Bible Verses
2025-10-17
I know that you have persevered and endured hardships for the sake of my name, and you have not grown weary.
Revelation 2:3 CSB
2025-10-15
When he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and golden bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 5:8 CSB
I am encouraged that my prayers, weak and sporadic as they are, are nonetheless like golden bowls of incense to God.
2025-10-04
... [Christ] is not weak in dealing with you, but powerful among you.
2 Corinthians 13:3 CSB
I wonder if the implication is that Christ's powerful dealings often seem weak and are easily mistaken for weakness or inactivity. It is a comfort to know that He is powerful among His people even when it seems like He is doing little. Lord, work in power and revitalise my inner man I pray!
2025-10-03
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 CSB
My prayer is that Christ's power will reside in me, be perfected in me, and make me strong in my weakness. My hope is not that I will cease to feel weak and begin to feel strong. Rather, I am praying that though I continue to feel weak, Christ will work with such power that his purposes are achieved — not merely despite my weakness, but through it!
Having said that, I would love to be able to see how God is working through my weakness.
2025-09-28
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.
2 Timothy 1:7 CSB
2025-09-27
... our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down ...
2 Corinthians 10:8 CSB
I praise God that building up, not tearing down, is his purpose for giving authority to church leaders.
It's also a challenge to ensure my authority as a father is used for building up my kids.
2025-09-25
And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8 CSB
This verse is full of superlatives — "God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always have everything you need, you may excel in every good work". There are 7 superlatives in just 27 words!
While it's not strictly speaking a promise, at least not grammatically, it does seem reasonable to read this as an encouragement to ask for this overflowing grace which leads to excellence in every good work.
How freely God gives — not grudgingly giving a small amount, but liberally making every grace overflow!
Persevering without growing weary is a virtue in the eyes of God. Lord, fill me with your Spirit to drive out weariness and empower my perseverance!