Daily Bible Verse

Don’t you hate being anxious? Especially when you’re feeling that awful feeling in the pit of your stomach that just won’t seem to go away. Anxiety is something we all seem to deal with from time to time. Let’s look today at some truths about how God wants us to handle anxiety.

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?… – Matthew 6:30 (BSB)

In today’s verse, we see that God really shows us that He will take care of our day-to-day needs. It’s so easy to begin to worry if you’ll be able to stand in front of your class and give a presentation, but if you’ll focus on God and His help for you each day, you begin to see that you can make it.

The truth is, when we’re anxious, we’re really not trusting God. God’s best for our lives is to trust Him and rest in His goodness. That’s often really hard to do. We’d rather carry our worries and concerns. It takes faith to trust, rest and believe that God’s really got the solution to the things that make us anxious.

Challenge: Practice Resting Knowing God’s Got It!

Pray: God, I thank you that you have the answer to the things that make me anxious. Today I choose to rest and trust that you’ve got the answer to my anxiety. Amen.

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And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. – Philippians 4:8 (NLT)

Anxiety can be a really big thing to deal with in your life. Sometimes one of the best defenses against anxiety is learning to guard your thoughts. The battle against anxiety is often won in our thought life.

Any time you begin to feel anxious, you can begin to learn to guard your thoughts. When thoughts of anxiety come, we can begin to swap those thoughts for good ones.

Challenge yourself to think about things that are true, honorable, right, and pure. That might mean that you have to pay attention to what you watch. TV and other media can bring anxiety into your life if you’re not careful, so don’t be afraid to turn things off that aren’t causing you to be at peace.

Finally, be sure to take care of yourself. Get enough rest. Often anxiety can be heightened by lack of sleep or self-care. Don’t ignore basic self-care in times of stress and anxiety. Be sure to eat and sleep as much as you can to help yourself feel good.

Today’s Truth: Guard your thoughts and get Rid of things that don’t bring you peace.

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Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. – Phil 4:7 (NLT)

It’s easy to be anxious in our lives. In fact, it’s almost expected. Everywhere you go, you hear and see people dealing with anxiety. However, as Christians, we don’t have to live our lives in a state of anxiousness. Instead, we can exchange our anxiety for God’s peace.

As God’s children, we can expect to walk in peace. God has provided peace in His presence for us to enjoy.

Sometimes, there can be things that are stopping that peace in your life. For you, that might mean turning off the news, staying off some social media outlets, or switching some of the TV you’re watching. If there’s something in your life that you’re watching or hearing that brings you to fear, change it up. Starve the anxiety out. Then expect to walk in the peace of God in your life.

God’s best for your life is peace. So today, expect to walk in that peace. Know that Jesus provided you with peace. Let that peace guard your heart and mind each day.

Today’s Truth: God’s Best for Your Life is Peace.

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The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

⁵ “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
    before you were born I set you apart;
    I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” – Jeremiah 1:4 (NIV)

We all have days where we struggle, don’t we? You know, those days when you think no one understands you? I remember so many times, I’d run into my bedroom upset because someone had misunderstood what I was saying or trying to do.

Life often seems to be filled with many opportunities to get upset because someone just doesn’t get you or understand you. However, today’s Bible verse is very comforting in that regard. The Bible verse today talks about how God knew Jeremiah before he was even born.

Isn’t that interesting? When Jeremiah was in his mother’s womb, God knew who He was. Before a single person on earth knew Him, God did. We can take comfort in this verse too. Why? Because God knows us. He knew us before any human ever did. He sees us in a way that no one else does. God knows our calling and our potential. Often when we feel misunderstood by people, we forget that there is one who has known us from the beginning and understands us perfectly, God.

So in those moments when you struggle feeling hurt, overlooked, misunderstood, it’s important to realize that God loves you and knows you from your mother’s womb. When we look to Him for our purpose and calling, it makes everything else fall into perspective.

The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. – Jeremiah 1:1 (NIV)

I like how the Bible often gives us clues into the lives of the people in the events we read. When we begin reading the book of Jeremiah, we see some background into Jeremiah’s life.

We see that Jeremiah’s dad was a priest. This gives us insight into how Jeremiah may have been brought up. Most likely he was brought up being around the things of God. He probably studied the Bible and knew it well. Also, we see the town mentioned that he grew up in. It was near the town of Jerusalem, and was known as being a place where priests lived.

All this shows us that Jeremiah was brought up in an area that probably gave a lot of importance to God and the things of God. When we read through the Bible, details like these help us to understand and relate to the person we read about in the Bible.

Jeremiah was familiar with God. He knew the ways of worship and the ways of God from his upbringing. However, as we’ll see in the next few verses, Jeremiah had to learn to trust and rely on God for himself. He had to learn to listen to God, to obey Him, and to rely on the strength of God.

We too, have to do the same in our own lives. Regardless of our upbringing, we have to choose to know God and serve Him for ourselves. So today, think about what you believe. Realize that God has good plans for you.

Has not my hand made all these things,
    and so they came into being?”
declares the Lord.

“These are the ones I look on with favor:
    those who are humble and contrite in spirit,
    and who tremble at my word.- Isaiah 66:2 (NIV)

When you go to church, do you want to be challenged by God’s word? How about when you read your Bible?

Today’s verse talks about God looking with favor on the people who honor His word. It’s one thing to like it when someone says a Bible verse that encourages you. But what about those verses that challenge you? The ones that inspire you to make changes in your life? Those verses are important too.

You should desire to become more like Christ. Not to earn His love, but because of what He has done. God’s word will challenge you to be more like Him. It will help you to grow into maturity as a believer.

So this week, if you go to church or while you’re reading your Bible, determine to be challenged and honor God’s word. Let it speak into your life and let it change you and make you better.