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Daily Bible reading strengthens our relationship with God, nourishes our spirits and equips us to live a fruitful, effective life for Him.

This month we're reading a chapter from the New Testament and one from the Old Testament each day As we read the Word it’s important that we apply what we read and pray it out over our lives. One of the way you can do this is by using the acronym SOAP. To find out more about SOAP watch this video.

Below you’ll see what we’re reading today. To go forward or back a day in our reading plan use the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons.

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Colossians 2

Understanding truth guards against deception1And I want you to know that I do have to struggle for you, for those at Laodicea and for others, even though I do not know them personally.2My intention is that I might be able to encourage their hearts and urge them to be united in love. I want them to come to a complete understanding of all the riches that are available to them as the mystery of the fullness of Christ is unfolded to them.3For in Him all the riches of wisdom and true knowledge are to be found!4I speak in this way to warn you against those who want to deceive you with teaching that sounds right but is not grounded in the truth of Christ.5Even though I am not with you physically, I am with you in spirit and it gives me great joy to know that you maintain good order in the church and that you remain strong in your faith in Christ.Be built up in Christ6So this is my message to you: because you have already received Christ Jesus as your Lord, continue to live in Him.7You have been rooted in Him, so now grow up in Him. Let your trust in Him continue to grow stronger as you live in the good of what you have been taught. And let your hearts overflow with thankfulness to God.8Be sure that no one puts you into bondage through clever sounding but empty talk that is the result of worldly thinking and dependence on the traditional way of looking at things, instead of being revelation of the truth in Christ.Sinful nature buried with Christ9For in Him the complete revelation of who God is has come to us in human form.10In Christ you have been given the fullness of His life. And He is supreme above every power and authority.11Because you live in Him, you have received a spiritual circumcision, not one done by men but by Christ Himself.12This circumcision involved cutting away your old sinful nature, which was buried once and for all with Christ when you were baptised. Now you have been raised to new life with Him through believing in God's power; that as He raised Christ from the dead, so He has also raised you from the death of sin to a new life with Him.13-14You were spiritually dead because of your unforgiven sins, because that old sinful nature had not been cut away. But then God brought you to life with Christ, He forgave all your sins and cancelled the written code of rules and regulations that were impossible for you to keep, and only consigned you to failure and defeat. Jesus removed this code by nailing it to the cross.15There He also disarmed the demonic powers and authorities that oppose us. His triumph over them on the cross was a public defeat for them!Don't be bound by legalism16So now you do not have to allow anyone to judge you according to the old rules and regulations about what you should eat or drink, for example. Neither do you have to observe the religious festivals, the New Moon celebration or the Sabbath day.17Such things were a shadow of what God would reveal in the future. But now we have the reality itself that is only to be found in Christ.18-19There will be those who want to influence you by drawing you away from the truth so that you are not able to lay hold of your inheritance. Such people put on a display of false humility and they hold to strange doctrines about angels. Beware of anyone who goes into great detail about what he has claimed to see in spiritual visions; his unspiritual mind is full of pride and useless thoughts and he is no longer submitted to Christ, the Head of the body. For it is only Christ who is able to keep all the various parts of the Body working together in unity, enabling it to grow in the way He desires.20When you died with Christ, you died to those worldly principles that stand opposed to the principles of God's Kingdom. So it makes no sense to live as if you still belong to the world rather than to Christ.21Neither do you have to submit to those religious rules, 'Do not handle this!' 'Do not taste that!' 'Do not touch'.22These religious regulations contain no life because they are really human commands and teachings.23They can appear to be wise because they promote a discipline of worship and seem to encourage humility, although really this is a false kind of humility. They even encourage strict discipline of the body, but are totally incapable of dealing with the real problem – the need to deal with the sensual indulgence of the flesh.

Joshua 6

1Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. 2Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. 4Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. 5When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.” 6So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.” 7And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.” 8When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them. 9The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding. 10But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!” 11So he had the ark of the Lord carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there. 12Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the Lord and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets kept sounding. 14So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days. 15On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. 16The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city! 17The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. 18But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. 19All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.” 20When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. 21They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. 22Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” 23So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel. 24Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. 25But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day. 26At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:“At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations;at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.” 27So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.
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