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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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Bible Reading Daily Schedule

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1 CHRONICLES 16 David celebrates the arrival of the ark with thanksgiving and praise.

📌 At the heart of worship is seeking God (1 Chron. 16:10-11). By nature we have lost God and have turned our backs to Him. Nevertheless, it is only in His presence that there is light and life. It is only through Jesus Christ that we can have fellowship with Him and taste of His goodness and grace. Through Christ, we can have access to the Father in the Holy Spirit. This was David’s one passion: to seek God and enjoy His glory (Ps. 27:4,8). How can you kindle the same passion in your own heart?

📌 Thanksgiving (1 Chron. 16:34) is the overflow in the heart of what God has done in His grace for undeserving sinners. It is the response of human love to the love of the Lord. It shows itself in our thoughts, words, and actions. David was overwhelmed that God would draw so near to him and his nation. He spent a lot of time and energy praising Him. How thankful are we? Why do we lack a thankful attitude many times?

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JAMES 3 James warns against sins of the tongue. He proves that true wisdom shows itself not in striving but in a meek and peaceable spirit.

📌 Small things show a lot about us. Like a skillful physician, James has tested our eyes for favoritism (James 2:1-13). Now he takes a close look at what our tongue tells us. What comes out of our mouths reveals what is in our hearts, and what will happen to us on judgment day (Matt. 12:33-37). If you took stock of what your tongue produces over the course of a week, what would you learn about the health of your inner being?

📌 We cannot by ourselves tame our tongue (James 3:8). We need God to pardon us, and renew us entirely. The so-called wisdom of man cannot help us. Only true wisdom can, the wisdom not found on earth but that comes down from heaven above. This wisdom comes from Christ, who through His Spirit and Word renews fallen image bearers after His own image, and imparts to them a pure wisdom. How can we fill our minds and mouths with His wisdom?

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OBADIAH The prophet describes the day of the Lord that will come against Edom because of its sin against Judah and Judah’s triumph over all its enemies.

📌 Obadiah’s message of doom for Edom has significant relevance for God’s people in every age. Some of the details have been historically fulfilled in the distant past, and others await eschatological climax. Yet there is a message that cannot be limited just to the past or the future. Although it may appear at times that evil triumphs, this book makes it clear that God is in control and He will right every wrong. Two central truths are clear: (Obadiah 1) the kingdom of this world will fail; (Obadiah 2) the kingdom of our God will prevail.

📌 Obadiah’s prophecy of the day of the Lord underscores the certainty of divine justice. The most outstanding focus is that judgment is deserved and therefore, fair. It highlights the contrast with God’s gracious salvation. In damnation, the sinner receives what he deserves; in salvation, the saved sinned receives what he does not deserve. Judgment is all of merit; salvation is all of grace.

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PSALM 92 The psalmist exhorts people to praise the Lord for His greatness and goodness.

📌 As the title of this psalm implies, it teaches us about how to keep the Lord’s Day holy. The Sabbath is a day devoted to praising God for who He is and what He has done in the public worship of God’s house. We should sing His praise morning and evening—as much as possible. Life can be brutal as we are surrounded by the wicked, but the Lord’s Day offers a unique opportunity to renew our perspective by faith in the promises of God’s sovereignty, judgment of the wicked, and blessing on believers. Thus the preaching of the Word is central to the day. By worshiping in God’s presence, God’s people flourish and grow like trees. Even into their old age they are renewed in strength and declare God’s righteousness for others to hear. Truly, the Sabbath is a blessed day! How does this psalm call you to change the way you spend your Sabbaths?

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PSALM 93 The psalmist describes the majesty and power of God’s kingdom.

📌 Unwelcome, unexpected, and unexplained things happen in our experience. There is hardly a more comforting truth for God’s people than that God is the absolute Sovereign ruling His kingdom unfailingly for purposes of His glory and His people’s good. The Lord God only is King, ruling in power, justice, and wisdom over the entire world (Isa. 46:10-11; Eph. 1:11). The triune God reigns through the Mediator, Jesus Christ (Psa. 2:6; 110:1-2; Matt. 28:18). As absolute monarch, God guides everything by His Son to His predetermined goal (Prov. 16:4; Rom. 11:36; Heb. 1:3). What does this teach us about how to respond to the threats of powerful people (Psalm 93:3-4)? How should this affect the way we approach His Word and worship (Psa. 93:5)?

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

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.

Thought Provokers & Reflections

Where God Is By Simeon Rosete

“He was just a little boy, on a week’s first day.
Wandering home from Bible School, and dawdling on the way.
He scuffed his shoes into the grass and found a little caterpillar.
He grabbed a fluffy milkweed pod, and blew out all the filler.
A bird’s nest in a tree overhead, so wisely placed on high
Was just another wonder that caught his eager eye.
A neighbor watched his zig zag course and hailed him from the lawn,
Asked him where he’d been that day, and what was going on.

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Love for Enemies (1) Call to confession of sin:

Matthew
5:43–45

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”

Prayer of confession

O Lover of the unlovely,

It is your will that we should love you with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and that we should love our enemies and our neighbors as ourselves. We confess to you that we are not sufficient for these things. By nature, there is no pure love in our souls, and every affection in us is turned away from you and others and toward ourselves. We are prisoners of our own lust and self-worship until you set us free. We fear and despise our enemies, hoping for their ruin and at times causing it. We break covenants with our friends carelessly, and fail to keep the promises we have made. Father, forgive us for our many sins.

Lord, thank you for your perfect Son, who loved his enemies even as he was punished for their sin and tortured in their place. He showed tender love to the most evil and ungrateful people, those who were just like us in every way. When Jesus sought refuge in you as he was dying, you looked away and allowed him to be utterly crushed by the mountain of our sins. He was stripped so that we might be clothed in his righteousness; he was wounded so that we might be healed; he was tormented so that we might be comforted; he was shamed so that we could inherit eternal glory; he entered darkness to be our light; he was made an enemy so that we could be your friends. Thank you for the cross and for our great salvation!

Father, help us to become kind and merciful lovers of our friends and enemies. Open our eyes to your amazing love and generosity toward us until we are transformed into your image, to love as you love. When we are sinned against, cause us to cherish your great mercy to us and then extend it freely to other wretched sinners like ourselves. May we always see ourselves accurately as helpless sinners in need of grace, so that we never move beyond the cross or consider ourselves better than our worst enemies. Thank you for loving us when we hated you, and for abandoning your precious Son to welcome us into your family forever. Amen.

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

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Assurance of pardon:

Romans
5:8–10

God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Hymns

RECORD YOUR PROGRESS

What does Prayer Mean to You? Is it a Spare Wheel or your Steering Wheel?

After being king for several years, Saul finally built his first altar to God in 1 Samuel 14:35-36. But he did this only as a last resort. Throughout his reign, Saul consistently approached God only after he had tried everything else. How much better if Saul had gone to God first, building an altar as his first official act as king. God is too great to be an afterthought or someone we turn to as a last resort. When we turn to God first, we will never have to turn to him with fears and regrets as a last resort.

Do you have a prayer altar in your home? Do you take turning to God and seeking his face through the reading of his word and prayer first the first priority every morning before you begin your daily duties?

No Time to Pray?

I got up early one morning
and rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish that
I didn't have time to pray.

Problems just tumbled about me,
and heavier came each task.
"Why doesn't God help me?" I wondered.
He answered, "You didn't ask."

I wanted to see joy and beauty,
but the day toiled on, grey and bleak;
I wondered why God didn't show me.
He said, "But you didn't seek."

I tried to come into God's presence;
I used all my keys at the lock.
God gently and lovingly chided,"
My child, you didn't knock."

I woke up early this morning,
and paused before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish
that I had to take time to pray.

St. Francis de Sales once said, “Everyone of us needs half an hour of prayer each day, except when we are busy, then we need an hour.”

Did you take time to pray today?

Our Lord Jesus often spent time in prayer before beginning his daily duties. Speaking of Jesus, the Bible tells us in Mark 1:35 that "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed." May God help us to emulate this example of our Lord Jesus.

Prayer:

Lord, we do not know how to pray. We do not even know what to pray for as we ought. But let your Spirit help our infirmities, and make intercession for us. Pour on us an abundance of the Spirit of grace and supplication that teaches us to cry, Abba, Father. Inspire our hearts to pray by the Spirit of our adoption and to be devoted to prayer in our lives.

Direct your light and truth of your word to come to us. Let them lead us to your throne of that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help us in the time of need. Let your light and your truth guide us to you. O Lord, our greatest joy enable us to trust in you with all our heart. We pray that you will not allow us to lean on our own understanding but will enable us to acknowledge you in all our ways. Help us not to be just hearers but doers of your word. Teach us how to pray and enable us to always give thanks to you in everything.

You have declared that you will be sanctified and glorified before all the world’s people by those who draw near to you. We, therefore, worship you, so that we may glorify your name. We call on you, that you may deliver us. Help us to give you the glory that is due you name because from you, and through you, and for your are all things. Amen.

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