Ezekiel 11:21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD. If you take your heart from the God of heaven and go after idols, you will be in great trouble. If your heart […]

Ezekiel 6:5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. God hates idols and false gods. He hates anything that would attempt to steal His worship. The God of heaven made you. He owns you. The God of […]

Lamentations 3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. God is good to those who believe Him. We believe Him enough to trust Him and know that He will meet our needs. We seek Him because we know who He is and what He does. What […]

Jeremiah 51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, He hath established the world by his wisdom, And hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. There is no way you believe the Bible if you do not think that God literally created the earth. Notice this verse in the book of Jeremiah. It […]

Jeremiah 48:44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; And he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: For I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. God will judge. There is no place you can run, […]

Jeremiah 39:18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD. God was going to deliver him because he had trusted in the Lord. God would answer his prayer. […]

Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: For they shall all know me, From the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: For I will forgive their iniquity, And I will remember their sin no more. A […]

Jeremiah 23:23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? God asks the question, do they not realize that He is close at hand. God is not one who set the world in motion and just lets it run. He is still in control. He still hears and […]

Jeremiah 16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? How come men are so eager to make something with their hands and then call it a god. If you can make it, then you are more significant than your creation. If you make a god, then you are higher than […]

Jeremiah 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: They must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, Neither also is it in them to do good. Jeremiah calls out God’s people for worshipping handmade gods. They are made from some material […]

Jeremiah 6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. The false prophets have lied. The lie makes the people feel better but doesn’t really change anything. They say there is peace when there is no peace. The lie will not hold. […]

Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, And the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: And dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. Can you imagine what you are reading in this verse? The wolf and lamb will […]

Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. God loves us so much. Jesus loves us […]

Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, And will not remember thy sins. It is the Lord Jesus Christ who forgives sin. He died on the cross. He paid the sin debt. He is the one that blots out or erases our sin. He doesn’t erase […]

Isaiah 39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. Hezekiah was lifted up in pride. God had been kind to him. He wanted to brag. He wanted to […]

Isaiah 26:13 O LORD our God, Other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: But by thee only will we make mention of thy name. God is the only God that His people recognized. He is the only one that they loved. They had been ruled over by others, but only one was worth […]

Isaiah 19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, And a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. There will be a day when they worship God in Egypt. God is not a country’s God or a territorial god like the idols […]

Isaiah 9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; And they that are led of them are destroyed. Isaiah warned God’s people to be careful who they followed. Wrong and wicked leaders cause people to go astray, make mistakes, and get out of God’s will. If you follow the wrong people, it […]

Proverbs 25:17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; Lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. This verse is so right but a little harsh to those that visit. Don’t overstay your welcome. Don’t be there longer than your hosts are comfortable. Even when you have the best intentions, you have to […]

Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression. Good sense, using your head, being smart means you learn to hold your tongue, keep a lid on it, or not get angry so fast. Your glory is in determining to forgive and forget, to […]

Proverbs 13:7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. Withholders work at making themselves rich. Givers work at blessing others. The one with the money ends up being the poorer one. Solomon taught his son to be a giver. Giving makes you richer […]

Proverbs 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, With the flattering of her lips she forced him. This verse is obviously a proverb written by Solomon to his son or sons. It could be applied to men or women if he were talking to his daughter. We need to be careful […]

Proverbs 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: The wise man said to be careful not to walk with certain people. We should be careful to choose the right people. You will become like who you walk with. If you walk with fools, then foolishness […]

Psalm 145:4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, And shall declare thy mighty acts. This generation should make a point of telling the next generation, our children, about all that God has done. We should be noticing what God does. We should be sharing those truths. Share your faith with your children. Tell […]

Psalm 135:3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: Sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant. It does me good to sing to the Lord. I feel the praise and let the words flow through me more as I sing. I know that He has done so much for me. We are […]

Psalm 119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee Because of thy righteous judgments. I know that my thoughts can be dark and pensive. I know that I can live in doubt and fear. That is not who I need to be. I need to think of the great Word of God. I need […]

Psalm 115:12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron. A very comforting thought is that God thinks about His people. He has not forgotten us. He has not abandoned us. We are not on our own. We […]

Psalm 94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul. Sometimes when we get lost in thoughts, we can go down a deep hole. We can think negative thoughts that are not what the Bible teaches us. We can let fear and doubt take over. We can continue to discourage […]

Psalm 84:6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; The rain also filleth the pools. This valley of Baca refers to an arid, difficult, place that people passed through on the way to their destination. It was as though they might be passing through horrible times but God blessed even in […]

Psalm 78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: And they returned and inquired early after God. Amazing how they wouldn’t listen to God until He broke them. They had to hurt to be helped. We are so hard headed. We are so rebellious against God. We refuse to seek God. We refuse to […]

Psalm 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: But God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. There are times when the load gets too heavy to carry. The burdens of life weigh us down. We get tired. We don’t know what to do. We don’t know how to handle ourselves. […]

Psalm 63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night watches. What do you think about when you are in bed? What do you think about when you can’t sleep. Do you let your problems worry you to death? Do you begin to consider all that might happen to […]

Psalm 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness. Just before this verse, the psalmist said that God was going to destroy those that didn’t believe Him and serve Him. God would take them away, take them […]

Psalm 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: Yea, thy law is within my heart. This verse should sum up how we feel. We should love God. We should have His law in our heart. We do not obey Him because of something outside of us but what He has done in […]

Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: Wait, I say, on the LORD. Things are hard. You are hurting. The answer is to wait on the Lord, to be confident, that He will meet your need. It takes courage to believe God when everything else screams […]

Psalm 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, And sing praises unto thy name. David says that he will give thanks to the Lord even when he is with those that do not believe. He will sing praises to the Lord God of Heaven when he is around people […]

Psalm 13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. David was living in fear that Saul would take his life. He needed help. As David meditated on the Lord, he finally stated that he would and could trust in the mercy of the Lord. He would rejoice in […]

Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. When we go through the book of Job, it is hard to read. He suffers so much. His supposed […]

Job 32:10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion. Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite as he is called in the Bible wants to give his opinion. He has waited for all the older men to finish speaking. He is about to burst with the desire to talk. I […]

Job 31:25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because mine hand had gotten much; God had blessed Job with a great deal of wealth. Job knew that his joy was to be in God and not in the material goods that God had given him. Now as he is suffering, he reminds […]

Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months are with thee, Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; Man is not in charge. He feels like he is. Humanity wants to believe that they are the masters of their destiny. They want to think that they control what happens […]

Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. How quickly we blame God. We think if something terrible happens He must […]

Esther 1:20 And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small. The king asked his wife Vashti to come out and parade her beauty before his men. He wanted her […]

Nehemiah 13:27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? Marrying a strange wife was a way to walk away from God. This word strange here would refer to them being foreigners. It wasn’t about race or language but religion. Strange women […]

Nehemiah 6:13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me. Nehemiah’s enemies attempt to cause him to be afraid. He realizes what they have in mind. If he becomes fearful, he might do something […]

Nehemiah 4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. They prayed to God. They knew they needed what only God could do, but while they were praying, they were watching. They set up guards. They needed God to answer and work, but […]

Ezra 7:23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? The king had great respect for God and His people. He desired to have them pray for […]

II Chronicles 33:15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. Manasseh had been evil. He had brought idols […]

II Chronicles 27:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly. We finally have a king that is doing right. He will honor God. He will […]

II Chronicles 20:15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. It is so easy when we are faced with difficult times […]