Marsha Pope
Marsha Pope is a Registered Nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She is an intercessor at Mt. Zion Baptist Church under Bishop Joseph Warren Walker III. She is the Nashville area Sister Circle Leader for Wives in Waiting and most importantly, the mother of an amazing son.
She’s written for the Trumpet magazine and for Streaming Faith. Her passion for writing devotionals comes from a deep desire to encourage God’s people to press pass the pain and brokenness of their past and become the person God has destined them to be!
A Laborer of Light
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. In the same way they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine […] Read More >
Blinkers and Blinders
Take today’s next step: Join The Life and we’ll run the race together. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles us. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes […] Read More >
God’s Love is Not Heart-Shaped
Share this Devo on Facebook and Twitter: Jesus’ love didn’t give Him warm fuzzies on the cross. http://thelife.com/DailyDevotions/gods-love-is-not-heart-shaped #LifeDevo “Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” Colossians 3:13 Wouldn’t it be easy if we only had to forgive things we found ‘forgivable’? But […] Read More >
Justice Through the Gifts of Many
“At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.” 2 Corinthians 8:14-15 Have […] Read More >
Ready, Aim, Shoot!
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:5) During my early years as a nurse I worked nightshift at a local hospital in Nashville. In the wee hours of the morning we’d have […] Read More >
The Great I AM
“I AM THAT I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” Exodus 3:14 The Bible is replete with stories of those who faced what seemed like insurmountable circumstances. Each story is very different, but there is a common thread through them all—God proved His ability to […] Read More >
Thorn Ministry
Take today’s next step: Are you a writer? We are always on the lookout for new authors to add to our devotional writing team. Learn more and apply here. “To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to […] Read More >
Transforming Love
“And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high and how deep His love is. And to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:18-19. Fault In Our Stars is my favorite […] Read More >