Bible study, Inspirations, & prayer

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Daily Bible Tasks

Visit this section every day to get your scripture readings for each day. Given below is a good Bible reading schedule that is presented both in audio and text formats. God-centered, grace-saturated, Christ-exalting, and gospel-driven insights for each day’s scripture readings have been added. Included also are tabs that contain prayers of confession of sin and “A daily dose of Inspirational Thoughts.”

Diligently following this daily Bible reading schedule will enable you to read the whole Bible in one year. You will read through the Old Testament once, and through the Psalms and the New Testament twice. I promise, the rewards you will receive from this endeavor will far outweigh the effort you will put in.

If we are to be godly in this crooked world, we will need to diligently read the Scriptures and meditate on their doctrines, making applications to daily life in the way of pointed exhortations. Without it, our lives and worship will suffer detrimentally.

— Thoughts for personal / family worship on 1 Timothy 4
(Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible Notes)

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January 11 Bible Study

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Daily Bible Reading Schedule

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Daily Insights from Scripture

Insight’s from
Today’s Bible Readings

GENESIS 12 The Lord called Abram to walk by faith in the promise, and he responded with sincere but imperfect faith.

📌 God’s covenant motivates missions. God called Abram to receive His blessing in order to be a blessing to all nations. How much more the new covenant in Christ’s blood calls the church to make disciples of all nations. God’s covenant people must be willing to give themselves away to reach the world for Christ.

📌 God blesses only believers. We must walk in the footsteps of Abram by following Christ in faith, obedience, and public worship. Abraham’s faith sometimes faltered and he sinned; therefore we should not demand a great faith of ourselves before we can rest assured that Christ has saved us. Let us rather trust Christ to save us even through a weak faith and pray, “Lord, increase our faith.”

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MATTHEW 11 The ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus are compared. Christ curses the unrepentant cities and invites the weary sinners to come to Him for rest.

📌 John, though mighty in the Lord, was weak in himself. Even the best of men are men at best. But Christ is much better than any man. He directed John’s fainting heart to Himself. John had to learn that patience works experience; “and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed” (Rom. 5:4-5). Do not be surprised when great servants of Christ fall into seasons of weakness. Instead, pray for them and point them to Christ, who is the answer to all our doubts and fears.

📌 The gospel brings great accountability to its hearers. Capernaum was privileged above most places in Israel at this time in the sense that Christ spent more time there teaching and performing miracles than anywhere else. Through Christ’s ministry it was as if they were “exalted unto heaven”; however, they would be cast down to hell because of their unbelief. We could say that the “hottest” places in hell are reserved for people who have lived the closest to gospel privileges and yet have continued in sin. What implications does this have for those of us in Bible-preaching churches?

❸ Beware of the growth of sin.

📌 Many find it difficult to hold together God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility.Matthew 11:25-30 show God’s glorious sovereignty in salvation and also the gentle call of the gospel to all who hear. Rather than arrogantly arguing about sovereignty and responsibility, we need to humble ourselves as spiritual “babes,” to believe all that Christ teaches and to see the beauty of God’s sovereignty and our responsibility.

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NEHEMIAH 1 Nehemiah, hearing the report of Jerusalem’s condition, repents before God and seeks for the pardon of his and the people’s iniquities.

📌 This affluent servant of the king was touched with the suffering and anguish of his fellow Jews. Far greater is Christ’s love for His people. Though He dwelt in the greatest places of honor and glory (John 17:5), He came down to die for them (Matt. 1:20-21; 20:28), and being raised for their justification (Rom. 4:25), He now intercedes in heaven for them (Rom. 8:34). Just as it was a great comfort to the Jews that they had a Nehemiah, so it is an infinite comfort to Christians that they have a sympathetic Savior at God’s right hand. Praise God for His love and intercession on our behalf!

📌 As is clear from his prayer, Nehemiah knew and believed the truth of Scripture. How does knowing and believing God’s Word help in prayer? Using Nehemiah as an example, how can we use God’s attributes (Neh. 1:5) in prayer? How can we use His laws (Neh. 1:7)? His promises (Neh. 1:8-9)? His great works of salvation (Neh. 1:10)?

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ACTS 11 Peter defends his contact with Gentiles, and other Gentiles are converted along the Mediterranean coast and on some of the islands.

📌 Peter’s vision did not introduce the idea of the inclusion of the Gentiles into salvation, nor did it inaugurate this change. It was prophesied in the Old Testament (Ps. 72:17-19), foretold by Jesus (Luke 24:44-47), and accomplished by His death (Eph. 2:12-15). The vision of Peter confirmed the change and prodded the church to follow Christ in evangelizing and welcoming the nations. Why are we sometimes slow to take the gospel to ethnic groups or cultures that are different from our own? Why does the Lord press us to do so?

📌 Barnabas visited the believers in Antioch and saw “the grace of God” in the work there (Acts 11:23). This means that he saw the results of the grace of God at work in the lives of those who had come to trust in Christ and follow Him as His disciples. The name “Christians” was first used of believers and disciples in Antioch (Acts 11:26); the name expresses the close relationship between Christ, which means “Anointed One,” and His people who share His anointing in the Holy Spirit. If we carry the name of Christian, why is it important that people be able to see the grace of Christ’s Spirit in our lives?

Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible Notes (Beeke, Joel R. 2015. Reformation Heritage Books).

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Bible Reading Inspiration From George Mueller

In his attempt to stress the immense value of not only reading but also pondering and applying the scriptures, George Mueller is quoted to have said the following words:

I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the word of God, and to meditation on it. . . . What is the food of the inner man? Not prayer, but the word of God; and . . . not the simple reading of the word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering over it, and applying it to our hearts.

About George Mueller

George Mueller was an avid Bible reader. He read the Bible between five to ten times more than he read any other book and before he died, he had read through the Bible almost 200 times.

In the Book, George Mueller’s Strategy for Showing God, John Piper tells us that George Mueller was also a man of faith who never asked any person for money. However, through prayer alone, he received millions of dollars (in today’s currency) that he used in very many ways in God’s service including supporting missionaries, educating destitute children, and caring for more than 10,000 orphans in his five orphanages in England. George Mueller pastored the same church for more than 68 years and throughout this time, he never took a salary in his ministry but trusted God to put in people’s hearts to send him what he needed. He never took out a loan or went into debt.

A Daily Dose of Inspirational Thoughts.

Today’s Thought Provoker

Marks of Revival

Israel was mainly an agricultural economy, and the Bible writers who lived in this setting made use of the things that the people were familiar with to illustrate the eternal things of the kingdom. One thing that was important then was the rain that was so necessary for the crops to grow and mature.

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Empowering Insights

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Great quotes, and insights from a daily Bible verse, that will strengthen you and help you start your day with wisdom.

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I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
— Martin Luther

Reconciliation (1)Call to confession of sin:

2 Corinthians
5:14–15

For the love of Christ controls us . . . that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

Prayer of Confession

Heavenly Father,

If we deeply understood the cross, gratitude and love for Christ would daily control our thoughts and actions. We are new creations, but we are still great sinners, and this confuses and discourages us. Instead of marveling at your love for weak and sinful creatures, we try to hide our sin and reform ourselves. Rather than seeing each other as gloriously redeemed people, we focus on the weaknesses of others and magnify our own strengths. We spend our days alienated from you and isolated from others, because we reject your sacrifice for our sin and try to substitute our own. We have turned away from you and loved our idols instead, and we have been miserable with ourselves and with others. Instead of living for Christ and calling others to admire and adore him, we have lived small lives that have been governed by our own feelings and desires. Father, forgive us.

Jesus, thank you for invading our world and forever quieting the loud thunder of the law that we cannot keep. You lived the life of grace and mercy that we should live, reconciling your people to one another and to God. Love for your Father compelled you to obedience in spite of great harm to yourself, and by your wounds we have been healed. Jesus, we thank you.

Holy Spirit, help us to think about Jesus whenever our thoughts turn carelessly to self-defense, self-pity, self-glory, and self-condemnation. Use your mighty power to free us from self-love so that we can love others well. Reconcile us to our own weakness so that we will look away from ourselves to Christ often and be drawn into worship and praise. Cause the love of Christ to control us increasingly as we become more and more persuaded that he loves us. Take our eyes away from the good and bad things that our hands have done, and show us the nail-pierced hands of the one who obeyed and suffered to pay our debt. Teach us to rest in Christ, and make us people who graciously lead others to find rest and peace in him and with one another. Holy Spirit, make us new. Amen.

Prone to Wander: Prayers of Confession and Celebration (Duguid, Barbara; Houk, Wayne. P&R Publishing).

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Assurance of pardon:

2 Corinthians
5:17–18, 21

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself. . . . For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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Prayer Inspiration The Importance of Prayer

How important is prayer to you? Is there any evidence that shows that prayer is a conscious necessity in your life? Do you take it as an indispensable daily requirement in your life that just can’t be postponed?

Consider the example of Christ’s prayer life:

Prayer to our Lord was more important than preaching, for he taught men to pray, but we have no record that he ever taught them to preach (Matt 6:5-15).

Christ’s earthly ministry began in prayer (Luke 3:31), continued in prayer, and ended in prayer (Luke 23:34).

And if our Lord Jesus Christ prioritized prayer this much, how much more do we need to do so in our own lives, which are so sinful and needy, and filled with fear and danger?

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