El Brown

Why Yeshua Didn’t Repeat the Same Gesture—and Why Sometimes He Lingered I was doing a Bible study, and something in the devotional stood out to me in that quiet, but deep way—the way a sentence can feel simple at first, and then the Holy Spirit starts turning it like a key inside you until it opens something you didn’t even realize was locked. Within each love language, there’s a dialect. We were talking about love, and the devotional made a comment that has stayed with me ever since: Yeshua...

The Pattern of a God Who Meets His Daughters This morning I was reading a devotional—one written by a woman—and a single line undid me. It said: Anna became the first person to publicly declare Jesus as the Messiah. And I started to cry. Not the tidy kind of crying. The kind that rises up from a place deeper than thought—like something ancient in me recognized something holy and familiar and true. And I audibly said, “Oh Lord God… another woman.” Not because men are excluded. Not because God...

Casting What’s Crushing You onto the One Who Can Carry It As I was sitting with today’s Scripture, I couldn’t help but notice the timing of it—how intentionally the Holy Spirit does this. He will meet us with an on-time word that doesn’t just “sound nice,” but lands in the exact place we’re carrying weight. And sometimes, the reason a verse is so familiar is because we’ve heard it quoted… but we haven’t actually been taught how to live it. Today’s passage is one of those. “Casting all your...