by Susan Barnes | 24 Oct 2022 | Short Devotion
“May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 “He will do it.” God...
by Susan Barnes | 27 Feb 2022 | Short Devotion
“Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart … Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” 2 Corinthians 4:1 & 16 Paul could have lost heart considering...
by Susan Barnes | 4 Apr 2021 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.” Acts 3:26 God turns us from our wicked ways. We can’t do this...
by Susan Barnes | 2 Aug 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with...
by Susan Barnes | 5 Jul 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and...
by Susan Barnes | 29 Sep 2019 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some...
by Susan Barnes | 5 May 2019 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.” 1 Peter 2:19 Peter assumes Christians will suffer unjustly, because Christ...
by Susan Barnes | 26 Mar 2019 | Women in the Bible
This is the last in the series of Women in the Bible. Even though there are other stories about women. There’s Miriam, the prophet. “Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing”...