The Bible tells us about GOD, His holiness, righteousness, and justice; and it declares our sinfulness and our need of cleansing and forgiveness. Through this we learn of God's provision of grace through the gift of the life of Jesus Christ God's only begotten Son. Our reading for today is a prayer of Ezra. Ezra …
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The scheduled reading of Scripture for today is 2 Chronicles 5 through 8. Today has been labeled as the National Day of Prayer, let us hear the word of the LORD. Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house …
Moses wrote the words, "Be sure your sins will find you out" (Numbers 32:23). King David is an example of God fulfilling His word in the matter of our sin. Please read 2 Samuel 12 - 14. And Nathan said to David, "Thou art the man. 'Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, 'I anointed …
Today's scheduled Bible reading was Leviticus 21 - 23 Therefore shall ye keep My commandments, and do them: I am the LORD. Neither shall ye profane My holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you, that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to …
From today's scheduled Bible reading... And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest..." Leviticus 14:1-2 From extra reading for the day... Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. …
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass …
And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, "Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto …
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" And Jesus called a little child unto Him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, "Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into …
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have …
Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul …
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Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done …
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me: …
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, …
And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons. And Absalom came to the king, and said, "Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant." And the …
And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, "O Lord GOD, Thou hast begun to shew Thy servant Thy greatness, and Thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to Thy works, and according to Thy might? I pray thee, let me go over, and …
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