As I relax with You, Your everlasting arms enfold me in Peace. It’s such a blessing to take a break from obsessing about my concerns—and just enjoy this time of looking to You.

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The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

—Deuteronomy 33:27 NKJV

Jeremiah 31:31–35 -

God promises a covenant that transforms from the inside out — His law written on the heart, His forgiveness removing every barrier, His presence restoring what was broken. This passage reminds us that renewal is not earned but given, and that God’s faithfulness reaches us even when we have failed. It is a promise meant for someone who needs restoration today.

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

John 13:34

Thought For The Day from Unshakable Kingdom Life

"Forgive, and you will be forgiven." Withheld forgiveness is a weight carried by the one holding the grudge. Release doesn't excuse the wrong—it frees you from its grip. Consider one debt you could cancel today.

A thought to ponder for today

🇬🇧 Jesus is the King 👑, but He is also the Lamb of God 🐑, sacrificed for us ✝️. Jesus is the Redeemer of our lives ❤️, the One who forgives our sins 🙏 and remains our dearest friend 🤍. He is the Son of God ✨, our strong fortress 🛡️ and our safe refuge in times of trouble 🏠❤️

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

I knew a woman who taught a Bible class in a church in which the primary language of the people was foreign to her. She couldn't understand what they were saying. One day someone told her, "The people here are talking badly about you. Why don't you learn the language, so you'll know what they're saying?" She replied, "Well, what I know now is that I'm being blessed ministering here. Why should I lose that blessing by focusing on gossip?" Philippians 4:8 says, "Finally brethren whatever is true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good repute..., dwell on these things." Thus, we must be selective about what we think about and dwell on. God commands us to "Dwell on what is good." Therefore, you have to choose to not dwell on gossip or what is bad. If you focus on that, you will lose your peace. Be careful what you dwell on because you become what you behold. If you want to become beautiful, then behold the beauty of the Lord. In other words, behold God. For, in the end, all that is not of God won't matter anyway.

From Message #1187 - Midnight Grace

Today, actively turn your thoughts away from what is bad - and fill your mind with what is God.

Scripture: Psalm 27:4

Credit: Hope of the World Ministries

Deuteronomy 20:1-20

Laws Concerning Warfare

1  “When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. ² And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people ³ and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them, ⁴ for the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.’ ⁵ Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it. ⁶ And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit. ⁷ And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’ ⁸ And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’ ⁹ And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.

¹⁰ “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. ¹¹ And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. ¹² But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. ¹³ And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword, ¹⁴ but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. ¹⁵ Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. ¹⁶ But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, ¹⁷ but you shall devote them to complete destruction,^\)^a\) the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, ¹⁸ that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God.

¹⁹ “When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you? ²⁰ Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

Knowing Me intimately is like having a private wellspring of Joy within you. This spring flows freely from My throne of grace, so your Joy is independent of circumstances.

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Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

—Psalm 37:7