Author : Mabel Duncan

Your builders outdo your destroyers, and those who laid you waste go away from you… Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land-surely now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. Isaiah 49: 17, 19, NRSV. Heavenly Father, we all stand […]

Your builders outdo your destroyers, and those who laid you waste go away from you… Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land-surely now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. Isaiah 49: 17, 19, NRSV. Gracious God, You who delight […]

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His love in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, not did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; […]

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His love in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, not did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; […]

I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the sharing of [H]is sufferings by becoming like [H]im in [H]is death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3: 10, 11, NRSV. Gracious God, we can only know You as You reveal Yourself to us.  Please do this […]

For [Y]ou created my inmost being; [Y]ou knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise [Y]ou because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; [Y]our works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from [Y]ou when I was made in the secret place.  When I was woven together in the depths of […]

When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to  you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.  They are not just idle words for you-they are your life.  By […]

But Samuel replied:  “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD?  To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.  For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.  Because you have […]

When [H]e finished speaking, [H]e turned to Simon.  He said, “Go out into deep water.  Let the nets down so you can catch some fish.”  Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything.  But because [Y]ou say so, I will let down the nets.”  When they had done so, they caught a […]

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”  Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.  Jerusalem-built as a city that is bound firmly together.  To it the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to […]