NIV, Great Rescue: Discover Your Part in God's Plan: Revised Edition
By Zondervan
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Be drawn into the epic adventure of experiencing God’s plan.
This isn’t your typical sex, alcohol, drugs, and obey-your-parents devotional Bible. Instead, it takes an honest look at the messiness of living in a broken world and walking with God through it.
Daily readings and book introductions for every book of the Bible paint a picture of the reality that the Bible teaches—that there is more going on in the world than meets the eye. As you explore what it means to have God himself living inside of you, you will learn how to hear his voice, follow his lead, and recognize him in the good, true, and beautiful in the world.
The Great Rescue focuses on intimacy with God and a relationship with him in every area of life. The Bible tells us that God had a plan from the beginning of time, and that we were created for a purpose: to fulfill a unique role in his kingdom. It also tells us that there is a very real conflict going on in our broken world between God and his archenemy. God wants us to be a part of his grand story. He wants us to walk so closely with him that we begin to understand his way of life and to participate in the narrative that is God’s story.
It's much more than a new way to act. It’s a new way to see.
Devotionals from YW Magazine, an eight-time winner of EPA editorial awards of excellence.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a weird, repackaged version of the Bible where the publishers have settled up a running theme of the Bible as God's "grand plan to rescue humanity". The book is divided up into segments that are meant to be read daily to complete the reading in a year. Each daily segment comes with a devotional and the start of each book has a brief introduction to the text that gives some historical context and bends over backwards to awkwardly attempt to connect the content of the book back to the overarching theme of "the Great Rescue".When I purchased this Bible, I thought that the daily devotionals would be directly tied to the daily scripture reading. I expected them to highlight certain verses, and give the reader a brief lesson from the text. Instead, the daily devotionals were extremely wide ranging in the their topic and seemed to be mostly weird theological asides that were frequently jarringly out of place. Oftentimes the devotionals attempted to very ham-fistedly tackle an extremely complex issue in a paragraph and ended up just making a hash of it. In general, the theology was not great, so I can't recommend on that account.By the time I finished reading through this Bible I was very sick of the tired metaphor of a rescue. It was very clear that the publisher just decided to replace the word "gospel" with "rescue". It didn't go any deeper than that. Kinda a gross marketing of the Bible for no real meaningful reason.
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The Great Rescue
New International Version
[ discover your part in God’s plan ]
NIV Great Rescue Bible
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Articles and Resources
OLD TESTAMENT
NEW TESTAMENT
Copyright
Colophon
OLD TESTAMENT
NEW TESTAMENT
Genesis by Chapters
Exodus by Chapters
Leviticus by Chapters
Numbers by Chapters
Deuteronomy by Chapters
Joshua by Chapters
Judges by Chapters
Ruth by Chapters
1 Samuel by Chapters
2 Samuel by Chapters
1 Kings by Chapters
2 Kings by Chapters
1 Chronicles by Chapters
2 Chronicles by Chapters
Ezra by Chapters
Nehemiah by Chapters
Esther by Chapters
Job by Chapters
Psalms by Chapters
Proverbs by Chapters
Ecclesiastes by Chapters
Song of Songs by Chapters
Isaiah by Chapters
Jeremiah by Chapters
Lamentations by Chapters
Ezekiel by Chapters
Daniel by Chapters
Hosea by Chapters
Joel by Chapters
Amos by Chapters
Obadiah
Jonah by Chapters
Micah by Chapters
Nahum by Chapters
Habakkuk by Chapters
Zephaniah by Chapters
Haggai by Chapters
Zechariah by Chapters
Malachi by Chapters
Matthew by Chapters
Mark by Chapters
Luke by Chapters
John by Chapters
Acts by Chapters
Romans by Chapters
1 Corinthians by Chapters
2 Corinthians by Chapters
Galatians by Chapters
Ephesians by Chapters
Philippians by Chapters
Colossians by Chapters
1 Thessalonians by Chapters
2 Thessalonians by Chapters
1 Timothy by Chapters
2 Timothy by Chapters
Titus by Chapters
Philemon
Hebrews by Chapters
James by Chapters
1 Peter by Chapters
2 Peter by Chapters
1 John by Chapters
2 John
3 John
Jude
Revelation by Chapters
Articles and Resources
How to Use The Great Rescue (NIV), eBook Edition
Preface
Alphabetical Order of the Books of the Bible
Dedication
About Walk Thru the Bible
Acknowledgements
Reading Plans
30 Days for New Christians
30 Days With Jesus
30 Days in the Psalms
30 Stories You’ve Probably Never Heard
30 Stories of Love and Friendship
Topical Index
Theme Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index
Table of Weights and Measures
Index to Color Maps
Maps
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Preface
The goal of the New International version (NIV) is to enable English-speaking people from around the world to read and hear God’s eternal Word in their own language. Our work as translators is motivated by our conviction that the Bible is God’s Word in written form. We believe that the Bible contains the divine answer to the deepest needs of humanity, sheds unique light on our path in a dark world and sets forth the way to our eternal well-being. Out of these deep convictions, we have sought to recreate as far as possible the experience of the original audience—blending transparency to the original text with accessibility for the millions of English speakers around the world. We have prioritized accuracy, clarity and literary quality with the goal of creating a translation suitable for public and private reading, evangelism, teaching, preaching, memorizing and liturgical use. We have also sought to preserve a measure of continuity with the long tradition of translating the Scriptures into English.
The complete NIV Bible was first published in 1978. It was a completely new translation made by over a hundred scholars working directly from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts. The translators came from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, giving the translation an international scope. They were from many denominations and churches—including Anglican, Assemblies of God, Baptist, Brethren, Christian Reformed, Church of Christ, Evangelical Covenant, Evangelical Free, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, Wesleyan and others. This breadth of denominational and theological perspective helped to safeguard the translation from sectarian bias. For these reasons, and by the grace of God, the NIV has gained a wide readership in all parts of the English-speaking world.
The work of translating the Bible is never finished. As good as they are, English translations must be regularly updated so that they will continue to communicate accurately the meaning of God’s Word. Updates are needed in order to reflect the latest developments in our understanding of the biblical world and its languages and to keep pace with changes in English usage. Recognizing, then, that the NIV would retain its ability to communicate God’s Word accurately only if it were regularly updated, the original translators established The Committee on Bible Translation (CBT). The committee is a self-perpetuating group of biblical scholars charged with keeping abreast of advances in biblical scholarship and changes in English and issuing periodic updates to the NIV. CBT is an independent, self-governing body and has sole responsibility for the NIV text. The committee mirrors the original group of translators in its diverse international and denominational makeup and in its unifying commitment to the Bible as God’s inspired Word.
In obedience to its mandate, the committee has issued periodic updates to the NIV. An initial revision was released in 1984. A more thorough revision process was completed in 2005, resulting in the separately published Today’s New International version (TNIV). The updated NIV you now have in your hands builds on both the original NIV and the TNIV and represents the latest effort of the committee to articulate God’s unchanging Word in the way the original authors might have said it had they been speaking in English to the global English-speaking audience today.
The first concern of the translators has continued to be the accuracy of the translation and its faithfulness to the intended meaning of the biblical writers. This has moved the translators to go beyond a formal word-for-word rendering of the original texts. Because thought patterns and syntax differ from language to language, accurate communication of the meaning of the biblical authors demands constant regard for varied contextual uses of words and idioms and for frequent modifications in sentence structures.
As an aid to the reader, sectional headings have been inserted. They are not to be regarded as part of the biblical text and are not intended for oral reading. It is the committee’s hope that these headings may prove more helpful to the reader than the traditional chapter divisions, which were introduced long after the Bible was written.
For the Old Testament the standard Hebrew text, the Masoretic Text as published in the latest edition of Biblia Hebraica, has been used throughout. The Masoretic Text tradition contains marginal notations that offer variant readings. These have sometimes been followed instead of the text itself. Because such instances involve variants within the Masoretic tradition, they have not been indicated in the textual notes. In a few cases, words in the basic consonantal text have been divided differently than in the Masoretic Text. Such cases are usually indicated in the textual footnotes. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain biblical texts that represent an earlier stage of the transmission of the Hebrew text. They have been consulted, as have been the Samaritan Pentateuch and the ancient scribal traditions concerning deliberate textual changes. The translators also consulted the more important early versions—the Greek Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion, the Latin vulgate, the Syriac Peshitta, the Aramaic Targums and, for the Psalms, the Juxta Hebraica of Jerome. Readings from these versions, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the scribal traditions were occasionally followed where the Masoretic Text seemed doubtful and where accepted principles of textual criticism showed that one or more of these textual witnesses appeared to provide the correct reading. In rare cases, the committee has emended the Hebrew text where it appears to have become corrupted at an even earlier stage of its transmission. These departures from the Masoretic Text are also indicated in the textual footnotes. Sometimes the vowel indicators (which are later additions to the basic consonantal text) found in the Masoretic Text did not, in the judgment of the committee, represent the correct vowels for the original text. Accordingly, some words have been read with a different set of vowels. These instances are usually not indicated in the footnotes.
The Greek text used in translating the New Testament is an eclectic one, based on the latest editions of the Nestle-Aland/United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament. The committee has made its choices among the variant readings in accordance with widely accepted principles of New Testament textual criticism. Footnotes call attention to places where uncertainty remains.
The New Testament authors, writing in Greek, often quote the Old Testament from its ancient Greek version, the Septuagint. This is one reason why some of the Old Testament quotations in the NIV New Testament are not identical to the corresponding passages in the NIV Old Testament. Such quotations in the New Testament are indicated with the footnote (see Septuagint).
Other footnotes in this version are of several kinds, most of which need no explanation. Those giving alternative translations begin with Or
and generally introduce the alternative with the last word preceding it in the text, except when it is a single-word alternative. When poetry is quoted in a footnote, a slash mark indicates a line division.
It should be noted that references to diseases, minerals, flora and fauna, architectural details, clothing, jewelry, musical instruments and other articles cannot always be identified with precision. Also, linear measurements and measures of capacity can only be approximated (see the Table of Weights and Measures). Although Selah, used mainly in the Psalms, is probably a musical term, its meaning is uncertain. Since it may interrupt reading and distract the reader, this word has not been kept in the English text, but every occurrence has been signaled by a footnote.
One of the main reasons the task of Bible translation is never finished is the change in our own language, English. Although a basic core of the language remains relatively stable, many diverse and complex linguistic factors continue to bring about subtle shifts in the meanings and/or connotations of even old, well-established words and phrases. One of the shifts that creates particular challenges to writers and translators alike is the manner in which gender is presented. The original NIV (1978) was published in a time when a man
would naturally be understood, in many contexts, to be referring to a person, whether male of female. But most English speakers today tend to hear a distinctly male connotation in this word. In recognition of this change in English, this edition of the NIV, along with almost all other recent English translations, substitutes other expressions when the original text intends to refer generically to men and women equally. Thus, for instance, the NIV (1984) rendering of 1 Corinthians 8:3, But the man who loves God is known by God
becomes in this edition But whoever loves God is known by God.
On the other hand, man
and mankind,
as ways of denoting the human race, are still widely used. This edition of the NIV therefore continues to use these words, along with other expressions, in this way.
A related shift in English creates a greater challenge for modern translations: the move away from using the third-person masculine singular pronouns—he/him/his
—to refer to men and women equally. This usage does persist at a low level in some forms of English, and this revision therefore occasionally uses these pronouns in a generic sense. But the tendency, recognized in day-to-day usage and confirmed by extensive research, is away from the generic use of he,
him
and his.
In recognition of this shift in language and in an effort to translate into the common
English that people are actually using, this revision of the NIV generally uses other constructions when the biblical text is plainly addressed to men and women equally. The reader will frequently encounter a they,
them
or their
to express a generic singular idea. Thus, for instance, Mark 8:36 reads: What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
This generic use of the indefinite
or singular
they/them/their
has a venerable place in English idiom and has quickly become established as standard English, spoken and written, all over the world. Where an individual emphasis is deemed to be present, anyone
or everyone
or some other equivalent is generally used as the antecedent of such pronouns.
Sometimes the chapter and/or verse numbering in English translations of the Old Testament differs from that found in published Hebrew texts. This is particularly the case in the Psalms, where the traditional titles are often included in the Hebrew verse numbering. Such differences are indicated in the footnotes at the bottom of the page. In the New Testament, verse numbers that marked off portions of the traditional English text not supported by the best Greek manuscripts now appear in brackets, with a footnote indicating the text that has been omitted (see, for example, Matthew 17:[21]).
Mark 16:9–20 and John 7:53–8:11, although long accorded virtually equal status with the rest of the Gospels in which they stand, have a very questionable—and confused—standing in the textual history of the New Testament, as noted in the bracketed annotations with which they are set off. A different typeface has been chosen for these passages to indicate even more clearly their uncertain status.
Basic formatting of the text, such as lining the poetry, paragraphing (both prose and poetry), setting up of (administrative-like) lists, indenting letters and lengthy prayers within narratives and the insertion of sectional headings, has been the work of the committee. However, the choice between single-column and double-column formats has been left to the publishers. Also the issuing of red-letter
editions is a publisher’s choice—one the committee does not endorse.
The committee has again been reminded that every human effort is flawed—including this revision of the NIV. We trust, however, that many will find in it an improved representation of the Word of God, through which they hear his call to faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and to service in his kingdom. We offer this version of the Bible to him in whose name and for whose glory it has been made.
The Committee on Bible Translation
September 2010
Alphabetical Order of the Books of the Bible
The books of the New Testament are indicated by italics.
Dedication
To our friend Pam Callam Johnson
Whose gentle spirit, generous heart and loyal service have profoundly touched her Walk Thru the Bible family and advanced God’s Kingdom for over 30 years. We are deeply grateful.
About Walk Thru the Bible
For more than three decades, Walk Thru the Bible has been dedicated to igniting a passion for God’s Word worldwide through live events, devotional magazines and resources designed for both small groups and individual use. Known for innovative methods and high-quality resources, we serve the whole body of Christ across denominational, cultural and national lines.
Walk Thru the Bible communicates the truths of God’s Word in a way that makes the Bible readily accessible to anyone. We are committed to developing user-friendly resources that are Bible centered, of excellent quality, life changing for individuals, and catalytic for churches, ministries and movements; and we are committed to maintaining our global reach through strategic partnerships while adhering to the highest levels of integrity in all we do.
Walk Thru the Bible partners with the local church worldwide to fulfill its mission, helping people walk thru
the Bible with greater clarity and understanding. Live events and small group curricula are taught in over 45 languages by more than 30,000 instructors in more than 104 countries, and more than 100 million devotionals have been packaged into daily magazines, books and other publications that reach over 5 million people each year.
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Acknowledgements
A heartfelt thanks to Chris Tiegreen for his insights into God’s great heart and his amazing kingdom; to Paula Kirk for her Biblical wisdom and motherly guidance; and to Donna Pennell for her accurate yet gentle editing hand.
Also a special thanks to author Randy Alcorn for his book Heaven, which provided many of the incredible insights in the devotionals about heaven.
Laurin Makohon
General Editor
30 Days for New Christians
30 Days With Jesus
30 Days in the Psalms
30 Stories You’ve Probably Never Heard
30 Stories of Love and Friendship
Topical Index
The subject index is designed to help you find information on the different topics and issues discussed in the devotions in this Bible.
Abilities and talents
Day 259, Practicing Your Passion
Day 260, God’s Pleasure↓
Abusing grace
Day 159, Abusing Grace↓
Acceptance by God
Day 158, No Strings↓
Accepting Jesus
Day 164, Eternal Life↓
Day 171, Follow↓
Access to God
Day 192, Royal Access↓
Adam and Eve
Day 12, Breath of Life↓
Day 161, Closeness↓
Adoption
Day 183, Adoption↓
Affirmation
Day 283, Q & A↓
Agape
Day 78, Love↓
Angels
Day 1, Love↓
Day 6, The Prequel↓
Day 22, Special Agents↓
Anger
Day 89, Overcoming Evil↓
Apathy
Day 86, Fire in the Bones↓
Appeal of sin
Day 144, Chocolate-Covered Death↓
Appreciation
Day 113, Appreciate↓
Archnemesis
Day 6, The Prequel↓
Armor of God
Day 63, Armor Up↓
Arts
Day 262, The Arts↓
Ask God for help
Day 43, Prayer Works↓
Day 44, Keep Asking↓
Day 64, Wrong Spirit↓
Day 97, Snake Hunt↓
Day 184, Protector↓
Day 255, Useful↓
Day 348, Ask↓
Atonement
Day 146, Blood Sacrifice↓
Authority of Jesus
Day 60, More Than Conquerors↓
Be creative
Day 241, Hands On↓
Be holy
Day 232, Being More↓
Beauty
Day 211, The Power of Beauty
Day 212, Echoes of Home↓
Day 213, Creators↓
Day 239, Beauty
Day 270, Soap Bubbles
Becoming more like Jesus
Day 114, Like Him↓
Being a Christian
Day 165, Religious Things↓
Being with angels
Day 126, Home↓
Being with Jesus
Day 125, With Him↓
Day 132, Together↓
Be more
Day 232, Being More↓
Betrayal
Day 5, By His Wounds↓
Biology
Day 268, Our Bodies↓
Bitterness
Day 85, A New Rhythm↓
Blameless before God
Day 177, Righteous↓
Blood sacrifice
Day 146, Blood Sacrifice
Bonding
Day 81, Bond↓
Born again
Day 190, Born Again↓
Bridegroom
Day 320, Bridegroom↓
Broken relationships
Day 149, Restoration↓
Causing God pain
Day 79, Grieved↓
Changing the world
Day 18, The Transformation↓
Cheating on God
Day 14, Cheating on God
Choices
Day 9, The Liar↓
Day 33, Decision Power↓
Day 95, Free Will↓
Day 113, Appreciate↓
Day 122, End of Evil↓
Day 141, Deathly Consequences↓
Day 142, Distance↓
Day 150, Set Free↓
Day 152, Sexual Temptation↓
Day 155, Every Day↓
Day 218, Navigating Culture↓
Day 248, Freedom↓
Day 287, Freedom↓
Day 288, Unclear↓
Christianity
Day 174, Sitting With God↓
Clothing
Day 230, Fashion↓
Combating evil
Day 96, Taking a Stand↓
Comfort
Day 109, Deeper Knowing↓
Communicating with God
Day 36, True Sight↓
Compassion
Day 39, Beyond Sight↓
Day 88, Feel and Do↓
Confession
Day 148, Confession↓
Day 172, No Condemnation↓
Conforming to the world
Day 216, Swimming in It↓
Day 222, Transformed↓
Day 223, Fully Alive↓
Day 231, Boxed In↓
Connecting with God
Day 70, Worldview↓
Day 137, Connection↓
Day 337, God’s Heart↓
Connection to heaven
Day 357, Oasis↓
Conscience
Day 178, Forgiven↓
Consequences of sin
Day 145, Sin’s Damage↓
Day 149, Restoration↓
Day 161, Closeness
Contradicting God’s truths
Day 258, The Asterisk↓
Convicted of sin
Day 173, Where the Law Comes In↓
Correction and learning
Day 243, The Gift of Failure↓
Corruption
Day 7, The Corrupter↓
Cost of sin
Day 147, Blood↓
Create beauty
Day 262, The Arts
Creation
Day 1, Love↓
Day 12, Breath of Life
Day 101, The Plan↓
Day 213, Creators
Creator
Day 318, Sustainer↓
Creatures
Day 266, Critters
Cross, the
Day 107, The Greatest Evil↓
Culture
Day 226, Big Picture
Culture creator
Day 225, Culture Creator↓
Culture stereotypes
Day 279, Mixed Messages↓
Culture’s changes
Day 218, Navigating Culture
Culture’s communication
Day 225, Culture Creator
Culture’s influence
Day 216, Swimming in It
Day 217, Changes↓
Day 219, Subtle Messages↓
Day 221, Conformed↓
Day 223, Fully Alive↓
Day 224, Kingdom Unveiler↓
Day 231, Boxed In
Day 232, Being More
Culture’s lessons
Day 220, A Firm Foundation
Culture’s origins
Day 217, Changes
Darkness
Day 2, Good↓
Dead to sin
Day 179, Dead to Sin↓
Death
Day 4, The Pursuit↓
Day 7, The Corrupter↓
Day 125, With Him↓
Deception
Day 7, The Corrupter↓
Demons
Day 24, Satan’s Team↓
Despair
Day 85, A New Rhythm↓
Destruction of evil
Day 121, Restoration↓
Day 123, Heavenly Things↓
Discouragement
Day 85, A New Rhythm↓
Discovery
Day 238, Healthy Skepticism↓
Dishonoring God
Day 221, Conformed
Distortions of sexuality
Day 275, Distortions↓
Distrust
Day 152, Sexual Temptation↓
Division
Day 9, The Liar↓
Doing God’s work
Day 42, United↓
Doing good
Day 204, God Visible↓
Do something for God
Day 74, Creative↓
Doubts
Day 13, Doubts↓
Dream big
Day 195, You Belong Here↓
Dreams and desires
Day 118, Under-Dreamers↓
Day 291, Two Extremes
Day 292, Dreams
Day 293, Fulfillment↓
Day 294, Waiting Room
Day 295, Unlimited
Each person is unique
Day 336, Unique
Effects of sin
Day 141, Deathly Consequences↓
Emotions
Day 81, Bond↓
Day 84, Faith or Feeling↓
Day 90, By Design↓
Encountering God
Day 66, Alive↓
End times
Day 19, The Final Battle↓
Entitlement
Day 219, Subtle Messages↓
Eternal life
Day 58, Switching Kingdoms↓
Day 164, Eternal Life↓
Day 361, The Truest Story↓
Day 365, Happily Ever After↓
Eternity
Day 134, Being With Him↓
Evil
Day 6, The Prequel↓
Day 92, The Dark Middle↓
Day 96, Taking a Stand↓
Day 101, The Plan↓
Day 104, Trouble↓
Day 105, Victory↓
Day 106, With You↓
Day 107, The Greatest Evil↓
Evil destroyed
Day 122, End of Evil↓
Examine your life
Day 233, Whole Person↓
Excellence
Day 245, Excellence↓
Expectations
Day 155, Every Day↓
Failure is a gift
Day 243, The Gift of Failure↓
Faith
Day 35, Faith↓
Day 40, Fight↓
Day 65, Victory↓
Day 167, Faith Alone↓
Day 168, Faith’s Power↓
Day 255, Useful↓
Day 346, Reality↓
Day 347, Seeing Without Eyes↓
Day 349, Let It Grow
Day 350, Choosing to Trust↓
Faith to move mountains
Day 100, Move It↓
Fall, the
Day 3, A Different Fruit↓
Day 11, Before There Was Time↓
Day 56, Cosmic Realities↓
Day 57, Disarmed↓
Day 101, The Plan↓
Day 110, Cosmic Trial↓
Fallen world
Day 92, The Dark Middle↓
False teachings
Day 167, Faith Alone↓
Fashion
Day 230, Fashion
Father, Son, Holy Spirit
Day 272, The Story↓
Fear of failure
Day 194, No Fear↓
Feelings
Day 84, Faith or Feeling↓
Day 87, Feelings↓
Fighting Satan
Day 61, In Him↓
Focus on other people
Day 240, Art of People↓
Following God
Day 170, The Teacher↓
Day 286, More Than a Map↓
Day 289, Trouble↓
Following God’s laws
Day 169, The Law’s Curse↓
Following Jesus
Day 56, Cosmic Realities↓
Day 81, Bond
Day 82, The Ultimate Goal↓
Day 171, Follow↓
Day 174, Sitting With God
Day 176, Salvation Plus↓
Following the law
Day 170, The Teacher↓
Foreign languages
Day 265, Foreign Languages
Forgiveness
Day 5, By His Wounds↓
Day 26, The Battlefield↓
Day 35, Faith↓
Day 58, Switching Kingdoms↓
Day 59, New Creation↓
Day 89, Overcoming Evil↓
Day 148, Confession↓
Day 172, No Condemnation↓
Day 176, Salvation Plus↓
Day 178, Forgiven↓
Day 328, Forgiving
Forgiving others
Day 37, More Than What You See↓
Fragmented life
Day 234, Roles↓
Freedom
Day 248, Freedom↓
Freedom to sin
Day 159, Abusing Grace↓
Free from pain of sin
Day 150, Set Free↓
Free will
Day 95, Free Will↓
Friendship with God
Day 338, Friendship
Day 339, Heart to Heart
Day 340, Better Than BFF
Fruit of the Spirit
Day 64, Wrong Spirit↓
Day 80, Joy↓
Fulfillment
Day 244, Work and Pain↓
Garden of Eden
Day 116, In the Garden↓
Gender differences
Day 277, Different Is Good
Day 280, The Gender Factor↓
Gender factor
Day 280, The Gender Factor
Gender mixed messages
Day 279, Mixed Messages
Genders
Day 273, Defined↓
Day 276, Complements↓
Gender strengths
Day 278, Recognizing Strengths
Day 285, Stepping Into Ourselves↓
God allows evil
Day 91, Father-Filtered↓
Day 93, Hand of Mercy↓
Day 102, Worth It↓
God answers prayer
Day 34, Prayer↓
Day 44, Keep Asking↓
God as servant
Day 334, Servant King
God became human
Day 335, Unfathomable
God-followers
Day 130, One Big Family↓
God hates evil
Day 91, Father-Filtered↓
God is all-knowing
Day 103, Heaven’s Coming↓
Day 199, So Close↓
Day 326, With Us
Day 330, God Knows
God is everywhere
Day 200, Student of God↓
God is good
Day 102, Worth It↓
Day 103, Heaven’s Coming↓
Day 136, The Great Adventure↓
Day 201, What Is Good?↓
God is joyful
Day 80, Joy↓
God is your friend
Day 329, Friend
Godlessness
Day 219, Subtle Messages↓
God listens
Day 41, Our Influence↓
Day 42, United
God’s anger
Day 95, Free Will
God’s blessings
Day 71, Blessing God↓
Day 193, Prayer Promises↓
God’s care
Day 187, Hidden With Christ↓
God’s character
Day 1, Love↓
Day 4, The Pursuit↓
Day 271, Reflecting God
God’s children
Day 32, Identity
Day 182, In His Lap↓
Day 188, Heirs↓
Day 195, You Belong Here↓
God’s classroom
Day 251, God School↓
Day 252, Creation Speaks↓
Day 254, Constant Companion↓
Day 257, School
God’s classroom defaced
Day 253, Defaced
God’s comfort
Day 94, More Than Aware↓
God’s commitment
Day 185, The Father’s Love↓
God’s creations
Day 235, Journey With God↓
Day 247, God-ness
God’s discipline
Day 185, The Father’s Love↓
God’s emotions
Day 76, Not a Robot
Day 77, At the Heart↓
God’s family
Day 186, Royal Family↓
Day 191, Welcome Home↓
God’s gifts
Day 15, The Loved Warriors↓
Day 31, Return↓
Day 260, God’s Pleasure
God’s goodness revealed
Day 205, God’s Heart
God’s grace
Day 333, Righteousness and Grace
God’s guidelines
Day 248, Freedom
Day 287, Freedom↓
God’s instructions
Day 137, Connection↓
God’s justice
Day 104, Trouble↓
Day 163, Intersection↓
God’s kingdom
Day 17, Advancing the Kingdom↓
Day 18, The Transformation↓
Day 25, God’s Kingdom
Day 39, Beyond Sight↓
Day 98, Un-Kingdom↓
Day 191, Welcome Home↓
Day 195, You Belong Here
Day 210, Sacred and Secular↓
Day 341, God’s Kingdom
Day 342, Appearances
Day 343, True Home
Day 344, True ID↓
Day 345, True Colors
Day 346, Reality
Day 348, Ask↓
Day 358, Nudges
God’s kingdom on earth
Day 20, Happily Ever After↓
God’s laws
Day 173, Where the Law Comes In↓
Day 203, Morality Is Good↓
God’s leading
Day 69, Guided↓
God’s love
Day 1, Love↓
Day 11, Before There Was Time↓
Day 13, Doubts↓
Day 15, The Loved Warriors↓
Day 38, Hard Times↓
Day 39, Beyond Sight↓
Day 53, Fruitful Words↓
Day 78, Love
Day 79, Grieved↓
Day 82, The Ultimate Goal↓
Day 83, Connected
Day 104, Trouble↓
Day 137, Connection↓
Day 138, Deep Love↓
Day 158, No Strings↓
Day 160, Undeserved↓
Day 163, Intersection↓
Day 183, Adoption↓
Day 185, The Father’s Love
Day 332, His Wings
Day 364, Finally Home↓
God’s mercy
Day 4, The Pursuit↓
God’s message
Day 15, The Loved Warriors
God’s name
Day 304, The Son↓
Day 305, The Holy Spirit↓
Day 308, Jealous↓
Day 315, Judge↓
Day 316, Light of the World↓
Day 317, King of Kings↓
Day 318, Sustainer↓
Day 319, Shepherd↓
Day 320, Bridegroom
Abba
Day 181, Tender Protector↓
Day 303, Father
Adonai
Day 302, Yahweh↓
Elohim
Day 301, Elohim
El Roi
Day 310, The God Who Sees
El-Shaddai
Day 306, God Almighty
Good Shepherd
Day 319, Shepherd↓
Jealous
Day 308, Jealous↓
Judge
Day 315, Judge↓
LORD Almighty
Day 314, Lord of the Angel Armies↓
LORD of Hosts
Day 314, Lord of the Angel Armies↓
Lord of lords
Day 317, King of Kings↓
Sustainer
Day 318, Sustainer
Yahweh
Day 302, Yahweh↓
Yahweh Rapha
Day 307, The Lord Who Heals
Yahweh Sabaoth
Day 314, Lord of the Angel Armies
Yahweh Tsidkenu
Day 312, The Lord Our Righteous Savior
Yahweh Yireh
Day 309, The Lord Who Provides
YHWH
Day 302, Yahweh↓
God’s perfect righteousness
Day 323, Perfect Righteousness
God’s personal name
Day 302, Yahweh
God’s plan
Day 92, The Dark Middle
Day 101, The Plan
Day 136, The Great Adventure
God’s power
Day 43, Prayer Works↓
Day 325, Big
God’s presence
Day 21, In the Room With You
Day 38, Hard Times↓
Day 46, Real↓
Day 49, Everywhere↓
Day 50, History With God↓
Day 69, Guided↓
Day 75, Convergence↓
Day 321, Overwhelming
God’s promises
Day 105, Victory↓
Day 350, Choosing to Trust↓
God’s protection
Day 184, Protector
God’s purpose
Day 115, Purpose↓
God’s response to prayer
Day 45, Partners↓
Day 54, Learning Process↓
God’s truths
Day 36, True Sight
Day 208, The Word and the World↓
Day 209, The Lens of Truth↓
Day 356, A New Way to See↓
Day 362, There Will Come a Day↓
God’s voice
Day 52, God’s Voice↓
God’s will
Day 44, Keep Asking
Day 286, More Than a Map
Day 287, Freedom
Day 290, Journey↓
God’s Word
Day 66, Alive
God’s wrath
Day 106, With You↓
God the Father
Day 181, Tender Protector
Day 182, In His Lap
Day 183, Adoption
Day 193, Prayer Promises↓
God the King
Day 331, Benevolent King
God the Son
Day 304, The Son↓
God the Warrior
Day 311, The Lord Is My Banner
God uses evil for good
Day 91, Father-Filtered
God working in you
Day 85, A New Rhythm↓
Good and evil
Day 87, Feelings
Day 93, Hand of Mercy
Day 201, What Is Good?
Good behavior
Day 197, Behave?↓
Good gifts from God
Day 202, Goodness Is God-ness
Goodness, truth, beauty
Day 2, Good↓
Day 214, The Grid
Day 215, Glimpses of God
Good Shepherd
Day 319, Shepherd
Gossip
Day 8, The Tempter↓
Day 9, The Liar↓
Day 151, Gossip↓
Grace
Day 156, Free to Us↓
Day 158, No Strings↓
Day 160, Undeserved↓
Greatest commandment
Day 197, Behave?↓
Greed
Day 8, The Tempter↓
Grieving
Day 111, Praise for Despair↓
Grow and stretch
Day 246, Really Living
Day 250, Digging Deeper↓
Grow emotionally
Day 236, Wider, Deeper, Further↓
Grow intellectually
Day 236, Wider, Deeper, Further↓
Grow spiritually
Day 236, Wider, Deeper, Further↓
Guides to goodness
Day 203, Morality Is Good
Guilt
Day 98, Un-Kingdom↓
Day 172, No Condemnation↓
Hard times
Day 38, Hard Times
Day 39, Beyond Sight↓
Day 104, Trouble↓
Day 106, With You↓
Day 108, No Cause and Effect↓
Day 289, Trouble↓
Day 363, In the Dark Middle
Having a full life
Day 293, Fulfillment
Healing
Day 109, Deeper Knowing↓
Healthy skepticism
Day 238, Healthy Skepticism↓
Heaven
Day 16, The Here and Not Yet
Day 20, Happily Ever After
Day 28, Everlasting Beings↓
Day 29, Heaven↓
Day 102, Worth It↓
Day 103, Heaven’s Coming↓
Day 117, Un-Broken↓
Day 118, Under-Dreamers
Day 119, Hints of Home↓
Day 120, Perfect Bodies↓
Day 124, Merge↓
Day 126, Home↓
Day 129, Early Lessons↓
Day 130, One Big Family↓
Day 132, Together↓
Day 134, Being With Him↓
Day 135, ’Round the Bend↓
Day 364, Finally Home↓
Day 365, Happily Ever