DAILY BREAD — Holding Fast in Hope

ADVICE:
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
— Revelation 3:11

PROMISE:
“The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of My God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from My God; and I will also write on them My new name.”
— Revelation 3:12

​PRAYER:
My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not stumbled.
— Psalm 17:5

DAILY BREAD — Patience, Protection, and Hope
ADVICE:
Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You, too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.
— James 5:7–8
PROMISE:
The LORD watches over you—the LORD is your shade at your right hand.
— Psalm 121:5
PRAYER:
Hear my prayer, LORD, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with You as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
— Psalm 39:12

DAILY BREAD — Obedience, Waiting, and Refuge

ADVICE:
Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in obedience to Him and revering Him.
— Deuteronomy 8:6

PROMISE:
For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him!
— Isaiah 30:18

​PRAYER:
Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in You I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of Your wings until the disaster has passed.
— Psalm 57:1

DAILY BREAD — Guarding the Heart

ADVICE:
See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
— Hebrews 3:12

PROMISE:
I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
— Jeremiah 24:7

​PRAYER:
But I pray to You, LORD, in the time of Your favour; in Your great love, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
— Psalm 69:13

DAILY BREAD — Joy in the Midst of Trials

ADVICE:
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds.
— James 1:2

PROMISE:
Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
— James 1:3

​PRAYER:
Look on my suffering and deliver me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
— Psalm 119:153

DAILY BREAD — United in Christ

ADVICE:
I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
— 1 Corinthians 1:10

PROMISE:
Therefore, you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
— 1 Corinthians 1:7–8

​PRAYER:
With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of His calling, and that by His power He may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
— 2 Thessalonians 1:11–12

DAILY BREAD — God’s Greatest Gift

ADVICE:
“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you.”
— Acts 3:22

PROMISE:
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
— Galatians 4:4–5

​PRAYER:
Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them.
— Luke 1:68