Ever-Increasing Light Marking Jewish Themes with Devotion Sabbath, Feasts, and More… “I will bless those who will bless my people, and I will curse those who curse them” (Genesis 12:3). Blessing the Jewish people is very scriptural. I learned growing up from my mother to bless them because they were and are God’s chosen ones. …
Category: Messianic Jewish devotionals
Tastes like Cake
Ever-Increasing Light A Messianic Daily Devotional “…Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden…
The Green Tattoo
Ever-Increasing Light A Messianic Daily Devotional “Because I love Zion, I will not keep still. Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem, I cannot remain silent. I will not stop praying for her until her righteousness shines like the dawn, and her salvation blazes like a burning torch” (Isaiah 62:1). Side-by-side on a rickety and scarred…
Make-Shift Cloister
Ever-Increasing Light A Messianic Daily Devotional “You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain” (Psalm 139:5-6 NIV). As a kid, did you ever make a tent in your bedroom with sheets and towels? Do you remember that cozy…
The Shelf Life of Compassion
Ever-Increasing Light A Messianic Daily Devotional “Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him” (Isaiah 30:18). As a pastor’s wife, mother, and humanitarian aid worker, compassion…
I Quit Every Day!
Ever-Increasing Light A Messianic Daily Devotional “Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20). In 1996 my husband, daughter, and I traveled across the ocean to Myaki, Ukraine, a small fishing village just outside of…
To the Jew First, but Why?
Ever-Increasing Light A Messianic Daily Devotional “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one who believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16). To the Jew first… what does it mean? It’s more simple than you think….
Driven out of France
Ever-Increasing Light A Messianic Daily Devotional “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and…
Justice and the Holocaust
Ever-Increasing Light A Messianic Daily Devotional “All his ways are just; a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he” (Deuteronomy 32:4). Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author, the late Elie Wiesel wrestled with questions of God’s justice in his book, Night: Some talked of God, of his mysterious ways,…
The Temple Connection
Ever-Increasing Light A Messianic Daily Devotional “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit), who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;” (I Corinthian 6:19 TLV). I have traveled through Europe and seen grand cathedrals and synagogues, but there was…
Bonnie Saul Wilks 