"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: 
Genesis 42:6 "Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
My hope will grow as I remember that God can use anything, good or bad, to fulfill His purposes in any given way.

Key Verse: 
Genesis 43:1 "Now the famine in the land was severe."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Whether it is a relational, emotional, spiritual, or financial famine that I am faced with, I can trust God and His provisions and timing to get me through.

Key Verses: 
Genesis 44:33,34 "Now please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers. For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Judah's offer to be a substitute for Benjamin is a picture for me personally of what Jesus did for me at the cross. 

Key Verse: 
Genesis 45:5 "And now don't be grieved or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Right now, God is planning, orchestrating, directing, guiding, and leading in ways that I will never see and His place can be trusted. 

Key Verse: 
Genesis 46:4 "I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you back. Joseph will close your eyes when you die.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Regardless of what is ahead for me today, I can have confidence in the fact that God is not only a guiding God, but He is also an ever-present God whose presence I can count on as I continually seek and follow Him.

Key Verse: 
Genesis 47:27 "Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property in it and became fruitful and very numerous."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Just as Joseph’s faithfulness to God resulted in his whole family being blessed, my faithfulness to God will result in blessings for the loved ones in my life.

Key Verse: 
Genesis 48:15 "Then he blessed Joseph and said:The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
It is good for me to reflect back on where I have been and express gratitude to God for the many different times He has so faithfully and lovingly shepherded me through so many situations.

Key Verse: 
Genesis 49:28 "These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this is what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Knowing that one day my journey on this earth will come to an end, I need to realize that the most important thing I can pass on is a legacy of faith.

Key Verse: 
Genesis 50:20 "You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result — the survival of many people."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Regardless of how hard or tragic any situation I face may be, God can accomplish good things through it.

Key Verse: 
Ruth 1:16 "But Ruth replied:Don’t plead with me to abandon you or to return and not follow you.For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I need to daily live my life in such a way that others around me respond to ways they see God working in me by wanting my God to be their God.

Key Verse: 
Ruth 2:12 "May the Lord reward you for what you have done, and may you receive a full reward from the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I will experience great security in life knowing God as my safe refuge and running to Him in all my situations.

Key Verse: 
Ruth 3:9 "So he asked, “Who are you?”“I am Ruth, your servant,” she replied. “Take me under your wing, for you are a family redeemer.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Having the assurance that Jesus is my Redeemer means that I can live knowing that the price for my sins has been paid for, I am His, and forever under His provision and care.

Key Verse: 
Ruth 4:14 "The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you without a family redeemer today. May his name become well known in Israel."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Even in times when my heart breaks and I cannot see or understand, I can trust the heart of God as He works to bring hope in what appears to be hopeless situations.

Key Verse: 
Mark 1:35 "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he got up, went out, and made his way to a deserted place; and there he was praying."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Just as Jesus made time and found an isolated place to pray, I need to make time and have a place where I spend time in prayer so that I can have fellowship with the Father and get His direction for everything I do in life.

Key Verse: 
Mark 2:8 "Right away Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?"

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Realizing that Jesus knows me from the inside out should prompt me to walk with Him from the inside out, dealing with my deepest thoughts and internal realities.

Key Verses: 
Mark 3:4,5 "Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save life or to kill?”  But they were silent. After looking around at them with anger, he was grieved at the hardness of their hearts and told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
When I reduce my relationship with God to a mere list of things to be done in certain ways at certain times, the result will be that I have a cold, hard heart that totally misses God.

Key Verse: 
Mark 4:24 "And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear. By the measure you use, it will be measured to you — and more will be added to you."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The more of God’s truth I take in and apply, the more truth and understanding I will be given to apply.

Key Verse: 
Mark 5:36 "When Jesus overheard what was said, he told the synagogue leader, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
It is vital to remember that faith and fear don’t go together and Jesus is more concerned about my faith than anything else.

Key Verse: 
Mark 6:37 "You give them something to eat,” he responded.They said to him, “Should we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I need to be prepared for times when God gives me an impossible assignment that requires me to obey Him in complete dependence on Him making it happen.”

Key Verse: 
Mark 7:20-23 "And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Heart work is hard work, but it is needed work for me because all that I am and all that I do in life flows from it.

Key Verse: 
Mark 8:15 "Then he gave them strict orders: “Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I need to constantly beware of the many ways that the enemy seeks to use wrong influences in my life that will take me away from the true Gospel.

Key Verse: 
Mark 9:43 "And if your hand causes you to fall away, cut it off.  It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go to hell, the unquenchable fire."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
In my pursuit of holiness and my battle against sin, I need to be ruthless in removing sin out of my life and be willing to take drastic measures.

Key Verses: 
Mark 10:43-45 "But it is not so among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you will be a slave to all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
 
Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
God can greatly use me as I look for ways to serve others, rather than seek to have others meet my needs.

Key Verses: 
Mark 11:15-17 "They came to Jerusalem, and he went into the temple and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple. He was teaching them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
There are going to be times when I need to pray for courage, not bow to the pressures of a fallen world, and stand up for what is right.

Key Verses: 
Mark 12:38-40 "He also said in his teaching, “Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who want greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Whatever outward service that I do for the Lord must never be done for show, but only as an expression of my love for Him and a desire to see Him glorified.

Key Verse: 
Mark 13:11 "So when they arrest you and hand you over, don’t worry beforehand what you will say, but say whatever is given to you at that time, for it isn’t you speaking, but the Holy Spirit."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Anytime I am put on the spot about my faith and forced to give a defense, I can trust in the presence and work of the Holy Spirit to guide me in what to say and do as I depend on Him.

Key Verse: 
Mark 14:29 "Peter told him, “Even if everyone falls away, I will not.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Because of my inability to correctly evaluate my own spiritual reality, I need to open myself to what Jesus wants to reveal to me about myself and take heed.

Key Verse: 
Mark 15:11 "But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
To fully comprehend what Jesus did for me on the cross, I need to understand that Jesus did not just die for me, He died instead of me.

Key Verse: 
Mark 16:7 "But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there just as he told you.’”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The inclusion of Peter in the resurrection story is a good reminder that there is opportunity for restoration in my times of failure.

Key Verse: 
James 1:2 "Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials."
 
Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Though there are some situations in life that I have no choice of whether I go through them, I can choose how I go through them and face them in faith and anticipation of how God is going to work through them.

Key Verse: 
James 2:1 "My brothers and sisters, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
When I show partiality toward someone and mistreat someone else I misrepresent Jesus and the genuineness of my faith is called into question.

Key Verse: 
James 3:10 "Blessing and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
My speech should not vary depending on where I am and the situation, but should consistently bring glory to God by reflecting Him in all I say.

Key Verses: 
James 4:14-16 "Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring — what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes. Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Knowing that life is short and goes by in a flash, I need to make my plans and center my thinking about what I do on God’s will for my life and be guided by Him.

Key Verses: 
James 5:17,18 "Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land. Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its fruit."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I will see powerful things happen in, through, and around my life if I am  consistently prayerful.

Key Verses: 
1 Peter 1:14-16 "As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance. But as the one who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct; for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
My walk with God should be a constant pursuit of holiness that prioritizes becoming more like Jesus and less like the world around me.