by Janet Scott | Dec 20, 2024 | Devotionals
Matthew 11:28, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” While this can be such a fun and exciting time of year it can also be exhausting. The kids are on break and there are always last-minute things to do and the cooking...
by Janet Scott | Dec 19, 2024 | Devotionals
Isaiah 9:6, For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Christmas is approaching quickly! I love this time of year because...
by Janet Scott | Dec 18, 2024 | Devotionals
Psalm 56:3-4 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? What is it that you are fearful of today? There are so many things that satan will throw at you day after day until if...
by Janet Scott | Dec 17, 2024 | Devotionals
Luke 2:28-35 He took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said: “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; For my eyes have seen Your salvation which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, A light to bring revelation...
by Janet Scott | Dec 16, 2024 | Devotionals
Philippians 3:13 -16, “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward...
by Janet Scott | Dec 15, 2024 | Devotionals
Psalm 63, 1) “O God, you are my God; I will seek you eagerly. My heart thirsts for you, my body longs for you in a land parched and exhausted, where no water can be found. “ I don’t know about you but I have a list of people that I really look forward to...
by Janet Scott | Dec 14, 2024 | Devotionals
1 Peter 4:9 “Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.” God would rather you were hospitable than for you to feel you have to present yourself as perfect. For some reason we, as a society, seem to have come to a point of feeling we must always...
by Janet Scott | Dec 13, 2024 | Devotionals
Ephesians 4:32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Be nice! I would love to just leave it at that, but somehow 2 words for a devotional seems a bit short! Seriously though, being nice almost...
by Janet Scott | Dec 12, 2024 | Devotionals
Esther 4:12-14, Upon being told what Esther had said, Mordecai asked them to give Esther this answer: “Don’t suppose that merely because you happen to be in the royal palace you will escape any more than the other Jews. For if you fail to speak up...
by Janet Scott | Dec 11, 2024 | Devotionals
Ecclesiastes 3:1, There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: Time ~ How often do you have days when it feels as though there just isn’t enough of it? Sometimes it is because there’s just so much on your plate and maybe other...
by Janet Scott | Dec 10, 2024 | Devotionals
Deuteronomy 5:32-33 “So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land...
by Janet Scott | Dec 9, 2024 | Devotionals
Luke 18:8 “However when the Son of Man comes will He find faith on the earth?” Jesus was talking to His disciples about the fact that they should always pray and not give up. He told them about the “unjust judge” and how the widow kept going to him wanting him to...
by Janet Scott | Dec 8, 2024 | Devotionals
John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” Once you have experienced His peace and His presence you know you don’t ever want to live...
by Janet Scott | Dec 7, 2024 | Devotionals
Luke 1:26-28, In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said,...
by Janet Scott | Dec 6, 2024 | Devotionals
Luke 2:8-12, Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the...
