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
Promise of the Day: Sanctification
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 Peter 5:10 NKJV: “But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.” Devotion: Notice that being perfected, established, strengthened, and settled come after we have suffered? It is by the […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 3, 2024
Promise of the Day: It’s What We Do
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Isaiah 7:9 NIV: “If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.” Devotion: Like love, faith is a verb. Without action it is dead. Jesus didn’t just tell us He was God’s Son, He showed us by healing the sick and raising the dead–and going to the Cross. […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 2, 2024
Promise of the Day: Promise Keeper
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 2 Peter 3:9 NKJV: “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” Devotion: Have you ever known anyone who promised one thing, but delivered something entirely different? Or perhaps didn’t […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Feb 1, 2024
Promise of the Day: The Grand Reception
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 49:15 NKJV: “But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, For He shall receive me.” Devotion: The word translated “grave” here, is actually sheol, or hell, and is also defined as the place of exile.* Apart from the eternal glory of God’s presence received by faith in […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jan 31, 2024
Promise of the Day: Ultimate Spokesman
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Luke 12:12 NKJV: “For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” Devotion: Being the Lord’s mouthpiece is nothing if not exciting. One thing you can always count on is that if God makes the appointment, He will also set the agenda! I have […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jan 30, 2024
Promise of the Day: Shepherd or Thief?
Blessings! Today’s Promise is John 10:2, 3 NKJV: “But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.” Devotion: There are so many people out there today claiming to […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jan 29, 2024
Promise of the Day: No Rest for the Apathetic
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Hebrews 4:9, 10 NKJV: “There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.” Devotion: The author of Hebrews tells us in Chapter 4 that the rest God offers us today is the […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jan 28, 2024