Retreats

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

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

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

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.”

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, — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary”; and “This is the refreshing”; yet they would not hear. — read the full passage →

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. — read the full passage →

Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces), — read the full passage →

Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai. — read the full passage →

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, — read the full passage →

“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. — 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.

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name. — read the full passage →

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. — read the full passage →

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. — read the full passage →

When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.” — read the full passage →

Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a treaty together.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

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

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

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.

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.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal: — read the full passage →

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →