NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible Quotes

“What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it. ”
― Max Lucado, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible, New Century Version

“A person is worth something simply because he is a person.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Love God more than you fear hell. Make major decisions in a cemetery. When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Don’t spend tomorrow’s money today. Pray twice as much as you fret. God has forgiven you; you’d be wise to do the same.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“You don’t have to live with a dehydrated heart. Receive Christ’s work on the Cross, the energy of his Spirit, his lordship over your life, his unending, unfailing love. Drink deeply and often. And out of you will flow rivers of living water. from Come Thirsty”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“We, like Paul, are aware of two things: We are great sinners and we need a great savior. We, like Peter, are aware of two facts: We are going down and God is standing up. So we … leave behind the Titanic of self-righteousness and stand on the solid path of God’s grace.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Mother Teresa is credited with saying, “God didn’t call us to be successful, just faithful.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“7He is the LORD our God. His laws are for all the world.”
― Thomas Nelson, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“The Brazilians have a great phrase for this. In Portuguese, a person who has the ability to hang in and not give up has garra. Garra means “claws.” What imagery! A person with garra has claws that burrow into the side of the cliff and keep him from falling. So do the saved. They may get close to the edge; they may even stumble and slide. But they will dig their nails into the rock of God and hang on. Jesus gives you this assurance. Hang on. He’ll make sure you get home.”
― Thomas Nelson, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“16As soon as Jesus was baptized, he came up out of the water. Then heaven opened, and he saw God’s Spirit coming down on him like a dove. 17And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love, and I am very pleased with him.”
― Thomas Nelson, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“11Obey the LORD with great fear. Be happy, but tremble.”
― Thomas Nelson, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“19Also, you must bring into the boat two of every living thing, male and female. Keep them alive with you. 20Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive. 21Also gather some of every kind of food and store it on the boat as food for you and the animals.”
― Thomas Nelson, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Prayer Reminds Us When a believing person prays, great things happen. James 5:16 Prayer is the recognition that if God had not engaged himself in our problems, we would still be lost in the blackness. It is by his mercy that we have been lifted up. Prayer is that whole process that reminds us of who God is and who we are. I believe there’s great power in prayer. I believe God heals the wounded, and that he can raise the dead. But I don’t believe we tell God what to do and when to do it. God knows that we, with our limited vision, don’t even know that for which we should pray. When we entrust our requests to him, we trust him to honor our prayers with holy judgment. from Walking with the Savior”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“God’s Family of Friends That family is the church of the living God, the support and foundation of the truth. 1 Timothy 3:15 God offers you a family of friends and friends who are family—his church. When you transfer your trust into Christ, he not only pardons you; he places you in his family of friends. “Family” far and away outpaces any other biblical term to describe the church. “Brothers” or “brothers and sisters” appears a whopping 148 times between the Book of Acts and the Book of Revelation. God heals his family through his family. In the church we use our gifts to love each other, honor one another, keep an eye on troublemakers, and carry each other’s burdens. from Cure for the Common Life”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“35So do not lose the courage you had in the past, which has a great reward. 36You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised. 37For in a very short time, “The One who is coming will come and will not be delayed. 38Those who are right with me will live by faith. But if they turn back with fear, I will not be pleased with them.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“When you are confused: “‘I know what I am planning for you,’ says the LORD. ‘I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you’” (Jeremiah 29:11). If you feel weighted by yesterday’s failures: “So now, those who are in Christ Jesus are not judged guilty” (Romans 8:1). On those nights when you wonder where God is: “I am the Holy One, and I am among you” (Hosea 11:9). from And the Angels Were Silent”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“And I will remember their sins no more.” Wow! Now, that is a remarkable promise. God doesn’t just forgive, he forgets … For all the things he does do, this is one thing he refuses to do. He refuses to keep a list of my wrongs.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“I will forgive them for the wicked things they did, and I will not remember their sins anymore.” Hebrews 8:12”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.” Mark 12:30”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim God’s plan and passion to save his children. That is the reason this book has endured through the centuries … It is the treasure map that leads us to God’s highest treasure, eternal life.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“You may be decent. You may pay taxes and kiss your kids and sleep with a clean conscience. But apart from Christ you aren’t holy. So how can you go to heaven? Only believe. Accept the work already done, the work of Jesus on the cross. Accept the goodness of Jesus Christ. Abandon your own works and accept his. Abandon your own decency and accept his. Stand before God in his name, not yours. It’s that easy? There was nothing easy about it at all. The cross was heavy, the blood was real, and the price was extravagant. It would have bankrupted you or me, so he paid it for us. Call it simple. Call it a gift. But don’t call it easy. Call it what it is. Call it grace.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“One stay-at-home mom keeps this sign over her kitchen sink: “Divine tasks performed here, daily.” An executive hung this plaque in her office: “My desk is my altar.” Both are correct. With God, our work matters as much as our worship. Indeed, work can be worship.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Everything you do or say should be done to obey Jesus your Lord. Colossians 3:17”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Continue to Live in Christ 6As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so continue to live in him. 7Keep your roots deep in him and have your lives built on him. Be strong in the faith, just as you were taught, and always be thankful. 8Be sure that no one leads you away with false and empty teaching that is only human, which comes from the ruling spirits of this world, and not from Christ. 9All of God lives fully in Christ (even when Christ was on earth), 10and you have a full and true life in Christ, who is ruler over all rulers and powers. 11Also in Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, a circumcision not done by hands. It was through Christ’s circumcision, that is, his death, that you were made free from the power of your sinful self. 12When you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and you were raised up with him through your faith in God’s power that was shown when he raised Christ from the dead. 13When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins. 14He canceled the debt, which listed all the rules we failed to follow. He took away that record with its rules and nailed it to the cross. 15God stripped the spiritual rulers and powers of their authority. With the cross, he won the victory and showed the world that they were powerless.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Proverbs 27:5–6 5It is better to correct someone openly than to have love and not show it. 6The slap of a friend can be trusted to help you, but the kisses of an enemy are nothing but lies.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Obedience Is More than Sacrifice 21“‘This is what the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Offer burnt offerings along with your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves! 22When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, I did not speak to them and give them commands only about burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23I also gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Do all that I command so that good things will happen to you. 24But your ancestors did not listen or pay attention to me. They were stubborn and did whatever their evil hearts wanted. They went backward, not forward. 25Since the day your ancestors left Egypt, I have sent my servants, the prophets, again and again to you. 26But your ancestors did not listen or pay attention to me. They were very stubborn and did more evil than their ancestors.’ 27“Jeremiah, you will tell all these things to the people of Judah, but they will not listen to you. You will call to them, but they will not answer you. 28So say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the LORD its God. These people do nothing when I correct them. They do not tell the truth; it has disappeared from their lips.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“3This is what the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Change your lives and do what is right!”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Jeremiah’s Temple Message 7 This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah: 2“Stand at the gate of the Temple and preach this message there: “‘Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of the nation of Judah! All you who come through these gates to worship the LORD, listen to this message! 3This is what the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Change your lives and do what is right! Then I will let you live in this place. 4Don’t trust the lies of people who say, “This is the Temple of the LORD. This is the Temple of the LORD. This is the Temple of the LORD!” 5You must change your lives and do what is right. Be fair to each other. 6You must not be hard on strangers, orphans, and widows. Don’t kill innocent people in this place! Don’t follow other gods, or they will ruin your lives. 7If you do these things, I will let you live in this land that I gave to your ancestors to keep forever. 8“‘But look, you are trusting lies, which is useless. 9Will you steal and murder and be guilty of adultery? Will you falsely accuse other people? Will you burn incense to the god Baal and follow other gods you have not known? 10If you do that, do you think you can come before me and stand in this place where I have chosen to be worshiped? Do you think you can say, “We are safe!” when you do all these hateful things? 11This place where I have chosen to be worshiped is nothing more to you than a hideout for robbers. I have been watching you, says the LORD. 12“‘You people of Judah, go now to the town of Shiloh, where I first made a place to be worshiped. See what I did to it because of the evil things the people of Israel had done. 13You people of Judah have done all these evil things too, says the LORD. I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen to me. I called you, but you did not answer. 14So I will destroy the place where I have chosen to be worshiped in Jerusalem. You trust in that place, which I gave to you and your ancestors, but I will destroy it just as I destroyed Shiloh. 15I will push you away from me just as I pushed away your relatives, the people of Israel!’ 16“As for you, Jeremiah, don’t pray for these people. Don’t cry out for them or ask anything for them or beg me to help them, because I will not listen to you. 17Don’t you see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18The children gather wood, and the fathers use the wood to make a fire. The women make the dough for cakes of bread, and they offer them to the Queen Goddess. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to make me angry. 19But I am not the one the people of Judah are really hurting, says the LORD. They are only hurting themselves and bringing shame upon themselves. 20“‘So this is what the Lord God says: I will pour out my anger on this place, on people and animals, on the trees in the field and the crops in the ground. My anger will be like a hot fire that no one can put out.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Jesus was not a godlike man, nor a manlike God. He was God-man. Midwifed by a carpenter. Bathed by a peasant girl. The maker of the world with a bellybutton. The author of the Torah being taught the Torah. Heaven’s human. And because he was, we are left with scratch-your-head, double-blink, what’s-wrong-with-this-picture? moments like these: A cripple sponsoring the town dance. A sack lunch satisfying five thousand tummies. What do we do with such moments? What do we do with such a person? We applaud men for doing good things. We enshrine God for doing great things. But when a man does God things? One thing is certain, we can’t ignore him.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

“Jesus was not a godlike man, nor a manlike God. He was God-man.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado