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Proverbs Chapter 5 verse 21 (NIV)  For your ways are in full view of the LORD,    and he examines all your paths. Yesterday, I pondered on the attitude and response of the synagogue leader who went to Jesus on behalf of his daughter, and the impact that this witness may have had on the…

Mark chapter 5 verses 22-24 (NIV)  Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.  He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.”  So Jesus went with…

Exodus chapter 25 verses 8-9 “Then let them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.  Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.” Today’s Old Testament reading begins quite detailed instructions given by God to Moses regarding the creation of the earthly Tabernacle, it’s…

Exodus chapter 23 verses 2-5 (NIV)   “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,  and do not show favouritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.“If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to…

Mark Chapter 2 verses 23-24 (NIV)  One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some ears of corn. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” What struck me here was the fact that Jesus and His…

Exodus chapter 19 verses 14-19 (NIV)  After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.” On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick…

Exodus chapter 17 verse 14 (NIV)  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.” God may speak to us with a promise, or about a calling or…

Exodus chapter 15 verse 20 (NIV)   Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.   Aaron, Miriam and Moses, brought up by Godly parents. Moses led the people of God, Aaron was his spokesman, and Miriam was a prophet. This description of…

Proverbs Chapter 4 verses 25-27 (NIV)   Let your eyes look straight ahead;    fix your gaze directly before you. Give careful thought to the paths for your feet    and be steadfast in all your ways.  Do not turn to the right or the left;    keep your foot from evil.  I woke up this…

Matthew chapter 27 verse 34 (NIV))  There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. Apparently gall was given to prisoners to numb their senses, and make them less aware, but it was often poisonous. Jesus did not want to die from poisoning or have…