Category: Verse for the day

Hebrews 2:11 (WEB) For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, Promise #190: Jesus is not ashamed to be called your big brother. My brother is 3 1/2 years older than me. When we were growing up, he blazed the trail ahead of me in most everything in life… School, our parents, work, friends, even girls. Though we did go through many of the things that other siblings go through, my brother was always there to help guide me through life. Throughout my...

Matthew 7:11 (WEB) If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! Promise #189: I give good gifts to My children when they ask. In this part of The Sermon On The Mount, Jesus is encouraging His listeners to not be afraid to ask God for what they need. In the preceding verses, Jesus encourages people to keep on asking, keep on seeking and keep on knocking. The promise that He makes is that those who ask...

Jeremiah 31:3 (WEB) Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you. Promise #188: My love for you will last forever. What does it mean for God to love us with an everlasting love? My dear friend, Jack Winter, once told me that being loved with an everlasting love meant that there was never a time in all eternity when I wasn’t loved. I was loved before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:3-6), I was loved when I was knit together in my mother’s...

Exodus 15:26 (WEB) and he said, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.” Promise #187: I am the Lord your God who heals all your diseases. This promise takes place at the waters of Marah, where the Israelites came looking to find fresh water to quench their thirst. Instead of...

Psalm 94:14 (WEB) For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. Promise #186: I will not abandon My own inheritance. My natural children are my children for life. No matter what they do, they are still my kids. While parents aren’t always happy with the decisions their children make, that does not change the fact that they are still part of the family. Today’s promise is a good reminder that the Lord will never reject us because He has made us His own inheritance. The NLT Bible calls us His ‘special possession’. Sometimes when we relate...