October 20

Revelation 1:18

“I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever!  And I hold the keys of death and Hades.”

NLT:  “I am the living one.  I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever!  And I hold the keys of death and the grave.”

Psalm 139:14

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

NLT:  Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!  Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

Colossians 1:29

To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.

NLT:  That’s why I work and struggle so hard, depending on Christ’s mighty power that works within me.

Isaiah 2:5

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord.

NLT:  Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord!