The Word For You Today
Keep Your Sword Sharp
Today’s Scriptures
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
Day 41 Is Coming!
Today’s Scriptures
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
Luke 4:1-2
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
James 1:2-3
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 28:20
Become Willing To Change (4)
Today’s Scriptures
so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience
Colossians 1:10-11
Become Willing To Change (3)
Today’s Scriptures
Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.Psalm 139:23-24
Become Willing To Change (1)
Today’s Scriptures
Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.
1 Timothy 4:15
Command and teach these things. Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
1 Timothy 4:11-12
Go The Extra Mile
Today’s Scriptures
If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.
Matthew 5:41
Setting Prayer Traps
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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
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 4:23
Your Life Is A Letter (3)
Today’s Scriptures
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17
Your Life Is A Letter (2)
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And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:18
Don't Get Ahead Of God
Today’s Scriptures
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.Psalm 127:1
Out With The Old And In With The New!
Today’s Scriptures
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
Mark 2:22
Today, Use Your God-Given Power
Today’s Scriptures
Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Acts 1:6-8
You Are The Vessel, Not The Treasure
Today’s Scriptures
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
2 Corinthians 4:7
"Much More" or "Much Less"
Today’s Scriptures
If you, then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Matthew 7:11
You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it, so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have because you do not ask.
James 4:2
A Ministry Of Tears
Today’s Scriptures
Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.Psalm 126:6
You're Almost There!
Today’s Scriptures
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14
Tell Them While You Still Can
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Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24
To Be Used By God
Today’s Scriptures
You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
John 5:39-40
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Don't Let A Wall Build Up Between You
Today’s Scriptures
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:7