Today's Verse

By Connie Brown

Today's Verse is a sixty-day devotional. Why sixty days? I believe if we get small bites of the Word, read and study it over and over, say it over and over, we will have this Word placed in our vocabulary, heart, and spirit, so God can come and give more after we have retained the small bites. Be blessed, be comforted, and don't miss Today's Verse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781644929629

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Day 1

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have and advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

—1 John 2:1

Praise the Lord everybody! Today can be the first day of the rest of your new, prosperous, and abundant life in Christ if you choose. God has shown His love to us one more day. Showing us that He has greater things for us not just natural or financial but more so spiritually.

When my angel woke me this morning, this is what the Lord dropped in my spirit. People sin. I thought, Yes, we do, but I did not understand the purpose of Him speaking this to me. He continued, They should know if it is not in their hearts to sin, but they make a mistake and sin. I am there to cover the sin. I get it! Jesus Christ the righteous is our advocate (one who pleads the cause of another before a higher power).

When we are baptized in Jesus’s name, we are covered by His blood that was shed on Calvary. When we fall short of the glory of God and have a contrite heart (feeling or expressing remorse, sorrow, penitence) about it, God will not see the fall, only the blood of Jesus Christ the righteous.

We must make sure we have it correct. He is not going to let us slide if we sin because that is in our hearts to do. The book of Hebrews 10:26 says, For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.

Our heavenly Father is loving, just, and fair, but He commands obedience out of us after we have come into the knowledge of His will. Let us not take the blood of Jesus as a joke or as a get out of jail free. He did for our lives what we could not do, nor any other power could do.

Thank you, Father, for our advocate, Jesus Christ the righteous!

Day 2

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

—Psalm 34:19

Good day to all, thanking Jesus for another blessed day that He allowed us to see and be able to participate in what He has for us to do.

Today’s verse reminds us that afflictions (pain, grief, distress, and trouble) will come upon all who will live righteous. This does not seem right to us—If I give my life to the Lord, why should I suffer? I was suffering before I came to Him? So what is the difference?

The difference is when we suffered before Him, we had to bear all the pain, grief, distress, and trouble alone, and there was no guarantee that we will overcome it or make it through it.

But when we suffer after surrendering to the Lord, He guarantees us that he will deliver us out of them all! We do not have to bear all the weight that comes with the affliction. We can cast them over on the Lord for He cares for us (1 Peter 5:7).

We may be persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. (2 Corinthians 4:9)

The Lord want us to always have confidence in our decision of accepting Him as our Lord and Savior.

If God be for us, who can be against us?

Day 3

For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in