Verses 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, & 30, Day 30

Words are so powerful! One sentence and it can ruin your day, dash your dreams or break your heart, while at the same time words can build your confidence, let you know you are loved or make you feel hopeful.

The Bible is full of powerful words and stories, here is just about a weeks worth of powerful words.

Verse 25
Romans 8:12-14
Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation - but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Verse 26
Job 18:17-19
The memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name in the land.
He is driven from light into darkness
and is banished from the world.
He has no offspring or descendants among his people,
no survivor where once he lived.

Verse 27
Exodus 19:24
The Lord replied, "Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out against them."

Verse 28
Acts 7:11-16
"Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our fathers could not find food. When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit. On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned about Joseph's family. After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family, seventy-five in all. Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died. Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.

Verse 29
1 Kings 11:19-20
Pharaoh was so pleased with Hadad that he gave him a sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, in marriage. The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath, whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There Genubath lived with Pharaoh's own children.


Verse 30

Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,