Week 36
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Pause and Ponder - Psalm 98 is a jubilant call to praise God for His love and salvation. We as Christians should have a natural response of worship for He is a God who saves! Beautifully, we see the Lords character shine through this song by the remembrance of His ‘steadfast love’ and ‘faithfulness’, and so He is a God worthy of all our praise. The song then joins with nature itself and calls all the earth to rejoice in the love and faithfulness of God; shown through an exuberant sound of rivers clapping and mountains singing. Finally, the psalm ends with the comfort of knowing that every wrong will be made right and we will be judged with ‘righteousness’ and ‘equity’ by our loving and compassionate Father. - Hannah Stone, LRC Stoney Stanton
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
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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 - Both of these chapters in John provide a wealth of revelation about who Jesus is, as well as how that relates to us. The scriptures in Chapters 9 and 10 not only draw us into the vision of the eternal relationship in the God head, but as well as the implications this has for us right now. A quick tip, however, is not to read these two chapters separately. Instead, read the scriptures as a whole narrative, allowing it to build and connect with themes throughout.
Two themes that you could use to dive deeper could be:
- The way we relate to Christ
- How does the testimony of the Blindman as well as the picture of followers of Christ being Sheep help us draw closer to how Jesus relates to us?
- The relationship between the Father and the Son
- What does Jesus say about himself as well as the claims he is making? What does Christ say in the way he functions and relates to the Father? - Isaac Dransfield, LRC Stoney Stanton
