Promise of the Day: Let Us Love
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 John 4:7 NKJV: “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.” Devotion: Let us love. It is the will of God and the work of the Holy Spirit to transform us into His likeness. Transform us […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Dec 7, 2023
Promise of the Day: Save the Drama
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Romans 16:20 NKJV: “And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.” Devotion: Now, there’s a promise I can live with. Notice Paul specifically says “the God of peace.” Just before he makes this promise, Paul is […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Dec 6, 2023
Promise of the Day: Your BFF
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 86:7 NKJV: “In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, For You will answer me.” Devotion: When we need help, we call on the people we know. People we have a relationship with and have established trust with. This is how David was with God. His intimacy […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Dec 5, 2023
Promise of the Day: Irresistible
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Luke 21:15 NIV: “I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist.” Devotion: What a relief! It’s easy to become overwhelmed with the Great Commission. I’m no great theologian, or orator, and I’m actually not very outgoing. But if I […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Dec 4, 2023
Promise of the Day: Living Out Love
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 86:9, 10 NKJV: “All nations whom You have made Shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And shall glorify Your name. For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God.” Devotion: The day is soon coming when everyone on earth will know that God is God. […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Dec 3, 2023
Promise of the Day: Delight in God’s Truth
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 1:1-3 CJB: How blessed are thosewho reject the advice of the wicked,don’t stand on the way of sinnersor sit where scoffers sit!Their delightis in Adonai’s Torah;on his Torah they meditateday and night.They are like trees planted by streams —they bear their fruit in season,their leaves never wither,everything they do succeeds. Devotion Many believers equate […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Dec 2, 2023
Blessed Art Thou
Blessings, Family, For Christmas this year, I decided to share an excerpt from my book, Loved So Much It Hurts: Purpose in the Pain. This particular piece was posted on my CarePage on December 20, 2010, a year after my cancer surgery. This season, I’ve felt the story of our Savior’s birth more deeply than I […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Dec 1, 2023
Promise of the Day: You Are My Beloved
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Romans 5:5 CJB: “And this hope does not let us down, because God’s love for us has already been poured out in our hearts through the Ruach HaKodesh [Holy Spirit] who has been given to us.” Devotion: Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of God as my Dad. […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Dec 1, 2023
Promise of the Day: An Expression of Love
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 John 5:3 CJB: “For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome.” Devotion: As a child, I was convinced I was going to hell. God’s commandments were very burdensome indeed, being held over my head as a means of making me behave. A means that failed […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Nov 30, 2023
Promise of the Day: Embrace the Fire
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Romans 5:9 NKJV: “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” Devotion: Our God is a consuming fire. No sin can stand in the presence of His goodness. But He is also merciful, a refining fire that removes impurities by testing, […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Nov 29, 2023
Promise of the Day: Free Indeed
Blessings! Today’s Promise is John 8:36 NKJV: “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” Devotion: This should be a life-changing statement. Freedom from the bondage of sin. Yet, knowing this truth, I continued living in bondage to certain sin, and destructive behaviors. Some I didn’t even realize until the Holy […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Nov 28, 2023
Promise of the Day: Power to Prosper
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Deuteronomy 28:8 NKJV: “The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.” Devotion: How are your storehouses looking? Are you prospering in the works […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Nov 27, 2023