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Proverbs chapter 17 verse 27 (NIV)  The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint,    and whoever has understanding is even-tempered. I think it’s a fact that if we are confident in what we know to be true, we don’t need to use flowery, or even many, words. Our actions can speak louder than…

Hosea chapter 6 verses 1-3 (NIV)   “Come, let us return to the LORD.  He has torn us to pieces  but he will heal us;  he has injured us  but he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in…

Romans chapter 6 verses 19-22 (NIV)  I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.  When you were slaves to sin, you were free from…

Psalm 87 verse 4 (NIV)  “I will record Rahab and Babylon    among those who acknowledge me—   Philistia too, and Tyre , along with Cush—    and will say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’” In this one single verse I was reminded how God can take a life steeped in sin and transform…

Amos chapter 9 verses 11-13 (NIV)     “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD,    “when I will send a famine through the land—   not a famine of food or a thirst for water,    but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.   People will stagger from sea to sea…

Romans chapter 4 verses 19-21 (NIV)  Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead —since he was about a hundred years old —and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his…

Amos chapter 5 verses 4-5 (NIV)  This is what the LORD says to Israel:  “Seek me and live;     do not seek Bethel,   do not go to Gilgal,    do not journey to Beersheba.   For Gilgal will surely go into exile,    and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.” God had intended…

Psalm 85 verses 8-9 (NIV)  I will listen to what God the LORD says;    he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants—    but let them not turn to folly. Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,    that his glory may dwell in our land. Sometimes a verse just hits…

Romans chapter 2 verses 17-24 (NIV)   Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;  if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a…

Psalm 84 verse 10 (NIV)  Better is one day in your courts    than a thousand elsewhere;   I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God    than dwell in the tents of the wicked. While the role of a doorkeeper might seem a lowly one, it carried significant responsibility and…