by Susan Barnes | 3 Nov 2025 | Devotions OT
“But the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.” (1 Kings 19:11-12) God doesn’t like to...
by Susan Barnes | 11 Mar 2024 | Devotions OT
David said to Michal, “… I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this …” 2 Samuel 6:21-22 Michal was trying to “rain on David’s parade”, by making discouraging remarks about his enthusiasm. She said to him, “How the...
by Susan Barnes | 21 Aug 2023 | Devotions OT
“He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye, like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.” Deuteronomy 32:10-11 After one of our many moves, I was looking...
by Susan Barnes | 9 Feb 2021 | Devotions OT
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. If my people would only listen to me … Psalm 81:10-13When my parents were both in a...
by Susan Barnes | 26 Jan 2021 | Devotions OT
“And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table; he was lame in both feet.” 2 Samuel 9:13 Previously Mephibosheth lived at Lo Debar, and even the name of the place sounds depressing. It means “no pasture.” It was an empty and barren...
by Susan Barnes | 12 May 2020 | Devotions OT
“O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble. They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.”...
by Susan Barnes | 14 Dec 2018 | Devotions OT
To the arrogant I say, “Boast no more,” and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horns. Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak so defiantly.” Psalm 75:4-5 God hates arrogance and defiant speech. Arrogance comes from pride and is a refusal to acknowledge...
by Susan Barnes | 7 Dec 2018 | Devotions OT
When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny. Psalm 73:16-17 So often we don’t understand God’s ways and it troubles us deeply. We see good people suffering and wicked people...
