The Daily Verse on Truth

The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. Psalm 145:18

Too often we lie to ourselves. If we lie to ourselves, chances are we are also lying to God. Go ahead and tell yourself and God the truth. You both will know if you're not and we might as well deal with our issues head on if we expect them to be moved by our own doing or God's.

Source: The Daily Verse by Kat Davis

The Daily Verse on Perspective

But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.
2 Chronicles 25:8

Often times, we assume the way that life and the world treats us is God's heart for us. Let us not fall prey to that lie. Go, act and be strong for the battle and lean into the truth that God is for you.

Source: The Daily Verse by Kat Davis

Romans 5:3 - The Daily Verse on Endurance

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance...
Romans 5:3

Think back on one of your most intense times of suffering. Reflect on how you've grown because of it in wisdom, discernment, maturity, patience and endurance. Allow that reminder to comfort you amidst whatever your current circumstances of suffering may be.

Source: The Daily Verse by Kat Davis

You Must Fight for Your Life

Until we come to terms with war as the context of our days, we will not understand life. We will misinterpret 90 percent of what is happening around us and to us. It will be very hard to believe that God's intentions toward us are life abundant; it will be even harder not to feel that somehow we are just blowing it. Worse, we will begin to accept some really awful things about God. That four-year-old little girl being molested by her daddy- that is "God's will "? That ugly divorce that tore your family apart-God wanted that to happen too? And that plane crash that took the lives of so many-that was ordained by God?

Most people get stuck at some point because God appears to have abandoned them. He is not coming through. Speaking about her life with a mixture of disappointment and cynicism, a young woman recently said to me, "God is rather silent right now." Yes, it's been awful. I don't discount that for a moment. She is unloved; she is unemployed; she is under a lot. But her attitude strikes me as deeply naive, on the level of someone caught in a cross fire who asks, rather shocked and with a sense of betrayal, "God, why won't you make them stop firing at me?" I'm sorry, but that's not where we are right now. It's not where we are in the Story. That day is coming, later, when the lion shall lie down with the lamb and we'll beat swords into plowshares. For now, it's bloody battle.

It sure explains a whole heckuva lot.

You won't understand your life, you won't see clearly what has happened to you or how to live forward from here, unless you see it as battle. A war against your heart.

(Waking the Dead , 17-18)

Source: Ransomed Heart Ministries by John Eldredge

We Are at War

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10)

Have you ever wondered why Jesus married those two statements? Did you even know he spoke them at the same time? I mean, he says them in one breath. And he has his reasons. By all means, God intends life for you. But right now that life is opposed. It doesn't just roll in on a tray. There is a thief. He comes to steal and kill and destroy. Why won't we face this? I know so few people who will face this. The offer is life, but you're going to have to fight for it, because there's an Enemy in your life with a different agenda.

There is something set against us.

We are at war.

I don't like that fact any more than you do, but the sooner we come to terms with it, the better hope we have of making it through to the life we do want. This is not Eden. You probably figured that out. This is not Mayberry, this is not Seinfeld's world, this is not Survivor. The world in which we live is a combat zone, a violent clash of kingdoms, a bitter struggle unto the death. I am sorry if I'm the one to break this news to you: you were born into a world at war, and you will live all your days in the midst of a great battle, involving all the forces of heaven and hell and played out here on earth.

Where did you think all this opposition was coming from?

(Waking the Dead , 12-13)

Source: Ransomed Heart Ministries by John Eldredge