Consider Your Path
This week marks the beginning of the final month of Elul on the Jewish calendar. It is the month preceding Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the most solemn day of the year when the Jews stand before the Lord God in fasting and prayer to ask for forgiveness. It is the closing
Your Biggest Fan
Have you ever seen how giddy some parents get when their little son or daughter performs in a play or recital, receives a special award or wins a sports game? Some parents lose all their adult dignity and don’t care what others think. They jump up and down and clap and grab the
The Power of Pleasant Words
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones. (Proverbs 16:24) We are connected beings—body, soul and spirit. When our emotions are stressed it can make us physically sick. When we harbor anger or bitterness, it has an impact on our spiritual health. Yet pleasant words are
Have You Trials and Temptations?
Have you ever gone through a trial or difficult season and asked, “Why me? Why am I going through this?” I think we all have at one time or another. Sometimes we can easily identify the root cause of troubles when they come. But sometimes we simply don’t have good answers for why
Beauty for Ashes
Not all holidays are a happy celebration of a great event. In Israel this week, Tisha B’Av (the 9th of Av on the Jewish calendar) is a day of mourning and fasting for calamities that have befallen the Jewish people throughout history on this specific date. Most notably, both Solomon’s Temple (587 BCE)
The Master of Breakthroughs
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Into each life some rain must fall”? This means that everyone faces trials and troubles from time to time. But maybe lately you have been saying, “When it rains, it pours!” feeling that your troubles have come in doubles. Don’t worry, you are not the only one
God’s Jewels
If you read last week’s devotional entitled “Preaching to the Choir”, I want to apologize for stepping on some toes (I stepped on a couple of my own toes too). And Malachi's audience also had some strong reactions to his message that stung the LORD’s ears, “Your words have been harsh against Me,”
Preaching to the Choir
I'm sure you've probably heard the phrase "preaching to the choir" before. (It is like trying to convince someone of something that they already believe.) If you are reading these devotions we post, chances are you are already believers and have heard these things before, but sometimes even the choir needs to recheck
Focus Through the Static
Our world is inundated daily with news from a myriad of media outlets. And the majority of them are vying for the most alarming and sensational headlines to attract an audience. Why does human nature focus on the ugliness of the world yet fail to see that the cause of that evil is
Daddy, Don’t Fall!
As we honor our dads on this Father’s Day weekend, I would like to share with you a special memory of mine. When I was a young child, my father worked in the phosphate mines in Central Florida. After a series of accidents and injuries at the work site, the company launched a
Yeshua’s Exceeding Joy
Recently, I shared a beautiful portrait of believers from the Epistle of Jude. (If you would like to read it, it is entitled “Jude’s Message to Believers” in this same devotional webpage.) Today, I would like to show you another beautiful nugget from the book of Jude. Considering all the encouragement Jude gives
Jude’s Message to Believers
Have you ever taken a look at the book of Jude? It is only a short 25-verse letter, but it is packed with very colorful imagery and deep theology. Jude, one of the Lord Yeshua's earthly brothers, intended to write his letter to the believers about their faith, but then devoted two-thirds of
Changing Curses to Blessings
As I was walking home last week, I fell and broke my ankle very badly. I told my husband that my entire world was turned upside-down (including myself) in two seconds. This threw a wrench into all my travel plans for the summer. It interrupted all the projects I was involved in. I
A Three-fold Commemoration
This week is a special holiday in Israel called Jerusalem Day which commemorates the reunification of the city of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty after the Six-day War in 1967. It was the first time in nearly two thousand years that the Jews had control over the whole city, including the Western Wall and
Be People of Prayer
This week in the United States a National Day of Prayer will be observed. As I read in Deuteronomy today, I was struck by how many times Moses fasted and prayed for the people of Israel. Three times he fasted for forty days--once while receiving the handwritten covenant of God, and twice on
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