Exodus 19:5 “Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.”

Jeremiah 32:40 “I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.”

Zephaniah 3:17 “The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves.  He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

Psalm 139:17-18 “How precious to me are your thoughts, God!  How vast is the sum of them!  Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.”

Jeremiah 31:3 “The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.’ ”

Jeremiah 29:11 “ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Matthew 6:31-33 “ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Matthew 5:48 “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Matthew 7:11 “If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!”

1 John 3:1 “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”

1 John 3:1 “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”

1 John 4:16 “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.”

Acts 17:26 “From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.”

Psalm 139:15-16 “My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.  Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

Ephesians 1:11 “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.”

Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.”

Acts 17:28a “For in him we live and move and have our being.”

March 7 - Even the Very Hairs on Your Head Are Numbered

Matthew 10:30 “And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”

While many factors can affect the number of hairs on a human head, research says the average person has 100,000 hairs.  Between 50 and 100 hairs are shed each day.  It’s doubtful either of these two facts is true of me. In my 30’s, my hair began thinning and my forehead seemed to grow more every day.  Struggling with the fact that I was beginning to lose hair and may one day be bald,

Psalm 139:2 “You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.”

Psalm 139:1 “You have searched me, Lord and you know me.”