A verse that has guided my life is Proverbs 3:5-6 about putting my trust in God. But this year I have been drawn to verses 7-8 which expands on theme: Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil.This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.Proverbs …
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Grace for today and forevermore, a devotion by Keona J. Tann
Recently I was reading Matthew 11:28-30 and within that wonderful passage is an invitation to “learn the unforced rhythms of grace.” (The Message) That phrase struck a chord in my heart and I desired to understand what it meant. Grace found 4 ways I discovered that grace can be found in 4 ways:• we can …
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DEVOTIONAL: Take God out of the box
Boxing God in. What is your view of God? When you think about God, how powerful is He in your mind? Is He sovereign? Does God seem mighty and all knowing? Or is God more human like? There have been times where I have put God into a neat little box. And the God that …
The message must get through
The Urgent Message The War Is Finished, But Some Are Still Fighting Today is Remembrance Day, celebrated in Australia, UK, New Zealand, USA and other places around the world. The Armistice was signed, apparently, at 5.30am on November 11th 2018, so as to give time for the message to reach the various fronts for a …
Devotional | Irritably Impatient, a devotion by Keona J Tann
As I write this it has been 1,765 days since my Call, it’s been 1,765 days of waiting, 1,765 days looking for things to change, 1,765 days of hoping that the right doors would open, 1,765 days praying that the opportunities would come AND that I could embrace them, that I would be well enough, …
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DEVOTIONS: The Faithful God
Deuteronomy 7:9 – Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. If there is one thing I have learned in life, it is that people will let you down. People will disappoint …
Devotional | Holding up your hands
So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and …
DEVOTIONAL: Look up, child.
Look up, child. This may sound silly, but a lot of time when I am praying alone, I tend to look upwards. I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only one that does it. But it doesn’t matter if I’m indoors or outside, I find myself tilting my head back and looking heavenward as I …
DEVOTIONS: He will do a new thing.
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19 Many years ago, I was in a prayer meeting pleading with God to pull me …
Holy Fire, a devotion by Keona J. Tann
On the 16th of February 2021 I had a dream which prompted me to do some research about fire in the Bible. Dream Let me unpack my dream first…. in my dream Trav (my husband) and I were helping out some firefighters and we went to a caravan park that was at the base of …