A Christmas Prayer ~ Jesus, I Want to be Your Bethlehem
Oh this, His birthday, may our hearts become His Bethlehem. “So it was, when the angels had...
Read MorePosted by Nan Jones | Dec 25, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Oh this, His birthday, may our hearts become His Bethlehem. “So it was, when the angels had...
Read MorePosted by Nan Jones | Dec 16, 2018 | Uncategorized |
“Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ...
Read MorePosted by Nan Jones | Dec 9, 2018 | bible devotions online, Christmas Prayer, Finding God's Presence, Nan Jones author and speaker, prayer |
Lord, You are the Song in my night, the light in my darkness. You are the hope in my brokenness and my quiet in the chaos.
Teach me to seek after the quiet — to understand the treasures of solitude.
Solitude feels elusive, Lord, unattainable in this busy, noisy season of Christmas.
Read MorePosted by Nan Jones | Dec 2, 2018 | bible devotions online, Finding God's Presence, Nan Jones author and speaker, prayer |
Lord, in Your infinite mercy You draw us to Yourself — You pursue us with Your love. Bless You, Lord! Thank You for Your faithfulness and Your mercies that are new every morning.
You are a great God.
We desire to know You more.
We desire to experience the fullness of who You are.
But it’s so crazy busy right now for everyone! We desire to be with You, but the demands are louder. The very One whose birth we celebrate becomes second place, pushed to a shelf or to the bottom of the to-do list.
Read MorePosted by Nan Jones | Nov 28, 2018 | bible devotions online, Finding God's Presence, Nan Jones author and speaker, women's ministry |
Just took a brisk walk with Blue up to the meadow and back. It’s bitter cold outside today. Wind howling. Millions of tiny snowflakes swirling.
Discouragement tried to take over my thoughts the past few days. It showed in my hunched-over shoulders as I pressed into the wind.
A loved one is very sick. Finances, in the natural, will never be able to stretch enough to cover Christmas, a Christmas wedding, and medical expenses. (Even though I know that I know God has never failed us, sometimes the flesh kicks in with worry.)
And my daughter’s healing from knee surgery seems to be going backwards for some reason …
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