by Jessica Downing | Jan 30, 2024 | Devotionals
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 (NIV) I recently enjoyed a few days in New York City with four sisters in Christ from Loon Mountain Ministry in New Hampshire. Having spent most of my life as a loner, I had never...
by Jessica Downing | Jan 23, 2024 | Devotionals
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, 19 and His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the...
by Jessica Downing | Jan 14, 2024 | Devotionals
I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on...
by Jessica Downing | Jan 2, 2024 | Devotionals
“I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low” (Psalm 142: 5-6) My body registered what it was before my mind could catch up. A red-hot poker stabbed through my chest wall...
by Jessica Downing | Dec 26, 2023 | Devotionals
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than. John 10:28-29 It was early morning, freshly groomed and I was flying down the hill linking my heel and toe edge turns...
by Jessica Downing | Dec 19, 2023 | Devotionals
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:1-2 The book of Genesis is soooo good and...
