Daily Devotions

July 2015

 

1. Matthew 22:34-36 (King James Version -KJV): But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
2. 1 John 3:16 (Amplified Bible -AMP): By this we come to know (progressively to recognize, to perceive, to understand) the [essential] love: that He laid down His [own] life for us; and we ought to lay [our] lives down for [those who are our] brothers [in Him].
3. Psalm 113:7-8 (Amplified Bible -AMP): [The Lord] raises the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap and the dung hill, That He may seat them with princes, even with the princes of His people.
4. John 16:33 (King James Version -KJV): These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
5. 1 John 5:4 (King James Version -KJV): For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
6. Psalm 62:5 (Amplified Bible -AMP): My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him.
7. Proverbs 20:27 (King James Version -KJV): The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
8. 1 Corinthians 9:27 (King James Version -KJV): But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
9. 1 John 5:3 (Amplified Bible -AMP): For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous).
10. James 4:7 (Amplified Bible -AMP): So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you.
11. 1 Peter 5:6 (Amplified Bible -AMP): Therefore humble yourselves [demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation] under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you,
12. 1 Peter 5:7 (Amplified Bible -AMP): Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.
13. 1 Peter 5:8 (Amplified Bible -AMP): Be well balanced (temperate, sober of mind), be vigilant and cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours, the devil, roams around like a lion roaring [in fierce hunger], seeking someone to seize upon and devour.
14. Romans 5:5 (King James Version -KJV): And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
15. Psalm 103:2 (Amplified Bible -AMP): Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul, and forget not [one of] all His benefits—
16. Luke 17:1 (New International Version -NIV): Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.
17. Romans 14:17 (King James Version -KJV): For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
18. Proverbs 14:30 (Amplified Bible -AMP): A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones.
19. James 3:16 (Amplified Bible -AMP): For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices.
20. Job 5:2 (Amplified Bible -AMP): For vexation and rage kill the foolish man; jealousy and indignation slay the simple.
21. Galatians 5:21 (King James Version -KJV): Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22. Philippians 4:4 (King James Version -KJV): Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
23. Proverbs 23:18 (Amplified Bible -AMP): For surely there is a latter end [a future and a reward], and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off.
24. Job 3:25 (King James Version -KJV): For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
25. John 13:34 (King James Version -KJV): A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
26. 1 John 2:15 (Amplified Bible -AMP): Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
27. Jeremiah 17:9 (King James Version -KJV): The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
28. Deuteronomy 8:2 (Amplified Bible -AMP): And you shall [earnestly] remember all the way which the Lord your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and to prove you, to know what was in your [mind and] heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
29. 1 Corinthians 6:18 (King James Version -KJV): Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
30. 1 Samuel 16:7 (Amplified Bible -AMP): But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
31. Isaiah 54:17 (Amplified Bible -AMP): But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord.