Week 3
Here's this week's resources.
.jpg)
Welcome to this week's Daily Bread. We're looking forward to diving into God's Word together. Below you'll find a range of resources designed to help you get the most out of this week's readings. You'll need this email each day for the different content. Alternatively, you can access all the new and previous content by going to the Daily Bread Website.
Monday Meditation
Mondays are about making time not just to read but to prayerfully think and consider the Scripture you're reading. Read through it a few times, slowly and ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you.
Pause & Ponder - The man and his beloved ‘seeking and finding’ each other is a poetic feature of chapters 3 and 5. There is longing, desire and desperation leading to abundant joy and delight in the finding. How precious it is to reflect on God’s relentless, costly and timely pursuit of us (Luke 15, Luke 19:10, Ephesians 1:3-8 NLT) So great a love! In Jeremiah 29:13-14 God promises: ’You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes’. Today; 'Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.’ James 4:8. - Sharon Chapman - LRC Market Harborough
Trumpet Tuesday
Tuesday's focus is on the major prophets in the Scripture. Full of imagery, promises and challenge. The context of prophetic writing is very important. Understanding who they were writing to and what was happening to God's people at the time will help us to apply these writings today.
Pause and Consider - Many people believe the idea of God appearing as a human is only a New Testament concept. However, in this passage, Isaiah speaks of a child whose name will be ‘Mighty God’ or ‘El Gibbor’ in Hebrew. Elsewhere in Scripture, the title, El Gibbor, is used for Jehovah, the LORD, which suggests that Isaiah was pointing to a future moment when God would publicly come among His people in the form of a child. It's a profound look at how the Old Testament anticipates the incarnation. Daniel Pemberton - LRC Stoney Stanton
Wednesday Wisdom
The book of James tells us that if any of us lack wisdom we can ask for it and God will give it to us. As we read the wisdom literature in the Bible let's trust God is going to teach us what His wisdom looks like.
Pause and Ponder - Can you imagine how God would describe how you’ve dealt with some of the challenges you’ve faced? Job continued to believe God was faithful and just, even when his wife tells him to curse God and die! Jobs three best friends immediately come to see him. They sat with him in his suffering for a whole week. Can you just be there for people who are suffering? When did you last cry with someone and sit with them in their sorrow?
Job gets so low he wishes he had never been born. In despair he asks all the difficult ‘why’ questions about suffering. Our culture asks those questions on behalf of the terminally ill and we must resist any answer that extinguishes life. Life is precious even when marked with pain and turmoil. - Hilary Dalziel, LRC Market Harborough
Thanksgiving Thursday
The Psalms are full of human emotion, some full of rejoicing and joy, others confusion and questions. All of them agree though, whatever the circumstances, God must be praised! Let's join our voices with the psalmists on these days to praise whatever our circumstances.
Friday Feast
The practice of reading big chunks of Scripture is really helpful when understanding the context of what is happening in the stories. If finding time to read all of this in one go is difficult maybe break it into a smaller times of reading through the day.
Saturday Study
You can download today's study guide here: Link here
Helpful Study Websites
Simple Sunday
For centuries Scripture has been predominantly read amongst families and community. In recent times reading the Bible and praying has gained a more personal focus. On these days where possible, why not read these Scriptures out loud and with others? Pray and reflect on God's Word together.
Pause and Ponder - The sermon on the mount ends with the following words ' Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. (Matthew 7 - 24 ESV)' . As we continue reading through Jesus' sermon, let us take note of all the dos and don'ts and how these can be put into practice. - Joseph Pamu, LRC Stoney Stanton
