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One Good Thing Every Day: July 21, 2013

“Rest in my presence when you need refreshment….Many people turn away from Me when they are exhausted. They associate Me with duty and diligence, so they try to hide from My Presence when they need a break from work. How this saddens Me!” from Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence

 

Proverbs 3:5 AMP

Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

 

Isaiah 30:15 AMP

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning [to Me] and resting [in Me] you shall be saved; in quietness and in [trusting] confidence shall be your strength….

 

 

One Good Thing Every Day: July 20, 2013

1 John 1:5-7 NIV

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

 

Psalm 34:5 NIV

Those who look to him are radiant;

    their faces are never covered with shame.

 

Romans 1:16 NIV

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

 

Philippians 2:15 NIV

…so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky….

 

 

One Good Thing Every Day: July 19, 2013

“Each time you leap, imagine God jumping with you.” from Joan C. Webb’s It’s a Wonderful Imperfect Life.

One Good Thing Every Day: July 18, 2013

Hebrews 11:1 AMP

Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].

One Good Thing Every Day: July 17, 2013

Psalm 37:5 NASB

Commit your way to the Lord,

Trust also in Him, and He will do it.

One Good Thing Every Day: July 16, 2013

Lamentations 3:21-23 NIV

Yet this I call to mind     

and therefore I have hope:

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,     

for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;     

great is your faithfulness.

One Good Thing Every Day: July 15, 2013

“DO NOT WORRY ABOUT TOMO RROW! This is not a suggestion, but a command.” from Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence

Matthew 6:34 NIV

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

 

2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

 

Psalm 62:8 NIV

Trust in him at all times, you people;     

pour out your hearts to him,     

for God is our refuge.

 

Psalm 42:5 NIV

Why, my soul, are you downcast?

    Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

    for I will yet praise him,

    my Savior and my God.

One Good Thing Every Day: July 14, 2013

Psalm 37:23-24 NIV

The Lord makes firm the steps

    of the one who delights in him;

though he may stumble, he will not fall,

    for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

 

Psalm 16:11 NIV

You make known to me the path of life;

    you will fill me with joy in your presence,

    with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

One Good Thing Every Day: July 13, 2013

Psalm 34:5 NIV

Those who look to him are radiant;

    their faces are never covered with shame.

Ephesians 2:8 NIV

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

Hebrews 3:1 NIV

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.

One Good Thing Every Day: July 12, 2013

Acts 4:12 NIV

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”