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January Poetry

  • 6 April 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Deuteronomy chapter 5 verses 28-29 ( NIV)   The LORD heard you when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, “I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good.  Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it…

  • 5 April 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Luke 9 verses 38-40 (NIV)  As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.  But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that…

  • 4 April 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 28 (NIV)  “‘ Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.’” Colossians chapter 4 verse 6 (NIV)  Let your…

  • 3 April 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Luke chapter 9 verses 44-45(NIV)  “Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.” But they did not understand what this meant. It was hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask…

  • 2 April 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Luke chapter 9 verses 10-11 (NIV)   When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus what they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew by themselves to a town called Bethsaida,  but the crowds learned about it and followed him. He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God,…

  • 1 April 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Luke chapter 8 verses 43 – 44 (NIV) And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her.  She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. Luke chapter 8 verse 49 (NIV) While Jesus was still speaking, someone…

  • 31 March 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Luke chapter 8 verses 34 to 39 (NIV) When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside,  and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at…

  • 30 March 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Luke chapter 8 verses 9-10 (NIV)  His disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’’’ Luke chapter 8 verse 18(NIV) Therefore…

  • 29 March 2025 – What have I learned today?

    Luke chapter 7 verses 36-39 (NIV)   When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster…

  • 28 March 2025  – What have I learned today?

    Numbers chapter 23 verses 27-28 (NIV)  Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.” And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland. Balak had asked Balaam to curse God’s people twice before…