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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 looking at the different things Paul writes about in Romans chapter 12 which we encourage you to read regularly throughout the month. To help unpack the truths found in this chapter we've put some passages that you can meditate on alongside this to help you apply the Word to your life. 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 2:4-5

Christ, the Living Stone4You have turned to Him, the Living Stone that was rejected by men but chosen by God and is precious to Him.5So now you are to be living stones yourselves that God can build into a spiritual dwelling place for Himself. You have become a holy priesthood because of all you offer to God through your faith in Jesus Christ, spiritual sacrifices that please Him. For it is written in scripture:

Matthew 1

The ancestry of Christ1This is a record of the ancestry of Jesus Christ, the descendant of David and Abraham.2-6In total, there were fourteen generations from Abraham until the time of David: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah and his brothers Perez and Zerah whose mother was Tamar, Hezron, Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz whose mother was Rahab, Obed – Ruth's son, and Jesse the father of king David.7-11There were a further fourteen generations between the time of David until the exile in Babylon: David, Solomon whose mother was Bathsheba, Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon the father of Jeconiah and his brothers during the Babylonian exile.12-17And there were a further fourteen generations from the exile to the coming of the Christ, the Messiah, God's Son: Jeconiah, Shealtiel, Zerubbabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok, Akim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob the father of Joseph who was the husband of Mary, to whom Jesus the Christ was born.Joseph's dream18Now this is how the birth of Jesus took place: His mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they married they had no sexual union; Mary became pregnant through the activity of the Holy Spirit.19Being a righteous man, Joseph did not want Mary to be disgraced publicly, so he thought about releasing her quietly from her commitment to him.20After thinking about this Joseph had a dream in which an angel from the Lord appeared to him and said: "Joseph, son of David, there is nothing for you to fear. Take Mary home as your wife because she has conceived through the power of the Holy Spirit.21She will have a Son, whom you are to call Jesus, because He will save the people from their sins."22-23All this happened to fulfil what the Lord had spoken prophetically: "The virgin will become pregnant and will bear a Son who will be called Immanuel, meaning, 'God is with us.'"24When Joseph awoke he obeyed what the Lord's angel had told him to do and took Mary home as his wife.25But he had no sexual union with her before she gave birth to her Son. And Joseph named Him Jesus.
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