January 19 Psalm 18:25-50 (ESV) 25 With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; 26 with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous. 27 For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down. 28 For it is you who light … More January 19 Psalm 18:25-50
January 19 Genesis 41 (ESV) oseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams 41:1 After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, 2 and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass. 3 And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile … More January 19 Genesis 41
January 18 Acts 10:24-28 (ESV) 24 And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. 26 But Peter lifted him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am a man.” 27 And as he talked … More January 18 Acts 10:24-28
January 18 Psalm 18:1-24 (ESV) The Lord Is My Rock and My Fortress To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: 18:1 I love you, O Lord, … More January 18 Psalm 18:1-24
January 17 Psalm 17 (ESV) In the Shadow of Your Wings A Prayer of David. 17:1 Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! 2 From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! 3 You have tried my heart, you have visited … More January 17 Psalm 17
January 17 Genesis 37-38 (ESV) Joseph’s Dreams 37:1 Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan. 2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph … More January 17 Genesis 37-38
January 16 Psalm 16 (ESV) You Will Not Abandon My Soul A Miktam [1] of David. 16:1 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” 3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all … More January 16 Psalm 16
Today we read Genesis 34-35. “Does obedience lead to reward?” asks Coty Pinckney in a sermon, “Obedience and Tragedy” Last week we saw the dangers of putting off obedience. When Jacob returned to the land of Canaan after 20 years away, he should have returned to Bethel, the place where God had first met him. … More God’s goal is not to bribe us into obedience
January 15 Acts 9:1-19 (ESV) The Conversion of Saul 9:1 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 3 Now … More January 15 Acts 9:1-19
January 15 Psalm 15 (ESV) Who Shall Dwell on Your Holy Hill? A Psalm of David. 15:1 O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? 2 He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; 3 who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil … More January 15 Psalm 15
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