ISAIAH 55:8-9 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. THEME OF THE DAY. NOT ACCORDING TO OUR PLANS. Today’s scripture is one of those portions easy to give as…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Old Testament
PROVERBS 21:2 – Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. THEME OF THE DAY. A MATTER OF THE HEART. In the daily warfare Christians fight, the temptations leveled against us by the devil, the world, and our own lusts aim to get us to disobey God; to willfully say “no” to His…
LAMENTATIONS 3:22-23 –The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. THEME OF THE DAY. DID YOU RECOGNIZE THEM? How did you start your day? Did you roll out of bed, maybe bump the snooze button a few times before, then hit the day running with all…
PSALM 39:4 – “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! THEME OF THE DAY. A MUCH NEEDED PRAYER. Today’s nugget is starting out with the words of our Lord Jesus and a parable. The parable is titled, “The Parable of the Rich Fool.” It is hard-hitting and…
GENESIS 1:26-27 – Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in…
PSALM 130:5-6 – I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning. THEME OF THE DAY. AVOID IMPULSIVE AND EMOTIONAL DECISIONS. I have watched it happen too often. I have seen the devastating results when this occurs. I have…