Promise of the Day: Hotline to Heaven
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Isaiah 59:1 NKJV: “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.” Devotion: Our God stands ready to hear us when we call–and to save us. We can rely on Him. However, He goes on in verse 2 to warn us […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 14, 2024
Promise of the Day: A Good Land
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Deuteronomy 8:6-7 NKJV: “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land.” Devotion: For Israel, this good land was Canaan. For us it is so much more exciting–His Kingdom, not only here on […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 13, 2024
Promise of the Day: Position Yourself!
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 2 Chronicles 20:17 NKJV: “You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!” Devotion: Regardless of whether we are born of Abraham, or grafted in to the bloodline, we are the children of the Living God. Judah […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 12, 2024
Promise of the Day: The Fruit You Grow
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 John 2:29 NKJV: “If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.” Devotion: I once planted a hardy almond tree. I nursed it along for two years before fruit began to form. Unfortunately, the more the fruit developed, the more it […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 11, 2024
Promise of the Day: ALL Things
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Romans 8:28 NKJV: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” Devotion: Let me just define the term “all things” for you. It’s the Greek word pas, meaning “each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 10, 2024
Promise of the Day: Faithful
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Hebrews 10:23 NKJV: “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.” Devotion: It may seem to us that God is silent at times, but that is precisely why we are called to live by faith and not by sight. Whether or not […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 9, 2024
Promise of the Day: Victory!
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Deuteronomy 3:22 NKJV: “You must not fear them, for the Lord your God Himself fights for you.” Devotion: Never forget that the battle has already been fought and WON by our Lord, Jesus Christ. And by faith, the victory in any post-battle skirmishes we find ourselves in is ours as well. When we walk […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 8, 2024
Promise of the Day: Into the Light
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 119:130 CJB: “Your words are a doorway that lets in light, giving understanding to the thoughtless.” Devotion: Have you ever been in a dark room, then opened a door and had the room flood with light? God is our source of light, casting out all darkness, dispelling all ignorance and […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 7, 2024
Promise of the Day: Always Listening
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 55:17 NKJV: “Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice.” Devotion: What differentiates our God from the gods of other beliefs is that our God lives. And when we call on Him He hears us–even when it doesn’t seem like […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 6, 2024
Promise of the Day: No Condemnation
Blessings! Today’s Promise is John 3:18 NKJV: “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.“ Devotion: The word believe, here comes from the Greek root, pistis, meaning a deep conviction that something […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 5, 2024
Promise of the Day: The Way to Prosperity
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 25:13 NKJV: “He himself shall dwell in prosperity, And his descendants shall inherit the earth.” Devotion: Are you living in prosperity? According to this psalm, prosperity is the way of life of the man or woman who fears the Lord. By fear, it’s talking about the knowledge of and deep […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 4, 2024
Blessings and Opportunities
Blessings Beloved Family! I’m sending this to both my Arise! and Promise of the Day readers, so I apologize if some of you get a double message. I’ve been in the midst of the fire for the last year, having several surgeries that have greatly limited my physical activity, but I am still writing and […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 4, 2024