Plans For The Future

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, — read the full passage →

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, — read the full passage →

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. — read the full passage →

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. — read the full passage →

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. — read the full passage →

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. — read the full passage →

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! — read the full passage →

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” — read the full passage →

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and your children shall come again to their own border.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; — read the full passage →

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple. — read the full passage →

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. — read the full passage →

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. — read the full passage →

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. — read the full passage →

“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

“As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!