by Susan Barnes | 27 Jul 2026 | Short Devotion>People
“I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.” Jonah 4:2 Jonah knows God’s character, but objects to God acting this way towards the Ninevites. Yet Jonah would also know his own...
by Susan Barnes | 13 Jul 2026 | Short Devotion>People
“There before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power. His dominion is an everlasting dominion.” Daniel 7:13-14 Jesus often...
by Susan Barnes | 15 Jun 2026 | Short Devotion>People
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 Jeremiah lives through the fall of Jerusalem by the Babylonian...
by Susan Barnes | 1 Jun 2026 | Short Devotion>People
I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple … I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” He said, “Go and tell this people.” Isaiah...
by Susan Barnes | 18 May 2026 | Short Devotion>People
During the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David. Then in the twelfth year he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 34:3 Josiah begins seeking the Lord eight years after becoming king. Rather...
by Susan Barnes | 4 May 2026 | Short Devotion>People
“King Jotham became powerful because he was careful to live in obedience to the Lord his God.” 2 Chronicles 27:6 Jotham and Josiah survive as the only good kings of Judah who end their reigns well. Yet we don’t have a detailed account of Jotham’s life. The only...
by Susan Barnes | 20 Apr 2026 | Short Devotion>People
“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14 These words from...
by Susan Barnes | 23 Mar 2026 | Short Devotion>People
What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me. Job 3:25 He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction. Job 36:16 Job lived with excessive fear. God allows him to experience...
