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(James 1:17, ESV) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. It’s easy to look to people or to our job as our source. Yes, God uses people, jobs, and contracts, but they are not the Source. They are simply resources that the Source uses. If you’re seeing anything or anyone other than God as y...

Acts 2:25–26, MSG David said it all: I saw God before me for all time. Nothing can shake me; he's right by my side. I'm glad from the inside out, ecstatic; I've pitched my tent in the land of hope. David said he pitched his tent in the land of hope. Where have you pitched your tent? "Well, I've had a lot of disappointments." "I'll never get well." &quot...

1 John 5:14, NIV  This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to   his will, he hears us. Thoughts will tell you, "Your prayers make no difference." "You're wasting your time when you get your hopes up, believing you're going to get well." "You've had the addiction so long that you'll never break it." Don&ap...

Psalm 68:5, NIV A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. All of us have been wounded in some way. Life happens. People do us wrong. Even good people sometimes fail to give you what you need. Perhaps the parent who should have been speaking life to you, empowering you, did just the opposite, or perhaps they just were never there. You may have faced rejection, a...

Proverbs 4:25, MSG Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. When you isolate a negative experience and focus on it, it may not make sense. It's like when you have a piece to a jigsaw puzzle that doesn't look like it fits anywhere. You're sure the manufacturer made a mistake. It's an odd sh...

Genesis 17:5, NIV No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. Abram was ninety-nine years old when God promised him that he and Sarah were going to have a baby. Both of them were way too old, but God did something unusual. In addition to giving them the promise, He changed Abram's name to Abraham, which means "father of man...

(Proverbs 18:21, NIV) The tongue has the power of life and death. Words have creative power. They can be very helpful like electricity. Used the right way, electricity powers all kinds of good things. But electricity used the wrong way can harm or even kill you. It’s the same way with our words. Whether we speak positive or negative words, we will reap what we sow. If you’re always speaking words...

Romans 12:2, MSG Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. There's a price to pay to become all we were created to be. You may not be able to do what others do, to watch what they watch, or to...

1 Kings 18:36–37, NIV LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant...Answer me, LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, LORD, are God... In 1 Kings 18, four hundred and fifty prophets of the god Baal came against the one prophet Elijah in a challenge to prove to the entire nation of Israel who God was through a...

Luke 9:51, NKJV Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem... In Jesus' life, when the time came for Him to be crucified, He set His face to go to Jerusalem. There was no more preaching to the multitudes and feeding five thousand, no more waiting at the well for the Samaritan woman, no more stopping by Zacchaeus&a...

James 5:17, TLB Elijah was as completely human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and a half years! I think most of us see many people in the Bible as superhuman. When we read about someone like the prophet Elijah and the miracles he did, we think he had so much more faith than us, and God favored him because he was so special. Yet Jam...

Genesis 32:12, NLT "But you promised me, 'I will surely treat you kindly, and I will multiply your descendants until they become as numerous as the sands along the seashore--too many to count.'" In Genesis 32, when Jacob and his family were about to meet his brother, Esau, after many years of being estranged, Jacob believed that Esau might still seek revenge and kill him. Jacob...

1 Corinthians 10:13, ESV God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. There are times when we feel overwhelmed by a loss, by a sickness, or by being treated unfairly by someone, and we say, "I can't take the stress, the worry, the demands. It's too much to...

John 11:22, NIV But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask. In John 11, Mary and Martha sent word to Jesus that their brother, Lazarus, was very sick. They thought He would come immediately and heal Lazarus. But days passed, and Lazarus died. When Jesus showed up, Martha was upset. She said, "Jesus, if You had been here sooner, my brother would not have died." Martha cou...

Psalm 31:19, TLB Oh, how great is your goodness to those who publicly declare that you will rescue them. For you have stored up great blessings for those who trust and reverence you. When you look back over your life, you can see the goodness of God. There were the times when He made a way when you didn't see a way. You were at the right place at the right time. Your health didn't look g...

Hebrews 6:11–12, MSG I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish. Don't drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. When God brought the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, He said the Promised Land was theirs to go in and possess. He promised they would defeat e...

Proverbs 24:16, HCSB Though a righteous man falls seven times, he will get up... When life knocks you down, steps on you, takes your health, or squashes your dreams, you just have to get back up again. The way you win some battles is not by defeating them but by outlasting the opposition. You have comeback power. Some enemies are stubborn. You can't be weak and give up because it's not h...

Psalm 37:34, TLB Don't be impatient for the Lord to act! Keep traveling steadily along his pathway and in due season he will honor you with every blessing... Most of us don't like times of waiting. We're interested in the destination, but God is interested in the journey. When we understand that He's working in us along the way, waiting and patience become a part of the process...

1 Samuel 17:33, NLT "Don't be ridiculous!" Saul replied. "There's no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You're only a boy, and he's been a man of war since his youth. When the young shepherd David heard the giant Goliath taunting the Israelites, something rose up in him. He said, "Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the...

2 Chronicles 32:14, NLT Which of their gods was able to rescue its people from the destructive power of my predecessors? What makes you think your God can rescue you from me? In 2 Chronicles 32, the king of Assyria had invaded Judah with a huge army, and Jerusalem was next to be attacked. He sent a letter to the Israelites defying them to trust God. However, King Hezekiah had declared, "Don&a...

(Matthew 10:30, NIV) "And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered." We hear all the time that nothing is too big for God. But have you ever thought that a problem was too small for God? Are there things in your life that you haven't prayed about simply because you thought it didn't matter to God? Every detail of your life is important to God. He knows the very number...

Exodus 6:9, NLT So Moses told the people of Israel what the LORD had said, but they refused to listen anymore. They had become too discouraged by the brutality of their slavery. When Moses first gave the people of Israel the promise that God would deliver them from slavery in Egypt and give them the Promised Land as their possession, they were too beaten down and discouraged to believe. Instead of...

1 Thessalonians 5:18, NLT Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. In the Scripture, it wasn't fair for David to be put down by his family, but that didn't stop him from taking the throne. It wasn't fair for Joseph to be betrayed, sold into slavery, lied about, and put in prison. That didn't stop him from becoming the pri...

Genesis 50:20, NLT You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people. Joseph went through thirteen years of betrayal, slavery, false accusations, and imprisonment. He had many reasons to become bitter, but you never read that Joseph had a bad attitude. He understood the principle that everything he was experiencing wa...

(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...