Promise of the Day: What is Evil?
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 121:7-8 NKJV: “The LORD shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.” Devotion: Does this promise mean that God will never let anything bad happen to me? When I […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 12, 2023
Promise of the Day: Systems Check
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Mark 11:25, 26 NKJV: “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” Devotion: Every prayer should begin with a systems check. […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 11, 2023
Promise of the Day: Restoration
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Joel 2:25 CJB: “I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate, the grasshoppers, shearer-worms and cutter-worms, my great army that I sent against you.” Devotion: A loving parent corrects His children to keep them from destroying themselves permanently, and God will use whatever means He sees fit to […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 10, 2023
Promise of the Day: Unchanging
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Malachi 3:6 NKJV: “For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.” Devotion: Though God “makes all things new,” His character never changes. He is good, merciful, and forgiving always and forever. He is also our Righteous Judge. So, who are “the […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 9, 2023
Promise of the Day: Truth
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Romans 3:3, 4 NKJV: “For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar.” Devotion: The truth is not reliant on anyone’s belief. I could say, “Gravity does not exist,” and truly […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 8, 2023
Promise of the Day: Possess Your Inheritance
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Deuteronomy 1:8 NKJV: “See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.” Devotion: Before God ever formed us in the womb, He created for us a purpose and destiny. For […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 7, 2023
Promise of the Day: The Real Battle
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Psalm 108:12, 13 NKJV: “Give us help from trouble, For the help of man is useless. Through God we will do valiantly, For it is He who shall tread down our enemies.” Devotion: It’s natural to seek support from other people when we are under attack. Unfortunately, what we are usually seeking from others is […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 6, 2023
Promise of the Day: Pride vs. Humility
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Proverbs 11:2 CJB: “First comes pride, then disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.” Devotion: Pride demands, “What about me?” Humility asks, “What will glorify God?” God is the source of all wisdom, which is why His Son is called the Light off the World. Apart from Him there is only […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 5, 2023
Promise of the Day: Listen
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 John 5:14-15 CJB: “This is the confidence we have in his presence: if we ask anything that accords with his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — then we know that we have what we have asked from him.” Devotion: […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 4, 2023
Promise of the Day: Choose Freedom
Blessings! Today’s Promise is Isaiah 61:1 NKJV: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound.” Devotion: Jesus claimed […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 3, 2023
Promise of the Day: Being a Friend of Christ
Blessings! Today’s Promise is John 15:14 NKJV: “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.” Devotion: Jesus came first and foremost to restore relationship between the Father and His creation. To restore the lines of communication, that we might be more than a people who follow rules. He sent the Holy Spirit […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 2, 2023
Promise of the Day: Transforming Love
Blessings! Today’s Promise is 1 John 4:10 NIV: “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” Devotion: I’ve come to realize that believing in God’s love, and receiving God’s love are very different things. Some of us have been […]
By : Rebecca Olmstead | Jul 1, 2023