While desiring to become familiar with the many great narratives and themes across the expanse of Scripture, it can be helpful in moments of trial and hardship (as well as joy and celebration) to have a timely verse we can recall to mind (“hidden in our hearts”- Psalm 119:11). I am focusing more on this aspect of my own devotional life this year and choosing a verse to meditate on each week. I pray that these ancient words will still speak their truth today no matter what challenges we face.
January 1-7, 2023
“Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.”
Mark 1:35 (NKJV)
January 8-14, 2023
“Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.”
Joshua 21:45 (NKJV)
January 15-21, 2023
“For there is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light.”
Mark 4:22 (NKJV)
January 22-28, 2023
“Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.”
Psalm 139:23-24 (NKJV)
January 29-February 4, 2023
“By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:35 (NKJV)
February 5-11, 2023
“Now also when I am old and grayheaded,
O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone who is to come.
Psalm 71:18 (NKJV)
February 12-18, 2023
“And he said, ‘Please, show me Your glory.’”
Exodus 33:18 (NKJV)
“He is the radiance of the glory of God…”
Hebrews 1:3a (ESV)
February 19-25, 2023
“Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.”
Luke 6:12 (NKJV)
February 26-March 4, 2023
“The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness;
You will sustain him on his sickbed.”
Psalm 41:3 (NKJV)
March 5-11, 2023
“From the end of the earth I will cry to You,
When my heart is overwhelmed;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”
Psalm 61:2 (NKJV)
March 12-18, 2023
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)
March 19-25, 2023
“But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”
1 Peter 5:10 (NKJV)
March 26-April 1, 2023
“He must increase, but I must decrease.”
John 3:30 (NKJV)
April 2-8, 2023
“Whoever has no rule over his own spirit
Is like a city broken down, without walls.”
Proverbs 25:28 (NKJV)
April 9-15, 2023
“In the multitude of my anxieties within me,
Your comforts delight my soul.”
Psalm 94:19 (NKJV)
April 16-23, 2023
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.”
2 Corinthains 4:16 (NKJV)
April 24-29, 2023
“For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.”
Hebrews 12:3 (NKJV)
April 30-May 6, 2023
“And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
1 John 2:17 (NKJV)
May 7-13, 2023
“The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.”
Isaiah 32:17 (NKJV)
May 14-20, 2023
“He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.”
Psalm 147:3 (NKJV)
May 21-27, 2023
“For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.”
Romans 8:6 (ESV)
May 28-June 3, 2023
“But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.”
1 Peter 4:7 (NKJV)
June 4-10, 2023
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 (NKJV)
June 11-17, 2023
“You died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
Colossians 3:3 (NKJV)
June 18-24, 2023
“Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits.”
Psalm 103:1-2 (NKJV)
June 25-July 1, 2023
“I sought the Lord, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.”
Psalm 34:4 (NKJV)
July 2-8, 2023
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Romans 8:31 (NKJV)
July 9-15, 2023
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”
Ephesians 2:8-9 (NKJV)
July 15-22, 2023
“He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”
Psalm 126:6 (NKJV)
July 23-29, 2023
“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”
Romans 13:14 (NKJV)
July 30-August 5, 2023
“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
Galatians 6:9 (NKJV)
August 6-12, 2023
“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 26:41 (NKJV)
August 13-19, 2023
“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts.”
Zechariah 4:6c (NKJV)
August 20-26, 2023
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 1:14 (NKJV)
August 27-September 2, 2023
“Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord…”
Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)
September 3-9, 2023
“…for the wrath of men does not produce the righteousness of God.”
James 1:20 (NKJV)
September 10-16, 2023
“Truly my soul silently waits for God; from Him comes my salvation.”
Psalm 62:1 (NKJV)
September 17-23, 2023
“But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all…”
1 Corinthians 12:7 (NKJV)
September 24-30, 2023
“May my meditation be sweet to Him- I will be glad in the LORD.”
Psalm 104:34 (NKJV)
October 1-7, 2023
“Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name give glory, because of Your mercy, because of Your truth.”
Psalm 115:1 (NKJV)
October 8-14, 2023
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.”
2 Corinthians 4:7 (NKJV)
October 15-21, 2023
“Examine me, O Lord, and prove me;
Try my mind and my heart.”
Psalm 26:2 (NKJV)
October 23-28, 2023
“You will keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.”
Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV)
October 29-November 4, 2023
“And He said, ‘My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.'”
Exodus 33:14 (NKJV)
November 5-11, 2023
“May my meditation be sweet to Him. I will be glad in the Lord.”
Psalm 104:34 (NKJV)
November 12-18, 2023
“For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.”
Colossians 1:19-20 (NKJV)
November 19-25, 2023
“But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 15:57 (NKJV)
November 26-December 2, 2023
“Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You I do trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You.”
Psalm 143:8 (NKJV)
December 3-9, 2023
“Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.:
James 5:11 (NKJV)
December 10-16, 2023
“With my soul I have desired You in the night, yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early.”
Isaiah 26:9 ab (NKJV)
December 17-23, 2023
“…I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
John 8:12 (NKJV)
December 24-30, 2023
“Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:19 (NKJV)
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