Recent Devotions
It’s a new year and a new day dawns. I love a new year for all it represents: the excitement of ringing out the old and welcoming the new, the wonder of where I’ll go and what I’ll do. Will a dream be fulfilled this year? It’s a time to take stock: Am I living with purpose? Have I released yesteryear once and for all? Hope springs eternal when I look forward, expecting the good. I grew up on the mission field in Norway and Sweden. Europeans view the New Year as a major event. Traditions vary: Spaniards eat one…
Working in my flower garden, I wanted to make room for a beautiful birdbath I purchased. A large, well-established Hosta was smack dab in the perfect place for the birdbath. Well, I made up my mind right then and there that the “in my way” Hosta would be relocated a…
The walls of Jericho seemed indestructible. God gave them instructions as the Israelites stared up at those fortified walls. He didn’t tell them to go up and storm the city; that would have been a suicide mission. Instead, they were directed to walk daily around the city for seven days.…
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“According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.” 1 Corinthians 3:10 ESV Have you ever felt incapable or under qualified to do what God has called you to do? I’m sure in moments of doubt and weakness, even Paul experienced this. Those moments when fear comes creeping into the back of your mind, and threatens to destroy everything that has been built in your life. What God has called you to do, you…
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly. Mark 8:22–25 Reacting to God There isn’t a person reading…
“And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. Exodus: 34:29-30 All week we have been considering the peace and joy that the presence of the Lord gives us. But in this scripture, we read of a time when…
There are certain countries you can visit that have a regular “Call to Prayer.” For many of them, it is five times a day. More than once while visiting these countries, I have been awakened in the night as the call to prayer is made. Every time I hear this call to prayer, I am challenged in my spirit. Am I this committed to my faith? Am I willing to get up in the night to pray? Do I make my daily schedule according to the times when there is a call to prayer? I must say that the…
