The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. Proverbs …
Category: Wisdom
The Hatred of GOD
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. Proverbs 8:13, …
The Word For Today – October 22, 2024, Tuesday
The Mystery Of The Kingdom Of God And when He was alone, they that were about Him with the twelve asked of Him the parable. And He said unto them, "Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done …
Continue reading The Word For Today – October 22, 2024, Tuesday
The Word For Today; Wednesday, September 04, 2024
The Fruit of Righteousness is Sown in Peace Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth …
Continue reading The Word For Today; Wednesday, September 04, 2024
Reading the Gospel of Matthew chapters 5 through 9
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every …
Continue reading Reading the Gospel of Matthew chapters 5 through 9
It Is Necessary To Seek God’s Counsel
How many times do we go right in to doing something, and without seeking God's guidance and counsel, then we see that things have been messed up big time? Our scheduled reading today is Joshua 7 through 9. And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the …
The Groom and His Bride
The Scripture reading for today is Song of Solomon 4 through 6. Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Whither is thy beloved turned aside, that we may seek him with thee? My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to …
Have you seen him whom my soul loves?
The Song of Solomon chapters 1 through 3 is the scheduled reading for today. By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him …
Man knows not his time…
Reading for today is Ecclesiastes 9 through 12. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to …
Consider the work of God…
Our reading for today, July 17, 2023 is Ecclesiastes 6 through 8. Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. …
The Life of Vanity
Reading today was Proverbs 31 through Ecclesiastes 2. The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: …
…The righteous do sing and rejoice
The scheduled reading for today was Proverbs 28 through 30. He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company …
Wisdom for Today and Tomorrow
Our reading for today is Proverbs 25 through 27. Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is …
Wisdom Building Houses and Understanding
We learn godly wisdom through the reading and study of God's word; by which we also gain understanding of God and His word. Today's scheduled reading is Proverbs 22 through 24. Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and …
Readings for Monday July 10th and Tuesday July 11th
Monday July 10 - Proverbs 16 through 18. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: …
Continue reading Readings for Monday July 10th and Tuesday July 11th
Shiloah Baptist Church 