April
Devotionals based on The One Year Bible
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One Year Bible: April 24
While on our trip to the East Coast, we witnessed an unexpected outburst by an old woman. I'll give you all the details in another post, but for now, here's an old post that came to mind while I was mulling it all over.
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One Year Bible: April 23
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible (paid link) or find the following in your Bible: Judges 1:1-2:9 Luke 21:29-22:13 Psalm 90:1-91:16 Proverbs 13:24-25 Often when I’m studying for a teaching—or even just studying for myself—I’ll look up both the synonyms and/or the antonyms of a word to see if it helps my understanding. So while preparing for a retreat entitled “Under His Wing,” which included this verse in Psalm 1, I spent some time awhile back studying the synonyms for the word…
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One Year Bible: April 22
Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren Proverbs 13:22 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible (paid link) or find the following in your Bible: Joshua 24:1-33 Luke 21:1-28 Psalm 89:38-52 Proverbs 13:20-23 “Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” —Marcy DeMaree I greet my grandchildren almost the same exact way nearly every time they arrive. I burst out the front door and they burst out their car doors, and I spread my arms wide as they run up to the porch and I say, “I haven’t seen you…
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One Year Bible: April 21
No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said. I have sworn an oath to David, and in my holiness I cannot lie Joshua 22:34-35 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible (paid link) or find the following in your Bible: Joshua 22:21-23:16 Luke 20:27-47 Psalm 89:14-37 Proverbs 13:17-19 Next to this passage of scripture, in the margin of my Bible, I’ve written, It is not in God’s character to lie or go back on His Word. What He says, He does. The words themselves are colored with a twistable orange crayon, and the passage is…
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One Year Bible: April 20
To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible (paid link) or find the following in your Bible: Joshua 21:1-22:20 Luke 20:1-26 Psalm 89:1-13 Proverbs 13:15-16 The last words of Joshua, to the tribes who would be moving to the east side of the Jordan, summarized and simplified the life of a believer down to these few actions: Love God Obey Him Cling to Him Serve Him A clear order presents itself in this command: You must first love God, and that will cause you to obey Him, and then you will abide in Him, and the natural response will be service to Him. The New…
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One Year Bible: April 19
But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!” Luke 19:40 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible (paid link) or find the following in your Bible: Joshua 19:1-20:9Luke 19:28-48Psalm 88:1-18Proverbs 13:12-14 It’s just an ordinary rock. You could rinse it, scrub it, and polish with all your might, and it wouldn’t look any prettier than it looks right now, right there, sitting on my desktop. I picked it up on my first trip to Israel, when we paused on the Mount of Olives to hear a teaching about the events that transpired in that place 2000 years ago.…
