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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 01, 2025 **I take pleasure in God's standards in my inner being.** **- Romans 7:22 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Your spirit loves to serve God. Your flesh...not so much.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 02, 2025 **And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.** **- Romans 8:28 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **God can even take the bad things that happen to us and turn it around for something good.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 03, 2025 **He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.** **- Colossians 1:17 (New American Standard Bible (©1995))** **Jesus is the "glue" that holds the whole universe together. Without Him, there would be no "us."**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 04, 2025 **[By David.] The LORD is my light and my salvation. Who is there to fear? The LORD is my life's fortress. Who is there to be afraid of?** **- Psalm 27:1 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Fear disappears when you realize God is on your side.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 05, 2025 **Fear the LORD, you holy people who belong to Him. Those who fear Him are never in need.** **- Psalm 34:9 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Give God the respect due to Him and you will never find yourself begging.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 06, 2025 **My soul can say, 'The LORD is my lot [in life]. That is why I find hope in Him.'** **- Lamentations 3:24 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Those who make God their first priority will never be hopeless.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 07, 2025 No, these words are very near you. They're in your mouth and in your heart so that you will obey them. - Deuteronomy 30:14 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)) Keeping God's Word in you is the best way to stay holy.
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 08, 2025 **Listen to advice and accept discipline so that you may be wise the rest of your life.** **- Proverbs 19:20 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **None of us know everything so listening to others can only make you wiser.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 09, 2025 **Don't make rash promises, and don't be hasty in bringing matters before God. After all, God is in heaven, and you are here on earth. So let your words be few.** **- Ecclesiastes 5:2 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **Yes God wants you to talk to Him but remember to respect Him for Who He is.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 10, 2025 **I can't do anything on My own. As I listen [to the Father], I make My judgments. My judgments are right because I don't try to do what I want but what the One who sent Me wants.** **- John 5:30 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Just as Jesus got His marching orders from the Father, so should we get ours from Jesus.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 11, 2025 **Dear friends, now we are God's children. What we will be isn't completely clear yet. We do know that when Christ appears we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.** **- 1 John 3:2 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **We can only imagine what it will be like to be fully in His presence.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 12, 2025 **Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.** **- Psalm 19:14 (New American Standard Bible (©1995))** **Not only can God hear what you speak but He can hear your thoughts too...the devil cannot.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 13, 2025 **But if you are being led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.** **- Galatians 5:18 (International Standard Version (©2008))** **If you let the Holy Spirit guide your actions you will be in the will of God.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 14, 2025 **Be merciful as your Father is merciful.** **- Luke 6:36 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **If we were as merciful as we are judgmental more people would be drawn to Christ.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 15, 2025 **The Holy One has anointed you, so all of you have knowledge.** **- 1 John 2:20 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Worldly knowledge may have some value but what's truly important will be taught to you by the Holy Spirit.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 16, 2025 **Fight the good fight for the Christian faith. Take hold of everlasting life to which you were called and about which you made a good testimony in front of many witnesses.** **- 1 Timothy 6:12 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Nobody promised living for God would be easy but it's so worth it in the end!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 17, 2025 **It's not that I've already reached the goal or have already completed the course. But I run to win that which Jesus Christ has already won for me.** **- Philippians 3:12 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **None of us can claim to have reached perfection but we strive to be more like Jesus day by day.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 18, 2025 **He certainly has taken upon Himself our suffering and carried our sorrows, but we thought that God had wounded Him, beat Him, and punished Him.** **- Isaiah 53:4 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **If Jesus took our grief upon Himself why do we try to take it back?**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 19, 2025 **I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.** **- John 15:15 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **What better friend can we have then Jesus Himself?**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 20, 2025 **In His spiritual, holy nature He was declared the Son of God. This was shown in a powerful way when He came back to life.** **- Romans 1:4 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **When Jesus arose from the dead it proved once and for all that He truly is the Son of God. Happy Resurrection Day!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 21, 2025 **Afterward you may go and celebrate because of all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household. Remember to include the Levites and the foreigners living among you in the celebration.** **- Deuteronomy 26:11 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **When you really stop and think about all the good things God has given us, it makes you want to have a party!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 22, 2025 **You will be the LORD's holy people, as He promised you with an oath. He will do this if you obey the commands of the LORD your God and follow His directions. Then all the people in the world will see that you are the LORD's people, and they will be afraid of you.** **Deuteronomy 28:9-10 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **People can tell you are a believer not because you say so but by how you live.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 23, 2025 As high as the heavens are above the earth- that is how vast His mercy is toward those who fear Him. - Psalm 103:11 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)) Despite the fact that we don't deserve it His mercy toward us is without measure.
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 24, 2025 **Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, lie, and say all kinds of evil things about you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad because you have a great reward in heaven! The prophets who lived before you were persecuted in these ways.** **- Matthew 5:11-12 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **If you are truly a child of God you WILL have people say bad things about you. They did it to Jesus too and He was sinless.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 25, 2025 **Do not reject the discipline of the LORD, my son, and do not resent His warning, because the LORD warns the one He loves, even as a father warns a son with whom he is pleased.** **- Proverbs 3:11-12 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God only wants the best for you so be open to his correction.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 26, 2025 **Do not let mercy and truth leave you. Fasten them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.** **- Proverbs 3:3 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Just as God is always merciful and never lies so should we be also.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 27, 2025 **Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to Me again.** **- Revelation 3:3a (New Living Translation (©2007))** **Remember that joy you had when you first got saved? What happened to that? Go get it back!!!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 28, 2025 **...and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.** **- John 10:28 (New American Standard Bible (©1995))** **Once you've given your life over to Christ there's no power that can take you away from Him.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 29, 2025 **A person who doesn't love Me doesn't do what I say. I don't make up what you hear Me say. What I say comes from the Father who sent Me.** **- John 14:24 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **A person that truly loves Jesus automatically wants to serve Him without being forced.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - April 30, 2025 **Even though the LORD is high above, He sees humble people [close up], and He recognizes arrogant people from a distance.** **- Psalm 138:6 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God's presence rests most with those who remain humble.**