Saturday August 31st 2024 🔯 Read Nehemiah 5 🔯 Poverty and famine 🔯

 Saturday August 31st 2024 

🔯 Read Nehemiah 5 🔯

 Poverty and famine 

🔯 Nehemiah 5:6-10  And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. 

Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

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Friday August 30th 2024 ✉️ Read Ezra 4 ✉️ The letter to Artaxerxes ✉️

 Friday August 30th 2024  

✉️ Read Ezra 4 ✉️

 The letter to Artaxerxes 

✉️ Ezra 4:11-15  This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.

Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.

Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.

Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;

That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.

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Thursday August 29th 2024 🚢 Read 2 Chronicles 6 🚢 Bringing the ark to the temple 🚢

 

Thursday August 29th 2024 

🚢 Read 2 Chronicles 6 🚢

 Bringing the ark to the temple 

🚢  2 Chronicles 6:1-6  Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,

Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

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Wednesday August 28th 2024 🙏 Read 2 Corinthians 13 🙏 The call for repentance 🙏

 Wednesday August 28th 2024 

🙏 Read 2 Corinthians 13 🙏

 The call for repentance 

🙏 2 Corinthians 13:5-9  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

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Tuesday August 27th 2024 🔯 Read 1 Corinthians 4 🔯 Apostles of Christ 🔯

 Tuesday August 27th 2024 

🔯 Read 1 Corinthians 4 🔯

 Apostles of Christ 

🔯 1 Corinthians 4:4-7  For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 

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