What If This IS the Plan?
“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon…” Jeremiah 29:4 (NIV) You never planned to be here. This job wasn’t in your five-year plan. This city…
Category Devotionals
Bloom Where You’re Planted
“Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in…
Praying Where You Don’t Want to Be
“Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” Jeremiah 29:7 (NIV) Pray for your enemies? That’s what…
When God’s Timing Doesn’t Match Yours
“This is what the Lord says: ‘When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.’” Jeremiah 29:10 (NIV) Seventy years felt like a death sentence.…
Be Faithful in the Fog
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV) You can’t see the path ahead. The fog is too thick. Every step feels uncertain. You don’t know how this season will…
When God’s Good Doesn’t Feel Good
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 (NIV) Your definition of good might be killing your faith. You pray for…
The Sculptor’s Unfinished Work
“And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” Romans 8:30 (NIV) You’re not the finished product yet. You look at your life and see too many rough edges. You…
Trading Your Mirror for His Image
“For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.” Romans 8:29 (NIV) You’ve been measuring success with the wrong ruler. The world…
The Guaranteed Finish Line
“And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” Romans 8:30 (NIV) What if I told you your transformation is already done? Not in your present experience, but in God’s…
When the Chisel Hurts
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 (NIV) Pain has a purpose you might be missing. You’re facing something hard…