Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.”

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

“And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forevermore.”

Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Devotional Thoughts

By Gary Wilkerson

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.