Word for the Day
GROWING WITH GOD’S WORD
Take a deep breath and find a little silence within yourself first, then...
READ the verse a few times with a listening heart filled with unhurried expectation.
REFLECT on this question, "What are you saying to me in this verse today, Lord?"
RESPOND to this reading by honestly pouring yourself out to God. Let God hear whatever feelings, thoughts, questions and doubts you may have.
REST in God's Word by simply, deeply being in the presence of God that you have found in your experience.
Week of July 21 - 26
Monday
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, "Abba! Father!" it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.
Week of July 14 - 19
Monday
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable.
The Lord is gracious and merciful; slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 145:3;8
Week of July 7 - 12
Tuesday
When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, saying, "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you are determined to bring this man's blood on us." But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than any human authority. The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior that he might give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him."
Week of June 30 - July 4
Monday
The Lord said, ‘I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.'
Exodus 3:7-10
Week of June 23 - 28
Monday
"27What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops."-Matthew 10:27
Week of June 16-21
Monday
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest. Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road. Whatever house you enter, first say, "Peace to this house!" And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you. Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the labourer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house. Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; cure the sick who are there, and say to them, "The kingdom of God has come near to you."
Luke 10:1-9
Week of June 9-14
Monday
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Week of June 2 - 7
Monday
"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock."
Week of May 19 - 24
Monday
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
Week of May 12 - 17
Monday
"I have said these things to you while I am still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
John 14:25-27
Week of May 5 - May 10
Monday
Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and rescue us from among the nations that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise."
1 Chronicles 16:35
Week of April 28 - May 3
Monday
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.-Romans 13:8
Tuesday
Week of April 21 - 25
Monday
I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25Its gates will never be shut by day-and there will be no night there. 26People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
Week of April 14 - 19
Monday
He said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by." Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
1 Kings 19:11-13
Words for the Week of April 7 - 11
Monday
So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?" He replied, "It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Acts 1:6-8
Week of March 24 - 29
Monday
For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. -- 1 Corinthians 15:3-8
Holy Week - March 17-22
Monday
The Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to daughter Zion, "See, your salvation comes; his reward is with him, and his recompense before him." -Isaiah 62:11
Tuesday
Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. -Zechariah 9:9
Week of March 3-7
Monday: Ephesians 3: 18-21
Tuesday: John 9: 30-33 (start with "the man who had been born blind...")
Words for the Week of December 24-29
Monday
Restore us, O God of hosts;
let your face shine, that we may be saved.
Psalm 80:7
Words for the Week of November 5-10
Monday Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus began to proclaim, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near."
Words for the Week of October 22-27
MONDAY
Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16
Words for the Week of October 15-20
For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
Words for the Week of September 3-8
Monday
Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrews 13:1-2
Week of August 20-25
Monday
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.-Psalm 23:1
Tuesday
He makes me lie down in green pastures;
Words for the Week of August 13-18
MONDAY
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name. Psalm 103:1
Words for the Week of July 30-August 3
Monday
Happy are those
who do not follow the advice of the wicked,
or take the path that sinners tread,
Words for the Week of July 16-21
MONDAY
No, the word is very near to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe. Deuteronomy 30:14