Bible Verse for Today

[The Lord says] "Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."
— Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...Fear saps our will power and leaves us feeling depleted and hopeless. Yet very few of us have ever experienced a defeat so complete and bitter as the one God's people faced when Isaiah shared this message of hope. The preservation of Israel through their horrors to...

 

I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws.
— Psalm 119:7 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...Praise is integrally connected with our character. So for us to worship God, the intent of our hearts and the effort of our lives must show the determined desire to know and live his will. While we will never do this perfectly, grace covers us as we seek to live for his glory. But that grace must never be used as a pretense to excuse spiritual laziness or intentional...

 

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes.
— Romans 1:16 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...For the rich and poor, young and old, weak and strong, thin and heavy, there is still just one message and one name and one story that makes the eternal difference. That one message, story, and name are announced in the gospel -- God's good news to the world in Jesus Christ. God's good news of life in the story of Jesus Christ is The...

 

In Christ, all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
— Colossians 2:9-10 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...If you had known Jesus' address in Nazareth along about A.D. 20, you could have gone to that house and said, "God lives here!" While the doctrine of Jesus being fully God and fully man -- fully God yet having emptied himself of all of his divine privilege (Phil. 2:5-7) -- is...

 

Get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
— James 1:21 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...Isn't it true! When we find ourselves caught in the clutches of the moral filth of our culture, we find the Word of God boring and irrelevant. Yet even in those moments when Satan uses sin to harden our hearts, God's Spirit calls us to change at a level deeper than just the mere understanding of the words of...

 

[Jesus said] "If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love."
— John 15:10 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...Love is not just a feeling. Love is action. For believers, the action that most shows our love for Jesus is for us to be obedient to his words, his will, and his example.

My Prayer...Father, thank you for showing your love in Jesus. Thank you Jesus for showing us how to love our Father by obeying his will...

 

God exalted him [Jesus] to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
— Philippians 2:9-11 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...When Jesus is exalted, when his name is praised and his glory confessed, God is honored and blessed. Praise be the glorious name of Jesus of Nazareth, our great...

 

Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
— Matthew 4:4 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...Like Esau, we get so diverted by the mundane things of life and the growling of our bellies, we forget the longer range view of things. God's Word, his written Word the Bible, his demonstrated Word in Jesus, and his proclaimed Word in the Gospel are what can sustain us eternally. This is the living bread we seek.

My...

 

Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
— Jeremiah 32:17 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...In the immense expanse of our universe, with its billions upon billions of stars, where our own tiny blue planet is but a small speck of sand on an inestimable seashore, God knows us each personally. Such knowledge it too wonderful to be true, and yet it is! God has shown us his love in Jesus to remind us...

 

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
— Philippians 1:6 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...God finished his creation work in the world in 6 days. He sustains it with his powerful word. He is still working on us and in us and he will continue to work his will in us to his glory (see Philippians 2:12-13) until Christ comes to take us home!

My Prayer...Thank you Father, for being at work in my life. I confess that at times you seem...