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Monday – Read Psalm 100:1-5

What reasons does the writer of this psalm give for thanking God?

What acts of worship does he use as he gives thanks?

What are some ways that you can give thanks to God today?

Tuesday – Read Colossians 3:15-17

How does giving God thanks lead to receiving his peace?

How can we do all things with a heart of thanks?

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

Wednesday – Read Philippians 4:4-7

When you pray, do you pray for what you want or for what you think is right or do you pray for God’s will to be done?

Why can we pray with thanksgiving even when we don’t know how God is going to work or answer our prayer?

How does praying for God’s will to be done and praying with thanksgiving lead to receiving the peace of Jesus?

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

Thursday – Read Psalm 136:1-26

Read this Psalm as you prayer, remembering what God has done for you.

Friday – Read Jeremiah 29:11-13 and Romans 8:28

What does it mean to you to know that God has a plan for your life and that when you seek him you will find him?

What does it mean to you that God will work everything for your good when you love and serve him?

What are you struggling with in these days?

Take it to Jesus in prayer.

Saturday – Read Ephesians 5:21

Monday – Read Psalm 34:1-10

What is David praising God for in this Psalm?

What does he challenge others to do?

What hope does he share?

What is God doing in your life? How can you share it?

Tuesday – Read Psalm 24:11-22

What does David call the people of God to do in these verses?

How can we live in this God honoring way?

What promises of God does David record here?

How is God working in you? How might you share that work with others?

Wednesday – Read Hebrews 10:19-25

Why should we be sure to keep meeting together?

How does God use other believers to encourage end challenge us in our own faith?

How has God challenged you in these days?

How will you respond?

Thursday – Read Galatians 6:1-5

What are we called to do here? Why?

What are we warned against? Why?

How can this happen in the context of Christian relationship?

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

Friday – Read Colossians 4:2-6

Why should we be careful in how we talk to one another and to other people outside of the family of God?

How should we talk?

Think of a time when a conversation “full of grace and seasoned with salt” made a difference in your life. Why did it?

How can you relate to other people in this way?

Saturday – Read Ephesians 5:20

Monday – Read I John 4:7-21

God is love. How should this impact how we should live?

Why is there no fear in love?

How can we show our love to God?

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

Tuesday – Read I Corinthians 1:23-31

Why is God’s wisdom so much greater than human wisdom?

Why does God choose to work through us?

How should we respond?

Wednesday – Read I Corinthians 13:1-13

From these verses how would you describe the importance of love?

As you read the acts of love, is this something we can do on our own?

Why not?

What do we need to love like this?

How is God challenging you? How will you respond?

Thursday – Read Romans 12:17-21

What are some practical ways to live in love listed here?

What if people don’t accept our love, how should we respond?

How can good overcome evil?

How does this passage challenge you? What will you do?

Friday – Read Ephesians 3:14-21

How great is God’s love?

How great is God’s love for you?

What can you do to experience more of God’s love?

What can you do to show more of God’s love?

Saturday – Read Ephesians 5:19-21

Monday – Read Matthew 4:1-11

How did Jesus know when and where He was supposed to go?

In His humanness, if it had been up to Him, do you think Jesus might have wanted to skip this episode in His life?

How did Jesus defeat Satan’s temptations?

What does this teach us about living under the leading of the Holy Spirit and in the power of His word?

Tuesday – Read I Corinthians 2:6-12

From whom is God’s wisdom hidden? Why?

To whom is God’s wisdom revealed? By whom?

What does it mean that we have the mind of Christ?

What does that mean for us?

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

Wednesday – Read Psalm 119:97-104

What does God’s word give us?

What must we do to receive all of those benefits?

Why did the psalmist compare God’s word to honey?

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

Thursday – Read II Corinthians 2:12-17

How does Paul describe the outcome of God’s leading in verse 14?

To what does he compare the ways that God works in our lives?

How can any of us be equal to the works that God has for us?

What does God want to accomplish through our lives?

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

Friday – Read John 2:1-11

Why was God’s timing so important to Jesus?

What happens when we step out of God’s timing, either running ahead or lagging behind?

How can we know and stay in step with God’s timing?

What is God saying to you? What will you do?

Saturday – Read Ephesians 5:15-18