11.30.09...PSALM 13:5 (NIV)

But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

Day by Day - Those who rejoice over God's salvation know His unfailing love!

11.29.09...EXODUS 15:2 (NIV)

The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.



Day by Day - Declare God's role in your life!

11.28.09...PSALM 100:4 (NIV)

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

Day by Day - Thanks God for direct access to You and Your kingdom!

11.27.09...PSALM 35:18 (NIV)

I will give you thanks in the great assembly; among throngs of people I will praise you.

Day by Day - Thanks God for believers assemblying together under the banner of praise!

11.26.09...PSALM 7:17 (NIV)

I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

Day by Day - Thanks God for the song of Your righteousness dwelling in our hearts!

11.25.09...ROMANS 14:6 (NIV)

He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

Daby by Day - Thanks God as we strive to do things that give You honor!

11.24.09...ROMANS 6:17 (NIV)

But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.

Day by Day - Thanks God for Your teachings and our willingness to be obedient to them!

11.23.09...MATTHEW 14:19 (NIV)

And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

Day by Day - Thanks God for Your gracious and bountiful provision!

11.22.09...2 CHRONICLES 16:34 (NIV)

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.

Day by Day - Thanks God for being so good!

11.21.09...1 THESSALONIANS 4:7, 8 (NIV)

For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

Day by Day - It's the call and the choice that directs us to live a life holy and pleasing to God. And the true measure of its success is found in our acceptance of the Holy Spirit!

11.20.09...LUKE 6:22, 23 (NIV)

Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.

Day by Day - It may feel painful to rejoice in rejection. The world has some pretty vile things to say about God's people. But your acceptance does not come from the world. Find consolation in knowing rejection's reward reaps an eternal benefit.

11.19.09...PSALM 119:118 (NIV)

You reject all who stray from your decrees, for their deceitfulness is in vain.

Day by Day - Pray for those who have rejected God!

11.18.09...PSALM 94:14 (NIV)

For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance.

Day by Day - God's word is our blessed assurance over rejection!

11.17.09...PSALM 27:9 (NIV)

Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, O God my Savior.

Day by Day - It's right to feel as if God has rejected you, but not for the reason you think. When we willingfully walk outside of God's will, He responds. Only you know that to be the case. If you are walking in God's will and you sense Him rejecting you, chances are the enemy has you believing a lie. Trust God!

11.16.09...JOB 8:20 (NIV)

Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers.

Day by Day - The world faces the perpetually-nagging dilemma - why does bad things happen to good people? Rest assured that although things do and will happen, God ultimately never rejects His own!

11.15.09...2 CHRONICLES 6:42 (NIV)

O Lord God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember the great love promised to David Your servant.

Day by Day - God does not reject His anointed ones; accept the promise of who you are!

11.14.09...HEBREWS 6:17-19 (NIV)

Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

Day by Day - Find hope in the anchor of God's promises. They are an encouragement to the soul and a compass ever pointing to one's truthful direction.

11.13.09...HEBREWS 6:11, 12 (NIV)

We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Day by Day - The sure cure for hope is pursuing God daily, dutifully, diligently!

11.12.09...ROMANS 12:12 (NIV)

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Day by Day - May you always find joy in hope!

11.11.09...PROVERBS 13:12 (NIV)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

Day by Day - Withholding what your body needs most causes problems in the long run. Want a heart that knows what it means to be healthy? Find hope!

11.10.09...PSALM 42:5, 6 (NIV)

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Day by Day - Discouragement comes. It is a human quality that may not be avoided, but can be curbed with hope in a loving, encouraging God.

11.09.09...PSALM 25:2 (NIV)

In you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.

Day by Day - No one can put you to shame as long as your hope is inexcusably in God.

11.08.09...JOB 13:15 (NIV)

Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.

Day by Day - The goal is hope, not a contingency plan based on one's circumstances!

11.07.09...PSALM 33:18 (NIV)

But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him; on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.

Day by Day - Another reason to respect God is for His unfailing love. No where on earth will you find a love greater than God's. His love for you will never fail!

11.06.09...ISAIAH 43:1 (NIV)

But, now, this is what the Lord says -- he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

Day by Day - When the One who knows you calls you by name, you have absolutely nothing to fear. You are His beloved in whom He is well pleased!

11.05.09...PROVERBS 10:27 (NIV)

The fear of the Lord adds length to life, but the years of the wicked are cut short.

Day by Day - Not all fear is defined as dread. Fear also means to respect one in authority. As God controls our lives, we find a healthy sense of respect for His authority. Those who refuse to adhere to God's authority have a great deal to dread!

11.04.09...PSALM 76:7 (NIV)

You alone are to be feared,. Who can stand before you when you are angry?

Day by Day - The only thing to fear is God's anger. Those who go their own way and do their own thing apart from God, they have everything to fear!

11.03.09...PSALM 27:1 (NIV)

The Lord is my light and my salvation -- whom shall I fear?

Day by Day - In the grand scheme of things, God shows us there is nothing to fear!

11.02.09....JAMES 1:17 (NIV)

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

Day by Day - Who is afraid of the shadows? Those things that lurk in the dark have no power over one who has been given good gifts from a Father illuminating dark places!

11.01.09...I JOHN 4:18 (NIV)

There is no fear in love: But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Day by Day - It's true that the world has a great many things to fear. But in Christ, we are given the choice to fear what the world fears or find comfort in the One who drives fear out!