Every Word is a one-minute, Bible-based devotional presented by John Bradshaw, designed to provide a daily dose of spiritual reflection in the midst of a busy schedule.

You'll know when you need to know. “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.” - Acts 1:7 (NKJV)

If a person is teachable… “Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, ‘Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?'” - Acts 1:6 (NKJV)

Someone didn't understand what they had. “John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” - Acts 1:5 (NKJV)

No matter how long it takes… “And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, ‘Which,' He said, ‘you have heard from me.'” - Acts 1:4 (NKJV)

Why does she have that accent? “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.” - 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)

A remarkable meeting! “When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son.” - Galatians 4:4 (KJV)

80% negative thoughts! “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” - Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV)

Sin brings death … and more. “Do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.” - Romans 6:12 (NKJV)

It's apparently very common. “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” - Ephesians 6:11 (KJV)

This will never change. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.” - Jeremiah 31:3 (NKJV)

You have a representative in heaven. “Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.” - Exodus 25:8 (KJV)

For all people of all time… “The Sabbath was made for man.” - Mark 2:27 (NKJV)

God's law still matters. “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.” - Romans 3:31 (KJV)

That's good news! “Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” - Romans 6:14 (KJV)

Here's one really good reason. “I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.” - Psalm 40:8 (NKJV)

We wouldn't want to! “Call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable.” - Isaiah 58:13 (KJV)

If you're going to follow God… “And the Sabbath drew on.” - Luke 23:54 (KJV)

It's as though God knew! “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” - Exodus 20:10 (KJV)

There's only doubt if you want there to be. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.” - Exodus 20:8-10 (NKJV)

A profoundly bad idea! “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness.” - Romans 10:4 (KJV)

The answer is obvious. “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” - Mark 2:27 (NKJV)

He gave up everything for nothing. “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you?” - 2 Kings 5:26 (NKJV)

The story takes a dark turn. “...and stored them away in the house.” - 2 Kings 5:24 (NKJV)

It showed. “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel.” - 2 Kings 5:15 (KJV)

Don't fleece the flock. “And he urged him to take it, but he refused.” - 2 Kings 5:16 (KJV)

It would be a strange thing. “He went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.” - 2 Kings 5:14 (NKJV)

He had ruined her life. “Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! For he would recover him of his leprosy.” -2 Kings 5:3 (KJV)

Salvation is a simple science. “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean'?” - 2 Kings 5:13 (NKJV)

It wasn't about the show. “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.'” - 2 Kings 5:11 (NKJV)

Credit where credit is due. “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.” - 2 Kings 5:10 (NKJV)

A testimony requires a test. “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.” - 2 Kings 5:8 (NKJV)

You'll see God work. “They brought Him to Jerusalem, to present Him to the Lord.” - Luke 2:22 (KJV)

The king had no faith. “And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, ‘Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy?'” - 2 Kings 5:7 (NKJV)

That was a pile of money. “The king of Syria said, ‘Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel.' And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.” - 2 Kings 5:5 (KJV)

It's all great. “She said unto her mistress, ‘Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! For he would recover him of his leprosy.'” - 2 Kings 5:3 (KJV)

Let it bring out the best in you. “And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.” - 2 Kings 5:2 (KJV)

This was a fight he couldn't win. “Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.” - 2 Kings 5:1 (KJV)

You'll have all you need—and then some. “Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath.” - Zephaniah 1:18 (KJV)

He almost walked away from it all. “The just shall live by faith.” - Romans 1:17 (KJV)

Some things can't be outsourced. “Bear one another's burdens.” - Galatians 6:2 (NKJV)

Get over it! “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” - Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV)

He gave her his house! “We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.” - 1 Timothy 6:7 (KJV)

Don't let your limitations limit God. “The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah.” - 1 Kings 17:16 (NKJV)

She was going to die. “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin.” - 1 Kings 17:12 (NKJV)

You're going to be okay. “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” - 1 Kings 17:9 (NKJV)

They might be the beginning. “It came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.” - 1 Kings 17:7 (KJV)