Grateful for You & Survey Time

As I count my blessings this year, I’d like to take a moment to thank YOU and all of my lovely Readers, supporters and online community for staying with me on this faith journey!

It’s a joy and honor to share parts of my journey with you through my books, devotional articles, Miraculous Lovely blog, Abounding Faith for Today podcast, Abounding Faith’s YouTube channel, social media and more!

I’m grateful that I get to inspire, encourage and empower you as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and dare to live your God-given dreams!

I’m thrilled and in awe that God has used my writing and speaking to inspire:

  • Men and women of different backgrounds, ages and life stages
  • Christians working at the United Nations
  • Christian women entrepreneurs
  • Pastors
  • Pastors’ wives
  • Missionaries
  • Evangelists
  • Chaplains
  • Christian counselors
  • Sunday school teachers
  • Ministry leaders
  • Women living in shelters
  • Nursing home residents
  • Longtime Christians and people just starting out on their Christian walk

If my writing and speaking have encouraged and inspired you, I’d love to know.

I’m praying and planning for next year and beyond. I’d really appreciate your help.

Would you take a moment to fill out my quick Reader Survey?

I value your thoughts and would love to hear what is really blessing you and what you’d like to see more of in 2026 and beyond.

This short survey will be live until Friday, December 5th. Here is the link.

Your feedback is important to me.

Please fill out this brief survey by Friday, December 5, 2025.

Thanks for your prayers and support as I continue to live out God’s call on my life in this season.

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November Date for ODB Devotional Article – Nancy Gavilanes’ 25th Overall

My 25th devotional article is appearing in the Our Daily Bread devotional this Friday, November 21  🙌

It’s my 14th devotional article for ODB for 2025  🙌

Please be on the lookout for my article in print or on Our Daily Bread Ministries’ website, app, podcast, YouTube channel or social media.

If you’re encouraged by my article, please feel free to say hi on Abounding Faith’s social media.

If you receive the monthly printed Our Daily Bread devotional, I’d love to know!

Please feel free to share the article with others who could use some encouragement.

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NEW Podcast Episode – Reaching the Nations, Nancy Gavilanes

I’m in AWE of how God is using my work to touch the nations.

I’m sharing a few glimpses in Episode 78 of the Abounding Faith for Today podcast and encouraging you to reach the nations as well.

You can read the accompanying blog post here.

This encouraging podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts.

Please take a moment to subscribe to the uplifting Abounding Faith for Today podcast so you don’t miss an episode, leave a kind rating and review and tell your friends about this podcast.

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Reaching the Nations – Nancy Gavilanes

Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.” (Psalm 2:8)

As a native New Yorker, I’ve been surrounded by people from different cultures since I can remember.

As a teen, I became fascinated when the world came together for the Olympics.

If you know my story, you know God called me to follow Him while I was living my dream of going to an Olympics as a reporter and spectator.

Amazingly, God allowed me to go a Summer and Winter Games. What a thrill to be surrounded by people from all over the globe as they came together to watch the best athletes in the world participate in friendly but fierce competition.

Even after God called me to lay down my obsession with elite athletes and my journalism career, I soon realized I still have a heart for the nations.

God called me to follow Him during one amazing week in Sydney Australia.

God called me to be an evangelist a few years later while in Israel.

Even after all these years, I still love when the nations come together to pray and worship Jesus!

What an honor to serve as a Prayer Counselor at a Billy Graham Crusade and Luis Palau Festival!

How wonderful to have gone on 5 short-term missions trips to 5 countries!

What a blessing to be part of multicultural churches where the nations are represented!

God loves the nations. Jesus died for the world. – “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” (John 3:16 – 17 NIV)

God’s family is international – “After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.” (Revelation 7:9 NIV)

We are one in Christ. – “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28 NIV)

I’m in awe at how God is allowing me to reach the nations to encourage people as they walk by abounding faith, hope and love and dare to live their God-given dreams!

I’m so grateful that my Readers are women and men of different backgrounds, ages and life stages.

I’m thrilled that my books and writing and my online speaking can go further and faster than I ever could and I’ve been to 6 out of the 7 continents.

Here’s just a glimpse of how God is using my work to touch the nations:

Our Daily Bread Author – The Our Daily Bread devotional is translated into more than 50 languages and is available worldwide in print and online. I’m told my devotional articles seem to be very popular across the globe. Only God could do that! You can read my past devotional articles here. Learn more at ODBM.org

United Nations – I recently got to speak (remotely) for the third time to a lovely group of Christians working at the United Nations. The countries that were represented this time included:

✨ Canada

✨ Colombia

✨ Ethiopia

✨ Ghana

✨ Haiti

✨ Kenya

✨ Mauritius

✨ Scotland

✨ Uganda

✨ Zimbabwe

Abounding Faith’s Books – My books are available worldwide via Amazon.

As of last count, my Readers are in:

✨ 16 States

✨ 10 Countries (Outside of the U.S.)

✨ 5 Continents

Social Media – Abounding Faith is on Instagram, Facebook, X and YouTube. So far, people from various countries outside of the United States have checked out my sites including those in:

✨ Canada

✨ India

✨ Philippines

✨ United Kingdom

Abounding Faith for Today Podcast – This empowering podcast that’s available wherever you listen to podcasts has reached listeners in 31 countries including:

✨ Australia

✨ Canada

✨ Germany

✨ Mexico

✨ United Kingdom

Bible School Instructor – One Summer I had a student join us online all the way from Taiwan!

Thank you for your prayers and for staying on this faith journey with me!

You can learn more about my work on my website AboundingFaith.com and here on my Miraculous Lovely blog.

If you’d like to show your support for the work I’m doing in this season, here are some great ways to do so:

  • Follow Abounding Faith on social media and like, comment and share posts
  • Buy Abounding Faith’s books for you and yours on Amazon
  • Buy me 1, 2 or more virtual coffees at https://buymeacoffee.com/aboundingfaith
  • Join Abounding Faith’s Email Community here
  • Join Abounding Faith’s Dream Team on Patreon
  • Invite me to speak to your group (remotely) or on your podcast

Thanks for helping to spread the word about the work God has called me to do in this season! (I’m holding 7 books in this picture).

There’s more to come. Please stay tuned!

I plan to continue writing and speaking as long as God keeps giving me something to say.

To God be the Glory!

“Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’” (Matthew 28:18-20 NIV)

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Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.®

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