Hi, it’s Dienece Darling doing something new today! I’m adding devotional blogs to what I write with ACW. Pondering God’s Word is something close to my heart, and I hope you enjoy looking through the Bible with me. So, settle in, and let’s start our journey together to the foot of God’s throne. Have you …
Category Archives: Devotional
The Benefits and Necessity of the Pause
I’ve been using the word pause often after recently experiencing the sudden loss of my mother. Over the Christmas holiday, I gathered with my family to make funeral arrangements, and I entered the new year surrounded by the struggle of bereavement. Because of this, January brought the need for a pause from work, socializing, and …
Devotional | Counting Our Blessings
Scripture: Luke 6:20-23 Do you know the hymn “Count Your Many Blessings”? Written in 1897, it was one of 5000 songs that Johnson Oatman Jr. composed during his lifetime – he died in 1922 – as a way to preach the Gospel. The song’s message? Despite whatever hardships life may throw at us, God has …
DEVOTIONAL: New Year, Same God
2024 has well and truly begun. It’s easy to be excited at a new year starting; there is a sense of anticipation the coming year will be better than the year before. Some of us had a great 2023 and some of us were counting down the minutes so we could farewell 2023. Some people …
Devotion | Doing Things Differently
Scriptures: Romans 12:2 and Ephesians 5:1-2 “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.” Novelist L. P. Hartley’s opening line in “The Go-Between” resonates with me. It does so because I’m an author of historical fiction set during the English Reformation. My research has shown me how different life was in 1500s …
Devotion | God is Able
Songs can bring such encouragement to fortify and strengthen us. A new song we are learning in church has a tag with the words You’re not done with me yet, there’s so much more to the story….The words “You’re not done with me yet” move me in my spirit. In the deepest part of me, …
DEVOTIONAL: Take refuge
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” – Psalm 91 I love the imagery of God being a shelter and a refuge. When I read this verse, I imagine someone …
Devotional | Faith during Troubled Times
Where are you, God? I find myself asking this question time and again as I watch in horror the cruelty humanity is capable of. The wars and unrest that appear rife across the globe are distressing to witness. Grief is pictured on every single face of the survivors, as they experience the destruction of their …
Devotional | Waiting For The Bus
Today on the blog we have a devotion from Karen Rees. “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.” Matt. 24:42 With a seemingly unstoppable worldwide pandemic, massive protest demonstrations in various countries, and the world’s economy on the verge of collapse, are these signs that Christ is …
DEVOTIONS: Still
Still. Something God has been working on teaching me is around the word, still. It has long been a word that I have associated with being still before God; sitting at his feet and waiting on him to speak or move. Being still and trusting that He will do something in the current season. But …