The Word For You Today
You Are Loved and Highly Valued by God
Today’s Scriptures
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10
God Can Accelerate His Plan For Your Life
Today’s Scriptures
and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
John 2:10
Angels Watch Over You
Today’s Scriptures
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
Psalm 91:11
Your New Resurrection Body
Today’s Scriptures
But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
1 Corinthians 15:38
Embrace Your Disadvantages
Today’s Scriptures
And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.
Hebrews 11:32–34
The Ultimate Test of Your Discipleship
Today’s Scriptures
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
John 13:34–35
The Roles In Marriage
Today’s Scriptures
Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
“Support The Weak”
Today’s Scriptures
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts 20:35
Character Is What Counts
Today’s Scriptures
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7
Strengthening Your Marriage (1)
Today’s Scriptures
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Romans 12:10
You’re Walking A “Prepared” Path
Today’s Scriptures
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10
Be Careful What You Watch
Today’s Scriptures
I will be careful to lead a blameless life—when will you come to me?
I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart.
I will not look with approval on anything that is vile.
I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.Psalm 101:2–3
Become a Better Listener
Today’s Scriptures
You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger;
James 1:19
Peace that Defies Human Logic
Today’s Scriptures
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:4–7
Your Emotions Matter to God (2)
Today’s Scriptures
When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus began to weep.
John 11:32–35
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