I will walk in freedom, for I have devoted myself to your commandments.
Psalms 119:45 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.119.45.NLT
Devoting myself to God gives me freedom, and as I celebrate Christmas I must remember that Jesus came to the earth to give me freedom. Devoting myself to Jesus gives me freedom.
Help me understand the meaning of your commandments, and I will meditate on your wonderful deeds.
Psalms 119:27 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.119.27.NLT
I need to look at God's Word and try to understand it, not just read it because it's part of my daily routine. I need to meditate on His Word and remember all the wonderful things He has done for me in my life.
I will delight in your decrees and not forget your word.
Psalms 119:16 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.119.16.NLT
This I declare about the Lord: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him.
Psalms 91:2 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.91.2.NLT
During these difficult times dealing with Covid-19, it's easy for me to worry, thinking, "Am I going to get Covid-19?". This verse reminds me that God is my refuge and place of safety. He will protect me from Covid-19. It says in Psalm 91 that I don't have to be afraid of disease, because I put my trust in God. It's very easy for me to be overcome by fear because of the media or hear that someone I know had Covid or died from it.
But this verse reminds me that I don't have to be afraid or worry because I am trusting God to protect me and take care of me.
Then Elijah stood in front of them and said, “How much longer will you waver, hobbling between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him! But if Baal is God, then follow him!” But the people were completely silent.
1 Kings 18:21 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1ki.18.21.NLT
The people of Israel had to choose to serve God or false gods. I have to make a choice about whether I want to serve God or myself. I must choose God and put Him first in my life and follow His Word.
So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.
Galatians 6:9 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/gal.6.9.NLT
I will not get tired of doing good. God wants me to be persistent in doing good to reap a harvest of blessing. I reap a harvest of blessings by following His Word.
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
Galatians 5:22-23 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/gal.5.22-23.NLT
I must produce the fruit of the Spirit in my life. These are things that God wants me to do and I need to put them into practice all the time around others.
Jesus turned around and looked at his disciples, then reprimanded Peter. “Get away from me, Satan!” he said. “You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.”
Mark 8:33 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.8.33.NLT
I must see things from God's point of view, not a human point of view. While from a human point of view, Jesus' death would be bad because He wouldn't be able to perform miracles and heal people, from God's point of view, Jesus wouldn't pay the price for our sins because He wouldn't go to the Cross and die and rise from the dead three days later.
I must remember to see situations and circumstances from God's point of view and not a human point of view, because God sees the big picture, I don't.
5 And because of their unbelief, he couldn’t do any miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick people and heal them.
Mark 3:5
Mark 6:5 NLT - And because of their unbelief, he - Bible Gateway
Jesus couldn't heal a lot of people in His hometown of Nazareth because of their unbelief. I won't have unbelief in my life when it comes to believing for healing in my right eye.
But Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just have faith.”
Mark 5:36 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.5.36.NLT
There are a lot of scary things in the world that can make me afraid, but Jesus told Jairus not to be afraid when the worst thing happened when his daughter died and Jairus had faith and Jesus raised his daughter from the dead. That means I need to have faith in this trying time because Jesus said not for me to be afraid.
But Jesus said, “No, go home to your family, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been.” So the man started off to visit the Ten Towns of that region and began to proclaim the great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed at what he told them.
Mark 5:19-20 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.5.19-20.NLT
Jesus wanted the demoniac to share his testimony and not just follow Him. Jesus wants me to share His love with everyone and tell others about what He has done for me. He has saved my life by leading my parents to adopt me and He saved my soul by showing me His salvation.
Then he added, “Pay close attention to what you hear. The closer you listen, the more understanding you will be given—and you will receive even more. To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given. But for those who are not listening, even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them.”
Mark 4:24-25 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.4.24-25.NLT
I need to listen to understand what God is saying in His Word. I need to pay attention to what it says, listening to Jesus' teachings will give me more understanding. If I don't pay attention even what I do understand will be taken away.
And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”
Mark 4:20 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.4.20.NLT
I need to be the person who is good soil and accepts God's Word. I need to produce a harvest in my life, reaching people for Jesus. That is what I'm supposed to do.
Anyone who does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
Mark 3:35 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.3.35.NLT
Jesus does have family, it's you and me, and doing the will of God makes me a member of Jesus' family. I do the will of God by reading His word and obeying what He says.
He had healed many people that day, so all the sick people eagerly pushed forward to touch him.
Mark 3:10 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.3.10.NLT
I am believing God for the healing of my right eye. I am pressing into Jesus for my healing.
When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”
Mark 2:17 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.2.17.NLT
Jesus came to call people who are sinners, I need to share His message with everyone. It is why I am on the Earth, to share his love with everyone before He returns.
Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”
Mark 2:5 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.2.5.NLT
Jesus saw the faith of the friends that had brought the paralyzed man and he forgave the man's sins and healed him. Jesus needs to see my faith and that I believe he will heal my eyes and I have faith that he will.
A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. “If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,” he said. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” Instantly the leprosy disappeared, and the man was healed.
Mark 1:40-42 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.1.40-42.NLT
I am praying that God will heal my blind right eye because Jesus is willing to heal me and wants me to be healed. I will apply His Word to my life and my right eye.
So Jesus healed many people who were sick with various diseases, and he cast out many demons. But because the demons knew who he was, he did not allow them to speak.
Mark 1:34 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.1.34.NLT
I believe that Jesus will heal my blind eye. He healed many diseases and He can heal my blind right eye.
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little farther up the shore Jesus saw Zebedee’s sons, James and John, in a boat
repairing their nets. He called them at once, and they also followed him,
leaving their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired men.
Mark
1:19-20 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.1.19-20.NLT
James and John left everything to follow Jesus. I need to leave everything and follow Jesus and put Him first in my life. Following Jesus is the most important thing I can do.
And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.
2 Peter 3:14 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/2pe.3.14.NLT
I will try to live a peaceful life and be pure and blameless in God's sight. I need to be blameless in God's sight while waiting for Jesus' return. I must keep God first in my life while waiting for Jesus to come back.
So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.
2 Peter 2:9 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/2pe.2.9.NLT
God will help me through trials in my life, he will punish the wicked but he will carry me through the trials in my life if I rely on Him and stay close to him.
Because of that experience, we have even greater confidence in the message proclaimed by the prophets. You must pay close attention to what they wrote, for their words are like a lamp shining in a dark place—until the Day dawns, and Christ the Morning Star shines in your hearts.
2 Peter 1:19 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/2pe.1.19.NLT
God used the prophets to communicate his message. I need to pay close attention to what they wrote down because it is a light in a dark place. They wrote down God's messages for me, and I need to pay attention to what they wrote because God is using their words to speak to me through His Word.
By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.
2 Peter 1:3 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/2pe.1.3.NLT
I need to rely on God's divine power to live a Godly life. I didn't live the most Godly life this week but God will help me live to be a better example of a Godly life. I have to rely on God to help me live a Godly life and He has given me everything I need to live a Godly life.
I need to know God better by reading His word and praying to him to help me live a Godly life.
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
1 Peter 5:7 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.5.7.NLT
God cares about me so I should give my worries to him. Whether it's worrying about my eye or my health or other things in my life, God wants me to give Him my worries.
Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.
1 Peter 4:11 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.4.11.NLT
I must use the gifts God gave me to help the people around me in my life to bring glory to God through Jesus. I am doing things to help people to glorify God and not myself.
Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it.
1 Peter 3:15 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.3.15.NLT
I must put Christ first in my life and worship Him. I must be ready to explain it to the unbelievers when they want to know about the hope Christ gives me in my life. When I worship Christ and live for him, it will show in how I live my life.
Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.
1 Peter 3:8 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.3.8.NLT
I need to sympathize with others and love them. I need to be tenderhearted and keep a humble attitude.
It is God’s will that your honorable lives should silence those ignorant people who make foolish accusations against you. For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.
1 Peter 2:15-16 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.2.15-16.NLT
I need to live an honorable life and not let my freedom become an excuse to do evil. Living an honorable life will silence ignorant people who will make false accusations against me.
But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:9 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.2.9.NLT
I have to remember that I'm God's possession and show other people the goodness of God through how I live.
God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, and his Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ. May God give you more and more grace and peace.
1 Peter 1:2 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.1.2.NLT
God chose me and gives me grace and peace in my life. I will obey Jesus and Holy Spirit has made me Holy.
And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
1 John 2:17 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1jn.2.17.NLT
I need to do what pleases God and remember that this world is fading away and focus on God rather than the world.
Then Jesus said to the Roman officer, “Go back home. Because you believed, it has happened.” And the young servant was healed that same hour.
Matthew 8:13 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mat.8.13.NLT
I thank God for healing my eyes. I believe that He will heal my eyes.
So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.
2 Corinthians 4:18 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/2co.4.18.NLT
I need to focus on Jesus and not things of this world. He needs to be my highest priority. He needs to be first in my life.
When he reached the place where the road started down the Mount of Olives, all of his followers began to shout and sing as they walked along, praising God for all the wonderful miracles they had seen.
Luke 19:37 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/luk.19.37.NLT
I will praise and thank God for the miracles He's done in my life and I will praise him for healing my right eye.
Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
Colossians 3:13 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/col.3.13.NLT
God wants me to forgive others because He forgave me. I need to make allowances for others' faults.
For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.
Romans 10:3-4 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.10.3-4.NLT
People think that they can make themselves right with God by keeping the law, or for secular people, being good. They don't want to accept God's way of being made right with Him through Jesus. They feel they don't need Jesus to save them from their sins because they feel they are good enough, even though Jesus fulfilled the law and made us right with God because we can't do it ourselves.
We need Jesus because He is the only way we can become right with God, but people cling to their own way of trying to become right with God. Don't rely on yourself to become right with God, accept Jesus into your life and you'll become right with God.
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
Romans 8:28 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.8.28.NLT
God is in control and all things work together for good in my life so I will continue to trust Him no matter what happens.
But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.) And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
Romans 8:25-26 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.8.25-26.NLT
I must believe and pray for the healing in my right eye. God will show me what to pray for when I don't know what to pray for.
Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
Romans 8:5-6 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.8.5-6.NLT
I will not let my sinful nature dominate me, instead, I will be controlled by the Holy Spirit, and letting him control my mind and thoughts will lead me to life and peace.
But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.
Romans 7:6 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.7.6.NLT
I need to obey God not by obeying the letter of the law, but obeying the spirit of God, I did not do a great job applying this in my life but I will rely on God to help me obey His law more in the future.
Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.
Romans 6:14 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.6.14.NLT
I'm not required to live under the law, because God's grace gives me freedom but I should follow the law without forgetting God's grace.
For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:17 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.5.17.NLT
One man brought sin into the world, but God's wonderful grace saved me through Jesus. And through Jesus, I can triumph over sin.
We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.
Romans 5:3-4 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.5.3-4.NLT
God will help me endure trials in my life so that I can develop strength of character by relying on God and not myself. I have confident hope in His salvation.
For he will conceal me there when troubles come; he will hide me in his sanctuary. He will place me out of reach on a high rock.
Psalms 27:5 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.27.5.NLT
God will conceal me from troubles and I must trust him and He will keep me safe.
Abraham never wavered in believing God’s promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God.
Romans 4:20 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.4.20.NLT
God made a promise to Abraham that he would have a son, Isaac, and God kept that promise, but he never wavered in his faith. I need to have faith in God for what His plan is for my life. I should imitate Abraham and have faith in God like he did.
We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
Romans 3:22 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.3.22.NLT
I must have faith in Jesus to be made right with God. I place my faith in Jesus it isn't just about follwoing the rules to be right with God.
