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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 01, 2025 **Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.** **- Ephesians 4:29 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **Words can build up and words can destroy. Use that power wisely.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 02, 2025 **Don't give the devil any opportunity [to work].** **- Ephesians 4:27 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Our enemy doesn't sleep so keep yourself clean of all worldliness.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 03, 2025 **Whoever wants to be most important among you will be a slave for everyone.** **- Mark 10:44 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **The best leader is the best servant. We need more humility!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 04, 2025 **"A servant cannot serve two masters. He will hate the first master and love the second, or he will be devoted to the first and despise the second. You cannot serve God and wealth."** **- Luke 16:13 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God is a jealous God. He must always take first priority.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 05, 2025 **We have all strayed like sheep. Each one of us has turned to go his own way, and the LORD has laid all our sins on Him.** **- Isaiah 53:6 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **All the punishment that we deserved was put on Jesus. Oh how He loves us.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 06, 2025 **Certainly, all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's children.** **- Romans 8:14 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **All believers have available to them the power to be led by the Holy Spirit.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 07, 2025 **You gave them Your good Spirit to teach them. You didn't keep your manna to Yourself. You gave them water to quench their thirst.** **-Nehemiah 9:20 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God makes provisions for our needs even when it looks impossible.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 08, 2025 **As all of us reflect the Lord's glory with faces that are not covered with veils, we are being changed into his image with ever-increasing glory. This comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.** **- 2 Corinthians 3:18 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **You know you are growing spiritually when you look more like Jesus.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 09, 2025 **For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.** **- 2 Corinthians 4:6 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **If you want God's glory then seek the face of Jesus.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 10, 2025 **Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God.** **- 2 Corinthians 7:1 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **Yes we are saved by grace but we still need to strive to live holy.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 11, 2025 **Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.** **- Galatians 6:8 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **Feed the flesh...it gets stronger. Feed the spirit...it gets stronger. Get it?**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 12, 2025 **So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.** **- Galatians 6:9 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **It's never pointless to live holy. You may not see the reward right now but it will come.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 13, 2025 **Wait calmly for God alone, my soul, because my hope comes from him.** **- Psalm 62:5 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **After you've done all you can trust God to help with the rest.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 14, 2025 **Blessed are those who find strength in You. Their hearts are on the road [that leads to You].** **- Psalm 84:5 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **In times of weakness turn to the Lord to empower you.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 15, 2025 **Blessed is the one who is always fearful [of sin], but whoever is hard-hearted falls into disaster.** **- Proverbs 28:14 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Not only is it a good idea to keep from sinning because it displeases God but you avoid much trouble by doing so.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 16, 2025 **Look! God is my Savior. I am confident and unafraid, because the LORD is my strength and my song. He is my Savior."** **- Isaiah 12:2 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Christians are bold because they know God will help them through any situation.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 17, 2025 **He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like His own, using the same power with which He will bring everything under His control.** **- Philippians 3:21 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **All pain and physical suffering will be remembered no more once Christ gives us our glorified bodies.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 18, 2025 **Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: "Death is swallowed up in victory.** **- 1 Corinthians 15:54 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **The curse of death will one day no longer claim any believer in Christ.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 19, 2025 **As everyone dies because of Adam, so also everyone will be made alive because of Christ.** **- 1 Corinthians 12:22 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **In Christ we have the assurance that we will again see believers who have passed on before us.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 20, 2025 **No weapon that has been made to be used against you will succeed. You will have an answer for anyone who accuses you. This is the inheritance of the LORD's servants. Their victory comes from me," declares the LORD.** **- Isaiah 54:17 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **The Word of God cancels the devils plans against you.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 21, 2025 **But if God's Spirit lives in you, you are under the control of your spiritual nature, not your corrupt nature. Whoever doesn't have the Spirit of Christ doesn't belong to him.** **- Romans 8:9 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Who will you let control your actions? Your sinful flesh or the Holy Spirit?**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 22, 2025 **Examine yourselves to see whether you are still in the Christian faith. Test yourselves! Don't you recognize that you are people in whom Jesus Christ lives? Could it be that you're failing the test?** **- 2 Corinthians 13:5 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **It's so easy to go through the motions of religious rituals but do you have the real faith that is demonstrated in the Bible?**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 23, 2025 **Can God's temple contain false gods? Clearly, we are the temple of the living God. As God said, "I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be My people."** **- 2 Corinthians 6:16 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God doesn't want to stop by for a visit. He wants to live with you 24 hours a day and seven days a week! Not just on Sunday!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 24, 2025 **In Him all the parts of the building fit together and grow into a holy temple in the Lord.** **- Ephesians 2:21 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **We are individuals but unified believers is where God wants to live, not in a physical building.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 25, 2025 **I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, "Look, God's home is now among His people! He will live with them, and they will be His people. God Himself will be with them.** **- Revelation 21:3 (New Living Translation (©2007))** **God's ultimate goal for us is to be with Him forever.**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 26, 2025 **In the morning, O LORD, hear my voice. In the morning I lay my needs in front of you, and I wait.** **- Psalm 5:3 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **Jesus always prayed early in the morning. If the Son of God needed to do that, then...**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 28, 2025 **For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;** **- 2 Corinthians 5:14 (Darby Bible Translation)** **Christ's love for us pushed Him to endure the pain He suffered for us. Should we not do our best to live for Him since He died for us?**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 29, 2025 **Trust the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.** **- Proverbs 3:5 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God sees the past, present and future all at once so He knows what's going on. TRUST HIM!**
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Scripture Thought Of The Day - June 30, 2025 **I led them with cords of human kindness, with ropes of love. I removed the yokes from their necks. I bent down and fed them.** **- Hosea 11:4 (GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995))** **God has taken care of us so many times when we didn't even realize it was Him.**