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10/31/2026

October 31, 2026 ~ Verse of The Day: Lamentations 3:25

25 Good is the Lord to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. VSB

In short:
Lamentations 3:25 means the Lord is good to whoever waits for Him and seeks Him. A grieving man says it, just after choosing to hope again (3:20-21). Goodness stands first in the line. Waiting and seeking are where that goodness is found.

What this verse is saying:
Two people appear in the line. One is waiting. Picture someone at a window, watching a road for a person who has not come yet. The other is seeking. Picture someone moving through a dark house, room by room, looking for what is lost. The Lord is good to both of them.
The Hebrew puts one word at the very front of the line. That word is "good." Then comes the Lord's name. Only after that come the people who receive His goodness. This translation keeps that order with "Good is the Lord." Lamentations 3 is an alphabet poem. Each Hebrew letter gets three lines. Verses 25-27 belong to the letter tet. The word for "good" begins with tet. That is why all three lines open the same way.
"To those who wait for Him" speaks of many people. "To the soul who seeks Him" speaks of one person. You can hear the line move from the many to the one. The same small word, "to," opens both halves. The soul here is not a ghost inside a man. It is the man himself, the whole person. It is the same soul that was bowed down in verse 20. It is the same soul that spoke in verse 24.
The speaker has just found his footing. Four verses earlier, in verse 21, he chose to hope. One line earlier, in verse 24, he called the Lord his portion. His portion means his share, the one thing left when everything else is gone. Now he tells anyone listening what God is like. These are not the words of a calm teacher. They come from a man who was bowed down just a few lines ago, in verse 20.
The Lord shows His goodness to those who wait for Him. He shows it to anyone who seeks Him. He does this even while the trouble is still there.

A Prayer on This Verse
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your unconditional love, Your goodness, and Your loving-kindness to me and to all that are called by Your name. Great is Your faithfulness, and I praise You for You alone are worthy. Help me to patiently wait for You in humble submission to Your Holy Spirit, by trusting Your Word of grace even when I don't understand, for You are good to those who wait for You. Help me to seek You with all my heart. In Jesus' name, AMEN.

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10/31/2026

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10/30/2026

October 30, 2026 ~ Verse of The Day: Lamentations 3:24

24“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul; therefore I will hope in him. VSB

In short:
Lamentations 3:24 means the Lord Himself is all the sufferer has left, and that is enough to keep hoping. The speaker sits in a ruined city with nothing left to call his own. He has just remembered that God's mercies have not run out (3:22-23). Now his soul speaks up and claims the Lord as its share. "Therefore" follows from that claim. Because the Lord is his portion, he will go on hoping in Him.

What this verse is saying:
The words "The Lord is my portion" turn on one word, portion. A portion is a share, the part of something counted as yours. In a land of fields, it was the plot a family lived from. Now picture the speaker. The city has fallen, and every share he could see is gone. In that emptiness he names a new one. His portion is the Lord.
The words "says my soul" show how the claim is held. It is spoken, not only felt. His whole inner self puts it into words. The voice is also single. Verse 22 spoke for the survivors and said "we are not consumed." Here that shared mercy becomes one man's own possession, "my portion."
The word "therefore" joins the two halves of the verse. The hope is a conclusion drawn from the claim just made. The Lord is his share, so expecting good from Him only makes sense. The words "in Him" give the hope its object. His hope rests on a person, not on a date for rescue.
Everything else is gone. From deep within, the speaker claims the Lord as his own share. On that ground he resolves to keep hoping in Him.

A Prayer on This Verse:
Heavenly Father, there are times when it seems that I am alone as I face life's difficulties, mourn over the spiritual decline that is overtaking the Church today, and grieve to see the shocking evil that is saturating the world. Thank You, Lord, that I am not alone, but am one of a remnant of believers who desires to do Your will. Thank You that Your mercies are new every morning and that You are building up Your church to Your praise and glory. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN.

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10/29/2026

October 29, 2026 ~ Verse of The Day: Lamentations 3:23

23New every morning; great is your faithfulness. VSB

In short:
Lamentations 3:23 means God's mercies arrive fresh each morning because His faithfulness is great. A man in deep affliction says it. Five verses earlier he said his hope from the Lord had perished (3:18). Now he tells God to His face that His faithfulness is great. That is why the people are still standing at all (3:22). The mercy is not a leftover from yesterday. It comes again with the light.

What this verse is saying:
The verse starts with the morning. The night has been long for the speaker. He has lain awake with his soul bowed down inside him, as verse 20 says. Then the sky grows light. Something comes with the light that was not there the night before. The verse calls it new.
The verse has no subject of its own. In Hebrew it begins with the word "new", and that word is plural. The nearest plural word before it is "His mercies" in verse 22. So the mercies are what is new. "Every morning" is also plural in Hebrew. It means mornings, one after another. Each morning brings its own fresh supply.
Then the line turns. The turn comes with the word "Your". Verse 22 speaks about the Lord and "His mercies". Verse 23 speaks to Him. A man who was describing God is now praying to God.
God's mercies come new with each morning. The man who almost lost hope tells God that His faithfulness is great.

A Prayer on This Verse:
Heavenly Father, I praise and thank You that You are a faithful God. What a comfort to me that Your love and mercy, grace and compassion, strength and peace, are new every morning. Keep me, I pray, from the sin of unbelief, and help me to trust in Your unfailing promises. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN.

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10/28/2026

October 28, 2026 ~ Verse of The Day: Lamentations: 3:22

22The steadfast loves of the Lord! For we are not consumed; for his mercies have not failed. VSB

In short:
Lamentations 3:22 means the Lord's steadfast love is the reason His people are still alive. The speaker has just said his hope from the Lord has perished (3:18). Then he calls one thing to mind, and this verse is most likely that thing. It is a shout, not a full sentence, and "loves" is plural. The proof follows twice with "for". We are not finished, because His mercies never ran out.

What this verse is saying:
The picture sits in one word, "consumed." The Hebrew word means finished, used up until nothing is left. After all that has fallen on them, the word expects nothing to be left. Yet they are still there. They are battered, but they are not finished.
The verse opens with a shout that has no verb. "The steadfast love of the Lord!" In Hebrew the noun is plural, a love shown many times over. The speaker blurts it out before he explains it.
Then come two clauses, and each one begins with "for." They are his evidence. In verse 17 he says he has forgotten what good is. Yet he knows the loves are real. He knows it because "we are not consumed." His people should have been finished, and they are not. The reason they are not finished comes next. "For His mercies have not failed."
Some read the middle clause another way. They make the loves the subject. Then the loves themselves are what never come to an end. That reading drops one Hebrew letter from the verb. It then says "they are not finished" instead of "we are not finished." The standard Hebrew text reads "we are not consumed," and this page keeps it. That reading also fits the verse better. The shout about the loves needs a reason. The survival of the people is that reason.
Notice the change of voice. Verses 17-21 say "my" and "I." Here the speaker says "we." The man's own hope died. Yet the evidence he reaches for is the survival of the whole people.

The Lord's loves are the cause of His people's survival. Their survival is the visible proof of those loves. His mercies did not run out.

A Prayer on This Verse:
Heavenly Father, how I praise and thank You that You are a gracious, loving, and long-suffering God. Help me not to be influenced by the circumstances of my life, but rather help me to keep the eyes of my heart on You, knowing that Your plans and purposes are perfect. Thank You, Father, for Your steadfast love toward all Your children which is new every morning. All glory to Your holy name, AMEN.

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10/27/2026

October 27, 2026 ~ Verse of The Day: Lamentations 1:12

12 Is it nothing to you, all who pass along the way? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was dealt to me, which the Lord inflicted in the day of his fierce anger. VSB

In short:
Lamentations 1:12 means that ruined Jerusalem stops the travelers and makes them face her grief. She speaks as a woman left in the wreckage by the roadside. The people passing have not even turned their heads. So she challenges them to search for any sorrow that equals hers. And she says who did this to her. The Lord Himself struck her, on the day His anger burned.

What this verse is saying:
The verse opens with a picture. A city lies in ruins, and the poet gives her a woman's voice. She sits where the road runs past the rubble. Travelers walk past with their eyes on the road ahead. None of them slows down. She calls after them.
The opening words ask the travelers a question, "Is it nothing to you." The Hebrew opens with a bare negative. This page reads it as a question because an order to look comes next. A challenge fits well with a call to look. "Is it nothing to you?" is the first thing she says. It is an accusation dressed up as a question. "All who pass along the way" are ordinary travelers with somewhere else to be. The word "you" is plural. She is not singling out one traveler. She is shouting at the whole road.
"Look and see" stacks two commands, both spoken to many people. Just one verse earlier, the same cry went up to heaven. "Look, O Lord, and see," she prayed in verse 11. Now she turns from heaven to the roadside. She gives strangers the same order. She does not ask for pity first. She asks for their eyes. Then she dares them to compare. "Any sorrow like my sorrow" repeats the one word for pain. The second time, it carries the word "my." It is one woman's voice, though a whole city stands behind it.
The last line answers a question the travelers might ask. They might wonder who did this to her. The words "which was dealt to me" are passive, meaning they tell what was done to her. It happened to her. "Which the Lord inflicted" names the hand behind it. The poet saves the cause for the very end. It comes in the words "in the day of His fierce anger." So the verse closes on the Lord and not on the enemy. The army that carried it out goes unnamed here.
Jerusalem lies in ruins. She orders the strangers on the road to look at a grief without equal. She names the Lord Himself as the one who struck her in His anger.

A Prayer on This Verse:
Heavenly Father, thank You for the book of Lamentations and the many lessons I can learn from its pages. May I never fail to view the terrible consequences of sin and the unspeakable torture and pain that was so severely dealt out to the Lord Jesus on my behalf, as the full force of God’s terrible wrath was poured out upon Him, in my stead. Keep me low at the Cross and broken before You, and may my heart be ever grateful for all that He did for me at Calvary. It is in His name I pray, AMEN.

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10/26/2026

October 26, 2026 ~ Verse of The Day: Lamentations 1:1

1How alone she sits, the city once full of people! She has become like a widow, she who was great among the nations; a princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer. VSB

In short:
Lamentations 1:1 means Jerusalem has fallen from crowded greatness to lonely servitude. The poet cries out at the reversal. He pictures the city as a woman sitting by herself. Her streets were once full of people. She once held rank among the nations and the provinces. Now she is like a widow, and she works under compulsion.

What this verse is saying:
Start with the picture. A woman sits on the ground by herself. No one is with her. The poet shows this first, before any name or any reason. The word for how she is placed is simply "sits." The word beside it is "alone."
Then the poet tells us who she is. She is "the city once full of people." The crowd is gone, and that emptiness is the first loss. Every line after this measures how far she has fallen. She was "great among the nations." She was "a princess among the provinces." Each title is set beside what she "has become."
The two closing clauses run in step. "Great among the nations" becomes "like a widow." "A princess among the provinces" becomes "a forced laborer." A widow has lost her husband and his protection. A forced laborer works because someone stronger makes her. The first names her loss. The second names her humiliation. Both use the same verb, "has become." The same shape comes twice.
Notice what the poet does not say. He does not yet say who did this or why. He only cries "How." The whole line is disbelief looking at a fact. The reason waits until verse 5.

The city was once crowded and ruled over others. Now she sits alone, like a widow. She works as a slave.

A Prayer on This Verse:
Heavenly Father, as I read through the prophetic voice of Jeremiah and his lament over Jerusalem, I am able to have a glimpse into the terrible events that overtook Your chosen people who chose to follow the path of spiritual adultery, rather than obeying Your commands and trusting Your Word. Help me learn the lessons from Israel’s failure and trust Your Word, obey Your voice, and walk in spirit and truth. Thank You that You have told us the end from the beginning and that in Your wrath You will remember mercy. I look forward to that coming day when Israel will repent of their sins and be restored as a nation. But I also pray that many would recognize Jesus as their Savior and come to faith in Him today. In Jesus' name, AMEN.

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10/25/2026

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10/25/2026

All youth are invited to our youth ministry at Calvary Church of Stockton on Sunday October 25th from 5-7pm!

10/25/2026

Old friends and new friends, you are WELCOME at Calvary!

Join us tomorrow at 10:00 AM for Worship Service, where Pastor Scott will continue his sermon series on the book of Revelation.

Bring the whole family and stay after the service for coffee and fellowship. We'd love to worship with you!

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