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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...

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. —Psalm 103:12 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Praise and thank God our Father. He doesn't just forgive our sins; he removes them from us completely! My Prayer... Loving and merciful Father and holy...

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...

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...

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...

Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and strong in faith. And many people were brought to the Lord. —Acts 11:24 NLT Key Thought Earlier in the book of Acts, we met Stephen, who was described as being "a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit" (Acts 6:5). Now Barnabas is...

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. —Proverbs 3:5-6 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Trust. It can't be half-hearted. Either it is a full trust or it is clouded with suspicion and...

"As I began to speak," Peter continued, "the Holy Spirit fell on [Cornelius and his household], just as he fell on us at the beginning. Then I thought of the Lord's words when he said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' And since God gave these Gentiles...

[Bless the LORD] who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. —Psalm 103:5 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... God is a God of renewal and blessing. His desire to renew and bless us is not just a desire to bless us once with our salvation. God...

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. —Romans 6:3-4...

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. —Proverbs 16:3 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... The real question behind this promise is very simple: How do I define success for my plans? The answer is very simple as well: bringing glory to God for his grace (see Eph...

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message [on Cornelius and his relatives and friends]. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. —Acts 10:44-45 NIV...

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. —Galatians 6:2 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... This is just another way of saying, "Love your neighbor as yourself!" Jesus came to bear our burdens and carry away the stain and pain of our sin. (Read Isaiah 53 for a powerful...