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Daily Treasure

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Daily Treasure is a 365 day devotional read and written by Sharon Betters and the occasional guest author. Every entry in this 365 devotional embraces the power of God’s Word to encourage, equip and energize the reader to walk by faith in the pathway God has marked out for them, no matter how difficult. Each devotional includes a treasure from God’s Word, life giving applications, guided prayers and a challenge to reflect God’s love in a way that helps turn hearts toward Jesus.

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Journey to Easter - The Woman Caught in Adultery - Naked and Condemned - Week 2 Day 2

March 11, 2024 17:00 - 10 minutes - 7.43 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger in the dirt. They kept at him, badgering him. He straightened up and said, “The sinless one among you, go first: Throw the stone.” Bending down again, he wrote some more in the dirt. John 8:7, 8 MSG Support the Show.

Journey to Easter with the Women of the Resurrection - Week 2 Day 1

March 10, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.39 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!” His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when...

Journey to Easter - Unnamed Women, Servants of Jesus - Week 1 Day 7

March 09, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.93 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.  Luke 8:1-3 Support the show

Journey to Easter - Unnamed Women, The Woman at the Well - Week 1 Day 6

March 08, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.86 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” They went out of the town and were coming to him. John 4:28-30 Support the Show.

Journey to Easter - Unnamed Women, The Woman with the Issue of Blood - Week 1 Day 5

March 07, 2024 15:00 - 7 minutes - 4.93 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, p...

Journey to Easter with the Women of the Resurrection - Unnamed Women, The Crippled Woman, Part 2 - Week 1 Day 4

March 06, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.79 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this b...

Journey to Easter with the Women of the Resurrection - Unnamed Women, The Crippled Woman, Part 2

March 06, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.79 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this b...

Journey to Easter with the Women of the Resurrection - What Drew Women to Jesus? - Week 1 Day 2

March 05, 2024 18:00 - 8 minutes - 5.81 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  Galatians 3:28 Support the Show.

Journey to Easter with the Women of the Resurrection Women of the Resurrection

March 05, 2024 18:00 - 9 minutes - 6.4 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. Philippians 3:10 Support the show

Journey to Easter with the Women of the Resurrection Women of the Resurrection - Week 1 Day 1

March 05, 2024 18:00 - 9 minutes - 6.4 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. Philippians 3:10 Support the Show.

Journey to Easter with the Women of the Resurrection - Unnamed Women, The Crippled Woman

March 05, 2024 18:00 - 8 minutes - 6.16 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.  Luke 13:10-13 Support the show

Journey to Easter with the Women of the Resurrection - Unnamed Women, The Crippled Woman - Week 1 Day 3

March 05, 2024 18:00 - 8 minutes - 6.16 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.  Luke 13:10-13 Support the Show.

Journey to Easter with the Women of the Resurrection - What Drew Women to Jesus?

March 05, 2024 18:00 - 8 minutes - 5.81 MB

TODAY’S TREASURE There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  Galatians 3:28 Support the show

Desires and Disappointments: Deep Truths from Two Mentors - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 4 Day 7

March 02, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.46 MB

Today’s Treasure Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.   Consider Him who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you ...

The Power of Stories - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 3 Day 2

March 01, 2024 01:00 - 6 minutes - 4.26 MB

Today’s Treasure I who speak to you am he. John 4: 26 Support the Show.

The Origins of Relational Disappointment - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 4 Day 5

February 29, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.69 MB

Today’s Treasure Satisfy us in the morning with Your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:14 Support the Show.

The Motivational Power of Relational Desires - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 4 Day 4

February 28, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.41 MB

Today’s Treasure Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love,  love one another earnestly from a pure heart. 1 Peter 1:22 Support the Show.

Jesus, Our Relationship Redeemer - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 4 Day 3

February 27, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.26 MB

Today’s Treasure I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him,  he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:5 Support the Show.

Relationships: Worth the Trouble? - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 4 Day 1

February 26, 2024 21:00 - 4 minutes - 3.48 MB

Today’s Treasure For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 Support the Show.

Relationships and Desires: A Gift and a Trial - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 4 Day 2

February 26, 2024 21:00 - 7 minutes - 4.9 MB

Today’s Treasure Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us  and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:1-2 Support the Show.

An Untouchable Woman - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 3 Day 7

February 24, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.93 MB

Today’s Treasure Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean”. Mark 1:41 Support the Show.

An Unlikely Sister - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 3 Day 6

February 23, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.87 MB

Today’s Treasure I who speak to you am he. John 4:26 Support the Show.

A Desperate Patient - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 3 Day 5

February 22, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes - 4.93 MB

Today’s Treasure Daughter, your faith has made you well, go in peace, be healed. Mark 5:34 Support the Show.

My Good Neighbor’s Story - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 3 Day 4

February 21, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.15 MB

Today’s Treasure But he (the expert in the law) wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “…and who is my neighbor?” Luke 10:29 Support the Show.

A Woman’s Obituary- Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 3 Day 3

February 20, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.32 MB

Today’s Treasure Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. Matthew 26:13 Support the Show.

What’s Her Story? - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 3 Day 1

February 18, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.61 MB

Today’s Treasure We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. Psalm 78:4 Support the Show.

Promise, Peril, and Prayer - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 2 Day 7

February 17, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.7 MB

Today’s Treasure Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. Psalm 125:1 Support the Show.

Our Hurdles and Our Help - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 2 Day 6

February 16, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.74 MB

Today’s Treasure Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 124:8 Support the Show.

Upward-Focused and Downward-Pressed - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 2 Day 5

February 15, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.78 MB

Today’s Treasure To You I lift up my eyes, to You who are enthroned in the heavens!  Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the Lord our God, till He has mercy on us. Psalm 123:1-2 Support the Show.

Procession and Peace - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 2 Day 4

February 14, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.56 MB

Today’s Treasure I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Psalm 122:1 Support the Show.

Help and Helper - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 2 Day 3

February 13, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes - 4.95 MB

Today’s Treasure I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1 Support the Show.

Distress from Deceit and Desire for Peace - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 2 Day 2

February 12, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.64 MB

Today’s Treasure In my distress, I called to the Lord, and He answered me.  Psalm 120:1 Support the Show.

What She Said! - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 2 Day 1

February 11, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes - 3.11 MB

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While We Wait - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 1 Day 7

February 10, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.73 MB

Today’s Treasure One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!“ He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. “Where is your faith?” He asked his disciples. Luke...

We Are NOT Home Yet - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 1 Day 6

February 09, 2024 08:00 - 10 minutes - 6.95 MB

Today’s Treasure It is written: ‘I believed; therefore I have spoken’. Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away,...

Women, Where are Your Women? - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 1 Day 5

February 08, 2024 08:00 - 11 minutes - 7.64 MB

Today’s Treasure Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Ephesians: 2:19-22 Support the Show.

A Wise Woman Builds - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 1 Day 4

February 07, 2024 08:00 - 11 minutes - 7.64 MB

Today’s Treasure The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. Proverbs 14:1-3 Support the Show.

Home Is Where the Heart Is - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 1 Day 3

February 06, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 6.13 MB

Today’s Treasure Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. AND THAT IS WHAT SOME OF YOU WERE. BUT you were washed, you were sanctified, IN the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit of our God.  I Corinthians 6:9-11 (emphasis mine in all S...

That Started My Spiritual Journey - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 1 Day 2

February 05, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.82 MB

Today’s Treasure A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. Proverbs 25:11 Support the Show.

What She Said - Personal Stories & Words From The Heart - Week 1 Day 1

February 04, 2024 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.36 MB

Today’s Treasure Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Titus 2:3-5 Support the Show.

The Roots of Legacy - Treasures Along the Way - Week 5 Day 7

February 03, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.85 MB

Today’s Treasure And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’”  Joshua 4:21-22 One generation shall commend your works to another,  and shall declare your mighty acts.  Psalm 145:4 Support the Show.

Ancient Paths to Rest - Treasures Along the Way - Week 5 Day 6

February 02, 2024 08:00 - 10 minutes - 7.17 MB

Today’s Treasure God said, “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”, and “This is the place of repose” – but they would not listen.  So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:  “Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here; a little there – so that they will go and fall backward, be injured and snared and captured.”  Isaiah 28:12-13 Support the Show.

Treasures Along the Way, Part 2 - Treasures Along the Way - Week 5 Day 1

January 28, 2024 23:00 - 7 minutes - 4.94 MB

Today’s Treasure Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 Support the Show.

Mothering, A Marathon, Not a Sprint - Treasures Along the Way - Week 4 Day 7

January 27, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.75 MB

Today’s Treasure He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Isaiah 40:29 Support the Show.

Mommy's Gardenias and Almost Discarded People - Treasures Along the Way - Week 4 Day 6

January 26, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.86 MB

Today’s Treasure Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. For the Scriptures declare, “Rivers of living water will flow from the heart of anyone who believes in me.” John 7:37-38 NLT Support the Show.

From Worry to Watching - Treasures Along the Way - Week 4 Day 5

January 25, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.45 MB

Today’s Treasure Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.  Philippians 4:6-7 The Message Support the Show.

Treasures Along the Way, Part 2 - Treasures Along the Way - Week 4 Day 1

January 22, 2024 21:00 - 6 minutes - 4.8 MB

Today’s Treasure "So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime and write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you. Deuteronomy 27:2-3 Support the Show.

Cousins Camp, Part 2 - Treasures Along the Way - Week 3 Day 7

January 20, 2024 08:00 - 10 minutes - 7.52 MB

Today’s Treasure Know therefore that the Lord your God is God,  the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him  and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. Deuteronomy 7:9 Support the Show.

Cousins Camp, Scrapbooking and Those Yet Unborn - Treasures Along the Way - Week 3 Day 5

January 18, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.37 MB

Today’s Treasure Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. Psalm 78:1-4 Support the Show.

Security Blankets and Jesus - Treasures Along the Way - Week 3 Day 4

January 17, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes - 6.18 MB

Today’s Treasure For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.  He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:2-4 Sup...