Every Word is a one-minute, Bible-based devotional presented by John Bradshaw, designed to provide a daily dose of spiritual reflection in the midst of a busy schedule.
History would have been different.
“It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.”
- Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV
It’s worth far too much to waste.
“If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
- Romans 10:9 NKJV
Engineers were pleased.
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
- James 1:2-3 KJV
We face decisions like that every day.
“And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, ‘Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.’ And Aaron said unto them, ‘Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.’”
- Exodus 32:1-2 KJV
It’s that simple.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!”
- Matthew 23:37 NKJV
Don’t make that mistake.
“And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, ‘Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.’”
- Genesis 28:16 KJV
They’re His children.
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.”
- Luke 15:4-7 NKJV
The cobra effect...
“O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.”
- Jeremiah 10:23 NKJV
A rough patch does not mean God isn’t with you.
“And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.”
- Genesis 26:1 KJV
Some people will be lost.
“But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.”
- Revelation 22:15 NKJV
