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Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. —Luke 6:38 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... God is the God of all grace...

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! —Psalm 31:19 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Out of this psalm which begins in desperation, we find a crescendo of faith. While things...

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. —1 John 3:18 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... "Talk is cheap." "Actions speak louder than words." Let's show our love for our family, our friends, and brothers and sisters in Christ by the way we live...

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: —Ephesians 1:17 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... One of the best things we can pray for each other, and for ourselves, is that we might better know God...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

[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...

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...

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? —Romans 6:1 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Grace doesn't mean that we are sloppy with sin. We have died to sin when we surrendered our lives to...