Verses to Dwell on for a New Year

Do you have Bible verses that you cling to and dwell on at the beginning of a new year? The first of the year is met with a fresh start and new intentions. Many people set resolutions, others choose a guiding life word for their year. My mind works well with themes and I have always fallen into the second category. My word for the year is “dwell” and I am committed to spending more time in God’s word than ever before. I have always been a book and paper reader, but I have chosen to follow the digital BibleProject | One Story that Leads to Jesus, One-Year plan that can be found in the YouVersion Bible app. I figure my phone is always with me, so there is no excuse for not following the plan with daily reminders. 🙂

Back to themes… I wanted a simple way to pull together verses that would help me focus to begin my year. This year, unlike any previous year, there is a stirring to turn down the noise of the world and turn up the words of comfort and hope as God’s children, we are given for our future within the pages of the Bible.

This list of 30 Bible verses would be a great exercise to read through, as you begin a new year or possibly a new season, for promises of renewal and strength that are scattered throughout the Bible.

I hope you will find refreshment for yourself as you read through and dwell on this set of 30 verses for your new year.

Click here to download the set of 30 verse cards.

You can take the files for the individual cards and print on a home printer or send to your local one-hour or home delivery photo lab. I sent the files to my local Walmart and printed 30 4×6 prints at $.09 each. A complete set cost about $3 and will be durable for toting around.

Ideas for using individual verse cards

• Slip them into your daily planner or calendar
• Hang on your bathroom mirror as daily reminders
• Send to a friend in the mail
• Flip through and read verses on the go as you are waiting in lines
• Share the digital .jpg on your social media
• Save the files to an album in your phone for easy flipping
• Commit each verse to memory as you read each day

Let me know how this reading plan and printable cards work for you. Also let me know if you would be interested in having additional thematic verse cards and suggested reading plans! I have ideas for other sets that could be created.