Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 NASB. Take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Ephesians 6:16. The Lord says, “I will guide you along…

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. 1 Peter 5:6. I loved this today in Hearing God by Dallas Willard, so appropriate for our chapter: “The voice of the Lord causes the oaks to whirl, and strips the forest bare; and in His temple all say,…

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven…so is My word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and…

I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. John 12:46 NASB. The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.” Psalm 32:8 NLT. Have you ever felt completely inadequate? As…

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” Revelation 1:8. All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: That God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not…

Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Matthew 28:18 KJV. The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah…

Lasting to eternity, Your word, Yahweh, unchanging in the heavens: Your faithfulness lasts age after age; You founded the earth to endure. Creation is maintained by Your rulings, since all things are Your servants. Psalm 119:89-91 JB. Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning;…

But He is in one mind, and who can turn Him? And what His soul desireth, even that He doeth. Job 23:13 KJV. How much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” Matthew 7:11. Our chapter, Matthew 26, is a long chapter. And all of eternity…

Great is our Lord, and of great power; His understanding is infinite. Psalm 147:5 KJV. And in our chapter, Matthew 25, Jesus, the Son, tells His disciples then and now how to be prepared for that time when He returns. “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their…

And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky…Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures…Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind…Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness.” Genesis 1:14, 20, 24, 26 NRSV. You, O Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God…