"This plan is a tool to simply encourage you to spend some time on a daily basis in God’s Word. I have found that establishing that daily habit blesses my life in so many different ways and I am confident it will bless yours. Each day in this plan has one chapter to read. Most chapters can be read in less than five minutes easily. Over the course of the year, we will make our way through several books of the Bible. Each day you will also find a specific verse to focus on and a principle based on the Scripture to think about for life application. You can do this! It’s not complicated and it will enrich you as you go because it is the Living Word of God. I will be praying that God speaks to you in many ways as you journey through His Word through this year."
-Pastor Kevin

Key Verse
Acts 18:9,10 "The Lord said to Paul in a night vision, 'Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent. For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.'”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I need to continually, confidently, and courageously keep sharing the Gospel without fear, knowing that Jesus has promised me His powerful presence no matter what I may face.

Key Verse
Acts 19:23 "About that time there was a major disturbance about the Way."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I need to live daily with an expectation that as I am faithful to God and His purpose to spread the Gospel, the enemy is going to do all he can to stir up opposition to oppose me, and I need to be spiritually ready.

Key Verse
Acts 20:35 “In every way I’ve shown you that it is necessary to help the weak by laboring like this and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
True happiness and fulfillment do not come through getting and taking but through giving and blessing and living openhandedly.

Key Verse
Acts 21:13 "Then Paul replied, 'What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.'”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I am called by Christ to have a level of commitment where I am willing to obey His will knowing in advance it is going to cost me in some way.

Key Verse
Acts 22:8-10 “I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord? ’He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, the one you are persecuting.’ Now those who were with me saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me. I said, ‘What should I do, Lord? ’ The Lord told me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told everything that you have been assigned to do.’"

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
In my walk with God, knowing Him intimately should always come before just giving Him my activity in service.

Key Verse
Acts 23:11 "The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, 'Have courage! For as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so it is necessary for you to testify in Rome.'”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The presence of Christ and the assurance that He is standing by me, brings me courage in the midst of all of life’s challenges and hardships.

Key Verse
Acts 24:25 "Now as he spoke about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and replied, 'Leave for now, but when I have an opportunity I’ll call for you.'”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I need to embrace and respond to every word of conviction the Holy Spirit brings into my heart and quickly repent of  whatever He shows me.

Key Verse
Acts 25:12 "Then after Festus conferred with his council, he replied, 'You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go.'”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I need to be attentive so I don’t miss the times the hand of God is moving silently behind the scenes on my behalf as He uses even those who are opposed to Him through His providential power to accomplish what He wants.

Key Verse
Acts 26:29 " 'I wish before God,' replied Paul, 'that whether easily or with difficulty, not only you but all who listen to me today might become as I am — except for these chains.'”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
What burdened Paul should burden me: that others around me will come to know and experience the love of God through a personal relationship with Him.

Key Verse
Acts 27:22 "Now I urge you to take courage, because there will be no loss of any of your lives, but only of the ship."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Though there will be times God takes us through storms in life, I can rest in and believe in the truths God shows me as I go through them.

Key Verse
Acts 28:30,31 "Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Nothing can hinder the purposes of God and the spread of the Gospel from going forward.

Key Verse
Rom 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
To live unashamed of the Gospel, not only means to not hesitate to share it, but it also means to apply it to my life and show that I believe it.

Key Verse
Rom 2:1 "Therefore, every one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I condemn myself when I pass judgment on someone else as I do the same or similar things.

Key Verse
Rom 3:21,22 "But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, attested by the Law and the Prophets. The righteousness of God is through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe, since there is no distinction."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Through the law I understand that I am a helpless sinner in need of coming to Jesus for mercy and to be clothed in His righteousness through salvation in Him

Key Verse
Rom 4:7,8 "Blessed are those whose lawless acts are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the person the Lord will never charge with sin."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The greatest blessing of all is to know that my sins have been forgiven and all the guilt and shame that goes along with that sin has been erased.

Key Verse
Rom 5:3,4 "And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I go through times of trial in my life it helps to know God is using those times to develop endurance, character, and hope in me and my pain is not without purpose.

Key Verse
Rom 6:6,7 "For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin since a person who has died is freed from sin."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Through my new life in Christ, I do not have to live under the control of any sin in my life.

Key Verse
Rom 7:24,25 "What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Jesus has not only provided me victory over my past sins, but He also gives me victory in my present battle with sin as He delivers me in my temptation to sin and the pull of the flesh every day.

Key Verse
Rom 8:38,39 "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The cross should convince me there is nothing that I have done, should have done, or that could ever happen around me or to me that could keep God from loving me.”

Key Verse
Rom 9:1-3 "I speak the truth in Christ — I am not lying; my conscience testifies to me through the Holy Spirit that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the benefit of my brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
A selfless, Christlike love that produces in me a great burden for the lost, does not come naturally to me and is something I need to pray for.

Key Verse
Rom 10:14,15 "How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him? And how can they hear without a preacher? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I am called to continuously be a part of the spread of the Gospel by going and giving myself, and sending and supporting others.

Key Verse
Rom 11:33-36 "Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? And who has ever given to God, that he should be repaid? For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Knowing that I will never be able to figure out God, should make me want to worship Him more passionately and glorify Him as I focus on His greatness.

Key Verse
Rom 12:1,2 "Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship. Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The call of God for me every day is to lay my life on the altar of sacrifice to Him and surrender all to the Lordship of Jesus totally, continually, and neutrally.

Key Verse
Rom 13:11-12 Besides this, since you know the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, because now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is nearly over, and the day is near; so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I recognize the darkness of the times and anticipate the soon return of Jesus, I should be alerted to my need for readiness by fleeing from deeds of darkness and walking in holiness.

Key Verse
Rom 14:10-12 "But you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. For it is written, 'As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.' So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
One day, I will stand before Jesus and give an account of how I have fulfilled His purpose for me in my life on this earth, and I need to live with that day in mind.

Key Verse
Rom 15:30 "Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in fervent prayers to God on my behalf."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
There are times I need to be humble enough to ask others to pray with me and for me as I go through various challenges and struggles in my life.

Key Verse
Rom 16:17,18 "Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them, because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
There are going to be people I must avoid at times because of the divisions they create through their abandonment of truth and my call to stand for truth and never sacrifice truth for the sake of unity.

Key Verse
Psa 1:1,2 "How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers! Instead, his delight is in the LORD’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
There is absolutely nothing more important for me to do today and every day than to delight in, feast on, and meditate on the Word of God.

Key Verse
Psa 2:1 "Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?"

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Though I live in a world that is rejecting God and His truth, His plans and purposes will never fail and that is why I cannot lose my focus on them.

Key Verse
Psa 3:3 "But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Through all the attacks of the enemy, I need to run to God for protection and trust Him to lift me up, hold me up, and keep me up as I fight my battles with His empowerment.

Key Verse
Psa 4:8 "I will both lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, LORD, make me live in safety."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
My ability to truly rest comes when I place all of my cares and worries in God’s hands and trust that He is in control and will protect me.

Key Verse
Psa 5:3 "In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I plead my case to you and watch expectantly."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
There is no better way to begin my day than to begin it in prayer, praying over the details of the day that I know of, and praying for guidance in the things that are going to happen that I did not anticipate.

Key Verse
Psa 6:6,7 "I am weary from my groaning; with my tears I dampen my bed and drench my couch every night. My eyes are swollen from grief; they grow old because of all my enemies."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I can come to God as I really am and cry out for help, even when I am depressed, discouraged, and suffering because of trouble I have brought on myself through my own sinful choices.

Key Verse
Psa 7:17 "I will thank the LORD for his righteousness; I will sing about the name of the LORD Most High."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I reflect on what God is doing or not doing in my life, I can trust that whatever He is doing is the right thing for my life because He is perfect in righteousness and love.

Key Verse
Psa 8:3,4 "When I observe your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place, what is a human being that you remember him, a son of man that you look after him?"

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I gaze upon God’s creation, I should see His majesty and be in awe that He has created me, sustained me in life, and cares about every detail of the affairs of my life.

Key Verse
Psa 9:1 "I will thank the LORD with all my heart; I will declare all your wondrous works."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
When I intentionally reflect on all the great works of God, not only in all of time and history, but also specifically in my life, half-hearted praise to Him is not an option if I truly grasp all He has done.

Key Verse
Psa 10:16 "The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations will perish from his land."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Though the evil and wickedness in the world around me is troubling, my focus needs to remain on God, and I need to maintain a complete confidence in His sovereign rule.

Key Verse
Psa 11:7 "For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds. The upright will see his face."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I long to see and know God more and more, it compels me to live righteously.

Key Verse
Psa 12:6 "The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
God’s words are perfect, will never fail, and are more valuable than earthly treasure as they reveal God and His will for my life.