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Going deeper...to go further

Daily Bible reading strengthens our relationship with God, nourishes our spirits and equips us to live a fruitful, effective life for Him.

This month we're reading a chapter from the New Testament and one from the Old Testament each day As we read the Word it’s important that we apply what we read and pray it out over our lives. One of the way you can do this is by using the acronym SOAP. To find out more about SOAP watch this video.

Below you’ll see what we’re reading today. To go forward or back a day in our reading plan use the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons.

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1 Peter 4

Live for God1Because Christ suffered in His body, you must be prepared to do likewise, demonstrating that you have turned away from a life of sin.2Such a person demonstrates that he does not live the rest of his earthly life to please himself, but to fulfil God's will.3In your past life you spent enough time doing what unbelievers do, living in debauchery, lust and drunkenness, taking part in orgies, living in ungodliness and worshipping idols.4Those who belong to the world find it strange that you do not want to share in their immoral behaviour and they even abuse you as a result.5However, they will be called to account by He who will judge the living and the dead.6This was why Jesus went to preach the gospel to those who had already died. They were under judgment for the way they had lived in their bodies, but were given opportunity to turn to God in the spirit realm.7The end of all things is drawing near. Therefore, you need to think clearly and be self-controlled in the way you live, for then you can pray effectively.8It is most important for you to love one another deeply because that love covers a multitude of sins.9Have open house for one another without complaining about the way this can inconvenience you.10And every person should use the gifts God has given him to serve others, faithfully showing them His grace in a whole variety of ways.11When you are called upon to speak, do so with God's enabling, desiring Him to be present in all you do through Jesus Christ who lives in you. To Him belongs the glory and the power for all eternity. Amen! It shall be so!12My dear friends, it is not surprising that you have to suffer painful trials at times; it is not that something strange or unexpected is happening to you when you do so.13Rather rejoice that you are participating in suffering for Christ, so that you will participate in the great joy there will be when He is revealed in glory!14You are blessed if you are insulted for the name of Christ. Remember, God's Spirit and His glory remain upon you.15Of course, you should not suffer for the wrong reasons, because you are a murderer, a thief, some kind of criminal or just a busybody.16But there is nothing of which to be ashamed if you suffer because you are a Christian. You should praise God for the privilege, even if sometimes it is costly!17You see, this is a time of judgment and it has begun among God's own people, His family. But what we experience is as nothing compared with the judgment that will come on those who do not obey God's gospel.18For it is written: "If it is difficult for godly people to be saved, what will the outcome be for the ungodly and the ­sinner?"19Therefore, those who suffer through obeying God's will should place themselves in the hands of this faithful Creator and continue to walk in ways that please Him.

Joshua 14

1Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them. 2Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine and a half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses. 3Moses had granted the two and a half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest, 4for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds. 5So the Israelites divided the land, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.6Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. 7I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, 8but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly. 9So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’ 10“Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. 12Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.” 13Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance. 14So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly. 15(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)Then the land had rest from war.
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