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Ecclesiastes 3:1 – “To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven.” Today’s One Year Bible reading begins the book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament. The opening verse of chapter 3 is a classic. We are told there is a time for every purpose under heaven. We are also told …
Job 42:12,13 - “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters.” Today’s Old Testament reading concludes the book of Job. It is a …
2 Corinthians 5:7 – “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” This is a tough one. It is easy to say, but not so easy to live. We are continually influenced by what we see…to the point it shapes what we believe. But Paul challenges us in this verse to not make decisions based …
2 Corinthians 4:7-9 “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard- pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.” This is …
2 Corinthians 3:17 – “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” I love the presence of the Lord. How many times have we been somewhere and said, “The Holy Spirit was in that place?” There is a certain awe that one should feel when God’s …
Job 28:1,2 – “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. 2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.” I would encourage you to read past the two verses I have highlighted today and glean from the words of Job. The first eleven verses …
Job 23:10-12 “But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me I shall come forth as gold. 11 My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside. 12 I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words …
2 Corinthians 1:8-10 “For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in …
Psalm 40:1-3 “I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth—praise to our God; many …
Job 13:15-18 “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him. He also shall be my salvation, for a hypocrite could not come before Him. Listen carefully to my speech, and to my declaration with your ears. 18 See now, I have prepared my case, …