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Joy Petroelje

Joy Petroelje serves as the grants manager for a faith-based international nonprofit organization. Aside from work, she enjoys family time, coffee or dinner with friends, writing, reading, and running.
Devotionals

The Kingdom is the Lord’s

Read: Psalm 22:23-28 For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations. (v. 28) I am often saddened by the prevalence of division in our world; in and

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Help Wanted

Read: Psalm 56 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. (v. 3) “Help Wanted” signs seem to be everywhere I look these days, and with good reason. According

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Swimming the 500

Read: Psalm 73:21-26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Ps. 73:26) Our youngest son is a competitive

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Open Hands, Fulfilled Needs

Read: Psalm 145 Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. (v. 2) When we choose to hold the things of this world loosely, letting

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Embrace

Read: Luke 15:11-24 But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. (v. 20) “Letting

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Lowering the Bar

Read: Philippians 1:12-30 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (v. 21) Expectation is a regular part of life. While we know a new day

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Overwhelmed

Read: Psalm 61:1-3 Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. (v. 2) According to the New England Journal of Medicine, the first confirmed case of a COVID-19

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Only One You

Read: Psalm 139 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. (v. 13) It shows up on Facebook, words laid over a flowered background:

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The Gift of Forgiveness

Read: Colossians 3:12-17 As the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. (v. 13) Yesterday we focused on the apostle Paul’s admonishment to release bitterness, one of a

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