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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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Philippians 2

Humility1See what great encouragement you have because you are united with Christ. Look at how you are strengthened by His love for you. And because you live at one with the Spirit, you are tender-hearted and compassionate.2So you will complete my joy if you are united in the way you think, in the love you have for each other and in the way you live in the Spirit to fulfil God's purpose.3To fulfil these aims, be sure never to act out of selfish ambition. And do not be conceited, for that is only empty vanity. Rather, live humbly, thinking that others are better than yourselves.4Yes, you will have to be responsible about your own affairs, but you should be equally concerned about the interests of others around you.5In fact your attitude should reflect that of Christ Jesus Himself:6By nature He is God, but He did not hold onto His divine status of being equal in heaven with the Father.7He was prepared to make Himself nothing, taking the nature of a servant and becoming thoroughly human.8He was a Man in every respect, even though He retained His divinity. Even so, He humbled Himself to such an extent that He obeyed the Father's will, that He should die the death of a criminal on the cross.9Because of His obedience, God the Father has now exalted Him to the highest place in heaven, and has given Him the name that is far superior to any other name.10Every knee in heaven, on earth and even in the underworld, will bow at the name of Jesus.11Every tongue will have to acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, for this is the Father's glorious will.Faithful witnesses12My dear friends, you see why it has been so important for you to obey the Lord, not only when I am with you but even more when we are apart. Continue to live as those who are saved, who fear the Lord, dreading the idea of ever denying Him.13For God Himself is at work within you so that you want to do what is good in His eyes.14-16Therefore, there is to be no complaining or arguing among you, no matter what you are asked to do, for this will enable you to become blameless and pure, living as God's children in an unrighteous and depraved generation. You are to shine like the stars in the universe as you share the Word of life with others. Then on the great Day of the Lord I will be able to boast that all my work among you was not for nothing.17Even if my life was poured out in sacrifice, even if it is costly to serve you so that you live as people of faith, I am content and rejoice with you all.18That being the case, it is only right that you should also be content and rejoicing with me.Paul commends his colleagues19I hope that it will be the Lord's will to send Timothy to you in the near future, for then he will be able to bring me news about you, and that will encourage me.20He is unique in the way he is genuinely concerned about your welfare.21Everyone seems more concerned about their own interests than those of Jesus Christ!22But Timothy has already proved himself, as you know. He regards me as his spiritual father and, like a good son, he has served with me in working for the gospel.23This is why I hope to send him to you just as soon as I can spare him.24And I trust the Lord that my circumstances will change so that I will soon be able to visit you myself.25Meanwhile, I think it expedient to send my brother Epaphroditus back to you. He is my fellow worker and soldiers along with me. And he is your messenger, whom you sent to care for me.26But he misses you all and was really upset that you heard about his illness.27He was very sick and almost died; but God showed His mercy and healed him. That was God showing mercy to me as well as him, to save me from any further sorrow on top of what I was already experiencing.28This is why I am so keen to send him back to you, for you will be reassured when you see him, instead of being anxious about his welfare.29Welcome him back, joyfully thanking God for him. Always honour men like him.30It was because of his faithfulness to the work of Christ that he almost died. He was prepared to risk his life to help me in ways you are unable to fulfil.

Joshua 2

1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. 2The king of Jericho was told, “Look, some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.” 3So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land.” 4But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. 5At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.” 6(But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.) 7So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut. 8Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof 9and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you. 10We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. 11When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below. 12“Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign 13that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them—and that you will save us from death.” 14“Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.” 15So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall. 16She said to them, “Go to the hills so the pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there three days until they return, and then go on your way.” 17Now the men had said to her, “This oath you made us swear will not be binding on us 18unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house. 19If any of them go outside your house into the street, their blood will be on their own heads; we will not be responsible. As for those who are in the house with you, their blood will be on our head if a hand is laid on them. 20But if you tell what we are doing, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.” 21“Agreed,” she replied. “Let it be as you say.”So she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window. 22When they left, they went into the hills and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had searched all along the road and returned without finding them. 23Then the two men started back. They went down out of the hills, forded the river and came to Joshua son of Nun and told him everything that had happened to them. 24They said to Joshua, “The Lord has surely given the whole land into our hands; all the people are melting in fear because of us.”
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