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Going deeper...to go further

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 looking at scriptures which talk about Jews and Gentiles alongside a passage about love. The first scripture each day follows this outline: 
Days 1-6 - The Foundation & the Prophets
Days 7-10 - Jesus and the Nations
Days 11-19 - The Early Church & the Gentiles
Days 20-30 - God’s Plan for Jews and Gentiles United in Christ
Day 31 - The Final Reminder of God’s Global Kingdom. 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.

Love

  • The nature of God, but not an emotional love; rather a love that is expressed in positive action.
  • God’s love (agape) is expressed in the ways He gives to His people.
  • He has demonstrated His unfailing love for all mankind in sending His Son to die on the cross for them, so taking upon Himself the punishment they deserve.
  • God’s love is expressed in all He does in relation to His people, even when He needs to refine and discipline them.
  • His love is imparted to the hearts of believers by the Holy Spirit.
  • Believers are to love God wholeheartedly, their neighbours as they love themselves and one another in the same way that Jesus Christ has loved them.
  • Those who truly love Jesus obey His commands.
  • To love others with His love is to live for them rather than for yourself; to lay down your life for them by seeking to bless, serve, encourage and give to them in practical ways.
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Acts 26:12-23

12-13"Majesty, on such a journey I was travelling on the road to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, when at about noon I saw a bright heavenly light, brighter even than the sun. It shone around me and my companions.14We all fell to the ground and I heard a voice speaking to me in Aramaic, 'Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to keep kicking against a rock!'15"'Who are You, Lord?' I asked. 'I am Jesus, the One you persecute continually,' the Lord replied.16'Now stand to your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as My servant. You are to tell others what you have seen of Me and what I shall reveal to you in the future.17-18I will protect you from both your own people and the Gentiles. I am sending you to open their eyes and to turn them from their spiritual darkness to the light of the truth, from the devil's power to God, so they can receive forgiveness of their sins and be numbered among those who are made holy through their faith in Me!'19"So you see, king Agrippa, I have not been disobedient to the heavenly vision I received.20First in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout Judea and then among the Gentiles also, I have preached to people, telling them that they must repent. They must turn to God and prove that they have submitted themselves to Him by the evidence of the things they do.21"This is the reason why the Jews seized me in the temple courts with the intention of killing me.22-23But God has continued to help me right up to this present time, enabling me to stand here and testify to great and small alike. I teach nothing beyond what was predicted by Moses and the prophets, that the Messiah would suffer and would be the first to rise from the dead; that through Him the light might be made known to both His own people, the Jews, and to Gentiles alike."

1 John 3:16-18

16We have a way of knowing what true love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. That is true love. And we ought, therefore, to lay down our lives for our brothers in true love.17I will give you an example of what this means in practice. If someone has financial resources and sees one of his brothers in need, yet he has no compassion on him and does nothing to help him, how can you imagine that he has God's love in him?18Dear children, it means nothing to say you love others; it is only your actions that show whether you truly love them or not.
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