Last Note on “Jody’s Devotionals”
I have posted my last blog on the Jody’s Devotionals website, The Life Journey/Mission Continues. I will be posting here at least twice a week. Hope to see many old friends here and meet some new ones!
I have posted my last blog on the Jody’s Devotionals website, The Life Journey/Mission Continues. I will be posting here at least twice a week. Hope to see many old friends here and meet some new ones!
“One Simple Act” by Debbie Macomber [ISBN#9781439108932] I just finished this barely 200-page book. It took me almost two weeks. Usually I could have finished it in about four hours. I put it down several times and tried to ignore it or convince myself it wasn’t for me. But I knew it was. And so…
Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,4 praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe,5 praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding…
Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against,so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.” – Luke 2:34-35…
So on the first day of the seventh month, the priest, Ezra, read the Law to the people from daybreak to noon. And all the people listened carefully and thoughtfully to the reading of the Law. Nehemiah 8:2-3 (my paraphrase) I have read this passage several times and every time I think to myself, “I…
Before you take the time in your day to read what I might say, it is truly more important that you read Psalm 46, & what God says: God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,3 though its waters roar and foam and…
[Jesus said,]10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a…
Thank you for the wisdom you have shared over the years. God spoke to me countless times through you. I will be checking in here regularly!