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This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit. —Matthew 1:18 NLT Key Thought While we try to understand how the Spirit of...

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. —Romans 15:13 NIV Key Thought We live in the overflow of God's grace. David said it well in Psalm 23, "my cup overflows." Because of the Spirit's...

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. —1 Corinthians 15:58 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... The Stock Market can be fickle. Friends can disappoint you . Nothing...

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. —1 Corinthians 15:57 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Life is ours! Death no longer holds us captive! Victory has been given to us! Jesus is Lord. What else needs to be said? "Praise God!" My Prayer... Thank...

I speak the truth in Christ — I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit ... —Romans 9:1 NIV Key Thought We often use hyperbole to make an emphatic point about something that is important to us. Hyperbole is an overstatement meant to get other people's attention. The...

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? —1 Corinthians 15:55 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Death has the power to end life. Death has the power to separate. Death has the power to discourage and defeat us. But, we know the truth; Jesus lives! Because he lives, we know...

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. —1 Corinthians 15:54 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... As Christians, even if our bodies die, we...

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this...

For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. —1 Corinthians 15:25-26 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... How many times have you stood over the grave of a recently departed friend or loved one? When was the last time you...

Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. —1 Corinthians 15:24 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Closing time! That's when everything is counted, the doors are locked, and the...

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. —1 Corinthians 15:20 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... "Why do you seek the living among the dead?" These words of the angel to the women who came to Jesus' tomb are also God's words to us. Jesus is risen...

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. —Proverbs 10:2 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Wealth, especially wealth gotten through greedy and wicked means, proves to be of no lasting value. This rancid wealth rots the heart of the one who gets it and...

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, "Abba, Father." —Romans 8:15 NLT Key Thought Abba! The first syllables some babies utter. The name for father in the language Jesus...

Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. —Romans 8:12-13 NLT Key Thought We...

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. —Philippians 4:19 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Throughout Scripture, God reminds us that if our trust is in him and if we share his blessings with others, he will make sure we have all that we need...

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. —Philippians 4:12-13 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Life is...

And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. —Romans 8:10 NLT Key Thought Everything that lives is actually in the process of dying — everything, that is, except for those animated and...

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. —1 Corinthians 15:19 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Wow, what a powerful and sobering thought. Our faith in Jesus' resurrection, and our faith in being joined to him, is so crucial that all else pales in...

The mind controlled by the sinful nature is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. —Romans 8:6 NIV Key Thought What do you want from your limited days on earth? Among other things, you probably want to enjoy life and have every moment of it bring joy and peace. There is...

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve... —1 Corinthians 15:3-5...