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Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “The one who walks with the wise will become wise…” Proverbs 13:20 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Walk with the wise and become wise” I have always remembered a statement I read many years ago written by Billy Graham’s brother-in-law, Leighton Ford. Like Billy, LeightonContinue reading “Walk with the wise and become wise”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: Selfcare”Our Bible verse for today: “Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Endings are often new beginnings” Today willContinue reading “Endings are often new beginnings”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “If only you had paid attention to my commands. Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” Isaiah 48:18 (CSB) Our thought for today: “If only you had paid attention” How well do you payContinue reading “What if you had paid attention?”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 3:18 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Do you structure your life around good soul-care? In yesterday’s devotional we thought about the importance of soul-care as a means of selfcare.Continue reading “Do you structure your life around good soul-care?”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you..” Psalm 116:7 (CSB) Our thought for today: “This will make everything else better” Soul-care is selfcare. Taking proper care of your soul is the most important way in which you canContinue reading “This will make everything else better”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?” John 5:5-6 (CSB) Our thought for today:Continue reading “Do you really want to get well?”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for today: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3 (NIV) Our thought for today: “Let yourself be healed” A person I was once counseling said to me, “I think I have probably spent most of my adult life trying to get over my childhood.” ItContinue reading “Let yourself be healed”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit; if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.” Proverbs 9:12 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Life is cumulative” This morning, I came across a great pearl of wisdom from none other than Mr.Continue reading “Life is cumulative”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “The Lord has given them special skills as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet thread of fine linen cloth, and weavers. They excel as craftsmen and as designers.” Exodus 35:35 (NLT) Our thought for today: “God designed us to be creative” I believeContinue reading “God designed us to be creative”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Selfcare” Our Bible verse for today: “Do not grieve, because the joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Do more of this” In Nehemiah 8:10, when Ezra and Nehemiah told the people “Do not grieve, because the joy of the Lord is your strength,” they wereContinue reading “Do more of this”