Scripture: Isaiah 43:18-19 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. Thought for the Day: JaMarcus Russell was the #1 pick in the 2007 NFL Draft. He was chosen by the Raiders to be
Scripture: Ephesians 6:19-20 Pray also for me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak. Thought for the Day: I am both humbled and thankful for the number of people in the life of the
Scripture: Joel 2:12-13 Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing. Thought for the Day: When we have done something wrong, I don’t believe God
Scripture: Romans 5:2-6 We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God’s glory. But not only that! We even take pride in our problems, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope. This hope doesn’t put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in
Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12-13 Now in light of all that, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you? Only this: to revere the LORD your God by walking in all his ways, by loving him, by serving the LORD your God with all your heart and being, and by keeping the LORD’s commandments and his regulations that I’m commanding you right now. It’s for your own good!
Scripture: Proverbs 8:27-31 When the Lord established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside
Scripture: James 1:26-27 If those who claim devotion to God don’t control what they say, they mislead themselves. Their devotion is worthless. True devotion, the kind that is pure and faultless before God the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their difficulties and to keep the world from contaminating us. Thought for the Day: In the last three days, I have received emails, calls,
Scripture: Psalm 45:1 (the Message) My heart bursts its banks, spilling beauty and goodness. I pour it out in a poem to the king, shaping the river into words… Thought for the Day: I love the way the Message translates this verse, and though it goes on to speak about a royal bridegroom, it offers this metaphor of the banks bursting with beauty and goodness. I don’t want
Scripture: Romans 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Thought for the Day: I am attempting to write this devotional on my iPhone before it is drained of power. Like many of you, I remain without power. It is a good reminder at how spoiled we are, though it is important to remember those for whom electricity is crucial because of medical equipment or
Scripture: Psalm 42:4 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. Thought for the Day: In a time of difficulty and sadness, the author of the Psalm remembers back to a time when the Israelites gathered in the house