Promise Me One Thing

God made thousands of promises in the Bible. They are for you and me to hold on to and live by through the good times and the bad times. If you are anything like me, you need to be reminded of them daily, and you might not know where to find them in a moment of need. Join host Maggie John every day for just a few moments as we soak in God’s promises—be reminded of who you are.

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Friday Apr 18, 2025

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Psalm 118:1-14
New Living Translation
1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good!    His faithful love endures forever.
2 Let all Israel repeat:    “His faithful love endures forever.”3 Let Aaron’s descendants, the priests, repeat:    “His faithful love endures forever.”4 Let all who fear the Lord repeat:    “His faithful love endures forever.”
5 In my distress I prayed to the Lord,    and the Lord answered me and set me free.6 The Lord is for me, so I will have no fear.    What can mere people do to me?7 Yes, the Lord is for me; he will help me.    I will look in triumph at those who hate me.8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord    than to trust in people.9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord    than to trust in princes.
10 Though hostile nations surrounded me,    I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord.11 Yes, they surrounded and attacked me,    but I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord.12 They swarmed around me like bees;    they blazed against me like a crackling fire.    But I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord.13 My enemies did their best to kill me,    but the Lord rescued me.14 The Lord is my strength and my song;    he has given me victory.
 
Psalm 118:1-16
The Message
118 1-4 Thank God because he’s good,    because his love never quits.Tell the world, Israel,    “His love never quits.”And you, clan of Aaron, tell the world,    “His love never quits.”And you who fear God, join in,    “His love never quits.”
5-16 Pushed to the wall, I called to God;    from the wide open spaces, he answered.God’s now at my side and I’m not afraid;    who would dare lay a hand on me?God’s my strong champion;    I flick off my enemies like flies.Far better to take refuge in God    than trust in people;Far better to take refuge in God    than trust in celebrities.Hemmed in by barbarians,    in God’s name I rubbed their faces in the dirt;Hemmed in and with no way out,    in God’s name I rubbed their faces in the dirt;Like swarming bees, like wild prairie fire, they hemmed me in;    in God’s name I rubbed their faces in the dirt.I was right on the cliff-edge, ready to fall,    when God grabbed and held me.God’s my strength, he’s also my song,    and now he’s my salvation.Hear the shouts, hear the triumph songs    in the camp of the saved?        “The hand of God has turned the tide!        The hand of God is raised in victory!        The hand of God has turned the tide!”
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday Apr 17, 2025

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Luke 17:28-37
New Living Translation
28 “And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building— 29 until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. A person out in the field must not return home. 32 Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! 33 If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it. 34 That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left.[a]”
37 “Where will this happen, Lord?”[b] the disciples asked.
Jesus replied, “Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.”[c]
 
Luke 17:28-37
The Message
28-30 “It was the same in the time of Lot—the people carrying on, having a good time, business as usual right up to the day Lot walked out of Sodom and a firestorm swept down and burned everything to a crisp. That’s how it will be—sudden, total—when the Son of Man is revealed.
31-33 “When the Day arrives and you’re out working in the yard, don’t run into the house to get anything. And if you’re out in the field, don’t go back and get your coat. Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! If you grasp and cling to life on your terms, you’ll lose it, but if you let that life go, you’ll get life on God’s terms.
34-35 “On that Day, two men will be in the same boat fishing—one taken, the other left. Two women will be working in the same kitchen—one taken, the other left.”
37 Trying to take all this in, the disciples said, “Master, where?”
He told them, “Watch for the circling of the vultures. They’ll spot the corpse first. The action will begin around my dead body.”
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday Apr 16, 2025

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Luke 17:22-25
New Living Translation
22 Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see the day when the Son of Man returns,[a] but you won’t see it. 23 People will tell you, ‘Look, there is the Son of Man,’ or ‘Here he is,’ but don’t go out and follow them. 24 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day[b] when the Son of Man comes. 25 But first the Son of Man must suffer terribly[c] and be rejected by this generation. 
 
 
Luke 17:22-25
The Message
22-24 He went on to say to his disciples, “The days are coming when you are going to be desperately homesick for just a glimpse of one of the days of the Son of Man, and you won’t see a thing. And they’ll say to you, ‘Look over there!’ or, ‘Look here!’ Don’t fall for any of that nonsense. The arrival of the Son of Man is not something you go out to see. He simply comes.
24-25 “You know how the whole sky lights up from a single flash of lightning? That’s how it will be on the Day of the Son of Man. But first it’s necessary that he suffer many things and be turned down by the people of today.
 
 
 
 
 

Promise 75: The Power Of Faith

Tuesday Apr 15, 2025

Tuesday Apr 15, 2025

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Luke 17:5-6
New Living Translation
5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Show us how to increase our faith.”
6 The Lord answered, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you!
 
Luke 17:5-6
The Message
5 The apostles came up and said to the Master, “Give us more faith.”
6 But the Master said, “You don’t need more faith. There is no ‘more’ or ‘less’ in faith. If you have a bare kernel of faith, say the size of a poppy seed, you could say to this sycamore tree, ‘Go jump in the lake,’ and it would do it.
 
   

Promise 74: Forgiveness

Monday Apr 14, 2025

Monday Apr 14, 2025

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Luke 17:3-4
New Living Translation
3 So watch yourselves!
“If another believer[a] sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. 4 Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive.”
 
Luke 17:3-4
The Message
3-4 “Be alert. If you see your friend going wrong, correct him. If he responds, forgive him. Even if it’s personal against you and repeated seven times through the day, and seven times he says, ‘I’m sorry, I won’t do it again,’ forgive him.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Friday Apr 11, 2025

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Psalm 139
New Living Translation
1 O Lord, you have examined my heart    and know everything about me.2 You know when I sit down or stand up.    You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.3 You see me when I travel    and when I rest at home.    You know everything I do.4 You know what I am going to say    even before I say it, Lord.5 You go before me and follow me.    You place your hand of blessing on my head.6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,    too great for me to understand!
7 I can never escape from your Spirit!    I can never get away from your presence!8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;    if I go down to the grave,[a] you are there.9 If I ride the wings of the morning,    if I dwell by the farthest oceans,10 even there your hand will guide me,    and your strength will support me.11 I could ask the darkness to hide me    and the light around me to become night—12     but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.To you the night shines as bright as day.    Darkness and light are the same to you.
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body    and knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!    Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,    as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.16 You saw me before I was born.    Every day of my life was recorded in your book.Every moment was laid out    before a single day had passed.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me,[b] O God.    They cannot be numbered!18 I can’t even count them;    they outnumber the grains of sand!And when I wake up,    you are still with me!
19 O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!    Get out of my life, you murderers!20 They blaspheme you;    your enemies misuse your name.21 O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you?    Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?22 Yes, I hate them with total hatred,    for your enemies are my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;    test me and know my anxious thoughts.24 Point out anything in me that offends you,    and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
 
 
 
Psalm 139
The Message
139 1-6 God, investigate my life;    get all the facts firsthand.I’m an open book to you;    even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking.You know when I leave and when I get back;    I’m never out of your sight.You know everything I’m going to say    before I start the first sentence.I look behind me and you’re there,    then up ahead and you’re there, too—    your reassuring presence, coming and going.This is too much, too wonderful—    I can’t take it all in!
7-12 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?    to be out of your sight?If I climb to the sky, you’re there!    If I go underground, you’re there!If I flew on morning’s wings    to the far western horizon,You’d find me in a minute—    you’re already there waiting!Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark!    At night I’m immersed in the light!”It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you;    night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.
13-16 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;    you formed me in my mother’s womb.I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!    Body and soul, I am marvelously made!    I worship in adoration—what a creation!You know me inside and out,    you know every bone in my body;You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,    how I was sculpted from nothing into something.Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;    all the stages of my life were spread out before you,The days of my life all prepared    before I’d even lived one day.
17-22 Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful!    God, I’ll never comprehend them!I couldn’t even begin to count them—    any more than I could count the sand of the sea.Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!    And please, God, do away with wickedness for good!And you murderers—out of here!—    all the men and women who belittle you, God,    infatuated with cheap god-imitations.See how I hate those who hate you, God,    see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred.    Your enemies are my enemies!
23-24 Investigate my life, O God,    find out everything about me;Cross-examine and test me,    get a clear picture of what I’m about;See for yourself whether I’ve done anything wrong—    then guide me on the road to eternal life.
 

Promise 72: Live Wisely

Thursday Apr 10, 2025

Thursday Apr 10, 2025

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Ephesians 5:15
New Century Version
15 So be very careful how you live. Do not live like those who are not wise, but live wisely.
 
Ephesians 5:15-16
The Message
11-16 Don’t waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It’s a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ.
Wake up from your sleep,Climb out of your coffins;Christ will show you the light!
So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times!
 

Wednesday Apr 09, 2025

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Isaiah 43:18-19 
New Century Version
18 The Lord says, “Forget what happened before,    and do not think about the past.19 Look at the new thing I am going to do.    It is already happening. Don’t you see it?I will make a road in the desert    and rivers in the dry land.
 
Isaiah 43:18-21
The Message
16-21 This is what God says,    the God who builds a road right through the ocean,    who carves a path through pounding waves,The God who summons horses and chariots and armies—    they lie down and then can’t get up;    they’re snuffed out like so many candles:“Forget about what’s happened;    don’t keep going over old history.Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new.    It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it?There it is! I’m making a road through the desert,    rivers in the badlands.Wild animals will say ‘Thank you!’    —the coyotes and the buzzards—Because I provided water in the desert,    rivers through the sunbaked earth,Drinking water for the people I chose,    the people I made especially for myself,    a people custom-made to praise me.
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday Apr 08, 2025

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2 Corinthians 5:17
New Living Translation
17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
 
2 Corinthians 5:17-20
The Message
16-20 Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life emerges! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you.
 
 
 
 

Promise 69: Salvation

Monday Apr 07, 2025

Monday Apr 07, 2025

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Romans 10:9
New Living Translation
9 If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
 
Romans 10:9-10
The Message
4-10 The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying?
The word that saves is right here,    as near as the tongue in your mouth,    as close as the heart in your chest.
It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
 
 
 

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Maggie John 

Maggie John is currently the Executive Director of The  Baby Depot, a charity in Hamilton, Ont., that each year clothes 300  babies with a year’s worth of free clothing. Most recently, Maggie was the host of the radio show Toronto This Weekend and has previously worked as a TV host and producer for the past 21 years. She is currently the host of the podcast HERE with Maggie John a show about life stories and lessons learned and now the new podcast Promise Me One Thing. Maggie is the proud mother of two boys. 

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