| November 1 Morning | Paul, am a prisoner for the sake of Christ, here with my brother Timothy. I write this letter to you, Philemon, my good friend and companion in this work—also to our sister Apphia, to Archippus, a real trooper, and to the church that meets in your house. God's best to you! Christ's blessings on you!
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| November 1 Evening | The Arrival of the Son of Man will take place in times like Noah's. Before the great flood everyone was carrying on as usual, having a good time right up to the day Noah boarded the ark. They knew nothing—until the flood hit and swept everything away.
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| November 2 Morning | I am God—yes, I Am. I haven't changed. And because I haven't changed, you, the descendants of Jacob, haven't been destroyed. You have a long history of ignoring my commands. You haven't done a thing I've told you. Return to me so I can return to you," says God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
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| November 2 Evening | I watch for your ancient landmark words,
and know I'm on the right track.
But when I see the wicked ignore your directions,
I'm beside myself with anger.
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| November 3 Morning | Get up and go over to Straight Avenue. Ask at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus. His name is Saul. He's there praying. He has just had a dream in which he saw a man named Ananias enter the house and lay hands on him so he could see again.
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| November 3 Evening | The priests and Levites had the last word: they stood and blessed the people. And God listened, listened as the ascending sound of their prayers entered his holy heaven.
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| November 4 Morning | My grace is enough; it's all you need.
My strength comes into its own in your weakness.
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| November 4 Evening | How exquisite your love, O God!
How eager we are to run under your wings,
To eat our fill at the banquet you spread
as you fill our tankards with Eden spring water.
You're a fountain of cascading light,
and you open our eyes to light.
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| November 5 Morning | No weapon forged against you will prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
and this is their vindication from me,”
declares the LORD.
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| November 5 Evening | Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
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| November 6 Morning | For I will pour water on the thirsty land,
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring,
and my blessing on your descendants.
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| November 6 Evening | He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”
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| November 7 Morning | Look, I've written your names on the backs of my hands.
The walls you're rebuilding are never out of my sight.
Your builders are faster than your wreckers.
The demolition crews are gone for good.
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| November 7 Evening | He told them, "You don't get to know the time. Timing is the Father's business. What you'll get is the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit comes on you, you will be able to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all over Judea and Samaria, even to the ends of the world."
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| November 8 Morning | My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you've been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You're deeply rooted in him. You're well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you've been taught. School's out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.
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| November 8 Evening | He directed two of his disciples, "Go into the city. A man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him. Ask the owner of whichever house he enters, 'The Teacher wants to know, Where is my guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?' He will show you a spacious second-story room, swept and ready. Prepare for us there."
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| November 9 Morning | Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
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| November 9 Evening | He will dwell on the heights,
His refuge will be the impregnable rock;
His bread will be given him,
His water will be sure.
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| November 10 Morning | The eternal God is your refuge,
and underneath are the everlasting arms.
He will drive out your enemies before you,
saying, ‘Destroy them!’
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| November 10 Evening | A student doesn't get a better desk than her teacher. A laborer doesn't make more money than his boss. Be content—pleased, even—when you, my students, my harvest hands, get the same treatment I get. If they call me, the Master, 'Dungface,' what can the workers expect?
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| November 11 Morning | The ancient God is home
on a foundation of everlasting arms.
He drove out the enemy before you
and commanded, "Destroy!"
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| November 11 Evening | He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves.
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| November 12 Morning | so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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| November 12 Evening | And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
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| November 13 Morning | Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me.
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| November 13 Evening | Jesus told them a story showing that it was necessary for them to pray consistently and never quit.
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| November 14 Morning | For they go up to their roofs
and bow down to the sun, moon, and stars.
They claim to follow the Lord,
but then they worship Molech, too.
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| November 14 Evening | Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.
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| November 15 Morning | But God himself took charge of his people,
took Jacob on as his personal concern.
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| November 15 Evening | Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
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| November 16 Morning | The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.
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| November 16 Evening | Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty.
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| November 17 Morning | To whom be glory forever. Amen
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| November 17 Evening | He that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
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| November 18 Morning | A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
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| November 18 Evening | Thou art from everlasting.
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| November 19 Morning | Avoid foolish questions.
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| November 19 Evening | O that I knew where I might find him!
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| November 20 Morning | O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul.
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| November 20 Evening | The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.
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| November 21 Morning | Grieve not the Holy Spirit.
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| November 21 Evening | Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
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| November 22 Morning | Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
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| November 22 Evening | The power of his resurrection.
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| November 23 Morning | Fellowship with him.
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| November 23 Evening | Get thee up into the high mountain.
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| November 24 Morning | The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams.
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| November 24 Evening | Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
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| November 25 Morning | To preach deliverance to the captives.
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| November 25 Evening | For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
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| November 26 Morning | Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
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| November 26 Evening | They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel.
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| November 27 Morning | Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord.
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| November 27 Evening | The forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.
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| November 28 Morning | For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
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| November 28 Evening | Seeking the wealth of his people.
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| November 29 Morning | Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people ... Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
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| November 29 Evening | Spices for anointing oil.
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| November 30 Morning | And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.
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| November 30 Evening | Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels.
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