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Daily Bible Reading – 1 Samuel 1,2; Psalm 66; 2 Corinthians 7

Today’s Key Passage – 1 Samuel 1:1-18 – CLICK HERE to read the key passage



In today’s key passage, we read the story of a man named Elkanah who had two wives, Peninnah, who had children, and Hannah, who had no children. Three times a year, Elkanah and his wives would travel to the tabernacle in Shiloh to worship God and bring the required sacrifices to God, and each time Peninnah would insult Hannah because she was barren. Hannah would get so upset during these trips, that she would end up crying constantly and would not eat. Finally during one of these trips, Hannah decided to pray. She made a vow to God that if He would give her a son, she would dedicate him to a life of service to God. The high priest Eli saw her praying and gave her encouragement. When she finished her conversation with Eli, this woman who was so upset that she would not eat, “went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.” (Vs. 18) In a matter of moments, Hannah went from feeling depressed and discouraged to feeling joyful. Eventually, God blessed her with a child, and she kept her promise to God to dedicate him to a life of service. (Vss. 27-28) In addition, God would later give Hannah five more children. (Vs. 2:21)

In this story, Hannah actually received two different types of healing through her prayer. She received a physical healing when her prayer was answered and God allowed her to conceive her first child. In addition, she received emotional healing when she was finished praying. It is important for us to note that she did not need to wait for her prayer to be answered in order to feel joy. Her emotional healing came about not by God working on her behalf and making her pregnant, but through her faith in God and through the encouragement she received from Eli. When she cried out to God in her desperate time, she was able to leave her problems with Him. Moreover, she received moral support from a fellow believer that further led to her emotional healing. So often we have a tendency to hold on to our discouragement until the time comes when God answers our prayers, but we can receive emotional healing long before that ever happens. When we pray, we can take all of our problems to God and can LEAVE THEM at the cross of Jesus Christ. We do not have to hold onto our sadness, our anger, or our bitterness. When we have faith like Hannah, we can finish our prayer knowing that God has heard us. We can finish our prayer knowing that God is working in our best interest. We can finish our prayer with emotional healing.



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Daily Bible Reading – 1 Samuel 3-5; Psalm 77; 2 Corinthians 8

Today’s Key Passage – 1 Samuel 3:1-15 – CLICK HERE to read the key passage



A couple of weeks ago I flew into Baltimore, MD for a business trip. As I was driving to my final destination about an hour outside of Baltimore, the radio station that I was listening to kept fading in and out. As I drove through the rolling terrain, I noticed that when I was on top of hills, the signal came through loud and clear, but when my rental car descended into valleys the signal would fade and I was barely able to hear the song among the static. I did not think much of it at the time, but I vividly remembered this experience as I was reading today’s key passage. I thought about how often hearing God’s voice works the same way as hearing that radio station. As we move through our spiritual life, when we all have high points and low points. At our highs, we are reading God’s Word daily, we are spending time with Him in prayer, we are living in obedience, and we are constantly seeking Him. In those times, His voice comes in loud and clear. When we begin to slip, however, things change. As we begin to allow the business of life to distract us from His Word or from prayer, His voice becomes harder and harder to hear. If we spend enough time with our focus and obedience away from God, all we will be able to hear is static.

In today’s key passage, Samuel also faced a problem in hearing God’s voice, but his problem was a bit different. He had no trouble hearing God voice, but he had difficulty discerning the source. One night while lying in the temple, God called out to Samuel three different times. Each time, Samuel’s response was correct in that he answered, “Here I am”, but he thought it was Eli, the high priest, who was calling him. In 1 Samuel 3:7, we begin to understand the problem when we read, “Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD: The word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.” Because Samuel did not yet know God, he was unable to realize that the voice he was hearing came from the Lord. As Samuel’s relationship with God grew, he would eventually solve this problem. Likewise, as our relationships with God grow, we will not only find it much easier to hear God’s voice, we will also be able to discern when it is His voice that is calling us. The further away from God we are, the more “static” we will hear. We will find that we have so many voices speaking to us – the voices of our sinful desires, our past hurts, and our enemy – that we will be unable to distinguish between those voices and the voice of the most-high God. Whenever you are having trouble hearing God’s voice and discerning His calling for your life, learn to press in even closer to God. Spend more time in His Word. Spend more time in His presence. As our relationship with God grows deeper and as we shift our focus more and more on Jesus Christ, we will start to hear from Him loud and clear, and we will be able to answer His calling by saying, “Here I am”.



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We will find that we have so many voices speaking to us – the voices of our sinful desires, our past hurts, and our enemy – that we will be unable to distinguish between those voices and the voice of the most-high God. Whenever you are having trouble hearing God’s voice and discerning His calling for your life, learn to press in even closer to God. Spend more time in His Word. Spend more time in His presence. As our relationship with God grows deeper and as we shift our focus more and more on Jesus Christ, we will start to hear from Him loud and clear, and we will be able to answer His calling by saying, “Here I am”.

This part I can relate to and I also just read 2 Corinthians 8


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I know I am notposting them every day..but I am reading them...and then I go to my Bible to read more on the daily subject..I find these reading very interesting and a great learning tool

Todays is very good....

As we walk through our lives, every single one of us will face off against “giants”. These “giants” might be people who oppose us. They might be habitual sins that we have trouble standing up to. They might be difficult circumstances, illnesses, or financial problems. Whatever the case may be, these “giants” will be a very real threat to us just as Goliath was a very real threat to the Israelites. When we face these giants, we have a choice to make. We can choose to be paralyzed with fear like Saul and the Israelites, afraid to move forward against the “giant”, or we can choose to have faith in God to solve our problems like David. We can choose to focus on our own self-preservation, or we can choose to focus on the glory of God. With the right faith in God, we can trust that He will deliver us from our “giants”. With the right faith in God, we can be sure that He will bring us victory in His own time. With the right faith in God, there is nothing we cannot overcome.

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Daily Bible Reading – 1 Samuel 19; 1 Chronicles 7; Psalm 59; Matthew 4

Today’s Key Passage – Matthew 4:1-11 - CLICK HERE to read the key passage



As followers of Christ, how we react in the face of temptation will often define our character. The enemy would have us believe three things – that we are the only ones to face temptation, that we face temptation alone, and that we have no tools available to help us fight off temptation. Fortunately for us, today’s key passage reveals the fallacy of these lies. Following His baptism, Jesus was led into the desert to fast for forty days and forty nights. During His most vulnerable time – in the desert alone with no food or drink – Satan decided to attack Jesus. Three times Satan tempted Jesus to provoke Him to sin, but all three times Jesus prevailed. Today, we will examine each of these three temptations to see the tactics the enemy uses to entice us to sin and how Jesus modeled overcoming these temptations.

In his first attempt, Satan tried to tempt Jesus by saying, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” (Vs. 3) Notice what the enemy was doing here. Notice his language. He said, “IF you are the Son of God”. He was trying to provoke Jesus by making Him want to “prove” He was the Son of God. In addition, Satan used Jesus’ hunger as a basis for the temptation. But Jesus had the Word of God firmly implanted in His heart. He was able to defeat this temptation by quoting Deuteronomy 8:3 which says, “He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.” Jesus knew that the bread He could consume to quench His hunger was simply a temporary solution to a temporary problem. God’s word, however, is an eternal solution to an eternal problem. When we keep our focus on God, we will find it much easier to overcome temptations based on our current circumstances.

In his second attempt, Satan tried to tempt Jesus by saying, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.” (Vs. 6) Once again notice the language as Satan tries to provoke Jesus into proving He is the Son of God. We also note that Satan himself quoted scripture during this temptation (Psalm 91:11-12), though he did so out of context to try to prove his own point. We can learn two lessons from this. The first is that sometimes unscrupulous people will try to use God’s Word out of context to convince us to do things that are not right. When we know the whole of God’s Word, we will be able to see through these deceptions. In addition, we learn that just knowing Scripture is not enough to overcome temptation because Satan also knows the Bible; we must be willing and able to obey what we have read. Jesus once again overcame this temptation by quoting Deuteronomy 6:16 which says, “Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah.” When we know God’s Word and we are willing to apply it to our lives and obey Him, we can overcome temptation.

In his final attempt, Satan tried to tempt Jesus by showing Him all the kingdoms of the world and saying, “All this I will give you, if you will bow down and worship me.” (Vs. 9) He was trying to tempt Jesus by offering Him quick and easy access to power and achievement. We will often find that in our temptations, we might be offered wealth, power, or success if we are just willing to stop following God and sacrifice what we know to be right. When we find ourselves craving some earthly thing, we can resist those temptations the same way Jesus did. Jesus quoted Deuteronomy 6:13 which says, “Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.” Instead of worshiping the false idols of this world – money, fame, success, etc. – when we choose to worship God and serve Him only, we can overcome temptations.

We can learn a lot through Jesus’ experience in the desert. We learn that we are not the only ones who have been tempted. We learn that during our weakest moments God is with us giving us strength. We learn that through God’s Word we have the tools available to us to overcome any temptation. Follow the model of Jesus, and keep God’s Word close to your heart. You never know when a moment of weakness will come, in those moments, you will need His Scriptures to find His strength.

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I hope you enjoy todays reading,it falls in line with what we are talking about in the anger thread and just how perception has canged over all of these years.


The Beatitudes: Living a Blessed Life
Posted on April 18, 2011 by Kevin Griggs

Daily Bible Reading – 1 Samuel 20,21; Psalm 34; Matthew 5

Today’s Key Passage – Matthew 5:1-12 - CLICK HERE to read the key passage



When you think of being blessed what comes to mind? For a lot of people, the idea of being blessed has shifted over time away from God’s ideal definition. Today, some people think that being blessed comes down to their circumstances. If they have a lot of money or possessions or if they have a relatively happy marriage, they feel blessed. Jesus, however, had a slightly different definition of blessed. When He spoke about being blessed, he was talking about more than just happiness about our circumstances. He was talking about a feeling of hope and joy that only comes from following Him. He was talking about eternal joy as opposed to earthly happiness. In the first part of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave us the Beatitudes, which were a series of statements about what it means to be truly blessed. In today’s key passage, we will examine each of these Beatitudes to find out how to live a blessed life:

* “Blessed are the poor in spirit” - A person who is poor in spirit is not the same as a person who is “poor spirited”. He or she is someone who has an honest opinion of his or her spiritual condition. The person who will admit he is sinful is well on his way to faith in Christ for salvation.
* “Blessed are those who mourn” - The heart that mourns over sin is the heart that will confess and find the comfort of forgiveness. Initially people will find the forgiveness of salvation. After salvation, people will find the comfort of forgiveness for sins that they confess.
* “Blessed are the meek” - Being Biblically meek is being in submission to God. Being meek does not indicate a lack of strength, but rather strength that is under God’s control.
* “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness”- To hunger and thirst after righteousness should be a characteristic of every Christian. We should want to please God by doing what is right. We should hunger and thirst for the things of God and His Word.
* “Blessed are the merciful” – As followers of Christ, we should show mercy toward others simply because of the mercy God has shown us. None of us deserve to be saved, but God has saved us anyway because of His great mercy. When we understand our own forgiveness, we will be better able to show mercy toward others.
* “Blessed are the pure in heart” – A lot of people concern themselves with what other people see about them. They think appearance or actions are key because they want others to believe they are righteous. God, however, looks only at our hearts. What we have in our heart is what matters to Him, so we should do everything we can to keep our hearts pure.
* “Blessed are the peacemakers” – There are two main ways in which we can be peacemakers. We can be peacemakers between man and man by how we treat others and by avoiding things like gossip and strife. We can be peacemakers between man and God by sharing our faith with others and leading them to the saving grace of Jesus Christ.
* “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness” – Many Christians may face persecution because of their faith in Jesus, but we can take comfort in knowing that there is an eternal reward in Heaven.

If you truly want to live a blessed life, consider living by the Beatitudes. Jesus has provided us with a blueprint for what it means to be blessed, and to achieve the hope and joy that comes with being blessed through Him, all we have to do is follow His instructions.

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April 26th..todays reading is very good


Daily Bible Reading – 1 Samuel 30,31; 1 Chronicles 10; Matthew 12

Today’s Key Passage – Matthew 12:38-45 - CLICK HERE to read the key passage



In today’s key passage, some of the Pharisees ask Jesus for a miraculous sign. They want to see Jesus perform some kind of a miracle that can convince them that He is who He claims to be – the Messiah. Jesus, however, refuses their request. He tells them that no sign will be given to them except for the sign of the prophet Jonah, and then He explains by saying, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Vs. 40) Jesus knew a lot about the hearts of the Pharisees. He knew that their hearts were so hardened that they would never believe that He was the Messiah no matter what kind of sign He gave them. At this point in His life, Jesus had already healed the sick, raised the dead, and driven out demons, but the Pharisees refused to believe. He would go on to die on the cross and be resurrected on the third day, but the Pharisees would still refuse to believe. The Pharisees were hoping to see a sign first and then they would believe, and I think a lot of people today still think this way. They think, “If only God would show me a sign then I would believe in Him.” Perhaps you are even one of those people. As you read this today, you might be someone who is investigating God. Maybe you are trying to figure out if this whole Christianity thing is real. Maybe you are trying to figure out if God is real. Maybe you are just looking for a sign.

Before I was saved, I would often ask God for a sign. I would sometimes pray to Him and ask Him to show me a sign if He was real. I was not looking for anything flashy like the parting of the Red Sea or anything, I was just looking for some small sign from God to “prove” to me that He was there. I told myself that if He showed me that small sign, I would believe in Him and give my life to Him, and do you know what happened? Nothing. I looked and looked for a sign, and God never gave me one. But then one day, I heard the Gospel being preached and everything changed for me. For the first time, the Holy Spirit moved me and allowed me to open my heart and really listen to the Good News about Jesus Christ. That day, as I listened to those words, I gave my life to Christ. That day, I was saved. But the story does not end there, because after that day something very interesting has happened for me. I have come to realize that those “signs” I spent so much time looking for and never finding before I was saved are now all around me. I see the signs of God’s presence every single day. I see them in His Word. I see them in the beauty of nature. I see them in the changes He has made in me to make me a better husband, father, and man. This past weekend, I felt God’s overwhelming presence as I watched the children of our church worshiping Him with all their hearts on stage. I felt His presence as I watched 50 or so people getting baptized. I felt His presence as I witnessed almost that many people give their lives to Christ in response to hearing the Gospel. If you have been waiting for a sign, listen to the words of Jesus from John 20:27 when He told Thomas, “Stop doubting and believe.” You may never find a “sign” in this life that makes you believe, but I guarantee that if you choose to believe, you will find more “signs” of His presence than you can possibly imagine.

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