? Who and what can you bring before Him in loving prayer

Loving Saviour, You’re worthy “to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and praise!” (Revelation 5:12).

Our Daily Bread 2025 Devotional is written by Con Campbell and published by Our Daily Bread Ministries. Read more

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