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January Poetry

  • 5 September 2024 – What have I learned today?

    2 Corinthians Chapter 8:  verse 22 (NIV)  In addition, we are sending with them our brother who has often proved to us in many ways that he is zealous, and now even more so because of his great confidence in you. 2 Corinthians Chapter 9: Verse 2 (NIV) For I know your eagerness to help, and…

  • 4 September 2024 – What have I learned today?

    2 Corinthians Chapter 8: Verses 1-3 (NIV) And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as much as they were…

  • 3 September 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Isaiah Chapter 7:3-9 (NIV) Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub, to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field. Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smouldering stubs of firewood—because of…

  • 2 September 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Psalm 105: Verses 17-22 (NIV) And he sent a man before them—    Joseph, sold as a slave.They bruised his feet with shackles,    his neck was put in irons,  till what he foretold came to pass,   till the word of the Lord proved him true.The king sent and released him,    the ruler of peoples set him free.  He made him master of his household,    ruler…

  • 1 September 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Psalm 105: 5-9 (NIV) Remember the wonders he has done,    his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,  you his servants, the descendants of Abraham,    his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.He is the Lord our God;    his judgments are in all the earth.  He remembers his covenant forever,    the promise he made, for a thousand generations,the covenant he made with Abraham,    the oath he swore…

  • 31 August 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Micah chapter 5: Verses 8-9 (NIV) Do not gloat over me, my enemy!    Though I have fallen, I will rise.Though I sit in darkness,    the Lord will be my light.Because I have sinned against him,    I will bear the Lord’s wrath,until he pleads my case    and upholds my cause.He will bring me out into the light;    I will see his righteousness. Romans Chapter 8:…

  • 30 August 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Psalm 104: Verse 34 (NIV) May my meditation be pleasing to him,    as I rejoice in the Lord. Matthew Chapter 5: Verses 28 (NIV) But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 2 Corinthians Chapter 10: Verse 5 (NIV)  We demolish arguments and every pretension…

  • 29 August 2024 – What have I learned today?

    2 Chronicles Chapter 35: Verses 20-22 (NIV) After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Necho king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah marched out to meet him in battle.   But Necho sent messengers to him, saying, “What quarrel is there, king of Judah, between you and…

  • 28 August 2024 – What have I learned today?

    2 Chronicles Chapter 34: Verse 3 (NIV)  In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols. Josiah was sixteen years old when he began to…

  • 27 August 2024 – What have I learned today?

    2 Chronicles Chapter 31: Verses 20-21 (NIV) This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God. In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered. 2…