"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 Verses: 
John 4:13,14 "Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. 14But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Continually turning to Jesus to quench the thirst of my soul is the only way I will ever truly experience satisfaction in my life. 

Key Verse: 
John 5:6 "When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
There are times when I need to be honest about the level of my true desire to be delivered from where I currently am.

Key Verses: 
John 6:66,67 "From that moment many of his disciples turned back and no longer accompanied him. 67So Jesus said to the Twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The teachings of God's Word and the demands of following Jesus are sometimes very difficult to follow and I will be tempted to walk away, but I need to be determined to follow on knowing that He is worth it.

Key Verse: 
John 7:18 "The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I live my life walking in the truth of God's Word and for the glory of God and not for myself, it gives evidence that my walk is genuine.

Key Verses: 
John 8:31,32 "Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples. 32You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I take in the truth of God's Word and walk it out, the result will be a freedom that could never be found in any other source. 

Key Verse: 
John 9:41 “If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I will receive greater spiritual understanding as I remain open to Jesus and all He reveals to me, rather that shutting myself off to Him.

Key Verse: 
John 10:10 "A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Though the abundant life I have in Jesus isn't exceptionally long or easy, it is full of satisfaction and contentment through the life of Jesus in me.

Key Verse: 
John 11:5 "Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I face trials and heartache in life, I need to prayerfully do so trusting God, even when His answers are not what I am praying for, and know that His delays are not denials: He will work in His own time and way.

Key Verse: 
John 12:43 "For they loved human praise more than praise from God."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I should always be more concerned about what God says about me that what others say about me and seek His acceptance and approval over acceptance and approval of others.

Key Verse: 
John 13:14,15 "So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done for you."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I lovingly serve others in humility, I can demonstrate Jesus to them in the most meaningful of ways.

Key Verse: 
John 14:15 "If you love me, you will keep my commands."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The greatest way I can demonstrate my love for Christ is by living a life of obedience to what He has given me to do.

Key Verse: 
John 15:5 "I am the vine;  you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
I need to live in the constant realization that apart from an abiding relationship with Christ, there is no possibility of me accomplishing anything of lasting significance.

Key Verse: 
John 16:33 "I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As long as I am in this world, I will have trials and times of suffering, but through the presence of Christ in me, I will also have the ability to overcome and experience the reality of His peace.

Key Verse: 
John 17:21 "May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
God can use me to help bring unity to the body of Christ by refusing to get sidetracked by divisive, irrelevant issues, and keeping the main thing, the main thing.

Key Verse: 
John 18:37 “You are a king then?” Pilate asked.“You say that I’m a king,” Jesus replied. “I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Truth is who Jesus is, all truth is found in Jesus, and it is vital for me to walk in Him so that I have the ability through Him to recognize truth in every situation. 

Key Verse: 
John 19:1 "Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Seeing the tragedy of how Pilate appeased the crowd rather than do the right thing with Jesus, who he knew was innocent, should cause me to be on guard against the danger of people pleasing.

Key Verse: 
John 20:29 "Jesus said, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.”

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I walk by faith and believe in my heart, even though I cannot see with my eyes, I will be blessed in my walk with God as I experience Him by the work of His Spirit. 

Key Verse: 
John 21:22 "If I want him to remain until I come," Jesus answered, "what is that to you? As for you, follow me."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Keeping my eyes on Jesus and what He has for me to do in my own personal life, while leaving what others are doing to Him, is vital for my own personal faithfulness and focus.

Key Verse: 
1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Acknowledging and confessing my sin to God as He reveals it to me on a daily basis is the key to closeness to God and intimate fellowship with Him. 

Key Verse: 
1 John 2:24 "What you have heard from the beginning is to remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As I take in new truths in my walk with God, I need to make sure they are truths that line up with Scripture and that I never abandon the fundamental truths about Christ that brought me into a saving relationship with Him. 

Key Verse: 
1 John 3:18 "Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
My love for others should not be shown by words alone, but by the demonstration of it through my actions, even in very simple, practical ways.

Key Verse: 
1 John 4:1 "Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Because there are so many voices in the world today who claim to have a message from God, it is imperative that I am always in the Word and growing in the Word so I am able to recognize what is not consistent with the Word and reject it.

Key Verse: 
1 John 5:14 "This is the confidence we have before him: If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
My prayer life is going to grow in power as I understand more and more what God wants in all the different areas of my life and pray for those things.

Key Verses: 
2 John 1:10,11 "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home, and do not greet him;
for the one who greets him shares in his evil works."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Though I should always treat others in a Christlike, loving way, I have to guard against allowing myself to be influenced by those whose words and ways contradict the truth of Scripture.

Key Verse: 
3 John 1:11 "Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
It is important for me to beware of bad examples and not imitate them, while living to be a good example myself.

Key Verse: 
Romans 1:8 "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Knowing that everyday my faith is on display to others who observe my walk with God should motivate me to be the best example I can be of what it looks like to be a follower of Christ and trust Him in all my situations.

Key Verse: 
Romans 2:4 "Or do you despise the riches of his kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?"

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The kindness and patience that God has shown me should humble me, fill my heart with gratitude, and motivate me to respond to His mercy and grace with a surrendered, obedient heart and life.

Key Verse: 
Romans 3:20 "For no one will be justified in his sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
God uses His law in my life to expose my lack of holiness and my inability to stand before Him and be right with Him through my own efforts.

Key Verses: 
Romans 4:20,21 "He did not waver in unbelief at God’s promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, because he was fully convinced that what God had promised, he was also able to do."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
My personal faith should be driven by the fact that I am fully convinced of God’s ability to carry out anything He has promised to me regardless what things look like.

Key Verse: 
Romans 5:8 "But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
The love God has for me was proven long before I ever turned to Him when He sent His Son to die for me so I could spend eternity with Him.

Key Verse: 
Romans 6:12 "Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
As a believer, sin is a serious matter and cannot exist in my life without me getting serious about dealing with it, in the power of Christ, and getting it out of my life.

Key Verse: 
Romans 7:15 "For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
In my battle with my flesh and against the enemy, I must remember that self determination is not enough and I need a total dependency on Jesus for my victory.

Key Verses: 
Romans 8:5,6 "For those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their minds set on the things of the Spirit. Now the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace."

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Knowing that where I am at in my mind is where I really live, I should be motivated to cooperate with the work of the Holy Spirit as He leads me to think in right and pure ways that result in peace of mind.

Key Verses: 
Romans 9:20,21 "On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?"

Truth Takeaway to Personalize Today
Remembering that I am the created and God is the Creator helps me to realize the importance of living my life in complete surrender to the purposes God has for me.