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Bible Memory verse
If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Forgiveness rests on God's character, not on the intensity of your sorrow. He is faithful, so confession is safe. Psalms 32:5 Proverbs 28:13 Psalms 51:1-2 Faithful God, I bring this sin…
Bible Memory verse
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, while worldly sorrow brings death. It teaches you to tell the difference between conviction and self hatred. One leads you to God, the other away from him. Psalms 51:17 Matthew 27:3-5 Luke 15:18-20 Father, give me sorrow…
Bible Memory verse
David asks how long God will forget him and hide his face. The Bible gives room for that question. It permits lament. A believer who can pray this verse is less likely to walk away in silence. Psalms 13:5-6 Psalms 22:1 Habakkuk 1:2 Lord, how long. I say it to you rather than about you, and I will…
Devotional
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! WEB Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet, and this verse shows…
Devotional
Ecclesiastes 3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; WEB The Preacher lists weeping and mourning alongside laughing and dancing, as things that have their proper time under…
Devotional
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. WEB Paul writes this right after describing how to restore someone caught in a fault, in verse 1. Bearing burdens is not abstract goodwill; it…
Devotional
Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. WEB This is the second beatitude, and it comes right after blessed are the poor in spirit. Jesus is describing the shape of a life that belongs to…
Devotional
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. WEB The promise is specific: not…
Devotional
Psalm 13:1-2 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over…
Devotional
Psalm 13:1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? WEB David asks the same question four times in the first two verses: how long. He is not managing his feelings before…
Devotional
John 11:35 Jesus wept. WEB Jesus knew He was about to raise Lazarus. He had already said as much a few verses earlier. And He wept anyway, standing at the tomb of a friend, watching Mary and the others cry. This…
Devotional
John 11:43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” WEB John records that Jesus deliberately delayed coming, staying two more days after hearing Lazarus was sick, in verse 6, and then…
Devotional
Psalm 34:18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. WEB This verse does not say God is near to those who have recovered from their broken heart. It says He is near to…
Devotional
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. WEB The image is personal, God…
Devotional
1 Thessalonians 4:13 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. WEB Paul does not tell the Thessalonians not to…
Devotional
Psalm 130:1-2 A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh. Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions. WEB The psalm does not begin with composure. It begins in…
Devotional
Exodus 3:7 Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. WEB Before Moses receives his commission, God…
Devotional
Lamentations 3:24 "Yahweh is my portion," says my soul; "Therefore I will hope in him." WEB This line sits inside a book written after Jerusalem's destruction, by someone who has just described bitterness, affliction,…
Reading plan day
Jesus warns his disciples honestly that they will have sorrow and trouble in the world, but he does not leave them there: their sorrow will turn into joy, and in him they can have peace even while the world remains…
Topic study
Prayer is not primarily a way to get things from God. It is the way a creature answers back to the Creator who has invited the conversation. Most people, if pressed, would define prayer as asking God for something.…
Word and phrase
Repentance is a change of mind that produces a change of direction. John the Baptist and Jesus both open their preaching with the same call: repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repentance is not mere regret.…
Christian Living
Psalm 34:18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. WEB psalms 34 The verse does not say God mends a broken heart quickly. It says He comes near to it. Nearness is…
Christian Living
Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your…
Bible question
Revelation 21:3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. WEB Heaven…
Bible question
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. WEB On a question no one can research, God's word must speak first. 2 Corinthians 5:6-8…
Bible question
Acts 3:19 “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, WEB Three passages define repentance from three sides: the…
The Sunday Study
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.