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Proverbs Chapter 31 – verse 31 (NLT) Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last;    but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised. It’s the time of year when we ponder whether to make any new year resolutions. We might want to lose weight and get fitter or healthier. We might look at doing a…

Nehemiah Chapter 10: verses 32-39 (NIV)  “We assume the responsibility for carrying out the commands to give a third of a shekel each year for the service of the house of our God:  for the bread set out on the table; for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings; for the offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New…

Nehemiah Chapter 9: Verses 7-8 (NIV) “You are the Lord God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.  You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your…

Revelation Chapter 19: Verses 1-2 (NLT) After this, I heard what sounded like a vast crowd in heaven shouting, “Praise the Lord!    Salvation and glory and power belong to our God. His judgments are true and just.    He has punished the great prostitutewho corrupted the earth with her immorality.    He has avenged the murder of his servants.” The book of…

Nehemiah Chapter 5: Verses 14 -15 (NLT) For the entire twelve years that I was governor of Judah—from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of the reign of King Artaxerxes—neither I nor my officials drew on our official food allowance.  The former governors, in contrast, had laid heavy burdens on the people, demanding a daily…

Nehemiah Chapter 4: Verses 14-15 (NLT) Then as I looked over the situation, I called together the nobles and the rest of the people and said to them, “Don’t be afraid of the enemy! Remember the Lord, who is great and glorious, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your…

Psalm 147: Verse 1 (NIV) Praise the Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our God,    how pleasant and fitting to praise him!Psalm 147: Verses 10-11 (NIV) His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse,    nor his delight in the legs of the warrior; the Lord delights in those who fear him,    who put their hope in his unfailing love. Today is…

Ezra Chapter 10 – Verses 1-4 (NIV) While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.  Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying…

Ezra Chapter 8: Verses 21-23 (NLT)  And there by the Ahava Canal, I gave orders for all of us to fast and humble ourselves before our God. We prayed that he would give us a safe journey and protect us, our children, and our goods as we traveled.  For I was ashamed to ask the king…

Ezra Chapter 7: Verse 23 (NIV) Whatever the God of heaven has prescribed, let it be done with diligence for the temple of the God of heaven. Why should his wrath fall on the realm of the king and of his sons? Ezra Chapter 7: Verse 25 (NIV) And you, Ezra, in accordance with the…