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January Poetry

  • 3 January 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Psalm 3: Verses 2-4 (NIV) Many are saying of me,    “God will not deliver him.”   But you, LORD, are a shield around me,    my glory, the One who lifts my head high.    I call out to the LORD,    and he answers me from his holy mountain. These verses are a reminder,…

  • 2 January 2025 – What have I learned today?

     Matthew chapter 2: verses 4-6 (NIV)  When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born.  “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no…

  • 1 January 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Psalm 1 verses 1-2 (NIV) Blessed is the one   who does not walk in step with the wicked   or stand in the way that sinners take    or sit in the company of mockers,   but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,    and who meditates on his law day and…

  • 31 December 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Revelation Chapter 22: Verse 6 (NIV)  The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.” Revelation chapter 22: verses 10 – 11 (NIV)  Then he told me, “Do not seal up…

  • 30 December 2024 – What have I learned today?

    30 December 2024 – What have I learned today? Nehemiah chapter12: verses 8-9 (NIV)  The Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and also Mattaniah, who, together with his associates, was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving. Bakbukiah and Unni, their associates, stood opposite them in the services. Nehemiah chapter 12: verses 46 –…

  • 29 December 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Nehemiah chapter 11 verses 1-2 (NIV) Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten of them to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine were to stay in their own towns. The people commended all who volunteered…

  • 28 December 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Nehemiah chapter 9 verses 19 – 21 (NIV) “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take.  You gave your…

  • 27 December 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Nehemiah chapter 8: verses 7-9 (NIV)  The Levites —Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan and Pelaiah—instructed the people in the Law while the people were standing there. They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that the people understood…

  • 26 December 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Nehemiah chapter 5 verse 9 (NIV)   So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our Gentile enemies.  Nehemiah chapter 5 verse 15 (NIV) But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels…

  • 25 December 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Nehemiah chapter 3 verse 5 (NIV) The next section was repaired by the men of Tekoa, but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors. Nehemiah chapter 3 verse 12 (NIV) Shallum son of Hallohesh, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, repaired the next section with the help of his…