Diana's Devotional Corner

Acts 15:36 After some time Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit each city where we previously preached the word of the Lord, to see how the new believers are doing.” 37 Barnabas agreed and wanted to take along John Mark. 38 But Paul disagreed strongly,...

Jeremiah 29: (NIV) 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. I used this verse before in a recent Reflection, but it truly best describes my encounter two weeks ago. So,...

Mark 12: 41-44 (NIV) 41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth...

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. - Romans 12:12 Hope is defined in the Oxford Languages dictionary as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen”. That feeling of expectation can most certainly bring joy as we...

Psalm 103:15-16 “As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.” Last week I wrote about the joy of sitting out on our beach deck listening to the sounds of...

Proverbs 12:10 - Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel. I never thought of kindness to our animals in terms of righteousness. But our scripture focus in Proverbs clearly equates kindness to our animals with...

Now thank we all our God With heart and hands and voices Who wondrous things has done In whom this world rejoices Who from our mother’s arms Has blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love And still is ours today. Martin Rinkart and his wife arrived in...

How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony. Psalms 133:1 (New Living Translation) This past week, Swann and I watched the movie Glory which was released in 1989. We had never seen it before, but it caught our attention as an offering from...

11 The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there...

1 Thessalonians  5:11: "Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." The car hummed out of the church parking lot in the opposite direction of home. My dad exclaimed with false alarm that the car was driving itself. Oh...

24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back,...

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 I was reading recently that this verse is one of the most popular in the whole Bible. I can see why!  It is...