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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 about the Kingdom and God's Lordship as well as reading a chapter of the New 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.

The Kingdom of God

  • The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven are titles of the same Kingdom.
  • This Kingdom is not a piece of territory, but wherever Jesus Christ has established His reign in the hearts and lives of men and women.
  • This is an eternal Kingdom to which all who have received the gift of eternal life belong.
  • The teaching of Jesus is the good news about God’s heavenly Kingdom that He was sent to make available to all who believe in Him.
  • His parables are illustrations of either the present reality of the Kingdom among us and within believers, or of the future fulfillment of God’s Kingdom purposes when Jesus comes again.
  • The healing and miracles of Jesus, and of believers in Him, are evidences of the presence of the Kingdom of God.
  • The church is to preach the Kingdom in word and power. Jesus will then build His church!
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1 Peter 2:4-12

Christ, the Living Stone4You have turned to Him, the Living Stone that was rejected by men but chosen by God and is precious to Him.5So now you are to be living stones yourselves that God can build into a spiritual dwelling place for Himself. You have become a holy priesthood because of all you offer to God through your faith in Jesus Christ, spiritual sacrifices that please Him. For it is written in scripture:6"Look and see, I lay in Zion a chosen and precious Cornerstone. Anyone who trusts in Him will never be ashamed."7-8This Stone is so precious to you, but not to those who do not believe in Jesus. This Stone that the builders rejected became the Keystone; so to those who do not believe, "He is a Stone that causes men to stumble and a Rock that makes them fall." It is because they disobey the message given them that they stumble, and so are destined for the condemnation that is inevitable for those who reject their means of salvation.A chosen people9By contrast, see what you have become, people chosen by God Himself. You are a royal priesthood because you offer your lives in sacrifice as those who live in the King. You are a holy nation, not a nation with geographical boundaries but a people set apart for God, a people who truly belong to Him.Why has God done all this for you? So that you can declare with your mouths and by the way you live, the praises of this wonderful God who called you out of darkness and has brought you into His wonderful light.10There was a time when you did not belong to these people who form God's Kingdom on earth; but now each of you is one of God's people. Before you did not experience His mercy; but now you are who you are because of that mercy.11So I implore you, my dear friends, because you are strangers and do not belong to this world, refuse to yield to any sinful desires that will only fight against the well-being of your souls.12Give such an example to the ungodly among whom you live, that they will see God's goodness in your lives, even when they bring all manner of false accusations against you. For your example will help them to embrace the glory of God that is to be revealed when Christ returns.

Psalm 15

A psalm of David.1Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain? 2The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart;3whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others;4who despises a vile person but honors those who fear the Lord;who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind;5who lends money to the poor without interest; who does not accept a bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things will never be shaken.

Genesis 15

1After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:“Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.” 2But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.” 4Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. 7He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.” 8But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?” 9So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.” 10Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. 12As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.” 17When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— 19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
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