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After today, the Pearls of Promise blog will take a short hiatus as founder Lisa Burkhardt Worley travels to Israel. It will resume on Tuesday, December 16th with a three-part series on Lisa’s experiences and revelations from God in the Holy Land. This devotion is based on Lisa’s thoughts prior to departing. “After Jesus was…
Jacqueline Hooks is our guest blogger today. This is what she says about herself and her ministry: “I am an everyday ordinary gal who started following Jesus less than a decade ago, and has fallen madly in love with the Carpenter King who saved my life and my marriage. My husband and I are raising…
“But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed” (Luke 5:16). Did you ever have a quiet place you retreated to as a child? When I wanted to be alone, I climbed a tree in the backyard, and would lean on its branches, dreaming about the future I desired. Always a planner, the stillness in…
Did you ever have a rock collection when you were a child? Like most collections I didn’t stick with it, but for a while, I’d gather interesting rocks, usually from my back yard, and store them in a box. There was always one that stood out from the rest, and it became my favorite. It…
How often do you thank your friends for the role they play in your life? I confess that I don’t show enough gratitude for the women who God places around me. Even though I love them, my hard charging, get to the point kind of personality sometimes forgets to express enough appreciation for godly girlfriends….