I started writing down the verses that really stuck out to me rather than just marking up the page.
This entry is what I've written in my personal journal.
FEBRUARY18TH
Beware! Don't always be wishing for what you don't have. For REAL life and REAL living are not related to how rich we are.
He will always give you all you need from day to day if you make the Kingdom of God your primary concern.
But is was only with their words they followed Him, not with their hearts.
But anyone who is not aware that he is doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, for their responsibility is greater.
FEBRUARY19TH
How He loves His people -His holy ones are in His hands.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that murders the prophets. The city that stones those sent to help her. How often I have wanted to gather your children together even as a hen protects he brood under her wings, but you wouldn't let Me.
FEBRUARY20TH
Think of it! The Ark of God, who is LORD of the whole earth, will lead you across the river.
"Come up from the riverbed." the LORD now told him to command them.
So no one can become my disciple unless he first sits down and counts his blessings -then renounces them all for Me.
FEBRUARY21ST
Rescue the poor and helpless from the grasp of evil men.
The good man wins his case by careful argument; the evil-minded only wants to fight. Self-control means controlling the tongue! A quick retort can ruin everything.
"Don't be afraid of them," the LORD said to Joshua, "for they are already defeated! I have given them to you to destroy. Not a single one of them will be able to stand up to you."
So the sun stopped in the heavens and stayed there for almost twenty-four hours! There has never been such a day before, and there has never been another since, when the LORD stopped the sun and moon -ALL BECAUSE OF THE PRAYER OF ONE MAN.
FEBRUARY22ND
The Kingdom of God isn't ushered in with visible signs. You won't be able to say, 'It has begun here in this place or there in that part of the country.' For the Kingdom of God is within you.
For Jehovah God is our Light and Protector. He gives us grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from those who walk along His paths.
...the LORD God was their inheritance. He was all they needed.
But the question is: When I, the Messiah, return, how many will I find who have faith and are praying?
But God's angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can't see: eternal power, for instance and the mystery of His divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: people knew God perfectly well, but when they didn't treat Him like God, refusing to worship Him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in His hands for figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.
They know perfectly well they're spitting in God's face. And they don't care -worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best.
Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgemental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors. But God isn't so easily diverted. He sees right through all such smoke screens and holds you to what you've done.
In kindness He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life-change.
God pays no attention to what others say (or what you think) about you. He makes up His own mind.
But if God Himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of Him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome Him, in whom He dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, He'll do the same thing in you that He did in Jesus, bringing you alive to Himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and He does, as surely as he did in Jesus!), you are delivered from that dead life. With His Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's! So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go! This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who He is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with Him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with Him!
FEBRUARY23RD
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. Those who heard Him say this exclaimed, "If it is that hard, how can anyone be saved?" He replied, "God can do what men can't!"
O LORD, You are so good and kind, so ready to forgive; so full of mercy for all who ask Your aid.
For You are great, and do great miracles. You alone are God. Tell me where You want me to go and I will go there. May every fiber of my being unite in reverence to Your name. With all my heart I will praise You. I will give glory to Your name forever, for You love me so much! You are constantly so kind! You have rescued me from deepest hell.
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