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When Paul placed his hands on [the people he had just baptized], the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. —Acts 19:6 NIV Key Thought The Holy Spirit is a vital part of our conversion and a crucial part of our daily walk with God and our transformation into the...

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. —Jeremiah 6:16 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Temptation is a choice between the old path...

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." —Acts 19:1-2 NIV Key Thought...

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. —James 4:15 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... While I like to have choices, and I like to be responsible for my own decisions, I am truly thankful that God allows me to submit my life to his will and place my...

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. —Romans 8:35-37 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... More than...

[Paul and his companions on the second missionary journey] went to Phrygia, and then on through the region of Galatia. Their plan was to turn west into Asia province, but the Holy Spirit blocked that route. So they went to Mysia and tried to go north to Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus wouldn't...

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. —Romans 6:13 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... This long verse boils down to a very...

[The apostles and elders in Jerusalem writing to Gentile Christians:] "For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay no greater burden on you than these few requirements ..." —Acts 15:28 NLT Key Thought Acts 15 is a remarkable reminder of the power of the Holy Spirit to work within a...

[Peter, addressing the apostles and elders at the Council in Jerusalem:] "God knows people's hearts, and he confirmed that he accepts Gentiles by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us." —Acts 15:8 NLT Key Thought These words come from Peter's defense for taking the good news of...

And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. —Acts 13:52 NIV Key Thought The Holy Spirit's presence in God's people is accompanied by joy! Jesus was full of joy because of the Spirit (Luke 10:21), and the same is also true of his disciples (Romans 14:17; Galatians 5:22)...

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. —Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Jeremiah was telling God's people that 70 years after the devastation, God would deliver and restore them...

Saul, also known as Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he looked the sorcerer in the eye. Then he said, "You son of the devil, full of every sort of deceit and fraud, and enemy of all that is good! Will you never stop perverting the true ways of the Lord?" —Acts 13:9-10 NLT Key Thought...

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. —Isaiah 61:10 (KJV)...

Sent off on their new assignment by the Holy Spirit, Barnabas and Saul went down to Seleucia and caught a ship for Cyprus. —Acts 13:4 MESSAGE Key Thought We can be run off. We can be sent out. But the real yearning on most of our hearts is to be propelled into the next phase of our lives by...

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. —1 John 1:9 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Confessing our sins means that we view our sin the same way that God does — the same revulsion and disdain for them. This kind of...

I think if I had known all we would face, I couldn't have breathed. Except for one thing. God would be with us. The stone walls of the ancient castle had crumbled and the roof had long since fallen in. But instead of it being a place of desolation, lush plants had sprung up and sunlight...

While [the Christians in Antioch] were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." —Acts 13:2 NIV Key Thought Worship, whether individually in our daily lives or assembled with other Christians, should...

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? —Micah 6:8 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Sometimes what we need to do is very simple and plain, isn't it? I need to handle those around...

Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius). So the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to...

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you... —Matthew 7:7 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... God wants us to seek his blessings. This is not because he wants to manipulate our lives, but because he longs to bless us and have us know the...