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Read the Bible

April 23, 2024

Morning Reading
Midday Reading
Evening Reading

Morning
Rising

Psalm 95 NIV

Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
  let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
  and extol him with music and song.
For the Lord is the great God,
  the great King above all gods.

In his hand are the depths of the earth,
  and the mountain peaks belong to him.
The sea is his, for he made it,
  and his hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us bow down in worship,
  let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
for he is our God
  and we are the people of his pasture,
  the flock under his care.

Today, if you hear his voice,
  do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
  as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
where your fathers tested and tried me,
  though they had seen what I did.
For forty years I was angry with that generation;
  I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
  and they have not known my ways.”
So I declared on oath in my anger,
  “They shall never enter my rest.”

Midday
Reconnecting

Midday Prayer

Almighty God, you built your church
upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
with Jesus Christ himself as the cornerstone.

Join us together by their teaching,
so that we may be a holy temple
in whom your Spirit dwells;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Evening
Resting

Matthew 12:15-21 NIV

Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Many followed him, and he healed all their sick, warning them not to tell who he was. 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 leads justice 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.