The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of the LORD. — Job 1:21 Have you ever been sick with worry? So have I. Everything that concerns us concerns the Lord, the Maker of the heavens and the earth. He is not silent. He is not indifferent to you or…
The Way of the Essenes
About 150 years before the birth of Jesus the Messiah, some of God’s people — the Essenes — established a community in the Judea Wilderness near the northern end of the Dead Sea. We know it as Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Not all scholars agree that Essenes lived at Qumran, wrote…
Wilderness Blessings
Note: Welcome to Sit & Listen Saturdays with Devotionals Daily. We hope you enjoy reading as well as listening to this devotion from Christine Caine, excerpted from her new book Unshakeable. Listen on the blog or on your Alexa device by prompting Alexa to “Ask Devotionals Daily to read today’s devotion.” He brought His people…
Why the Wilderness?
The Accuser Is At Large The enemy of our souls who bombards our minds with negative thoughts and lies, and sometimes the people around us who operate under his influence. The enemy often attacks us with false accusations about who we are. He knows that if he can only get us to question or doubt…
Jesus: Our Ultimate Example
John the Baptist Prepares the Way In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” For this is He who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight.’…