Whatever your particular need is today, I guarantee you can find a promise in Scripture that fits it exactly. Are you exhausted because the road is hard and you're running on empty? Here's your promise: "He gives power to the faint." When you read a promise like that, take it straight back to the great Promiser, and ask him to fulfill his own word.

Are you desperately seeking Christ, thirsting for deeper communion with him? This promise shines like a star in the darkness: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled." Take that promise to the throne again and again. Don't plead anything else! Just go to God repeatedly with this: "Lord, you said it. Now do what you said."

Are you crushed under the weight of your sin, buried beneath the heavy load of your failures? Listen to these words: "I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions and will remember your sins no more." You have no merit to bargain with. No reason he should pardon you. But you do have his written contract, and he will honor it.

Are you terrified that you won't make it to the end? Afraid that after thinking yourself a child of God, you'll be exposed as a counterfeit? If that's where you are, take this word of grace and plead it before the throne: "The mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my covenant of love will never depart from you."

Have you lost that sweet sense of the Savior's presence? Are you seeking him with an aching heart? Remember these promises: "Return to me, and I will return to you." "For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great mercies I will gather you back."

Feast your faith on God's own words! Whatever your fears, whatever you lack, go to the Bank of Faith with your Father's signed check in hand, saying, "Remember the word to your servant, on which you have made me hope."