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Read the Bible

March 29, 2024

Morning Reading
Midday Reading
Evening Reading

Morning
Rising

Psalm 95 The Message

Come, let’s shout praises to God, raise the roof for the Rock who saved us!
  Let’s march into his presence singing praises,
    lifting the rafters with our hymns!

And why? Because God is the best,
    High King over all the gods.
  In one hand he holds deep caves and caverns,
    in the other hand grasps the high mountains.
  He made Ocean-he owns it!
    His hands sculpted Earth!

So come, let us worship: bow before him,
    on your knees before God, who made us!
  Oh yes, he’s our God,
    and we’re the people he pastures, the flock he feeds.

Drop everything and listen, listen as he speaks:
    “Don’t turn a deaf ear as in the Bitter Uprising,
  As on the day of the Wilderness Test,
    when your ancestors turned and put me to the test.
  For forty years they watched me at work among them,
    as over and over they tried my patience.
  And I was provoked-oh, was I provoked!
    ‘Can’t they keep their minds on God for five minutes?
    Do they simply refuse to walk down my road?’
  Exasperated, I exploded,
    ‘They’ll never get where they’re headed,
    never be able to sit down and rest.’”

Midday
Reconnecting

Midday Prayer

Great and good God,
give us pure hearts that we may see you,
humble hearts that we may hear you,
hearts of love that we may serve you,
hearts of faith that we may live in you,
here and in the world out there,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Evening
Resting

Matthew 12:15-21 NIV

Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him, and he healed all who were ill. He warned them not to tell others about him. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:

“Here is my servant whom I have chosen,
  the one I love, in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him,
  and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
He will not quarrel or cry out;
  no one will hear his voice in the streets.
A bruised reed he will not break,
  and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out,
till he has brought justice through to victory.
In his name the nations will put their hope.”

Evening
Resting

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NIV

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.