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Bible Memory collection
The cross is not only the moment Jesus died, it is the explanation of why he came. These verses teach you to speak of it in Scripture's own language of substitution, peace and finished work. Isaiah 53:5 Seven centuries before Calvary, Isaiah writes that he was pierced for our transgressions and…
Bible Memory collection
Jesus told the disciples on the Emmaus road that Moses and the prophets spoke of him. These are three of the clearest places where the New Testament shows that reading at work. Isaiah 53:5 Seven centuries before Calvary, Isaiah writes that he was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our…
Bible Memory collection
Scripture does not present God's rule as a theory to debate but as a comfort to lean on. These passages say plainly that nothing reaches you outside his hand. Psalms 115:3 The psalmist answers those who ask where Israel's God is by saying he is in the heavens and does whatever he pleases. The…
Bible Memory verse
Nebuchadnezzar, restored after his humbling, confesses that God does according to his will among the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth, and that no one can stop his hand or ask him what he is doing. The confession comes from a pagan king, which is part of the point. It removes the…
Bible Memory verse
Seven centuries before Calvary, Isaiah writes that he was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, that the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and that by his wounds we are healed. Peter and Philip both read these words as speaking of Jesus. It is the Old…
52 Week Journey
Scripture never treats sickness or weakness as if they carry no weight. It records real suffering, real pleading, and real healing, and it also records unanswered requests to be healed. Both are part of the honest…
Devotional
2 Corinthians 12:8-9 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly…
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
Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. WEB This verse places sickness and sin side…
Devotional
Exodus 15:26 and said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of…
Devotional
James 5:14-15 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the…
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 This promise does not describe…
Devotional
John 21:17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know…
Devotional
Luke 17:15-16 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. WEB All ten lepers were healed.…
Devotional
Malachi 4:2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall. WEB Malachi's final chapter contrasts two outcomes: a burning…
Devotional
John 9:25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.” WEB John 9 tracks the healed man's answers as they develop under repeated questioning: first he…
Devotional
2 Corinthians 13:4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you. WEB Paul ties his own…
Devotional
Mark 5:34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your affliction.” WEB This woman had suffered for twelve years and spent everything on physicians without improvement,…
Reading plan day
David wrote this after his sin with Bathsheba was exposed, and he does not soften what he did or bargain with God. He simply asks for mercy, for a clean heart, and for the joy of salvation to be restored, which is the…
Reading plan day
Struck silent for months for doubting the angel's word, Zechariah's tongue is loosed the moment he obeys and names his son John, and his first words are a song of blessing over what God is doing through his child and…
Reading plan day
Isaiah describes a suffering servant, despised and rejected, wounded for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, so that we could be healed by his wounds. Christians have always read this as one of the…
Reading plan day
Proverbs treats the tongue as genuinely powerful, capable of healing or wounding depending on how it is used. The chapter's repeated warning is that many words tend toward sin, while restrained, well chosen words tend…
Reading plan day
Solomon contrasts truthful lips, which last forever, with a lying tongue, which lasts only a moment, and compares rash, careless speech to the thrust of a sword. The tongue of the wise, by contrast, brings healing.…
Biblical concept
In John 10 Jesus says he is the good shepherd, and gives one mark of it: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He also says he knows his own and they know him, and that no one takes them out of his hand.…
Christian Living
Psalm 103:2-3 Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits; who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases; WEB psalms 103 David puts forgiveness and healing side by side, and the order matters.…
The Sunday Study
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