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January Poetry

  • 10 May 2025 – What have I learned today?

    John chapter 6 verses 28-29 (NIV) Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” The people were used to seeing their religious teachers “doing” things and probably expecting that this was how to…

  • 9 May 2025 – What have I learned today?

    John chapter 6 verses 8-9 (NIV)   Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?” Andrew didn’t dismiss the boy’s offer of the five loaves and two fish, because he brought the…

  • 8 May 2025 –What have I learned today?

    John chapter 5:36-40 (NIV)  “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing —testify that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen…

  • 7 May 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Judges chapter 6: verses 14-16 (NIV) The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in…

  • 6 May 2025 – What have I learned today?

    John chapter 4 verses 47 to 53 (NIV)  When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.” The royal official…

  • 5 May 2025 – What have I learned today?

    John chapter 4: verses 34-38 (NIV) “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.  Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the…

  • 4 May 2025 – What have I learned today?

    JOHN Chapter 4 verses 1-4 (NIV) Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John — although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.  Now he had to go through Samaria.…

  • 3 May 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Psalm 55 verse 16 (NIV)  As for me, I call to God,    and the LORD saves me. Joshua chapter 24 verse 15 (NIV)   “But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods…

  • 2 May 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Joshua chapter 21 verses 43-45 (NIV)  So the LORD gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there. The LORD gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their ancestors. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the LORD…

  • 1 May 2025 – What have I learned today?

    John chapter 2 verses 13-16 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.  So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep…