Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 01, 2023 **...and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it."** **- Isaiah 30:21 (World English Bible)** **We say we want God to lead us in the way we should go but are we quiet enough in our souls to be able to hear His Spirit leading us? Or do we let the cares of this world drown out His voice? Maybe if we slow down and take time to listen…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 02, 2023 **Be in Me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in Me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without Me you are able to do nothing. - John 15:4-5 (Bible In Basic English)** **We must constantly remain connected to Jesus if we're to produce the…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 03, 2023 **Don't you know that your body is a temple that belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom you received from God, lives in you. You don't belong to yourselves. You were bought for a price. So bring glory to God in the way you use your body.** **- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (GWT® (©1995))** **God considers your body His "house." What are you doing with "His house?" What are you letting into "His house?" Don't you dare use "His…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 04, 2023 **And He said, "My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest."** **- Exodus 33:14 (New American Standard Bible (©1995))** **Feeling stressed out? Find rest in God's presence. Worship Him and put all your worries on His shoulders...He can handle it.**
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 05, 2023 **You, O Lord, are good and forgiving, full of mercy toward everyone who calls out to you.** **- Psalm 86:5 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **This is pretty different than the way a lot of people think about the nature of God. Many think God is stooped over His throne watching us like a hawk for any opportunity to strike us with lightning at the slightest mistake. Don't compare the heavenly Father with any other earthly…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 06, 2023 **He has not treated us as we deserve for our sins or paid us back for our wrongs. As high as the heavens are above the earth- that is how vast His mercy is toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west- that is how far He has removed our rebellious acts from Himself. As a father has compassion for his children, so the LORD has compassion for those who fear Him.** **-Psalm 103:10-13 (GOD'S WORD® Translation…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 07, 2023 **Then Samuel said, "Is the LORD as delighted with burnt offerings and sacrifices as he would be with your obedience? To follow instructions is better than to sacrifice. To obey is better than sacrificing the fat of rams.** **- 1 Samuel 15:22 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **You can't perform some rituals to make God forget that you haven't done what He has asked you to do. Obey God fully and don't try to pacify Him by doing…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 08, 2023 **since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them or perhaps maintain their innocence--** **- Romans 2:15 (Weymouth New Testament)** **All of us whether saved or not have a conscience that tells us if we are doing right or wrong. Maybe the Bible doesn't…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 09, 2023 **With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah - Psalm 62:7-8 (World English Bible)** **In God is One that we can freely tell our innermost desires and hopes and dreams. He is our Daddy and we should be able to feel like we can jump up on His lap and tell Him anything. You can feel safe…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 10, 2023 **You spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. You were promiscuous, had sinful desires, got drunk, went to wild parties, and took part in the forbidden worship of false gods. Unbelievers insult you now because they are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of wild living. They will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead. - 1 Peter 4:3-5 (GOD'S WORD®…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 11, 2023 **A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good; and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.** **- Luke 6:45 (Weymouth New Testament)** **Anyone can make the claim that they are a good person (and most do!) but just listen to them talk for a while in a situation where they aren't trying to impress anybody for their so-called holiness…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 12, 2023 **Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Whatever happens, give thanks, because it is God's will in Christ Jesus that you do this. Don't put out the Spirit's fire. Don't despise what God has revealed. Instead, test everything. Hold on to what is good. Keep away from every kind of evil.** **- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-22 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **What does a Christian look like? This Scripture pretty much says it all.**
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 13, 2023 **We love him, because he first loved us.** **- 1 John 4:19 (King James Version)** **Before you were even born...** **Before you were even foreseen to come by your parents...** **Before the foundations of the earth was established...** **God loved you.** **Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world! (Revelation 13:8)**
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 14, 2023 **For the LORD will not forsake his people for His great name's sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you His people.** **- 1 Samuel 12 :22 (American King James Version)** **All of us who are saved were all selected by God to be His. It's possible (God forbid) that we can reject Him but He will never reject us because that's just the kind of God He is. No matter how bad we mess up, He will not change His mind about us. We…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 15, 2023 **But He said to me, `My kindness and strength is enough for you. When you are weak, My power is strong.' So then, I am very glad to talk about how weak I am so that the power of Christ may live in me.** **- 2 Corinthians 12:9 (Worldwide English (New Testament))** **God doesn't want to use people who think they are so talented and have it all together. No, He rather use those who know that without Him they can do nothing right.…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 16, 2023 **At the same time the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we don't know how to pray for what we need. But the Spirit intercedes along with our groans that cannot be expressed in words.** **-Romans 8:26 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Even in prayer we need to lean on the Holy Spirit's help to lead us in talking to God. Jesus Himself always walked around in the "power of the Spirit" and He is our greatest example.…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 17, 2023 **How precious are your thoughts concerning me, O God! How vast in number they are! If I try to count them, there would be more of them than there are grains of sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.** **- Psalm 138:17-18 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God loves us so much that He can't get us out of His mind. He is constantly thinking about you and me. Imagine that...the God that created everything in the entire…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 18, 2023 **In every way we're troubled, but we aren't crushed by our troubles. We're frustrated, but we don't give up. We're persecuted, but we're not abandoned. We're captured, but we're not killed. We always carry around the death of Jesus in our bodies so that the life of Jesus is also shown in our bodies. While we are alive, we are constantly handed over to death for Jesus' sake so that the life of Jesus is also shown in our mortal…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 19, 2023 **Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? Put your hope in God, for I will again give Him praise who is my help and my God.** **- Psalm 43:5 (Bible in Basic English)** **We all get sad and depressed from time to time but this verse encourages us to believe that God will give us the help we need as we praise Him.**
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 20, 2023 **By mercy and faithfulness, peace is made with the LORD. By the fear of the LORD, evil is avoided.** **- Proverbs 16:6 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Often times the reason why men can so easily sin with such audacity is that they lack the fear of the Lord. Yes God is Love but he is also the Righteous Judge who will absolutely NOT tolerate sin in His presence. It says in Hebrews 12:29, "For our God is a consuming fire." You…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 21, 2023 **My dear friends, you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I'm absent. In the same way continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. It is God who produces in you the desires and actions that please him.** **- Philippians 2:12-13 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Your Mama can't stand in your place before God to plead for you. Neither can your Dad, your friends, not even your…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 22, 2023 **As Scripture says, "Whoever brags must brag about what the Lord has done."** **1 Corinthians 1:31 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Instead of talking about how great you are or your accomplishments, tell people how great God is and all the things He has done!**
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 23, 2023 **Let your eyes look straight ahead and your sight be focused in front of you. Carefully walk a straight path, and all your ways will be secure. Do not lean to the right or to the left. Walk away from evil.** **- Proverbs 4:25-27 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **The enemy will do his very best to keep you distracted from the path God has for you using the things of this world. He's not a stupid devil...he has had thousands of…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 24, 2023 **"So I will acknowledge in front of My Father in Heaven that person who acknowledges Me in front of others. But I will tell My Father in Heaven that I don't know the person who tells others that he doesn't know Me."** **- Matthew 10:32-33 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Do you want Jesus to brag about you? Brag about Him!**
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 25, 2023 **Don't put out the Spirit's fire.** **- 1 Thessalonians 5:19 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **You may say, but the Holy Spirit is God so how can you stop God Himself? Listen...God doesn't work FOR you, but rather He works THROUGH you. If you don't want to get up and move when He tells you to, you are literally binding His hands. But when you do this you are grieving Him tremendously. We are Jesus' hands and feet on the earth.…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 26, 2023 **But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you, and persecute you; That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. - Matthew 5:44-45 (American KJV))** **God doesn't only do good to those who deserve it. He does good to all…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 27, 2023 **However, the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you everything. He will remind you of everything that I have ever told you.** **- John 14:26 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **The Holy Spirit isn't some ghost that floats around just watching us doing nothing. No, He is God Himself just as much as Jesus walking the earth always was and is. He is here to help us, to teach us and to help us…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 28, 2023 **For a short time our fathers disciplined us as they thought best. Yet, God disciplines us for our own good so that we can become holy like him.** **- Romans 12:10 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **A lot of times God lets us go "through the fire" so to speak in order that the impure desires within us will burn off. It doesn't feel good while we're going through it but in the end we will become more like Him.**
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 29, 2023 **As everyone dies because of Adam, so also everyone will be made alive because of Christ. This will happen to each person in his own turn. Christ is the first, then at his coming, those who belong to him will be made alive.** **- 1 Corinthians 15:22-23 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Since the beginning of mankind we have all had to experience death because of the sin of Adam. The good thing however is that a second Adam…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 30, 2023 **He has not treated us as we deserve for our sins or paid us back for our wrongs. As high as the heavens are above the earth- that is how vast his mercy is toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west- that is how far he has removed our rebellious acts from himself. As a father has compassion for his children, so the LORD has compassion for those who fear him. - Psalm 103:10-13 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))**…
Scripture Thought Of The Day - May 31, 2023 **But dedicate your lives to Christ as Lord. Always be ready to defend your confidence [in God] when anyone asks you to explain it. However, make your defense with gentleness and respect. - 1 Peter 3:15 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **There are many Christians who in their excitement about the Lord are way too aggressive in their witness and come across as arrogant which completely turns people off. To those who had truly…
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