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Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Enjoy the journey by redeeming the time” Our Bible verse for today: “For I know the plans I have for you” – this is the Lord’s declaration – “plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. You will call to me andContinue reading “Life is a journey not a destination”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Writing and Reading” Our Bible verse for today: “Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” he will answer, “I don’t now how to read.” Isaiah 29:12 (NIV) Our thought for today: “You can read and write, so please do” In Isaiah chapterContinue reading “You can read and write, so please do”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Writing and Reading” Our Bible verse for today: “The people here (Berea) were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.” Acts 17:11 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Reading people areContinue reading “Reading people are knowing people”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Writing and Reading” Our Bible verse for today: “Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you.” Jeremiah 30:2 (NIV) Our thought for today: “Write something for history” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a famous Russian novelist in the mid-to-late 1900s. He was a Christian and a captain in theContinue reading “Write something for history”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Writing and Reading” Our Bible verse for today: “It also seemed good to me, since I have carefully investigated everything from the very first, to write to you in an orderly sequence, most honorable Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things about which you haveContinue reading “Writing brings clarity”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Writing and Reading” Our Bible verse for today: “I will meditate on your precepts and think about your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.” Psalm 119:15-16 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Linger over it” There’s a special kind of joy and satisfaction that comesContinue reading “Linger over it”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Writing and Reading” Our Bible verse for today: “And what more can I say? Time is too short for me to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the ragingContinue reading “We can learn much from the lives of others”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Writing and Reading” Our Bible verse for today: “The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge; the ears of the wise seek it out.” Proverbs 18:15 (NIV) Our thought for today: “Seek knowledge” I’ve mentioned in a previous devotional that one of my favorite motivational books is “The Traveler’s Gift” by AndyContinue reading “Seek knowledge”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Writing and Reading” Our Bible verse for today: “Hold on to instruction; don’t let go. Guard it, for it is your life.” Proverbs 4:13 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Self-education is the best kind of education” Almost immediately after I became a Christian in 1990, I knew the Lord was callingContinue reading “Self education is the best kind of education”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Writing and Reading” Our Bible verse for today: “Therefore, I encourage you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you …” 2 Timothy 1:6 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Don’t be bored and don’t be boring” One of the things I love about reading good Christian books is theContinue reading “Don’t be bored and don’t be boring”