Chapter 1 ⁽⁴⁶⁾

Passage Read: Luke 1-2 Meditation Verses: 1:50-52 Thought God's mercy is for those who fear Him, not for those who don't. The arrogant, those who are proud in their thoughts, not necessarily in deed, He will scatter; they will be overthrown. But the humble, who…

Passage Read: Mark 1-2 Meditation Verse: 1:38 Thought Jesus came to preach, but He gladly healed people left and right. He came to bless people, to help them out from under Satan's thumb. He didn't build houses or provide fresh drinking water, He healed diseases…

Passage Read: Matthew 1-2 Meditation Verse: 1:5 Thought Boaz's mother was Rahab, the Canaanite prostitute/innkeeper who hid the Israelite spies and pleaded for her life and the life of her family. Surely she was held in honor by that generation, though it is possible some…

Passage Read: Jonah 1-4 Meditation Verse: 1:12 Thought Jonah, in effect, cared more about these sailors than about his own life or the life of the Ninevites. He was willing to drown to save the sailors because he thought it would prevent the Ninevites from…

Passage Read: Hosea 12 - Joel 1 Meditation Verses: Joel 1:13-15 Thought The priests are the last to understand how desperate times have become. Only when the people are so impoverished that they no longer have money and crops to offer as sacrifices, only then…