by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 17, 2023 | religious movements, scripture, trees, Uncategorized
I heard a sermon this week on the parable of the unfruitful fig tree. But for all my effort I cannot remember where or from whom I heard it. The message focused on the gardener’s appeal to the master who had told the gardener to cut it down for having borne...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 2, 2023 | scripture, spiritual life
JD Walt pre-empted me today with the Wake Up Call from seedbed.com writing on a “word” for the year. I had been occupied with personal ministry, church, and family activities the last two weeks and had not been prodded to think of a “word for...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 28, 2022 | redemption, scripture, spiritual life, witness
I love how God gradually reveals things about oneself, little tidbits of information and insights gleaned here and there over years, then one day just hits you with it: “This is you!” This morning I was meditating on His Word. Suddenly in my mind’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 22, 2022 | scripture, storms, thorns
Encouragement for today! Have experienced this truth again and again. It’s a blessing in disguise Wednesday, December 22, 2021 “Every detail works to your advantage and to God’s glory.” 2Co 4:15 MSG If you’re going through a difficult time right now, let Paul’s words...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 25, 2022 | love, Perfection in love, scripture
In an online devotional today the theme is trust…. “In God We Trust?” Seedbed.com/dailytext , August 25, 2002. For me, God has come to be the only person and force in which I fully can put my trust. For a number of years I have taught that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 18, 2022 | sanctification, scripture
Joni Eareckson Tada writes in her online devotional from 8/18/2014: Experiencing Christ “I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in...
