Monday July 22nd, 2024 Meditate on Matthew 13:25 ISV « While people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away » Read 1 Samuel 26:4-16 NKJV 4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had indeed come. 5 So David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his...
Saturday July 20th, 2024 Meditate on Philippians 3:10 GNT « All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and become like him in his death » Read Philippians 3:7-10 NLT 7 I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. 8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the...
Friday July 19th, 2024 Meditate on Acts 16:18 ESV « And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour » Read Acts 16:16-18 NKJV 16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who...
Thursday July 18th, 2024 Meditate on Luke 15:4 NKJV « “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? » Read Luke 15:3-7 GWT 3 Jesus spoke to them using this illustration: 4 “Suppose a man has 100 sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the 99 sheep grazing in the...
Wednesday July 17th, 2024 Meditate on Ezekiel 18:24 CEV « But when good people start sinning and doing disgusting things, will they live? No! All their good deeds will be forgotten, and they will be put to death because of their sins » Read Ezekiel 18:20-32 NLT 20 The person who sins is the one who will die. The child will not be punished for the parent’s sins, and the parent will not be...
Tuesday July 16th, 2024 Meditate on Luke 9:62 AMB « But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back [to the things left behind] is fit for the kingdom of God.” » Read 2 Peter 2:20-22CW 20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is...
Monday July 15th, 2024 Meditate on Job 8:7 NKJV « Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly » Read Micah 7:7-10 NKJV 7 Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. 8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. 9 I will bear the...
Saturday July 13th, 2024 Meditate on Proverbs 27:1GNT « Never boast about tomorrow. You don’t know what will happen between now and then » Read James 4:13-16NKJV 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor...
Friday July 12th, 2024 Meditate on Hebrews 12:1GWT « Since we are surrounded by so many examples [of faith], we must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially sin that distracts us. We must run the race that lies ahead of us and never give up » Read 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NKJV 24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you...
Thursday July 11th, 2024 Meditate on Zechariah 4:7 AMB « ‘What are you, O great mountain [of obstacles]? Before Zerubbabel [who will rebuild the temple] you will become a plain (insignificant)! And he will bring out the capstone [of the new temple] with loud shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” » Read Psalm 2:1-5 NKJV 1Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? 2 The kings of the...
