by Vince Olaer | Devotionals, Morning Manna
“She is empty and void and waste—and the heart melts and the knees smite together and much pain is in all loins and the faces of them all gather blackness. . . All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs; if they be shaken, they shall even...
by Vince Olaer | Devotionals, Morning Manna
“Come unto Me. . .” Matthew 11:28b It’s one thing to come; it’s another thing to know where to go and what awaits you when you get there. We’re all going somewhere; the question is “Where?” Too often we’re like the person who was asked where he was going. He replied,...
by Vince Olaer | Devotionals, Morning Manna
“Come unto Me all you that labor and are heavy-laden. . .” Matthew 11:28c His is for the down-and-outs, not the up-and-comings; the infamous, not the famous; the outcasts, not the “in group.” Have you ever noticed how Christ’s values always seemed to be in...
by Vince Olaer | Devotionals, Morning Manna
“Come. . .” Matthew 11:28a It is simple in tone and sublime in experience. Never has there been a more beautiful invitation than this one, captured in a single word: “Come.” We know the word itself implies a moving from one place to another; otherwise the One speaking...
by Vince Olaer | Devotionals, Morning Manna
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” Psalm 116:15 Although we may wonder why He allows it and doesn’t put a stop to it, we must still “give thanks in all things” (I Thess. 5:18) and “lift high the shield of Resurrection faith” (Eph....
by Vince Olaer | Devotionals, Morning Manna
“For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears and my feet from falling.” Psalm 116:8 His is not a partial salvation, but complete in every way—both in life and death. How thankful we should be the anonymous author of today’s Manna wasn’t some...
