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Encouragement

Click on the verses below to read a devotional on each verse!

God has a purpose for me

Psalm 138:8
The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O LORD, endures forever—do not abandon the works of your hands. (NIV ©'84)

God will finish what He started in me

Philippians 1:6
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus

With God, all things are possible
Philippians 4:13
I can do all this through Him who gives me strength.
Paul’s declaration of Christ’s power enabling him to live above his circumstances

No condemnation
Romans 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

Temporary suffering, Eternal glory
Romans 8:18
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us

Nothing can separate me from God’s love
Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I am eternally secure
John 10:28-29
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

Jesus has overcome the world
John 16:33
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

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