// Read I Samuel 24:4; I Samuel 27:8 // 4 The men said, “This is the day the Lord spoke of when he said[a] to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.’” Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off
Continue reading// Read I Samuel 22:9-23 // 9 But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s officials, said, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob. 10 Ahimelek inquired of the Lord for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath
Continue reading// Read Luke 9:12 // 12 Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him and said, “Send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside and find food and lodging, because we are in a remote place here.” MEDITATION: One can become a
Continue reading// Read Judges 11:1-4 // Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. 2 Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. “You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,” they
Continue reading// Read I Samuel 9:1-3; 7-16 // 9 There was a Benjamite, a man of standing, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bekorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin. 2 Kish had a son named Saul, as handsome a young man as
Continue reading(Friday February 24, 2017) // Read Esther 9:1-5 // 9 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables
Continue reading// Read Genesis 40:1-14 // 40 Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt. 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, 3 and put them in custody in the house
Continue reading// Read Luke 2:14 // 14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” MEDITATION: The birth of Jesus Christ in the manger taught us a great lesson of humility; the Lamb of God was born among the lamb
Continue reading// Read I Samuel 17:10 // 10 Then the Philistine said, “This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.” MEDITATION: David who was going to carry the head of Goliath in life had to first carry cheese and bread
Continue reading// Read Rom. 1:1-3; Phil. 1:1-2; Eph. 1:1-2 // 1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding his Son, who as to his
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