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Sarah and Abraham Israel My Glory 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 5, 2024 Readings for Today: Genesis 12:1 - 14:24 Day 5 - Promises Prayer: Creator God, Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which will have the potential to turn a life around. Make us bearers of this kindness all our days. In the holy name of Jesus, Amen By Leo Buscaglia as posted on Facebook’s Clergy Coaching Network posting. Background & Reflections: We find ourselves at the beginning of one of the greatest stories ever told … God coming to Abram/Abraham and Sarai/Sarah to build a great blessing and the gift of land. God starts by asking Abram to go to a new place and promises blessing. God promises (Gen 12:1-3) that God will make him a great nation, make Abram’s name great, and this action will bless every family on earth. The second promise is that God will give Abram's descendants Canaan. The...

Jesus heilf Kranke, um 1920, Diözesanmuseum Freising, Inv. D94116 Wiki Commons Images Highlights & Mini-Bible Study Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication Days of Lent 2 Rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and repents of evil. | Joel 2:13|  BCP p. 76 Pray this way or this way or this way or this way or this way . Alternatives Readings Today | Tuesday | 14 March 2017 | Ps. 61, 62; Ps. 68:1–20 (21–23) 24–36; Jer. 2:1–13; Rom. 1:16–25; John 4:43–54 Psalm 61 | Individual Lament - Background Listen to my prayer with my heavy heart; I will dwell in your house forever; I will sing the praise of your name and follow your ways. Romans 1 | Background Paul - I am not ashamed of faith and God; they did not know God; they built idols and did not worship the Creator. Glory be to God! John 4 | Jes...

http://www.watchmanspost.com/israel/biblicalzion.html Daily Office Reading from the Book of Common Prayer Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Philippians 1:2 Daily Office &  Pray  -  Click here Today |  Friday | 17 June 2016 Ps. 87  90; Ps. 136; Num. 13:31—14:25; Rom. 3:9–20; Matt. 19:1–12   Psalm 87 NOAB - a song about Zion | Glorious things are spoken of you, O Lord, creator of Zion and it is glorious. Numbers 13 The people are afraid and think they are going to be conquered; Moses and Aaron pledge to God for their lack of faith; God says I do forgive them. Romans 3 Paul continues; no one can be made right with God with following the law for that leads to sin. Matthew 19 Jesus, questioned by Pharisees and his disciples, talks of marriage, divorce, and eunuchs Tomorrow |  Saturday | 18 June 2016 Ps. 66  67; Ps. 19  46; Num. 14:26–45; Acts 15:1–12; Luke 1...

Read | Day 61 | Monday | 2 March 2015 | Numbers 11:1 – 13:33 Reading | talk of rebellion against God; God gets mad; what about this food?; gather 70 elders to help with the management of the people; God brings food but still mad; Miriam is a leper; Send spies to Canaan and their report. Source | The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th Edition | (c) 2010, Oxford University Press | ISBN 978-0-19-528955-8 |  click here  | pp. 204 - 209 Next | Day 62 | Tuesday | 3 March 2015 | Numbers 14:1 – 15:41 +++ For the Unity of the Church Almighty Father, whose blessed Son before his passion prayed for his disciples that they might be one, as you and he are one: Grant that your Church, being bound together in love and obedience to you, may be united in one body by the one Spirit, that the world may believe in him whom you have sent, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Source | Da...

Read |  Genesis 30:25 – 31:55 Dates | 1915 BC or 1749 BC Background | Wikipedia - 18th Century BC - Click here  | Hammurabi and Babylonian Empire, start of Thirteenth Dynasty in Egypt, bronze age in many parts of world. Brief history timeline - Click here .  Reading | Jacob and Laben negotiate Jacob's pay through livestock; masterful husbandry; Jacob takes his wealth and runs; God speaks to Jacob; Laben and Jacob create a contract; Laben goes back to his homeland and Jacob to Canaan. Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 |  Click here  for a place to purchase. +++ Collect of the Day: The First Sunday after the Epiphany Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy S...