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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 focusing our reading around prayer to help build faith & expectation for people to be saved. Alongside we'll be reading a Psalm a day and continuing to read a chapter of Genesis/Exodus. 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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Mark 11:12-25

12Jesus was hungry after they had left Bethany on the following day.13He noticed a little way off a fig tree that was in leaf, and so went to see if it was bearing any fruit. But He found nothing but leaves when He came to the tree; it was not the season for figs.14The disciples overheard Jesus say to the tree: "No one will ever eat fruit from you again."Jesus clears the temple15When they entered Jerusalem, Jesus went again to the temple area, where now He took action. He drove out those who were trading there. He then overturned the tables belonging to the money changers and the stalls of those selling doves for sacrifice.16He stopped everybody bringing merchandise into the temple courts.17He shouted out: "It is written in the scriptures, 'My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations,' but look what you have done to it. It has become a den of robbers!"18When the chief priests and teachers of the law saw what Jesus was doing and heard what He said, they decided that they must find a way to kill Him. They were afraid of the influence He was having on all the people who were amazed at His teaching!Faith in prayer19In the evening, Jesus and His disciples left the city.20The following morning, as they were returning to the city, they saw that the fig tree Jesus had cursed had shrivelled from its roots.21Remembering what Jesus had done, Peter said: "Rabbi, look! That fig tree You cursed – it has withered!"22Jesus answered: "Have faith in God.23I tell you the truth, if anyone speaks to a mountain by saying, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' the mountain will be moved for him so long as he does not doubt in his heart, but truly believes that what he says must happen.24So I tell you, no matter what you ask in prayer, believe it is yours already, and it will be yours!25"Whenever you pray, it is essential that you forgive anyone against whom you hold anything; for then your heavenly Father will also forgive you all your sins.

Psalm 48

A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah.1Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain. 2Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth,like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.3God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress. 4When the kings joined forces, when they advanced together,5they saw her and were astounded; they fled in terror.6Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor.7You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind. 8As we have heard, so we have seenin the city of the Lord Almighty, in the city of our God:God makes her secure forever. 9Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.10Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.11Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments. 12Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,13consider well her ramparts, view her citadels,that you may tell of them to the next generation. 14For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.

Genesis 48

1Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him. 2When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed. 3Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me 4and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’ 5“Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine. 6Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers. 7As I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem). 8When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?” 9“They are the sons God has given me here,” Joseph said to his father.Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.” 10Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them. 11Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too.” 12Then Joseph removed them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground. 13And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right toward Israel’s left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them close to him. 14But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim’s head, though he was the younger, and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn. 15Then he blessed Joseph and said,“May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully,the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,16the Angel who has delivered me from all harm —may he bless these boys.May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,and may they increase greatly on the earth.” 17When Joseph saw his father placing his right hand on Ephraim’s head he was displeased; so he took hold of his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18Joseph said to him, “No, my father, this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.” 19But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.” 20He blessed them that day and said,“In your name will Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’”So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh. 21Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers. 22And to you I give one more ridge of land than to your brothers, the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”
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