Imperfect follower of Jesus, really imperfect mother to two amazing human beings, and deeply grateful “Bubbe” to my precious Frankie and Finn and Ford.
Hey friends! I'm thrilled to finally share the book trailer for Herod & Mary with you today! 📚🎥
My hope when you read this book is that you are able to dive into the fascinating, intertwined lives of King Herod and Mary, the Mother of Jesus. You'll follow Herod's tumultuous
What greater miracle is there than the miracle of life? I cannot contain my joy. Thank you God for the gift of little Frank Michael Gifford. 8 lbs. 8 oz. of sheer beauty
Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, & every city or household divided against itself will not stand. Matthew 12:25. LORD, it seems like our nation is more divided than ever. It seems hopeless, but You are our everlasting hope & only You can heal our brokenness.
Rejoicing with my precious friend, Billy Graham. Without a doubt, the finest man I ever knew. So grateful that I am among the millions that he led to faith in Jesus and the promise of eternal life.
There has been much debate through the years about when Jesus was actually born, but no matter when Jesus was born, we know that He was born to save us and to redeem the world. May we bow down and worship Him as the shepherds did on that very first Christmas morning !
Praying for the President and First Lady for healing and for all who are suffering so much from this horrific disease. And may God bless all those who are working so hard to care for them throughout the world.
May Your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even as we put our hope in You. Psalm 33:22. LORD, You are the God of all HOPE and we put our trust in You.
So thrilled for my sweet friend,
@JennaBushHager
. She will be a beautiful addition to this show that I have grown to love so much.
@hodakotb
is one blessed Hoda Mama.
Do not worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank Him for all He has done. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6–7. LORD, we give You praise today🙏🏻
I so appreciated the friendship between RBG and Justice Scalia. They set aside their differences to honor each other’s humanity. Their common ground became sacred ground. O, that we would learn to do the same.🙏🏻
A Christmas Eve prayer for you: He can bring joy out of your mourning. He can bring beauty from the ashes of your sorrow. He can make all things, yes everything new, for He is the God of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. May you know His JOY AND PEACE today. 🙏🏻
Asking for urgent prayer for a very precious young boy in need of a miracle. His name is Rye. No need for details but much need for PRAYERS. Bless you all and hold your children close.🙏🏻
I miss Regis every day. But this is a particularly difficult day as we remember this amazing man who would have been 91. Sending love to Joy and the rest of their family as they celebrate an extraordinary man and life.
Today would have been our wonderful friend Regis Philbin‘s 89th birthday. Sending heartfelt prayers and warmest wishes for peace and comfort to his beautiful family who miss him even more than we do🙏🏻
Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called. I Timothy 6:12 LORD, give us the strength we need to persevere on our journey. Hold us up by Your righteous right hand and deliver us from despair.🙏🏻
Friends, when life gets really difficult, don’t jump to the conclusion that God isn’t on the job. Instead be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner. 1 Peter 4:12-13 MSG
Hold on to my instructions, do not let them go; guard them well, for they are the key to life. Proverbs 4:1. LORD, we need Your wisdom to find our way. We need more faith to follow more closely, and we need help to stay the course and be faithful. Please, LORD.🙏🏻
I am heartbroken for our nation that is at war with one another. I am praying for President Trump to heal and praying for his family and for the families of the lost and the wounded. O LORD God, we pray for mercy that only You can provide.🙏🏻
Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. James 1:19 O, Sovereign God, we pray for this nation, that You will restore our Land and heal our hurting hearts. You are our Hope.🙏🏻
This is my message today. My heart is full of love for this precious child and the joy that he brings to everyone. When I sing to him, its as if he just left heaven and remembers. May we remember too. “ for God, so loved the world.“ happy Sunday, everyone!
George Floyd was God’s child. With his dying breath he cried out for mercy but received none. My heart is crying out for justice for his family, comfort for all who are suffering, and peace for this nation we all share. God, heal our broken hearts with YOUR unfailing love, I pray
Let God have all your worries and cares, for He is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you. 1 Peter 5:7. LORD, please help us to trust You today and everyday. You have this. You have us. Amen🙏🏻
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 LORD, we pray Your blessing over our nation. We pray Your mercy, and we pray Your healing.
Praise be to the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed Easter Everyone!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
As January comes to an end, I’m reflecting on all of the love and joy it brought. I’m so grateful for my beautiful family, your endless support, and of course, the grace the Lord has shown me. Can’t wait to see what God has got next. 🤍🙏🏻
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the LORD, the One Who is and was and is still to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8 HALLELUJAH
The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7 O LORD, help us to trust You in all things today.🙏🏻
Bittersweet news as my dear friend
@hodakotb
steps away from the Today Show. Her warmth, laughter, and incredible spirit have brightened our mornings and touched countless hearts. Here’s to new adventures! 🥂
I finally got to meet sweet little Frankie this weekend and the joy that filled my heart was indescribable! I couldn't help but sing to him, and I think he enjoyed it. Glory be to God! 🤍
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Let not your hearts be troubled. Do not be afraid. John 14:27. O LORD God, we pray that You will pour out Your Holy Spirit upon us with Your peace and Your justice and Your righteousness.🙏🏻
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all he has done. Phillipians 4:6. LORD, let us seek Your face and Your will today. We praise You and thank You for Your faithfulness to us. 🙏🏻
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Let not your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12. LORD, this is our prayer today and always. Please keep us mindful that it is impossible without Your help. We need You, LORD. Now more than ever!🙏🏻
The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. Exodus 14:14 O LORD, bless our nation today. Look down upon us with mercy and compassion, we pray. Guide us in Your truth and Your way.🙏🏻
When I am afraid, I will trust in You. In God, Whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. Psalm 56:3. LORD, You are the ROCK on which we stand. We will not be shaken.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart , and you will find rest for your souls. Matthew 11:28-29
O LORD Jesus, how we desperately need this rest that You promise us if
I love you, O LORD, my strength, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock in Whom I take refuge. He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, He is my stronghold. Psalm 18:1-2
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Isaiah 40:28-30
33 years ago, this beautiful man made his entrance into this world, & today he understands what love is. Frank & I have been so blessed to bring you into this world, Cody, & now we feel double blessed that you & Erika have brought Frankie into it. Happy birthday my beautiful son.
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. Matthew 6:34 MSG
One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek Him in His temple. Psalm 27:4
I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:1-4
Enter His gates with Thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:4-5 I pray God’s great blessings over all of you today🙏🏻
Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. Psalm 56:3. We have a choice today, LORD. We can live in fear, or we can live in faith. Please give us the gift of faith we all need in these frightening times..
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is come by Christ Jesus . Romans 3:23-24. I call today GLORIOUS FRIDAY, because it’s so much better than good!
I lift up my eyes to the hills-where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip-He Who watches over you will not slumber. Psalm 121:1-3
God is my strong fortress; and He sets the blameless in His way. He makes my feet like hinds’ feet and sets me on high places. 2 Samuel 22:33-34 LORD, let us look to You and You alone for our strength today.🙏🏻
Evening, morning, and noon I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice. Psalm 55:17. LORD, even David experienced the fear of the unknown, and You delivered him. You have not changed! Your faithful love endures forever!
Be anxious for nothing, but in all things, through prayer & petition & thanksgiving , let your requests be made known to God, & the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts & minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7. LORD, please give us Your strength!
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see Him with my own eyes. Job 19:25–27
Hard to imagine anything more thrilling in life than watching your children fall in love, marry their long, desired love, and then create the most perfect gift of all. Cassidy and Ben will be magnificent parents because they are magnificent human beings. I am rejoicing with them!
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34. Abba Father, Help us to trust You completely today
Praise be to God… The Father of compassion, and the God of all comfort, Who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the the comfort that we ourselves have received from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4😘
He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. Titus 3:5. O LORD, what an indescribable gift! We can’t begin to fathom the depth of it, but we praise You for Your love and grace and faithfulness.🙏🏻
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20
When I am afraid, I will trust in You. Psalm 56:3. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:12. God is our refuge and strength, an ever – present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1
Hi everybody. So sorry I have been out of commission for several weeks due to technical problems with my account. I am back now and looking forward to reconnecting with all of you. May God bless you, as we pray for peace in our world and in our own hearts. 🙏🏻🎶🐑
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Isaiah 5:20. LORD, please give us wisdom to choose wisely in these difficult days. 🙏🏻🎶🎼🐑🎹
As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him. 2 Samuel 22:31. LORD, all we can depend on is YOUR WORD. It is perfect because You are. Let us stake our very lives upon this truth today. Give us more faith please.🙏🏻
Cast all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7. LORD, please help us to trust You, truly trust You and leave our burdens at Your feet. 🙏🏻🐑
The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn His face toward you and give you peace.Numbers 6:24-26
Pray continually. 1 Thessalonians 517 LORD, quiet us in Your love. Help us to hear Your voice in the stillness of the world. Help us to trust You to heal our hearts and heal our land.🙏🏻
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Ephesians 6:13
When I am afraid, I will trust in You. Psalm 56:3. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:12. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in them and they in Him. And we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love and they who abide in love abide in God and God in them. 1 John 4:15–16