https://odb.org/2025/09/25/its-gonne-be-okay Psalm 118:5-14 (NIV) – 5 When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place.6 The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?7 The Lord is with me; he is my helper. I look in triumph on my enemies.8 ItContinue reading “The LORD is with us”
Category Archives: God’s love
God’s heart
https://odb.org/2025/08/22/seeing-with-gods-heart Psalm 1461 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, my soul. 2 I will praise the Lord all my life;I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 3 Do not put your trust in princes,in human beings, who cannot save. 4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; onContinue reading “God’s heart”
God sees and hears
https://odb.org/2025/07/28/to-see-and-to-serve Lamentations 3:58–59 (NIV): 58 You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life. 59 LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause! Often, we go through miserable times. But there are people who go through worse, much worse. It’s so bad that some things, once seen, can not be unseen. YetContinue reading “God sees and hears”
Unceasing prayer
https://odb.org/2025/07/22/persisting-in-prayer Luke 18:1–8 (NIV): 18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town, there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming toContinue reading “Unceasing prayer”
Your love is better than life
https://odb.org/2025/07/03/jesus-our-everything Psalm 63:1-4 (NIV) – You, God, are my God,earnestly, I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. 2 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. 3 Because your love is betterContinue reading “Your love is better than life”
God’s thoughts and ways are not ours
https://odb.org/2025/06/17/missing-chocolates Isaiah 55:8–13 (NIV): 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your waysand my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return toContinue reading “God’s thoughts and ways are not ours”
Heart of stone vs heart of flesh
https://odb.org/2025/03/13/a-new-heart-in-christ Ezekiel 11:16–20 (NIV): 16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.’ 17 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORDContinue reading “Heart of stone vs heart of flesh”
Hosea and Gomer
https://odb.org/2025/02/27/a-path-forward Hosea 3:1–5 (NIV): 3 The LORD said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”2 So I bought her for fifteen shekelsContinue reading “Hosea and Gomer”
The rainbow
https://odb.org/2025/02/24/rainbows-and-gods-promises We had to wake up at 5.00 am, and start our journey back to Petaling Jaya from Seremban at slightly half past five yesterday morning. After breakfast, we arrived back at our condo at 7 plus, and because I had to be in office early, I didn’t have time to write yesterday’s devotional. ButContinue reading “The rainbow”
The story of Leah
https://odb.org/2025/02/19/finding-love Genesis 29:28–35 (NIV): 28 And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 29 Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant. 30 Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love forContinue reading “The story of Leah”
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