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(Joshua 10:12, NIV)   On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon.” One day when Joshua and the Israelite army were fighting a battle late in the day, he knew he wasn’t going to be able to finish the enemy off unless he had more daylight. He could have thought, “Too bad. They’ll escape in the night.” No, he...

(Psalm 139:16, NLT) "You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed." Did you know that God has already planned out every part of your life from the beginning to the end? He knows every disappointment, every loss, every challenge; and the good news is, your story ends in victory! God has written out a...

Luke 1:28, NKJV The angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!” Mary was told she would give birth to the Savior of the world. You can’t get any more favored than that. But with that blessing came a burden. She was favored but misunderstood. Favored but ridiculed. Favored but controversial. People whispered, “She got pregnant before her wedd...

(2 Corinthians 5:20, NIV) "We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us..." God has an assignment for you that nobody else can fulfill. You are His ambassador or representative. You are a part of His divine plan. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer—your gifts, your smile, your love, your passion. It's easy to get focu...

(Deuteronomy 28:2, ESV) "And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God." Our God is a rewarder of those who seek Him! When you keep God first place and do your best to honor Him, the Scripture says, “His blessings will chase you down and overtake you.” That means you will come into increase, promotions and good breaks that you di...

(Deuteronomy 6:10–11, NKJV) “…to give you…houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant.” God has set you up for a distinctively favored life. When the Scripture says He gives favor for houses you didn’t build and vineyards you didn’t plant, it means He’s set you up for blessings you didn’t work for,...

(Luke 6:48, NLT) “It is like a person building a house who digs deep and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against that house, it stands firm because it is well built.”   There are times when we don’t see any growth in our life, but we don’t realize that God is working on our foundation. He’s working on our character—how we treat people, how we handle adversity...

(Joshua 5:12, NKJV) Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. For forty years in the wilderness, the Israelites depended upon God’s supernatural provision of manna for their survival every day. But they didn’t realize the manna was only a temporary provision....

(John 2:9–10, NLT) When the master of ceremonies tasted the water that was now wine…he called the bridegroom over. “A host always serves the best wine first,” he said…. “But you have kept the best until now!” Making wine normally is a very lengthy process, but to make the best quality wine, a wine that is aged, takes years. My point is that the first miracle Jesus ever performed, the making of win...

(2 Kings 6:18, NIV) As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Strike this army with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked. The king of Aram was so angry with the prophet Elisha that he sent an army to capture him. Elisha was only one man against an army, but he knew how to pray bold prayers. He had seen God open blind eyes, and now he prayed for the...

(2 Timothy 1:6, NKJV) Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. One of the saddest things would be to come to the end of life and wonder what we could have become. “What if I hadn’t neglected to use the gift that God gave me? What if I had broken away from the people who were causing me to compromise? What if I had controlled my temper and...

(Isaiah 61:3, NIV) “…to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.”   When someone you love leaves you or a friend walks away for some reason, it’s easy to feel that you’re somehow not smart enough, good enough, attractive enough, or talented enough. You may tell yourself, “If I’d only done this or...

(Ephesians 6:11, NIV)  Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.    When you get out of bed in the morning, the first thing you should do is power up. Get your mind going in the right direction. Remind yourself: “I’m ready for this day. I am equipped. I am empowered. I have my armor on. I have my shoes of peace. I’m not going to get upset. I’m not g...

(Psalm 40:3, NLT) He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. It’s easy to complain about your boss, about the traffic, or about a relationship. We create much of our own unhappiness by how we respond to negative things, how we approach life. Here’s the key: When you complain, you remain; but when you praise, you’ll be raised. In Psalm 40, David says that if you have “a new so...

(Psalm 78:42–43, NLT) They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies. They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt… What has God done for you? Don’t be like the Israelites who had seen amazing miracles and yet didn’t remember them when they needed faith to move forward into the Promised Land. Those victories you experienced weren’t just to protect you, to promote...

(Genesis 18:13–14, NIV) Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the LORD?” Abraham was ninety-nine years old when the Lord told him that within a year, he would have a son. He and Sarah were way too old to have a baby. It was so far out that when Sarah heard it, she laughed out loud. Has God ever put som...

(Genesis 32:31, NLT) The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel, and he was limping because of the injury to his hip.   Jacob’s story in the Scripture records many self-inflicted wounds. He was a liar and deceiver, which caused him much heartache. Later in life, he got tired of living like that, so he decided to get alone with God. The angel of the Lord showed up disguised as a man and began to wrest...

Luke 1:37–38, NIV “For no word from God will ever fail.” “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Words are powerful. A teenage girl named Mary became pregnant, not by a man, but by a word from God. The angel Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Mary, you are highly favored! You will conceive and have a baby without knowing a man. He will be the Messiah, the Son...

Hebrews 2:1, NIV We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. The Scripture describes hope as the anchor of our soul. It wouldn’t say “anchor” unless there was a possibility of drifting. This is what happens in life. If we don’t keep our anchor down and stay full of hope, then little by little we start drifting, getting negative and discou...

Hebrews 10:36, NLT Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised. We know we need to have faith and believe right, but today’s Scripture says we have need of patient endurance if we’re going to see God’s promises come to pass. Maybe you’ve been praying, believing, and being your best, but you don’t see anything ch...

John 20:19, NIV On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you! In John 20, Jesus had just risen from the dead. One evening the disciples were huddled together in a room behind locked doors for fear of being arrested. They did everything they could to...

(2 Corinthians 5:7, NKJV) For we walk by faith, not by sight. In the Scripture, the life of a believer is compared to an eagle. It’s interesting that day after day, parent eagles sit on their eggs to keep them warm, unmoved by what’s not changing. They never feel the baby eaglets kick, and the eggs never grow any bigger. There’s no sign of life. But on day thirty-five, suddenly the eaglet starts p...

(Matthew 4:1, NLT) Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil.   In Matthew 3, when Jesus came up out of the water after His baptism, God spoke from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son.” It was a glorious moment, signaling the beginning of His ministry. You would think Jesus would immediately start teaching and healing, but instead, He was led by the...

Luke 16:10, NLT "If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities."   In 1 Samuel 17, when David was in the shepherds’ fields, his father told him to take a provision of food to his brothers who were serving on the battlefield. David could have said, “Samuel anointed me t...

(Exodus 4:10, MSG) “Master, please, I don’t talk well. I’ve never been good with words, neither before nor after you spoke to me. I stutter and stammer.” When God told Moses to go tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go, Moses was insecure and didn’t feel qualified. However, God showed Moses miraculous signs so that he would go into the courts of Pharaoh with confidence, knowing that God was w...