Recent Devotions
Have you ever been in a situation where you asked for someone’s help, let’s say your car broke down and you need someone to pick you up on the side of the road, and when your ‘friend’ responds, it’s with a drawn out sigh, “ugh, yeah, I guess I can get you. I was in the middle of something, but if you need me, I will basically drag myself there.” *Emphasis and dramatization is mine. Well, you’ve received help, but it only makes you feel more hopeless because they clearly don’t want to come to your rescue, but you’re desperate.…
“Mama, play with me?” This is a daily request from my 3-year-old daughter. She is incredibly imaginative and can play independently for a very long time. I love to stand in the doorway and listen to the scenes she expresses out loud; it’s so sweet and special. Sometimes, she sees…
“How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! My soul years, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Psalm 84:1-2, NIV. Just now in prayer, I said, “God, I miss my time with you.” It is 6:06am…
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“The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.” Psalm 103:8 When we think of the word gracious in connection with Jesus, we remember His divine grace towards us. He knows our faults and our failures, and yet His grace extends freely to us. Covered by His blood and protected by His Spirit, we are secure in our relationship with Him. Cambridge Dictionary describes gracious as “behaving in a pleasant, polite, calm way: a gracious smile, gracious enough.” When Jesus was here on earth, He encountered people from different circumstances, but He met each of them…
As I write this today, I had an entirely different devotion on prayer lined out. But in the last few weeks, I have had a burden to amp up my prayers for all our children; and I have been much more specific in my prayers. Psalm 128:1-4 says, “Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways. When you eat the labor of your hands, you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants…
“But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.” Daniel 6:10 NLT To some, the fact that Daniel still prayed despite new laws that should have prevented him from doing so, may be seen as an act of defiance. We can learn from Daniel’s history and what others knew of him that this was not the case. Daniel did what he always did, he…
“But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.” (Genesis 8:1, ESV) I forget things. Most of us do—some more than others. That’s why I keep a calendar on my phone, set reminder alarms, and write myself notes. Those notes may be stuck on my bathroom mirror, on my refrigerator, or placed on the kitchen counter. Life gets busy and it’s easy for things to slip my mind. I suspect many of you may have the same…
