by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 19, 2025 | childhood memories, redemption, Teaching, The Church, time, Worldview
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,” replied the angel, “and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason he shall be called the Son of God.”Luke 1:35 This is the beauty and majesty of the Advent story and the angel’s Annunciation to Mary for us:...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2025 | home, marriage, Memorials, memories, stones, symbols, Thanks, worship, writing
In the hymn sung today in the Seedbed.com Wake Up Call devotional, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” JD Walt noted in it a reference to raising one’s Eben Ezer, a stone of remembrance as a testimony to God’s work on our behalf. Bill and I have had an Eben Ezer that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m in a small group of women who have been engaged in a summer of encouragement devotional reading. It has included a very good couple of weeks of daily readings on Gideon. As I was reflecting on Gideon this is something that I recognized from his story and many...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 19, 2024 | redemption, spiritual growth, understand
)CBByrd 3/19/2022). Even in the wilderness, darkness or midst of battle…… “It’s not a dead end if God took you there for a purpose.” Character in movie “Unconditional” If you find yourself in any such place, God’s redemptive power...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 7, 2024 | change, spiritual life, The Church, timing, Titus 2 Partnership
I have observed multiple times how the Lord gives a word, then years later gives a new persepctive on the word that totally changes the way one first heard and understood it! Such is the case with a word in a prophecy spoken over me just weeks before my final...