Spending Time With God

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. — read the full passage →

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

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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

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

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

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

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

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

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

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

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

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.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. — read the full passage →

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

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 →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. — read the full passage →

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

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.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

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

Pray without ceasing.

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him. — read the full passage →

Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and take action.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

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.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. — read the full passage →

After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

and he said, “Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat. Thus says Yahweh to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. — 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.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, “Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”

When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.” — read the full passage →

Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away. — read the full passage →

They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. — read the full passage →

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. — read the full passage →

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

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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.

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

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

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

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ — read the full passage →

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. — read the full passage →

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. — read the full passage →

Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, — 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 →

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. — read the full passage →

The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught. — read the full passage →

he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.