The Word For You Today
Your Emotions Matter to God (1)
Today’s Scriptures
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 4:15
Don’t Speak too Quickly
Today’s Scriptures
Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.
Proverbs 29:20
And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord’s, to be offered up by me as a burnt offering.”
Judges 11:30–31
Submit to “Spirit Control”
Today’s Scriptures
Like a city breached, without walls, is one who lacks self-control.
Proverbs 25:28
A Prayer for Deliverance from Addiction
Today’s Scriptures
So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—
Romans 8:12
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:19–20
The Benefits of True Friendship
Today’s Scriptures
Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another.
Proverbs 27:17
A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.
Proverbs 17:17
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.
Proverbs 13:20
And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,
Hebrews 10:24
How to Get off the Treadmill
Today’s Scriptures
I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.Psalm 40:1–2
A Relationship Governed by Rules
Today’s Scriptures
But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.
James 1:25
God Wants to Work Through You (3)
Today’s Scriptures
For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.”
2 Chronicles 16:9
God Wants to Work Through You (2)
Today’s Scriptures
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
John 20:21
Seven Worry-Conquering Scriptures
Today’s Scriptures
Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7
Create a Peaceful Atmosphere
Today’s Scriptures
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:15–17
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