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Daily Devotion

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23
Nov2024

The Lord reigns!

by Ruth Olsen

Your throne was established long ago; you are from all eternity (Psalm 93:2).

22
Nov2024

Like a well-watered garden

by Ruth Olsen

I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow (Jeremiah 31:13b).

21
Nov2024

Famished

by Ruth Olsen

Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land shall be in bondage to Pharaoh (Genesis 47:19b).

20
Nov2024

Detested?

by Ruth Olsen

You should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock … all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians’ (Genesis 46:34).

19
Nov2024

Liberating truth

by Ruth Olsen

Then he sent his brothers away … [saying] ‘Don’t quarrel on the way!’ (Genesis 45:24)

18
Nov2024

‘God sent me ahead of you’

by Ruth Olsen

[Joseph] wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it (Genesis 45:2).