Morning Devotions for Maeve: From MeeMaw with Love

By Deborah Dolan

Writing Morning Devotions for Maeve was peace and strength for me. In July of 2021, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Due to COVID-19, I was predominantly homebound for nearly a year. Contracting COVID-19 would have postponed treatments, surgeries, and therapies; so I had to miss family gatherings, even Thanksgiving and Christmas.

But mostly, I missed my six grandchildren who all live in the same area as I do. At some point, I started texting my oldest granddaughter, Maeve. I am an early riser, and every morning possible, I sent her a devotion. And that's how this book came to be.

I wanted to leave a spiritual legacy by sharing the Bible stories that had always moved my heart. Each morning I had a sense of purpose that filled my soul and let me touch and be with my granddaughter. These devotions have comforted me, strengthened me, and literally carried me through a storm. It would be sweet and precious to me if they somehow helped somebody else too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 25, 2024
• ISBN: 9798891121416

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Simon Peter Series

180 Degrees Series

Dreams Series

Power Series

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Morning Devotions for Maeve

From MeeMaw with Love

Deborah Dolan

ISBN 979-8-89112-140-9 (Paperback)

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Morning Devotions for Maeve

From MeeMaw with Love

Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful, not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs…

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

—1 Corinthians 13:4–8

Temple of God Series

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

—Revelation 3:20–21

Temple of God 1

Maevie baby, Do you know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? (1 Corinthians 3:16). God no longer dwells in a temple of wood and stones in Jerusalem where people had to go if they wanted to encounter Him. Now God dwells in the people who love Him and believe His word. Wherever you go, Maeve, you are His temple. And wherever you are, people will have the opportunity to encounter the God of Heaven. Many people will never go to Jerusalem or seek God, but it doesn't matter because the temple is long gone and is not there anyway. So God sends His temples that carry His presence to them. Maeve, you are not a mere human. You are not alone in your body (temple). You carry His presence, and that presence flows out of you sometimes when you speak or touch people but often when you don't even know it.

Temple of God 2

Yes, Maeve, you are the temple of God! God is in you and with you—always! I remember when you first believed and so adamantly pursued baptism. Though you were very young, Jesus was so real in your heart that you finally convinced your parents and pastor that you should be baptized! And I will always remember the precious day my first grandchild was baptized. So yes, Maeve Elizabeth Dolan is the temple of God. [Jesus speaking] He that believes on me, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being (John 7:38 Complete Jewish Bible).

Temple of God 3

Moses encountered God on the mountain, and when he came down, the skin on his face glowed and totally freaked everybody out. When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses…they were afraid to come near him (Exodus 34:30).

God's glory has real, observable substance. The glow eventually faded off of Moses's face. That same glory that is God's presence dwells in you. It is the very Spirit and essence of God Himself inside of you. The Holy Spirit in Moses's day had not yet been sent; that's why the glory faded. But Maeve is living in a different day. The Holy Spirit was sent by Jesus (on the day of Pentecost) to stay on those who believe until He returns. Maeve, you are the temple of God, and He will never leave you nor forsake you! (Hebrews 13:5).

Temple of God 4

Second Kings 13:20–21 tells the story of a dead man that was put in Elisha's tomb, and when his dead body touched Elisha's bones, the dead man revived and stood on his feet. Elisha's dead bones still contained so much of the glory and Spirit of God that when the dead man ‘‘touched the bones of Elisha," he was raised to life. That is why when we pray for people, it is good to touch them, to lay our hands on them, because like Elisha, we are not mere humans. The Spirit of God lives in us, and we are His temple where people encounter Him.

Temple of God 5

Good morning, beautiful temple of God, container of His glory! The Shekinah glory of God glowed out of Moses's face and radiated from the dead bones of Elisha. But how far out around a Spirit-filled believer does the presence of God extend?

Well, we have to say, At least a shadow's distance, based on Acts 5:15–16: They brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds…that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them…and they were all healed.

Peter wasn't praying or laying hands on people; he was just walking by! Makes me think of the great preacher Smith Wigglesworth, who, when he just quietly walked down the street, people would come out of the taverns crying and repenting.

We, the redeemed, are not mere humans! We are glory-infused beings with a life that is His! My prayer for you as you walk daily is spring up O well, living waters flow from Maeve. Oh, Lord, surprise her with Your exploits.

Temple of God 6

Good morning, my good girl. "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). The spirit of God in you radiates out of you. And most often, without any effort or even consciousness on your part. Moses wasn't praying for his face to shine. Elisha's dead bones couldn't pray or prophesy life. Peter wasn't laying hands on people for healing; he was just walking by.

Acts 19:11 reveals that just Paul's clothing items that were brought to the sick healed them! So not only does the Shekinah glory that is in us shine out from us, it gets on our clothes and stays on our clothes long enough and strong enough to heal the sick and cast out demons without us even being there! Wow! This glory of God has real tangible substance that is carried on the things that we touch or touches us.

Temple of God 7

My strong Maeve, a chosen earthen vessel! Do you know what an earthen vessel is? It's a pot made out of clay or some other dirt-like material that has gained strength and endurance by heat and pressure. It's a lump of clay that the master with a plan chooses and takes into his own hands and presses and pinches into shape, cuts designs into, and then fires it in a kiln until it is solid and firm and beautiful and admired greatly by him.

I suppose if the clay could speak, it might cry out in the process, Don't press so hard! Don't cut so deep! The fire is too hot. It's destroying me! But what would the clay say after the kiln cooled? Ooooh, my potter gauged perfectly! The heat did not blow me up. In fact, the very fire I thought would destroy me has actually made me stronger and lovely.

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