Daily Bible Verses by Book

Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’ (Matthew 28:20)

Almost immediately after the protest [in Montgomery, Alabama] started we had begun to receive threatening telephone calls and letters. They increased as time went on. By the middle of January, they had risen to thirty and forty a day….
As the weeks passed, I began to see that many of the threats were in earnest. Soon I felt myself faltering and growing in fear…. One night at a mass meeting, I found myself saying, “If one day you find me sprawled out dead, I do not want you to…

20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’

THE QUESTION is not whether the things that happen to you are chance things or God’s things because, of course, they are both at once. There is no chance thing through which God cannot speak—even the walk from the house to the garage that you have walked ten thousand times before, even the moments when you cannot believe there is a God who speaks at all anywhere. He speaks, I…

‘… and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’ MATTHEW 28:20
 

Lord Jesus, thank you that you are with me always. May I become more conscious of your presence.

Think how different our lives would be if we were constantly aware of God’s presence with us – his loving, welcoming presence. If we allowed his life to flow into and through us with each breath, we would become a channel of blessing into our workplaces,…

Jesus said ²⁰  Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

You don’t have to enter a monastery to be a mystic. 

You don’t have to renounce chocolate or forsake pop culture.

To be a mystic in our times is not about renunciation; it is about intention. 

Living as a mystic means orienting the whole of yourself toward the sacred. 

It’s a matter of purposely looking through the lens of love.

When you say yes to…

One thing more: prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be restored to you. Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you, and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my coworkers. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

Philemon 1:22–25

Paul ends his brief yet personal letter to Philemon with deep faith and a strong sense of shared mission. He asks Philemon to ‘prepare a guest room’ for him, expressing his hope that prayers will be answered and he’ll soon be released and able to visit Philemon in person…

1 Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,
    nor stand on the path of sinners,
    nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in Yahweh’s^[…

Psalm 1

Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked 
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers, 
but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, 
and who meditates on his law day and night.
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season 
and whose leaf does not wither –
whatever they do prospers.

Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the…

Blessed are those who do not follow advice which is based on wanting to do others down
Blessed are those who don’t stop attempting to do what is right.
Blessed are those who don’t ridicule what is loving and good.
Blessed are those who delight in who God is, as shown in the bible.
Blessed are those who day and night think about
* the one who brings peace to families (like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)
* the one who brings peace to those who are abused (like Hebrew slaves in Egypt)
* the one who brings peace to those who are looking for a better life (giving them his…

^1-3Why do those with power seek to use it against people rather than for people?

^4-7From the perspective of our Father in Heaven, the one with real power, it is laughable that people should think that this is what power is for.

Laughable, this is, if it wasn’t so serious.
God rebukes them in his anger, and points them to how power is really exercised, by His Son on a hill top on a cross

^8-9The offer comes out from God:…

Here’s my problem:

O Lord, so many things, people and systems seem to be against me, and more seem to keep cropping up. - how many are my foes! Many are rising against me.
Many of those who know of my faith in you are saying to me “There is no help for you in God”

What do I know of my heavenly Father?

But you, O Lord, are a shield around me
It is what others see of you in me that causes them to respect me - you are my…