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(John 8:7, ESV) “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” In John 8, the religious leaders brought a woman to Jesus who had been caught in the act of adultery. The law was clear. She was guilty. But when you’re tempted to be judgmental of someone who has fallen, Jesus teaches us to ask ourselves, “Have I ever done wrong? Am I qualified to throw the first stone?”...

Acts 27:25, NIV So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as he told me. In Acts 27, the apostle Paul was a prisoner on a boat headed to Rome where he was to stand trial before Caesar when a huge storm arose with hurricane-force winds. After fourteen days, the crew gave up all hope of surviving. But in the midst of this storm, an angel appeared to Paul and prom...

Romans 12:2, NLT Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. When you look at a caterpillar, there's nothing about it that indicates it's going to ever get off the ground and fly. It has no wings. But there's something programmed into the caterpillar that at a certain time, it will develop wings....

Esther 4:16, NIV I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish. Esther was a Jewish orphan girl who was living in a foreign country. But God raised her up to become the queen. When a powerful official passed a law that all the Jewish people be killed, Esther's cousin Mordecai told her that she ha...

(Philippians 4:19, NKJV) And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.   When an architect designs a skyscraper, he calculates all the loads, how much each floor will weigh, and how much wind stress it will face so it can withstand all the pressures it will bear. The good news is that your architect is the Most High God. He not only designed solar systems...

(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...

Ephesians 4:23, AMPC) And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude] … The apostle Paul says that every day you need to put on a fresh new attitude. If you don’t start anew, you’ll bring all the negative from yesterday into today. You do that week after week and before long you’ll be critical, condescending, negative, and seeing the worst. “I do...

(Matthew 25:21, ESV) “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.” There are times in life when we feel like we’re doing the right thing but not making progress. It’s easy to get discouraged and lose our passion. One test we all have to pass is being faithful when nothing new is happening. We’re just going...

Galatians 1:10, NIV Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. When you base your value on what other people say or do to you, that's going to push you down. But when you base it on what God says about you, it's going to lift you up to the next level. You&apo...

Isaiah 40:31, NKJV But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles... You've never been closer than right now to those things you're believing for. God has some wings for you. When the prophet Isaiah says to "wait," he doesn't mean to passively sit around and ask, "God, when is this going to happen? Nothing ever go...

(Luke 1:26–28, NIV) God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”   Mary didn’t come from an influential, wealthy family. In the natural, there was nothing special about her. When the...

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, heartbreaking ti...

Galatians 6:2, NKJV Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. We weren't meant to carry the load of life on our own. We need one another. Life can be heavy. People have been through disappointments, are dealing with illnesses, and are lonely. They can smile on the outside but be hurting inside. They have pressure and stress we know nothing about. James tells us to &qu...

Romans 5:17, NIV ...how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! If you see yourself as unworthy, as not measuring up, as undeserving of God's grace, the problem is that you're not receiving the gift of righteousness. The accuser will tell you that you've made too many mi...

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, depression, and insecurity may have been in yo...

Deuteronomy 28:8, NKJV The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. When we honor God with our lives and do our best to keep Him first place, the Scripture says He will command His blessing to come on us. When God commands His blessing, it's not "maybe it will...

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John 7:5, NIV For even [Jesus'] own brothers did not believe in him. It's interesting that Jesus' own brothers did not believe in Him until after He rose from the dead. He was performing miracle after miracle, but they didn't see Him as the Messiah. They only saw Him as their brother and thought, "Oh, it's just Jesus. We grew up with Him." Even when Jesus began t...

Luke 6:29, AMP Ignore insignificant insults or losses and do not bother to retaliate--maintain your dignity. We would go a lot further and enjoy life a lot more if we would simply ignore some things. When somebody is talking about you, you don't have to straighten them out--just ignore it and move on. When somebody is pushing for an argument, they may be wrong and you know you're right,...

Malachi 3:10, NKJV "Bring all the tithe into the storehouse...and try Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it." We all come to places in life where we reach our limits. We've gone as far as our education allows. The medical report says we&a...

(Jeremiah 33:26, MSG) “...I will give them back everything they’ve lost. The last word is, I will have mercy on them...” In accounting, the term balancing the books means making up for a loss. If an account has a deficit, when you balance the books, you have to first take all the losses, all the deficits, and total them up. Then you know how much you need to add to balance it. When the books are b...

Hebrews 10:30, TLB) For we know him who said, “Justice belongs to me; I will repay them.” God has seen every unfair thing you’ve gone through, every person who did you wrong, every tear, every lonely night. He’s your heavenly Father, and He knows how to pay you back for what’s unfair. You don’t have to live worried because God is going to make up for the wrongs that were done. The prophet Isaiah s...

Psalm 65:11, NIV You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. In a fast-food restaurant, a supersized meal means you'll get bigger portions than expected. That's what God is going to do for you. His dream for your life is much bigger than your own. He's going to take you further than you're expecting. He's going to open doors that you could...

Isaiah 48:10, NKJV Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. As a young man, Moses knew he was supposed to deliver God's people from their slavery in Egypt. He had the dream, but he got out of God's timing, tried to do it on his own, and killed a man. He had to run for his life, then he spent the next forty years on the back side of th...

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'...