“On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: ‘Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned.’ The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off […]
06/16/22 Daily Devotion – Don’t know what’s next? Pray!
“He said: ‘In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and you listened to my cry.’” (Jonah 2:2, NIV84) As Jonah found himself sinking into the raging sea, he must have been certain his end was near. He must have come face […]
03/27/22 Daily Devotion – Jesus knows!
“’I tell you the truth,’ Jesus answered, ‘this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.’” — Matthew 26:34 (NIV84) I am certain that this was hard for Peter to hear. It is hard for us to read. Jesus knew (knows)! There is nothing that we can hide from Him. There is […]
01/24/22 Daily Devotion – Lord, why am I like this?
“Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: ” (Colossians 2:20, NIV) The heart and soul of Tom Donnelly doesn’t like this verse very much. I cringe every time I read the words, “…why, as though you still […]
01/10/22 Daily Devotion – The problem of our time!
“All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations.” — Isaiah 65:2 (NIV) Now, here is a verse that describes the problem of our age. We pursue our own imaginations into ways that are not good and that put us into an […]
11/29/2021 Daily Devotion – What is your most important relationship?
“For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the Lord of hosts; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth.” — Isaiah 54:5 (NASB) Have you ever felt alone and powerless? Has that feeling ever sunk deep inside your soul? It is suffocating, isn’t it? […]
11/28/2021 Daily Devotion – Jesus prays for us!
“Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” — Isaiah 53:12 (NIV) “For he bore the sin of […]
11/24/2021 Daily Devotion – Why is it that we go astray?
“We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. ” (Isaiah 53:6, NIV) What is that thing in each of us that causes us to go astray? We know what we ought to do. We know what we […]
11/20/2021 Daily Devotion – God’s ways are right ways!
“Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. ‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher […]
11/18/2021 Daily Devotion – ‘Come to Me, all who are weary!’
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, […]
