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Going deeper...to go further

The more rooted we are in God and in His Word, the more fruitful we become in His purposes

This month we’re focusing our daily readings on scriptures about Salvation alongside reading a chapter from the Old & New Testaments each day.

Let’s spend some time everyday reading, applying and praying these scriptures over our lives so that we can go deeper and further in His purposes for us. Below you’ll see what we’re reading today.

What is S.O.A.P.?

In order to go further in the mission God has given us, He said we need to go deeper in our relationship with Him. As with any tree or plant, the fruit is determined by the health and depth of the root. One way we have been going deeper is by reading and journaling through the Word every day. We’ve called it S.O.A.P.

[S]cripture - Read the Word
[O]bservation - Write down what God is saying/showing you
[A]pplication - How do we apply this in our lives?
[P]rayer - Pray through and over your life

As we read the Word (Scripture), listen to the Holy Spirit (Observation), discover how to apply that to our lives (Application) and pray these things over our lives and those in the Church (Prayer) we’re going deeper in our relationship with God so that we can go further in the mission He’s given us.

Throughout the rest of the year we’ll be continuing our Bible Reading Plan to press deeper into God so that we can go further in His purposes. Get yourself a Bible, a journal and a pen and SOAP your way through the scriptures!

Today we are reading: Acts 2:21

21All who call on the Lord's name will be saved!'

Scripture quoted by permission. The passage above is taken from THE TRUTH VERSION. Copyright © 2009 by Colin Urquhart. All rights reserved worldwide. (The Truth New Testament)

Today we are reading: Exodus 29

1“This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect. 2And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil. 3Put them in a basket and present them along with the bull and the two rams. 4Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water. 5Take the garments and dress Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breastpiece. Fasten the ephod on him by its skillfully woven waistband. 6Put the turban on his head and attach the sacred emblem to the turban. 7Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head. 8Bring his sons and dress them in tunics 9and fasten caps on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance.“Then you shall ordain Aaron and his sons. 10“Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. 11Slaughter it in the Lord’s presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 12Take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar. 13Then take all the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar. 14But burn the bull’s flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering. 15“Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. 16Slaughter it and take the blood and splash it against the sides of the altar. 17Cut the ram into pieces and wash the internal organs and the legs, putting them with the head and the other pieces. 18Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord. 19“Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. 20Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then splash blood against the sides of the altar. 21And take some blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated. 22“Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This is the ram for the ordination.) 23From the basket of bread made without yeast, which is before the Lord, take one round loaf, one thick loaf with olive oil mixed in, and one thin loaf. 24Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and have them wave them before the Lord as a wave offering. 25Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the Lord, a food offering presented to the Lord. 26After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron’s ordination, wave it before the Lord as a wave offering, and it will be your share. 27“Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons: the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. 28This is always to be the perpetual share from the Israelites for Aaron and his sons. It is the contribution the Israelites are to make to the Lord from their fellowship offerings. 29“Aaron’s sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them. 30The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days. 31“Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meat in a sacred place. 32At the entrance to the tent of meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket. 33They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no one else may eat them, because they are sacred. 34And if any of the meat of the ordination ram or any bread is left over till morning, burn it up. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred. 35“Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them. 36Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it. 37For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy. 38“This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old. 39Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight. 40With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning—a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord. 42“For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the Lord. There I will meet you and speak to you; 43there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory. 44“So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. 45Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. 46They will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.

Scripture quoted by permission. The passage above is taken from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online)

Today we are reading: Galatians 2

An apostle to the nations1Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me as my companion.2I went in obedience to revelation I received from God and I described privately to the leaders there the nature of the gospel which I proclaim among the nations, for I wanted to be sure that I was teaching what was right.3Although he is a Greek, it was not deemed necessary for my companion Titus to be circumcised.4But some false brothers came among us in a covert way to spy on us because of the freedom we have in Christ, wanting to return us to slavery.5But we would not submit to their wishes even for a moment, so that you might continue to walk in the truth of the gospel - that we are saved by faith in Christ, not through trying to obey religious laws.6I am not concerned about anybody's reputation, for God does not judge by appearances. However, those who were regarded as important leaders added nothing to what I was preaching.7Quite the opposite; they saw that I had been entrusted with proclaiming the gospel to the uncircumcised Gentiles, as Peter was commissioned to take the gospel to the circumcised Jews.8For God's Spirit anointed Peter to be an apostle to the Jews and that same Spirit anointed me for the nations.9James, Peter and John, who were regarded as the pillars of the church, gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and myself, recognising that God had given me grace for the Gentile nations, as they had for the Jewish people.10They only asked that we should remember the poor, something I was very keen to do.Paul opposes Peter11But when Peter visited Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face because of the shameful way he acted.12He ate with the Gentiles until some men arrived who had been sent by James. He then sat apart from the Gentiles out of fear of the Jewish believers who belonged to the circumcision party.13The Jewish believers also acted wrongly and they even persuaded Barnabas to join them.14When I saw that they were not behaving according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of everybody else: "If as a Jew you do not live as a Gentile, why should you make the Gentiles live as if they were Jews?"15-16We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, but we know that no man is made acceptable before God by doing the works of the law, but only through faith in Christ Jesus. We Jews were saved through that same faith in Christ Jesus, for it is only by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law that we were saved; for by such works no one is made acceptable to God.17But if in seeking to be found acceptable to God because we are in Christ we find that we still act as sinners, does this mean that Christ encourages sin? Don't even suggest such a thing!18For if I build again things that were once destroyed, I demonstrate that I myself am a law breaker.19For through the law I died to living in religious legalism that I might now live for God.20I have been crucified together with Christ; the person I was no longer lives, but Christ now lives in me. The life I live in my body I live by faith in God's Son, who has loved me by giving Himself on my behalf.21I do not set aside God's grace. For if I could have gained acceptance through the religious law, then Christ died for nothing!

Scripture quoted by permission. The passage above is taken from THE TRUTH VERSION. Copyright © 2009 by Colin Urquhart. All rights reserved worldwide. (The Truth New Testament)