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(Luke 5:7, NLT) A shout for help brought their partners in the other boat, and soon both boats were filled with fish and on the verge of sinking. In today’s Scripture, because Peter obeyed Jesus’ instructions to try again after having fished all night and caught nothing, he was blessed with favor and caught so many fish that his net began to tear. But notice that he had so many fish that his partn...

(John 2:19, NIV) Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” Over two thousand years ago, Satan and all the forces of darkness thought they had finally defeated Jesus on the cross. They didn’t realize that Jesus had prophesied not only His death but His resurrection three days later. While the enemy celebrated, Jesus rose up, took away the keys of death and...

(Psalm 62:8, NIV) Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.   It’s easy to trust God when things are going our way. But when our prayers aren’t being answered the way we want, the problem isn’t turning around, and we’re not seeing favor, too often we get upset and ask, “God, why didn’t You answer my prayers?” We think that when it changes, we’ll be...

(Luke 22:31–32, NKJV) “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail…” Jesus warned Peter that the enemy was focused on him and was going to attack him and do his best to take him down. If Jesus had stopped there, that could be worrisome. “Oh man, I have a big battle on my hands.” But Jesus went on to say, “...

(Job 7:3, NLT) “I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.” As it was with other Old Testament heroes of the faith, Job went through a night season. Out of nowhere his whole world was turned upside down through the very painful loss of his sons and daughters, the loss of his business, and a crushing illness. Job did what many of us do in difficult, heartbreakin...

  (Genesis 45:15, NLT)  Then Joseph kissed each of his brothers and wept over them, and after that they began talking freely with him. Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery that led to thirteen years of immeasurable suffering, heartache, and pain. Yet after Joseph was made second in command of all Egypt, when those same brothers came before him asking for food, he didn’t say, “It’s payback time!...

(Isaiah 45:2–3, NIV) “I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron…so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.” The prophet Isaiah said that God is going before you and will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron, meaning the things that have held you back for years. Addictions, lack, depression, and insecurity may have be...

2 Kings 4:2, NIV  Elisha replied to her, "How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" "Your servant has nothing there at all," she said, "except a small jar of olive oil." The poor widow in 2 Kings 4 was desperate. Things were so bad that not only could she not pay her bills, but the creditors were coming to take her two sons as payment. When she sai...

Mark 5:27–28, AMPC  She had heard the reports concerning Jesus, and she came up behind Him in the throng and touched His garment, for she kept saying, If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health. The lady in Mark 5 had been sick for twelve years with a bleeding disorder. She had gone to the best doctors, tried different medicines, but nothing worked. She could have thought, "I...

Matthew 24:13, NLT But the one who endures to the end will be saved. Sometimes you wonder why the challenges you're facing are not changing. You're being your best, but nothing is improving. A principle of Scripture says that he who endures to the end will be saved. You have to outlast the opposition. Don't worry about defeating it because if you just outlast it, you're going t...

Psalm 42:5, NIV  Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. David had seen God's blessing and favor in amazing ways. You might think he'd never have a down period, but that's not the case. We're all tempted to be discouraged, to live defeated and not feel like going on. When we feel that way...

(Psalm 37:4, AMPC)  Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. In Genesis 17, God called Abraham “the father of many nations.” At that time, Abraham didn’t have any children. He and his wife, Sarah, were too old to have kids. Abraham could have thought, “God, my wife is barren. I’m childless. What are You talking about?” Here’s the princ...

(Psalm 40:2–3, NIV) He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. In Genesis 37, God gave Joseph a dream that one day his family would bow down before him, but his brothers’ hatred toward him became so great that they threw him into a pit, intending to let him die t...

Hebrews 12:17, MSG Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God's lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God's blessing--but by then it was too late, tears or no tears. In Genesis 25, Esau came in from the fields famished. He begged his brother, Jacob, to give him some of the stew he'd made,...

(Psalm 32:8, NLT) The LORD says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.” The Scripture says that when we acknowledge God in all our ways, He will direct our path. God has the wisdom, the guidance, and the direction we need, but it doesn’t happen automatically. Every morning you have to go to Him and say, “God, I’m ready for my assignment. Show...

(Titus 3:4–5, NIV)  But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.     Saul was persecuting the church when God appeared to him and changed him into the apostle Paul. God doesn’t give us what we deserve. We deserve the consequences of our actions; we deserve judgment, but God gives us mercy. He knows ho...

N umbers 13:33, NKJV There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight. When Moses sent twelve men to spy out the Promised Land, ten came back with a negative report. Notice how they didn’t say, “The giants called us grasshoppers.” They said, “We were in our own sight as grasshoppers.” They went in...

Isaiah 43:1 NLT “Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.” It’s easy to go through life letting people and circumstances put names on us, such as average, unqualified, or poor. Sometimes our own thoughts have named us as unattractive, not talented, not good enough. As long as you’re wearing these names, believing the lies that people and circumstances hav...

John 10:28–29, NIV I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s s hand. You may be in a difficult time. Don’t get discouraged. Just remember how God has already parted the Red Sea in your life and delivered you from Pharaoh, so to speak. He snatched...

Psalm 94:13, AMPC That You may give him power to keep himself calm in the days of adversity... You may have grown up with people who get upset easily and live offended. Why don’t you try a different approach? When you let people upset you, you’re giving away your power. You’re letting them control you. If they push your buttons, you get upset. Turn those buttons off. Life is so much more freeing w...

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 perfor...

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, wha...

Deuteronomy 6:10–11, NKJV 5/4.22 ...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 wor...

Psalm 72:11–12, NIV May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him. For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help. In Psalm 72, King Solomon asked God to make him well known, that his fame would spread throughout the land, that the wealth and honor of other nations would be brought to him, and that kings would bow down before him. You would think God wou...

Matthew 18:21–22, NIV "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?" Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times." The apostle Paul had many opportunities to live offended. He said in his last letter to Timothy that although a man named Alexander had done him great harm, he knew God would pay him bac...