Bible Before Breakfast with Mildred Kingsley-Okonkwo

Psalm 23 ERV - The Lord is my shepherd. I will always have everything I need.[ a ] 2  He gives me green pastures to lie in. He leads me by calm pools of water. 3  He restores my strength. He leads me on right paths[ b ] to show that he is good. 4  Even if I walk through a valley as dark as the grave,[ c ] I will not be afraid of any danger, because you are with me. Your rod and staf...

Hebrews 12:1-13 MSG - Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus , who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhi...

 Psalm 91:14-15 NKJV - “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver h I will [ a ]set him on high, because he has known My name. 15  He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.

Jeremiah 29:13 BSB - You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Hebrews 13:1 BSB - Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

Psalm 118:24 BSB - This is the day that the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

1 Kings 19:1-9 NLT - When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed all the prophets of Baal. 2  So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them.” 3  Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He went to Beersheba, a town in Judah, and he...

Luke 1:26-28 NKJV - Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27  to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28  And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; [ a ]blessed are you among women!”

Jeremiah 20:7-9 AMPC - [But Jeremiah said] O Lord, You have persuaded and deceived me, and I was persuaded and deceived; You are stronger than I am and You have prevailed. I am a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me. 8  For whenever I speak, I must cry out and complain; I shout, Violence and destruction! For the word of the Lord has become to me a reproach and a derision and has broug...

Romans 1:15-17 BSB - That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome. 16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek. 17 For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, d just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” e

James (Jacob) 4:13-16 TPT - Listen, those of you who are boasting, “Today or tomorrow we’ll go to another city and spend some time and go into business and make heaps of profit!” 14But you don’t have a clue what tomorrow may bring. For your fleeting life is but a warm breath of air that is visible in the cold only for a moment and then vanishes! 15Instead you should say, “Our tomorrows are in the...

Jonah 4:1-5 MSG - 1-2  Jonah was furious. He lost his temper. He yelled at God, “God! I knew it—when I was back home, I knew this was going to happen! That’s why I ran off to Tarshish! I knew you were sheer grace and mercy, not easily angered, rich in love, and ready at the drop of a hat to turn your plans of punishment into a program of forgiveness! 3  “So, God, if you won’t kill them,...

Acts 9:1-22 NLT - Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord’s followers.[ a ] So he went to the high priest. 2  He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them—both men and women—back to Jerusalem in chains. 3  As he was...

John 1:43-47 - The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” 44  Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. 45  Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46  “Nazareth! Can anything good come...

1 King 5:1-6 NCV - Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was honored by his master, and he had much respect because the Lord used him to give victory to Aram. He was a mighty and brave man, but he had a skin disease. 2  The Arameans had gone out to raid the Israelites and had taken a little girl as a captive. This little girl served Naaman’s wife. 3  She said to her mi...

1 Samuel 1:9-18 NIRV  One time when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s house. 10  Hannah was very sad. She wept and wept. She prayed to the Lord. 11  She made a promise to him. She said, “Lord, you rule over all. Please see how I’m suffering! Show concern for me! Don’t forget about m...

1 Samuel 1:5-7 MSG - 3-7  Every year this man went from his hometown up to Shiloh to worship and offer a sacrifice to God-of-the-Angel-Armies. Eli and his two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, served as the priests of God there. When Elkanah sacrificed, he passed helpings from the sacrificial meal around to his wife Peninnah and all her children, but he always gave an especially generous helping to...

Psalm 119:137 NLT - O Lord, you are righteous, and your regulations are fair.

Isaiah 40:31 AMPC - But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired.

Romans 13:11-14 TLB - Another reason for right living is this: you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for the coming of the Lord is nearer now than when we first believed. 12-13  The night is far gone, the day of his return[ a ] will soon be here. So quit the evil deeds of darkness and put on the armor of right living, as we who live in the daylight should! Be decent and true...

Mark 5:38-39 - NIV  38  When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39  He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.”

Mark 5:21-43 - MSG - After Jesus crossed over by boat, a large crowd met him at the seaside. One of the meeting-place leaders named Jairus came. When he saw Jesus, he fell to his knees, beside himself as he begged, “My dear daughter is at death’s door. Come and lay hands on her so she will get well and live.” Jesus went with him, the whole crowd tagging along, pushing and jostling him. 25-29 ...

Luke 8:43-48 KJV - And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, 44  Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. 45  And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and pres...

Jeremiah 29:10-14 MSG - This is God’s Word on the subject: “As soon as Babylon’s seventy years are up and not a day before, I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. 12  “When you call on me when you come and pray to me, I’ll li...

Numbers 23:19 - “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?