Word for the Way is a blog designed to give you a brief dose of God’s Word, the Bible — to encourage, to strengthen, and to prepare you for your daily walk in this thing we call life.
Here’s a bite-sized piece of encouragement from your Bible. Also included is a featured song that is sure to lift your spirit. May your heart and soul be blessed. –G–
“God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though its waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling.
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Psalms 8:1-9 (NKJV)
1 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen—Even the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!
Salmos 8:1-9 (NVI)
1 Oh Señor, Soberano nuestro, ¡qué imponente es tu nombre en toda la tierra! ¡Has puesto tu gloria sobre los cielos!
2 A causa de tus adversarios has hecho que brote la alabanza has hecho que brote la alabanza de labios de los chiquillos y de los niños de pecho, para silenciar al enemigo y al rebelde.
3 Cuando contemplo tus cielos, obra de tus dedos, la luna y las estrellas que allí fijaste,
4 me pregunto: «¿Qué es el hombre, para que pienses en él? ¿Qué es el ser humano, para que lo tengas en cuenta?»
5 Pues lo hiciste poco menos que Dios, y lo coronaste de gloria y de honra;
6 lo entronizaste sobre la obra de tus manos, ¡todo lo sometiste a su dominio!
7 Todas las ovejas, todos los bueyes, todos los animales del campo,
8 las aves del cielo, los peces del mar, y todo lo que surca los senderos del mar.
9 Oh Señor, Soberano nuestro, ¡qué imponente es tu nombre en toda la tierra!
John 15:1-8 (NKJV)
1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
Juan 15:1-8 (NVI)
1 »Yo soy la vid verdadera, y mi Padre es el labrador.
2 Toda rama que en mí no da fruto, la corta; pero toda rama que da fruto la poda para que dé más fruto todavía.
3 Vosotros ya estáis limpios por la palabra que os he comunicado.
4 Permaneced en mí, y yo permaneceré en vosotros. Así como ninguna rama puede dar fruto por sí misma, sino que tiene que permanecer en la vid, así tampoco vosotros podéis dar fruto si no permanecéis en mí.
5 »Yo soy la vid y vosotros las ramas. El que permanece en mí, como yo en él, dará mucho fruto; separados de mí no podéis hacer nada.
6 El que no permanece en mí es desechado y se seca, como las ramas que se recogen, se arrojan al fuego y se queman.
7 Si permanecéis en mí y mis palabras permanecen en vosotros, pedid lo que queráis, y se os concederá.
8 Mi Padre es glorificado si dais mucho fruto, mostrando así que sois mis discípulos.
John 11:17-27 (NKJV)
17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away.
19 And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Now Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
21 Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
Juan 11:17-27 (NVI)
17 A su llegada, Jesús se encontró con que Lázaro llevaba ya cuatro días en el sepulcro.
18 Betania estaba cerca de Jerusalén, como a tres kilómetros de distancia,
19 y muchos judíos habían ido a casa de Marta y de María, a darles el pésame por la muerte de su hermano.
20 Cuando Marta supo que Jesús llegaba, fue a su encuentro; pero María se quedó en la casa.
21 ―Señor —dijo Marta a Jesús—, si hubieras estado aquí, mi hermano no habría muerto.
22 Pero yo sé que aun ahora Dios te dará todo lo que le pidas.
23 ―Tu hermano resucitará —le dijo Jesús.
24 ―Yo sé que resucitará en la resurrección, en el día final —respondió Marta.
25 Entonces Jesús le dijo: ―Yo soy la resurrección y la vida. El que cree en mí vivirá, aunque muera;
26 y todo el que vive y cree en mí no morirá jamás. ¿Crees esto?
27 ―Sí, Señor; yo creo que tú eres el Cristo, el Hijo de Dios, el que había de venir al mundo.
John 10:7-18 (NKJV)
7 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
Juan 10:7-18 (NVI)
7 Por eso volvió a decirles: «Ciertamente os aseguro que yo soy la puerta de las ovejas.
8 Todos los que vinieron antes de mí eran unos ladrones y unos bandidos, pero las ovejas no les hicieron caso.
9 Yo soy la puerta; el que entre por esta puerta, que soy yo, será salvo. Se moverá con entera libertad, y hallará pastos.
10 El ladrón no viene más que a robar, matar y destruir; yo he venido para que tengan vida, y la tengan en abundancia.
11 »Yo soy el buen pastor. El buen pastor da su vida por las ovejas.
12 El asalariado no es el pastor, y a él no le pertenecen las ovejas. Cuando ve que el lobo se acerca, abandona las ovejas y huye; entonces el lobo ataca al rebaño y lo dispersa.
13 Y ese hombre huye porque, siendo asalariado, no le importan las ovejas.
14 »Yo soy el buen pastor; conozco a mis ovejas, y ellas me conocen a mí,
15 así como el Padre me conoce a mí y yo lo conozco a él, y doy mi vida por las ovejas.
16 Tengo otras ovejas que no son de este redil, y también a ellas debo traer. Así ellas escucharán mi voz, y habrá un solo rebaño y un solo pastor.
17 Por eso me ama el Padre: porque entrego mi vida para volver a recibirla.
18 Nadie me la arrebata, sino que yo la entrego por mi propia voluntad. Tengo autoridad para entregarla y tengo también autoridad para volver a recibirla. Este es el mandamiento que recibí de mi Padre».
John 14:1-6 (NKJV)
1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
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