by Susan Barnes | 27 Aug 2019 | Guest blogs
Travis Barnes lives in central Victoria with his wife and two daughters. He is an associate minister with the Churches of Christ denomination. Travis loves to help people find their God-given calling and encourage people to walk with Jesus into the unique adventure he...
by Susan Barnes | 16 Oct 2017 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” Jeremiah 31:3 Would God love you more if you acted better? The correct answer is no. God’s love is endless and unfailing. He actually can’t love us any more than...
by Susan Barnes | 18 Nov 2016 | Devotions OT
This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem; in his twenty-third year, 745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard....
by Susan Barnes | 11 Nov 2016 | Devotions OT
Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood and had been one of the king’s officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were eating together there, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got...
by Susan Barnes | 4 Nov 2016 | Devotions OT
But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine. Jeremiah 44:18 King Josiah was a good king who destroyed a lot of idols and encouraged Yahweh...
by Susan Barnes | 21 Oct 2016 | Devotions OT
All the officials did come to Jeremiah and question him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had heard his conversation with the king. Jeremiah 38:27 The information Jeremiah gave the officials was a lie...
by Susan Barnes | 14 Oct 2016 | Devotions OT
Then, just as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, “Buy my field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself.” I knew that this was the word of the...
by Susan Barnes | 7 Oct 2016 | Devotions OT
Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Jeremiah 29:5 God told the exiles to make themselves “at home” in Babylon. This is the norm for God’s people—build houses, plant gardens. It’s a picture of domesticity. It’s also a long term...
