Recent Devotions
“Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and then not deliver it?” asks the LORD. “No! I would never keep this nation from being born,” says your God.” Isaiah 66:9, NIV. We are the church. We are God’s ministers. The prayer I would like to impart in this devotion is,“Lord, if we are too weary to deliver, give us the strength we need to birth babes in Christ.” In my city, Silver Spring, the population is 81,472 people according to the 2022 census. That is 81,472 reasons to get on my face and cry out for…
“For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.” (Psalm 107:9, ESV). This week I have seen numerous postings on social media about a spirit of revival sweeping across a university campus in Kentucky. At the time I write this, a non-stop prayer meeting…
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11, NKJV) Jeremiah 29:11 is an often-quoted Bible verse that reassures us God has a plan for our lives. His thoughts…
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“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” (Matthew 6:14, NKJV) A friend recently called me with a serious question: how does one forgive the unforgiveable. Is it even possible when the offense is so evil? I understood her pain and also knew the severity of the situation. It’s so easy to recite a couple of scriptures or give a pat answer, but I knew her question required deeper thought. She honestly did not know how to go…
“O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” Psalm 34:8-10 (KJV) I really love food! I like trying new foods. I enjoy learning about spices different cultures use and I’m amazed at how a couple different spices can transform a dish. These scriptures conjure up those same feelings of excitement about food. “Taste and…
“In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” (Colossians 1:14, NKJV) Everyone likes a good love story, and that’s what we find in the Old Testament Book of Ruth. It’s familiar to most of us, yet worth studying again. It’s only four chapters long and easily read at one sitting. Our story begins in Bethlehem, a small town just outside Jerusalem. Because of famine, an Israelite named Elimelech decides to take his wife, Naomi, and their two sons to Moab where things seemed better. Within a few years hopes for that better life grew dim and then…
Genesis 12:10 NLT “At that time a severe famine struck the land of Canaan, forcing Abram to go down to Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner.” I’ve never experienced a move to a new place, so I can only try to imagine how it felt to be travelling constantly and to be in a place that is so different than what you know. It doesn’t necessarily have to be something as obvious as a move though to make us feel like a foreigner in a strange land. I found a few different definitions for the word “strange”, here are…
