by Janet Scott | Apr 6, 2024 | Devotionals
James 4:8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. When storms and struggles and terribly dark seasons of life strike what is your response? I can remember getting so angry with God years ago because I thought He should have just fixed what was going on in my...
by Janet Scott | Apr 5, 2024 | Devotionals
Ephesians 6:10-12, Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. Four our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against...
by Janet Scott | Apr 4, 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 | Apr 3, 2024 | Devotionals
Galatians 6:9, “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” As you grow in your walk with God and the more you pursue Him, the more the enemy is going to come against you. The last thing satan wants is for you...
by Janet Scott | Apr 2, 2024 | Devotionals
Isaiah 61:1-3 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the...
by Janet Scott | Apr 1, 2024 | Devotionals
Psalm 42:1, As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. Have you ever owned or seen a Peace Lilly plant? It is seriously one of the only plants I seem to be able to keep alive! I found that out one day years ago when I took my mom to...
by Janet Scott | Mar 31, 2024 | Devotionals
Luke 24: 1-7But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were...
by Janet Scott | Mar 30, 2024 | Devotionals
John 21:16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” Sometimes the only thing that holds you back from all that God is calling you to do is your...
by Janet Scott | Mar 29, 2024 | Devotionals
Ephesians 4:11 – 16 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the...
by Janet Scott | Mar 28, 2024 | Devotionals
Philippians 4:19, “And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” This verse isn’t just referring to financial needs! There are so many more needs we face than just money and yet that is the first thing we usually think...
by Janet Scott | Mar 27, 2024 | Devotionals
1 Samuel 15:17, Samuel then said, “You may be small in your own sight, but you are head of the tribes of Israel ~ the Lord anointed you king over Israel! Wow! So, here we have Samuel calling King Saul out because the Lord had told him to completely destroy the...
by Janet Scott | Mar 26, 2024 | Devotionals
Luke 17:15-19, One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him ~ and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? ...
by Janet Scott | Mar 25, 2024 | Devotionals
Psalm 30:5b “weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” Don’t allow someone else’s sin or mistakes define who you think you are! If you were abused as a child or by your spouse or your spouse has cheated on you, that doesn’t make you “less than”! ...
by Janet Scott | Mar 24, 2024 | Devotionals
Hebrews 9:13-14, “For if sprinkling ceremonially unclean persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer restores their outward purity; then how much more the blood of the Messiah, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself to God as a...
by Janet Scott | Mar 23, 2024 | Devotionals
1 Thessalonians 5:24, He who calls you is faithful; He will surely do it. What is God calling you to, or what has He called you to in the past? I was 12 when I felt God was calling me to be a missionary and I was in my forties when I started writing Bible...