The Word For You Today
Practice Being Tender-Hearted
Today’s Scriptures
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32
Everybody Has A Thorn (2)
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Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:10-11
Everybody Has A Thorn (1)
Today’s Scriptures
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
2 Corinthians 12:7
God Can Keep You Together
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So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.
Matthew 19:6
Faith Equals Righteousness With God
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So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
Galatians 3:6
Intimacy, Dependency, Obedience (3)
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By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
John 5:30
Intimacy, Dependency, Obedience (2)
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Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.
John 5:19-20
Your Past Qualifies You As A Worshiper
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Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.
Luke 7:47
The Difference Between Abraham and Peter
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But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.”
Matthew 14:30
and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
Psalm 50:15
Are you Feeling Unqualified?
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Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.”
Nehemiah 2:20
The Importance Of Fellowship
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And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Acts 2:42
Prayer (2)
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And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Luke 18:1
Prayer (1)
Today’s Scriptures
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” And he said to them, “When you pray, say:
“Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread,
and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.”Luke 11:1-4
You Choose: Your Calling Or Your Comfort
Today’s Scriptures
Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 11:31
Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Psalm 84:5
God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places.
Habakkuk 3:19
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
Faithfulness
Today’s Scriptures
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
Matthew 25:23
Don't Give Place To Pride
Today’s Scriptures
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
2 Corinthians 3:5
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!Psalm 139:23-24
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
1 Corinthians 4:7
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 4:5
Keep Praying For Your Children
Today’s Scriptures
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 29:15
Getting Beyond It
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Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house.” The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Genesis 41:51-52
Only Jesus Can Satisfy Your Soul
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Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:13-14
Understanding Righteousness
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For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
Romans 3:20-21