inspiration in your inbox Thursday, 11 January 2024I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh  Ezekiel 11: 14 – 21Then the word of the Lord came to me:  Mortal, your kinsfolk, your own kin, your fellow exiles, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are …

1 Corinthians 15: 12 – 28 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?  If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;  and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been …

Isaiah 43: 18 – 21 Do not remember the former things,    or consider the things of old.I am about to do a new thing;    now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?I will make a way in the wilderness    and rivers in the desert.The wild animals will honour me,    the …

Lamentations 3: 19 – 24 The thought of my affliction and my homelessness    is wormwood and gall!My soul continually thinks of it    and is bowed down within me.But this I call to mind,    and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,    his mercies never come to …

Preserve me, God, I take refuge in you.I say to the Lord: “You are my God.My happiness lies in you alone.” He has put into my heart a marvellous lovefor the faithful ones who dwell in his land.Those who choose other gods increase their sorrows.Never will I offer their offerings of blood.Never will I take …

Colossians 3: 5 – 11 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).  On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.  These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life. But now …

2 Timothy 1: 3 – 7 I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.  I am reminded of your sincere faith, a …

Jeremiah 29: 4-14 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:  Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce.  Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your …

Psalm 51: 6 – 14 You desire truth in the inward being;    therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;    wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.Let me hear joy and gladness;    let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.Hide your face from my sins,    and blot out all …