Day 1 - Week 27 - Here we go again! YAY! We are doing this!

I want you to stay encouraged along this journey of 100 verses.  I think it could get very easy at about this point to think, "OK, I am not getting this done...I can't remember 26, let alone 100!"  But as I've said before, you are remembering more than you think and we are storing God's Word in our hearts.  So no matter how well you are doing, you are doing well..and you are doing something worth your time and effort.  Really, what could be more worthy of our efforts?  We are storing treasure that cannot be taken from us!

So "here we go again"...we will start this week's review with the six verses of the Gift of Scripture...ready?

The Gift of Scripture (6)

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2 Timothy 3:16  All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correction, and for training in righteousness.

Joshua 1:8   This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth, you are to recite it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it.  For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.

Psalm 119:11  I have treasured Your words in my heart so that I may not sin against You.

Deuteronomy 6:4-6  Listen, O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength.  These words I am giving you today are to be in your heart.

Deuteronomy 6:7  Repeat them to your children, talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 

Hebrews 14:12  The Word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating as far as to divide soul, spirit, joints and marrow.  It is a judge of the ideas and thoughts of the heart.

Then..

The Gift of Prayer (3)

Hebrews 4:16 Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

1 John 5:14   Now this is the confidence we have before Him, whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

1 John 5:15   And if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked Him for.

And...

The Gift of Assurance (10)

1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony:  God has given us eternal life and that life is in His Son.

1 John 5:12-13  The one who has the Son has life.  The one who doesn't have the Son of God, does not have life.  I say these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know you have eternal life.

John 14:1  Your heart must not be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in Me.

John 14:2  In my Father's house are many mansion, if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you.

John 14:3  And if I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you unto Myself, so that where I am, you may be also.

John 14:6  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me.

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you.  I do not give as the world gives.  Your heart must not be troubled or afraid.

Isaiah 26:3-4  You will keep in perfect peace the mind that is dependent on You, for it is trusting in You.  Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

and adding #9 to our set of 10 verses of assurance....

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed . (KJV)

This is another verse that I just prefer in the King James Version as quoted above.  I just think the words flow so beautifully into each other. 

Robert J. Morgan introduces this verse stating,

The cross is at the crossroads of every book, chapter, and verse in the Bible, and we clearly see that emphasis in Isaiah 53. This is a miraculous portion of Scripture giving us an advance look of the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord.  Though written hundreds of years before Christ, it's chockablock with prophetic details about the passion of the Messiah.  The images are so Calvary-vivid  that it's amazing to realize it was written hundreds of years before Jesus was born.

This is a miraculous verse and a real treasure to hold on to.  It is one of the verses that so clearly ties the Old Testament to the New, prophecy to the reality of Jesus.  It is amazing!  Let's really honor this verse this week by dwelling on the picture it paints of our Savior and everything He did for us.

(Have to say, I've never used the adjective "chockablock"...I probably would have said "jammed full" or "filled to the brim"....but I kind of like this new word!  chockablock!  May just have to use that sometime soon!)