Promise of the Day: Calamity and Good?
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Jeremiah 32:42 CJB: “For here is what Adonai says: ‘Just as I have brought this complete disaster on this people, so likewise I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.'” Devotion: What??? The Lord brings calamities on His chosen people? But what about love? What about grace? Believe […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 22, 2024
Promise of the Day: Know God
Blessings! Today’s Promise is John 14:9-10 NIV: Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 21, 2024
Promise of the Day: Awake!
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Ephesians 5:14 NIV: “This is why it is said: ‘Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.’” Devotion: Those who lived through the London Blitz know all too well that sleeping did not stop the enemy’s bombs from dropping into their backyards. The enemy has declared […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 20, 2024
Promise of the Day: Bringing Heaven to Earth
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Matthew 5:3 NKJV: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Devotion: Jesus resurrected our former selves from the ash heap, bringing us into new life. It is in the light of His glory that we see our need for the Savior and can truly appreciate the gift […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 19, 2024
Promise of the Day: Never Failing Love
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 91:15 NIV: “He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.” Devotion: This stanza begins, “Because he has set his love upon me …” If you aren’t hearing from God, maybe it’s time to ask […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 18, 2024
Promise of the Day: Rock Bottom
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Hosea 6:1-2 NKJV: “Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.” Devotion: The […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 17, 2024
Promise of the Day: Your Everlasting Light
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 119:105 NIV: “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” Devotion: The word “lamp” here comes from a primitive root and bears the idea of both a freshly plowed furrow and fire. Specifically, how they glisten. And the word “feet” speaks specifically of feet in […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 16, 2024
Promise of the Day: Follow ME!
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 25:12 NIV: “Who, then, are those who fear the LORD? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.” Devotion: We don’t like the word “fear.” Especially, when we talk of God, who is supposed to be loving and good. But the fact that God is good and loving […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 15, 2024
Promise of the Day: Purify Yourself
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 John 3:3 NIV: “All who have this hope in Him purify themselves, just as He is pure.” Devotion: Unlike the enemy, the Holy Spirit doesn’t reveal our faults to condemn us, but to show us where we are falling short and what is standing in the way of receiving God’s […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 14, 2024
Promise of the Day: Life on the Fringe
Blessings! Today’s Promise is John 15:19 NIV: “If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” Devotion: We come into this world craving a place […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 13, 2024
Promise of the Day: No Expiration Date
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Isaiah 53:5 NIV: “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Devotion: Have you ever felt like it’s too late to receive God’s forgiveness? As if you’ve gone too far? […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 12, 2024
Promise of the Day: White as Snow
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Isaiah 1:18 NIV: “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” Devotion: When the Lord God does something, He does it all the way. He […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | May 11, 2024