Bible Verse for Today

Encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
— 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...While Paul's exhortation here is excellent, it is the style of the exhortation we should especially notice. We live in an age where we are constantly pressured to emphasize the novel, new, or improved versions of things. But in our lives as Christians, our knowledge always exceeds our obedience. So more often than we like to think, we need to remind...

 

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.
— 1 Chronicles 29:11 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...Praise is the direct address of God that lets him know we recognize him for who he is, what he has done, and what he is doing. But more than informing God of his greatness, praise is rejoicing before him in his greatness and...

 

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
— Proverbs 15:1 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...Why is it so hard to endure an unjust or unfair criticism? Why do we always have to defend ourselves no matter how ridiculous the charge? Often the problems we have with others simply escalate because we do not choose to forgive and let them go on in the Lord!

My Prayer...Precious and Holy God, help me more carefully guard my speech from things you despise, especially...

 

Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
— Hebrews 9:28 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...Who are you waiting for? Can you think of anything more exciting than to wait for Jesus to come take us home in his glory!My Prayer...Majestic King of the Ages, may your Kingdom come in all its fullness and every knee bow to your Savior, and may you grant that it may...

 

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride, beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
— Revelation...

 

The Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
— 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...What do you have that is forever? Most of everything we have falls apart, breaks, or runs...

 

In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?
— Psalm 56:4 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...One of the powerful things about having a Bible, a repository of God's words, is that its age and varied countries and cultures remind us how enduring God's truth actually is. Yet it is God in whom we put our trust! His enduring presence through cultures, centuries, and countries reminds us that eternity is outside our grasp but the Eternal One...

 

From everlasting to everlasting the Lord's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness.
— Psalm 103:17-18 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...Forever love is talked about in dime store novels, but only found in God. We tap that reservoir of eternal and divine love through the Holy Spirit who helps us both receive it and share it.My Prayer...Everlasting Father, may your love fill your people so the world may know we are Jesus' disciples. Through him I pray...

 

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
— Romans 12:15 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...We are not alone. God has given us each other to live our lives for him and get us back home to him. Along the way, we want to share each other's burdens, soar on each other's joys, and love each other's hurts. There is no such thing as a solo Christian.My Prayer...Loving Father, lead me to the people today who need their burdens lifted and their joys shared. Let me be your...

 

I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given to me -- the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.
— Acts 20:24 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...How important is grace? Paul said that telling about that grace was more important to him than his life! In fact, that was his life after his conversion to Jesus!My Prayer...Almighty God, Holy Father, thank you for your lavish grace demonstrated and fully...