Month: December 2024

Love Is…

Sacred Journey Devotionals: A Journey To Wholeness2 Comments

Greetings, Precious Family:

May the Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you always.

I woke up this morning with a spirit of gratefulness and love. In 2015, God allowed my husband to find me. We were married on December 18, 2015. Yes, today is our anniversary.  The first few years of marriage were so exciting and fun, full of travel, adventures, and new love. We were in complete and total Bliss.

Then, 2021 came, and all of our vows were tested. All of our vows…for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health and all the places and phases that life found us.

My husband and I have had to learn what love “looks like” will take different shapes and forms, depending on what season we are currently going through. There is no ONE way to love. Each season has taught us new and different ways to love each other.

Beginning in 2016, I began to officiate weddings. There is a reason that 1st Corinthians 13 is called the “Love Chapter” in the Bible. As Christians, we have a different model to follow than the world does. As a married couple, we are modeling Christ to each other.

Holy Scriptures

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

English Standard Version

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[a] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never ends, or fails.

Love Song

This week’s worship song is a little different. It is not a worship song, in the traditional sense, but it is mine and my husband’s song.

Babyface – Exceptional

Family, I would like to wish each and every one of you a very happy and healthy holiday season. May you celebrate the birth of God’s only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, Our Emmanuel.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I will return in 2025 with more devotionals – if God allows it to be.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington, GA

I Need You, Lord!!

Sacred Journey Devotionals: A Journey To WholenessLeave a comment

Greetings, Family:

May the Peace of God continually be with you always.

I pray that no matter when you are reading this that you are able to rest in and receive the love and everlasting Peace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

This morning, I was thinking that there is not a moment that goes by that I don’t need the Lord. There is no circumstance or situation that God is not involved in my life.

Every decision I make, God is there. Even when I make poor decisions, God is there to let me know that he loves me but I need to make a different choice.

This morning, the song “I Need Thee” dropped in my spirit. I kept singing it over and over, realizing that every word was STILL TRUE.

Stay humble before the Lord, Family. Allow God to be your resting place. 🙏

Holy Scriptures

Psalm 42:1-2

New International Version

BOOK II

Psalm 42

For the director of music. A maskil[c] of the Sons of Korah.

1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
    so my soul pants for you, my God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
    When can I go and meet with God?

Worship Song of Surrender and Adoration

I Need Thee / Just To Be Close To You
(Cece Winans Live in Fremont, California. October 21, 2022 )

Be blessed, Family. May you and yours have a blessed, reflective, and loving holiday season.

A Special Note:

If you have things that you need to forgive someone for or things that you need to ask someone forgiveness for, I pray that you would handle before the year is over. Don’t take anything into the new year that needs to be left in 2024.

Your Sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington, GA