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Our study is underway! Come to this page as early as 2 a.m. PST on Jan. 5–9. Click or tap on Day 1 on Jan. 5, Day 2 on Jan. 6, etc., to abide and arise in the Word each day.

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Today’s Teaching

Today’s Learning—Comparing Bible Versions the Simple Way

Psalm 91:1–2

John 15:1–8

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A sense of true safety begins by abiding—learning to rest with God, not just in God’s gifts.

Excerpt from Sacred Endurance: Finding Grace and Strength for a Lasting Faith:

Not until John 15:10 do we get a picture of what it looks like to abide in Jesus: “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.” To abide in Jesus means to keep his commandments, and to keep his commandments means to love God with all our hearts and souls and minds and to love our neighbors as ourselves (Matt 22:37–39). … We continue with him. We abide through relationship. We pursue in love. We pray in love. We obey in love.

And here is the good news: “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). … Apart from Christ, we can’t do anything (John 15:5). This is good news to the weary person who thinks she must muster up her own strength to pursue Christ and to love her neighbor. He provides the grace and the strength.

The fruit Jesus speaks of is simply evidence of a relationship with him. It is the result of a relationship that he initiated through and by his sovereign love.

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Abide in him, and he will abide in you. He who began a good work in you will complete it (Phil 1:6). “He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it” (1 Thess 5:24).

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Trillia Newbell, Sacred Endurance: Finding Grace and Strength for a Lasting Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2019). This version has been modified for this resource.

After your own time of thought and prayer, try one or both of these ways to dig deeper:
Open Factbook to Psalm 91:1–2. Scroll to the Questions to Ask section and see which questions you want answered—or what new questions come to mind as you read.

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Today’s Teaching

Today’s Learning—Going Deeper with Word Meanings

Psalm 91:3–8

Ephesians 6:10–18

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God’s protection doesn’t mean we avoid battles. It means we’re armed with his strength in them.
He is with us in them.

Excerpt from The Whole of Armor of God: How Christ’s Victory Strengthens Us for Spiritual Warfare:

Our sanctification rests first and foremost on the finished work of Christ in our place. As we shall see, the armor of God is quite literally God’s armor—armor designed for and worn by God, first and foremost. The armor God gives us to defend and protect us against Satan’s onslaught is the armor that he has already worn in the decisive battle on our behalf. We fight and stand firm against Satan only in the strength that comes from the victory that Christ has already won for us.

That is why each of the various pieces of armor points us to Christ. The belt of truth is the belt that girds the messianic king in Isaiah 11:5. The breastplate of righteousness and the helmet of salvation come from the divine warrior’s arsenal in Isaiah 59:17. The feet shod with gospel readiness are the feet of those who proclaim the arrival of the Messiah’s kingdom in Isaiah 52:7. God himself is the shield of faith, as he describes himself in Genesis 15. The sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, is the weapon wielded by the promised servant of the Lord in Isaiah 49:2.

What God clothes us with is nothing less than his own armor, the same armor that Christ has already worn on our behalf in his lifelong struggle with the mortal enemy of our souls, Satan himself. … Because of his victorious life, death, and resurrection, the same power that raised Christ up from the dead is now at work inside you and me through the ongoing work of the Spirit, raising us from spiritual death to new life.

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Iain M. Duguid, The Whole Armor of God: How Christ’s Victory Strengthens Us for Spiritual Warfare (Crossway, 2019), 16–17. This version has been modified for this resource.

After a time of thought and prayer, open Study Assistant and ask any question this study has brought to mind for you. For example, “How often does the Bible reference the idea of the armor of God?”

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Today’s Teaching

Today’s Learning—Exploring Insights: An Easy Way to See More

Psalm 91:9–10

Matthew 6:25–34

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Peace replaces panic when we believe God’s care is constant.

Excerpt from Consider the Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God:

I read J. I. Packer’s classic book Knowing God when I was in college. As I read his opening chapter, I was struck by the rationality of worry and despair when God is removed from the picture. Packer wrote, “The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God. Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you.”

Anxiety is only natural when we consider the reality of the world we live in—a world full of earthquakes, heartaches, divorce, and death. With that uncertainty, not to mention the grief and loss we know we can experience at any moment, doesn’t anxiety make sense? What is truly unnatural is peace and trust. There is a reason Paul defined the peace that God gives as something that “surpasses all understanding” (Phil 4:7 ESV). The world experiences peace circumstantially, but the Christian’s peace is not anchored in happenstance or circumstance but in the character of our heavenly Father.

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If you are living in perpetual anxiety, true and lasting peace will not, and cannot, be found in this world. It can come only from knowing God as he has revealed himself in his Word.

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Jonny Ardavanis and Sinclair B. Ferguson, Consider the Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God (Zondervan, 2024), 14–15. This version has been modified for this resource.

After a time of thought and prayer, open the Bible Word Study Guide to the entry for anxious. Click on each color on the ring to see which Greek and Hebrew words were translated into the English word anxious throughout the Bible.

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Today’s Teaching

Psalm 91:11–13

2 Kings 6:15–23

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God’s unseen help is real. He surrounds his people with protection, even when we can’t see it.

Excerpt from The New Bible Commentary:

Some threats lie in wait for us (Ps 91:3), some sneak up insidiously (3, 6); some are our own dreads, real or imaginary, some reflect hostility (5); some, again, we meet on life’s pathway (12–13). Life is like that. But simple trust brings us into a place of strong defence (2), the personal warmth of divine care, pledged defence (4) and a host of heavenly guardians every step of the way (11). The form in which all this is stated itself serves to affirm our protected status.

A¹ (v. 1) Theme stated: sure protection

B¹ (v. 2) Personal testimony

C¹ (vv. 3–8) Affirmation

B² (v. 9a) Personal testimony

C² (vv. 9b–13) Affirmation

A² (vv. 14–16) Theme confirmed: divine protection

It is a psalm of personal testimony (2, 9), but the matter does not rest there. Testimony may be the product of imagination or of wishful thinking and, in any case, what is true of one person may not necessarily apply to others. But here human testimony is enfolded (1, 14–16) in divine testimony and affirmed by the word of God (3–8, 9–13). The whole is a highly artistic way of expressing a fundamentally important fact: that we are always totally secure.

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J. A. Motyer, “The Psalms,” in New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition, ed. D. A. Carson et al., 4th ed. (InterVarsity Press, 1994), 546. This version has been modified for this resource.

After a time of thought and prayer, open the Passage Guide to Psalm 91 and explore several commentaries to see other discussions on this passage.

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P.S. You can go to the Passage Guide from the Guided Study menu (called Guides/Workflows on the desktop app) or from the Factbook. If you’re in the Factbook for a passage, you’ll see it in the Dig Deeper section toward the bottom of the panel.

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Today’s Teaching

Psalm 91:14–16

Romans 8:31–39

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Because God loves us, we can face the future unafraid. He delivers, answers, and satisfies.

Excerpt from Romans (Westminster Bible Companion):

God has already given us the greatest gift imaginable, the gift of God’s own Son. Because of this, we can count on a gift that is, strangely, less valuable than the invaluable gift of Christ, but still a promise of hope. We can count on “everything”! The gift of Christ is more than everything, but having received more than everything, we can count on everything, too.

Paul expands on this in two ways. First, he says, we are “more than conquerors” (v. 37). In the light of persecution and distress, we not only survive, we receive God’s eternal glory. A pastor I know reminded me that for Paul we are also more than conquerors because we are other than conquerors. We shall see in Romans 13 that the Christian life for Paul is not the life of conquest, but of loving compassion. Those who are more than conquerors are those who refuse to conquer. Those who refuse to seek victory are victorious. Those who do not glory in their own accomplishments can boast in the glory of the Lord, which will finally include the faithful, too.

Second, Paul reminds us that no power in creation can separate us from God’s love in Jesus Christ. The list of the creation’s powers—death, life, angels, heights, depths—reminds us that for Paul the world is populated with forces that call for our allegiance and threaten to control us. We could make our own list, but the point would be the same. We are driven and enticed by forces stronger than ourselves and weaker than God. The power that is greater than anything in creation is the power of the Creator. It is the love of the Creator that we know in Jesus Christ our Lord.

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David L. Bartlett, Romans ed. Patrick D. Miller, Westminster Bible Companion (Westminster John Knox Press, 1995), 80. This version has been modified for this resource.

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We invite you to continue your reading and study with a twenty-one-day Bible reading plan on faith. To start it:

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God’s protection doesn’t mean we avoid battles. It means we’re armed with his strength in them.He is with us in them.

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God’s unseen help is real. He surrounds his people with protection, even when we can’t see it.

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God’s protection doesn’t mean we avoid battles. It means we’re armed with his strength in them.
He is with us in them.