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A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. —Proverbs 15:4 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Words are powerful. Communicators know this. Negotiators know this. Deep down, you know this. Words have blessed you and words have devastated you. The...

Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. —Psalm 63:3 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Sounds like the words to some modern love song, doesn't it: "Your love is better than life." Well, it is a love song; it's just not modern. While in the desert, David...

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. —Romans 7:24-25 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... While marred by sin and death...

Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me. —Romans 15:30 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... God's people and God's ministries are constantly under attack. Satan does not sit idly...

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. —Amos 5:14 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Isn't it amazing how many people claim God is on their side. God has been "claimed" by those seeking to enforce slavery, practice...

An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. —Proverbs 21:4 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... "We're number one!" is the cry today. However, the scripture above tells us that it is the wicked who light their own way with their haughty eyes and proud heart. In...

Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. —Ephesians 6:24 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... What do you have that lasts forever? Not much unless it is connected to the Lord Jesus Christ. So many things we love and pursue are hollow, fleeting, shallow, and...

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. —Psalm 53:2 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Are you a "God-seeker"? Through much of history, especially when things are going well or in times of great wickedness, God has...

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. —James 1:17 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... He doesn't waver! Isn't that comforting? God is consistent and in his consistency, he gives...

O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer. —Nehemiah 1:11 (KJV)...

That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever. —Joshua 4:24 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... The LORD brought the Israelites miraculously through the Jordan River during the flood season because of his...

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. —2 Corinthians 12:9 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... When I pray, I often catch myself...

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. —Ephesians 3:20-21 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Sometimes there...

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. —Ephesians 3:16 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... What is one of the most important things we can do for those we love in the Lord? We can pray for them. But more than...

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. —2 Corinthians 4:7 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... While there are many talented and successful Christians in the world today, they are merely vessels for God's message of grace...

And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. —Acts 4:31 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Prayer changes us. Prayer calls on God to change circumstances. Prayer...

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. —1 Peter 2:19 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Unjust suffering! Ouch, even the sound of those words sends a chill up and down my spine. Such a thing doesn't seem fair or appropriate — and it...

But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. —Acts 4:19-20 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... We can't contain what we've experienced...

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. —2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (KJV) Thoughts on...

And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. —Luke 12:11-12 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... When we need...