The Word For You Today
Prepare for the Next Phase
Today’s Scriptures
The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.
Proverbs 16:9
Get Back On Track
Today’s Scriptures
Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.
I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.Isaiah 43:18–19
Speak Life
Today’s Scriptures
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
Joel 3:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power.
Ephesians 6:10
but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
The Conquering Spirit
Today’s Scriptures
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4:8–9
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9
God Has A Plan For Your Life
Today’s Scriptures
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:1–10
You Have A Gift God Can Use
Today’s Scriptures
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
Romans 12:4–8
You Will Never Be Perfect Enough (3)
Today’s Scriptures
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:1–10
You Will Never Be Perfect Enough (2)
Today’s Scriptures
For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
Hebrews 10:14
You Will Never Be Perfect Enough (1)
Today’s Scriptures
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8–9
How Your Faith Can Produce Results (3)
Today’s Scriptures
In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
James 2:17
How Your Faith Can Produce Results (2)
Today’s Scriptures
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
Romans 12:3
How Your Faith Can Produce Results (1)
Today’s Scriptures
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1
The Bible and Your Investments (2)
Today’s Scriptures
The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down.
Proverbs 21:20
The Bible and Your Investments (1)
Today’s Scriptures
“After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.
Matthew 25:19
Encourage Someone Today
Today’s Scriptures
Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way;
say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come, he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution he will come to save you.”Isaiah 35:3–4
Love and Honor Your Wife
Today’s Scriptures
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ephesians 5:25
Get Up and Try Again
Today’s Scriptures
for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.
Proverbs 24:16
Be Prudent; Use Forethought
Today’s Scriptures
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 14:8
So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
James 1:19
The “Shadow” Cannot Hurt You
Today’s Scriptures
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil;
For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.Psalm 23:4
Advice for In-Laws
Today’s Scriptures
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24