DAILY DEVOTIONS with MICHELE

Do you think you are too young? Jesus taught the rabbis when he was nine years old. Too old? Abraham fathered a child at 100. Not educated? A handful of unlearned fishermen changed the world. Not well-connected? You do know the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

Today's Scripture | Hebrews 12:1 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 perseverance the race marked out for us. Typically, we are excited at the beginning of...

For the believer, hope is based on the evidence found in the Word of God. Hope is based on the substance of what God has done in the past – knowing that if He has done it before, He can do it again in our lives.

We feel supreme love for One we have never seen and talk to someone that we have not touched. We empty ourselves to become full, decreasing so that Christ might increase. We lower ourselves to become servants of all so that we will rise up as the first. When we are at our absolute weakest, He makes us strong.

God has given us the power to reach our potential. We must seize every opportunity to put the talents that He has given us to work and act upon the dreams that He has dropped into our hearts. Nothing is impossible to those that believe they can!

Today's Scripture | Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house…he got down upon his knees three times a day prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously. Giving thanks is so important to being able to hear...

Jesus taught us to love and forgive one another, and He taught us the pattern for doing both.

Today's Scripture | Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker in World War II. Her family helped many Jews escape the Holocaust by hiding them in a secret room in their home. Eventually, they were arrested and sent to...

Forgiveness is an act of the will, a decision to extend grace and mercy in spite of our emotions. In the last moments of His life, as He hung despised on the Cross, Jesus breathed out the words, “Father, forgive them.”