Bible Verse for Today

Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.

— Psalm 119:133 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

God's word is a light to our dark path in a morally uncertain world. It must be our standard for right and wrong, righteousness and evil. As God's will and Word have sway in our life, we are delivered from all sorts of destructive practices that can ruin our lives.My Prayer...

Great and Almighty God, who raises the dead and restores the fallen, make my...

 

And anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

— Matthew 10:38-39 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

Jesus wants us to seriously look into our hearts and surrender those things that hold us back from fully following and serving him. We know what they are. He comes to us with his now nail-scarred hands and reminds us that he gave up everything to redeem us. He...

 

The lips of the righteous know what is fitting, but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse.

— Proverbs 10:32 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

How many times have you said just the "wrong" thing? For me, it is more often than I would like to recall. Jesus' words on this topic are indeed convicting to me: "Out of the abundance of the heart does the mouth speak." In other words, poor words and bad timing in our speech are more issues of our heart than issues of social...

 

Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

— Psalm 23:6 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

God is our Shepherd. Our destiny is tied to his goodness and mercy which he longs to shower upon us until he brings us home to dwell with him forever. My Prayer...

Father God, please bathe my heart in your goodness and reach through me and my influence to extend your love to others. Make my heart and hope...

 

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

— Psalm 23:5 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

While the enemy of the righteous may flourish for a season, God will lavish his love and show his favor on the righteous. As the apostle Paul reminded his dear friends in Philippi, their prayers and the work of the Holy Spirit guaranteed his deliverance: he would either be delivered from prison and death to serve them, or...

 

What the wicked dreads will overtake him; what the righteous desire will be granted.

— Proverbs 10:24 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

The wicked fear the triumph of goodness, holiness, and righteousness. They fear not being in control. They fear death's overtaking them. The righteous desire the triumph of goodness, holiness, and righteousness. They offer their lives to be controlled by the Holy Spirit of God. They recognize death is an enemy, but one that has been conquered...

 

Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."

— Luke 9:23 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

Offering ourselves to God isn't easy because it means we must first die to our own selfish will. Like Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane, we face our own cross and must cry out, "Not my will, dear Father, but your will be done!"My Prayer...

Dear Father, thank you for sending Jesus as my Savior. Lord...

 

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God -- this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is -- his good, pleasing and perfect will.

— Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

The motivation for our holiness is God's incredible mercy...

 

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

— Romans 8:23 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

The Holy Spirit, who lives in us, is our guarantee of a greater glory that is to come (cf. 2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5). The Spirit is the firstfruits of that glory that is to be revealed in us (cf. Rom. 8:18). Our current state is only a foretaste of what lies ahead for us; we...

 

[Jesus said] "Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."

— John 14:21 (NIV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

Love is much more than a feeling or an attitude: love is an action. When we love, we show it by our deeds. As disciples of Jesus, our love is shown by our obedience to the things Jesus taught. Of course, that obedience brings an incredible blessing -- Jesus...