Today was a special day at the Jaynes’ household. We celebrated my radio broadcast on Lest you think us author types take these things like they are no big deal…don’t be fooled. We get excited! The opportunity to encourage so many moms all across the country just thrills my heart! So celebrate with us, and pray for those worn out moms who need an encouraging word and radio hug. Read more…
Failing Doesn’t Make you a Failure
Today’s Truth
Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers (Luke 22:31-32 NIV emphasis added).
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I’m so glad Jesus picked Peter to be one of His disciples. Read more…
Stepping Up and Stepping Out
Today’s Truth
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him (1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV).
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God always has important kingdom work for us to do. Paul tells us: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). Read more…
When Coincidences are Really God-incidences
“For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him” (
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Have you ever had a set of circumstances in your life that were so unexpected and so convoluted that you knew there was no other way it could have happened except by divine appointment? Read more…
Who Knows…Maybe a Miracle Is Coming Your Way!
Today’s Truth
“Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Matthew 15:22 NIV)
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Belva held her twitching daughter in her arms. With eyes rolled back and thrashing limbs, the child convulsed on the earthen floor.
“Oh Mara,” the distraught mother cried. “When will this ever end?”
For years little Mara had violently convulsed in predictable synchronized intervals.The child often cried out in loud screeching voices, Read more…
Are You Drifting?
Today’s Truth
”For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it” (Hebrews 2:1 NASB).
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It was supposed to be a sailing adventure for Loran and his youth group at Central Church. His friend procured three sailing vessels that resembled the Niña,Pinta and the Santa Maria. Read more…
God’s Oxygen Mask
Today’s Truth
Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest (Mark 6:31 NIV).
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One mother with three active boys was playing cops and robbers in the back yard after dinner on a summer evening. One of the boys “shot” his mother and yelled, “Bang, bang you’re dead.” She slumped to the ground and when she didn’t get up right away, Read more…
Miriam Stops Progress with Her Gossiping Words
Today’s Truth
Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it may give grace to those who hear (
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Miriam was the brave little girl who hid among the bulrushes to watch her baby brother floating in the Nile among the crocodiles and would-be assassins of the Hebrew babies. Read more…
A Mother who is a Prayer Warrior
A Mighty Warrior
Today’s Truth
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth (3 John 1:4 NIV).
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Proverbs 31 introduces us to the mother whose children rise up and call her blessed, as a “wife of noble character” (NIV), “an excellent wife” (NAS) and “a capable, Read more…
Lessons from a Bamboo Farmer
Lessons from the Bamboo Farmer
(In honor of Mother’s Day, Sharon’s devotion will focus on motherhood.)
Today’s Truth
Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary (Galatians 6:9 NASB).
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For years I told people that I was in labor for 23 hours. Read more…
