“The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You. ‘Trust in the Lord forever, for in God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock.’” — Isaiah 26:3–4 (NASB95) I guess there should be no surprise that Isaiah connects peace to our state of mind. We all know that our mind affects our attitude, and our […]
11/22/2023 Daily Devotion – They heard the voice of God!
“The Lord said to Moses, ‘I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.’ Then Moses told the Lord what the people had said.” — Exodus 19:9 (NIV84) It was Moses who heard God speaking […]
11/14/2023 Daily Devotion – Give us this day our daily bread!
“Then Moses said to them, ‘No one is to keep any of it until morning.’” — Exodus 16:19 (NIV84) The command was to take the amount of manna you needed for the day. There was always plenty to be taken, but the command was to only take what was needed for the family for one day. The words […]
09/24/2020 Daily Devotion – Back to reality!
“Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.” (Luke 1:56, NIV84) So, it appears that Mary stayed with Elizabeth for the remainder of Elizabeth’s pregnancy and left just before John was born. Mary, finishing her first trimester, went back home. Back to reality. Have you ever been on a mission trip? […]
09/21/22 Daily Devotion – ‘May it be to me as you have said’
“’I am the Lord’s servant,’ Mary answered. ‘May it be to me as you have said.’ Then the angel left her.” (Luke 1:38, NIV84) It has taken me way too long to write a devotion for this verse. It’s not that thoughts and ideas aren’t floating through my mind. It’s that the thoughts haunt my […]
09/20/22 Daily Devotion – “For ____________ is impossible with God!
““How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have […]
05/23/22 Daily Devotion – God provides an abundant hope!
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” — Romans 15:13 (NIV84) This is one of my early memory verses. It is so powerful and speaks so clearly as to what makes Biblical […]
03/05/22 Daily Devotion – God’s rules are there for our own good!
“I obey your precepts and your statutes, for all my ways are known to you.” — Psalm 119:168 (NIV) All you have to do is read Psalm 139, and you will quickly realize how intimately God knows you. The psalmist says that God knows our thoughts before we speak them. There is nowhere we can go […]
02/22/22 Daily Devotion – We learn more under affliction!
“It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.” (Psalm 119:71, NIV) Why do we seem to learn more through our afflictions than we do through our peaceful times? I think it is because it is only then, for most of us, that we ask the question “why?” We could […]
02/6/22 Daily Devotion – The key is not to understand God, but to trust Him!
“I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwelling places not their own.” (Habakkuk 1:6, NIV) Habakkuk began his book concerned that somehow God was absent from the injustices we see around us. He rightfully questions what even our own eyes see, that the righteous […]
