Monday – Read Acts 1:4-8

What does Jesus call his followers to be in verse 8?

What power has He given us to fulfill that call?

Where are we to take the Good News of Jesus?

How can you have a bigger part in this work?

Tuesday – Read Isaiah 52:7

How does God view those who take the Good News to others?

How should we view them?

What can you do to better take the Good News to others and to support those who take the Good News to other cultures and nations?

What will you do?

Wednesday – Read Colossians 4:2-6

What we do as individual believers and as a church family to better share the Good News of Jesus?

How can we be wiser toward outsiders and keep our conversations full of grace? Why is this important?

How does this passage challenge you? How will you respond?

Thursday – Read I Corinthians 13:1-13

What does this passage say about sharing the Good News of Jesus?

Why is this sometimes hard to do?

Why is it important? Ask God to help you grow in love.

Friday – Read Isaiah 35:1-2

We often think of deserts as having little life. How is our nation like a spiritual desert in these days?

What hope do we have here as God works among us?

Saturday – Read II Chronicles 7:11-14

Who must change for us to see God working in greater ways in our nation, those who don’t follow Jesus or those who do?

Why is it easier to blame those who don’t follow Jesus for the spiritual climate of our nation rather than taking responsibility for our own part in it?

How does this challenge you? What will you do?

Monday – Read James 1:19-26

Why are we called to be slow to anger and slow to speak?

What do we receive when we both know and do God’s word?

What does this tell us about the importance of studying and knowing God’s word?

How does this passage challenge you? How will you respond?

Tuesday – Read James 4:13-17

Why does living by our own plan have so little lasting impact?

How does James describe our efforts to direct our own lives?

Do you think that’s true?

How can we be sure that we know and are following God’s will?

How does this passage challenge you? How will you respond?

Wednesday – Read Matthew 14:22-33

Why could Peter walk on water?

Why did he start to sink? How does that apply to us?

What has Jesus called you to do?

What will allow you to do that for Him?

Thursday – Read acts 13:1-5

How did the believers here discern God’s will?

How did they respond to His leading?

In whose power did Saul/Paul and Barnabas minister?

When we seek and follow God’s will, in whose power may we minster and live?

What is God saying to you? How will you respond?

Friday – Read Matthew 22:15-22

What is Jesus saying to you through these verses?

What in your life belongs to God?

Have you given it to Him?

What does God want to do through your life in these days?

Is there anything you need to give to God today?

Saturday – Read Nehemiah 3:1-32

Monday – Read Isaiah 46:8-11

Who can stand against God’s plans?

If we want to succeed in what we do, whose plan should we seek and follow?

How can we know God’s plan?

What is God saying that He wants to do in or through you?

Tuesday – Read Jeremiah 29:4-14

This is God’s word to His people in exile.

Why would God have the exile seek the peace and prosperity of the empire who is holding them captive? What message is there for us?

How can we know God’s plan for our lives?

What hope does this give you?

Wednesday – Read Psalm 66:16-20 and Isaiah 59:1-2

What can be a barrier to our communication with God?

What can we do to remove that barrier?

What is God saying to you about your relationship with Him?

How will you respond?

Thursday – Read Psalm 27:7-14

What qualities of the Lord do we find recounted here?

In what did David, the author on this psalm, find confidence?

In whom, what or where do you find confidence in your life?

What is this passage saying to you? How will you respond?

Friday – Read Psalm 103:8-13 and I John 1:8-9

What characteristics of God are mentioned here?

What does God do with our sin when we confess it to Him?

How is this good news?

What do you need God to do in you today? Ask Him.

Who do you need to tell about God’s forgiveness?

Ask Him to give you opportunity to do so?

Saturday – Read Nehemiah 2:11-20

Monday – Read John 1:4-5, John 8:12, II Corinthians 4:6

What does it mean that Jesus is the “light of the world?”

Whose light does He shine? What does He give light to?

What light is to shine out of us?

How do you need Jesus to shine His light in your life? Ask Him.

Tuesday – Read I John 3:7-10

Why did Jesus come?

What is the devil’s work?

How did Jesus destroy it?

How does this apply to the world?

How does this apply to your life?

What do you want/need to say to Jesus today?

Wednesday – Read I Corinthians 15:3-11

How many people did Jesus appear to after His resurrection and before His ascension into heaven? Why is this important?

How do you think the lives of these people were changed?

How was Paul changed when Jesus appeared to Him?

Where do you need Jesus to work in your life in these days?

Invite Him to come into that area of your life.

Thursday – Read Acts 16:16-43

How did Jesus use Paul and Silas in this jail?

How did they shine the light of Jesus in that dark place?

How did Jesus use them to step into the lives of other people?

How does Jesus want to use you to share His love and truth with the people in your life?

What is Jesus saying to you? How will you respond?

Friday – Read Matthew 5:13-16

How are we as the followers of Jesus the salt of the earth?

How are we the light of the world?

What do we need in our lives to be effective salt and light?

How does this passage challenge you? How will you respond?

Saturday – Read Nehemiah 1:1 to 2:9