ScriptureExodus 2:4, 7 (NIV)“His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him… Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?’”DevotionalThe final figure is Miriam, Moses’ older sister. When her mother places Moses in the basket, Miriam stays nearby, watching from a distance. She is young and easily overlooked, yet she...  Read More

ScriptureExodus 2:5-6 (NIV)“Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him.”DevotionalThe basket carrying baby Moses drifts near Pharaoh’s daughter, an Egyptian princess and the child of the v...  Read More

ScriptureExodus 2:3 (NIV)“But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket forhim and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it andput it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.”DevotionalAfter Pharaoh orders every Hebrew baby boy to be thrown into the Nile,a Levite woman named Jochebed gives birth to a son—Moses. She hideshim for three months, protecting him...  Read More

ScriptureExodus 1:17 (NIV)“But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypthad told them to do; they let the boys live.”DevotionalIn Exodus 1, the Israelites are enslaved in Egypt, and Pharaoh fears theirgrowing population. To stop them, he commands two Hebrewmidwives—Shiphrah and Puah—to kill every baby boy born to Hebrewwomen. As attendants at childbirth, they stood in the space...  Read More

ScriptureMark 5:25-26, 42 (ESV)“And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who hadsuffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse”“ 42  And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.DevotionalIn Mark 5, one woman had...  Read More

ScriptureMark 5:35-36 (ESV)“While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further? But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, ‘Do not fear, only believe.’”DevotionalWhile Jesus was speaking to the woman, the message arrived: “Your daughter is dead.” Itsounded final. The delay seemed c...  Read More