Day 96

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Today's Reading:1 Samuel 171 Samuel 181 Samuel 191 Samuel 20Psalm 59 I’m telling you, this is such a great book- it has everything from golden rear ends, talking donkeys, and David with a staff and slingshot. Goliath the Philistine was insulted seeing David was just a boy and asked...

Day 95

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Today's Reading:1 Samuel 131 Samuel 141 Samuel 151 Samuel 16 Happy Easter! Just as God delivered Jonathan from certain death through the merciful intervention of His people, Easter celebrates the ultimate deliverance- Jesus’ death for us, yet rising triumphantly so that we who trust Him...

Day 94

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Today's Reading:1 Samuel 91 Samuel 101 Samuel 111 Samuel 12 Benjamin was the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons and the smallest of the twelve tribes of Israel. Yet from this very tribe, God sovereignly raised up Saul to be anointed as Israel's first king, seating him at the head of the table as...

Day 93

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Today's Reading:1 Samuel 41 Samuel 51 Samuel 61 Samuel 71 Samuel 8 When Samuel set up the stone between Mizpah and Shen and called it Ebenezer- “Thus far the Lord has helped us” (1 Samuel 7:12), it wasn’t just a rock in the ground. It was a spiritual marker of gratitude. A...

Day 92

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Today's Reading:1 Samuel 11 Samuel 21 Samuel 3 Samuel, as a leader during the time of the Kings, was like Moses was to the Wilderness. This book, written by an unknown author, can be looked at like a sequel to the book of Judges (could be written by Samuel, Nathan, and/or Gad- 1 Chronicles...

Day 91

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Today's Reading: There is no reading today, but you can use this time to catch up on any days that you may have missed this week. Click here to access prior days.  Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a cubit long, which he strapped to his right thigh under his clothing.Judges...

Day 90

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Today's Reading:Ruth 1Ruth 2Ruth 3Ruth 4 In Ruth 2:12, Boaz blessed Ruth: “May the Lord… under whose wings you have come to take refuge!” The Hebrew word for “wings” here is kanaph- meaning not only a bird’s wing but also the edge or corner of a garment...

Day 89

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Today's Reading:Judges 19Judges 20Judges 21 Congratulations on another book of the “History” section completed (Joshua to Esther). The time of Judges is coming to an end with Samuel as the last judge, and we will now move into the kings where Israel is unified under one king and then...

Day 88

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Today's Reading:Judges 14Judges 15Judges 16Judges 17Judges 18 There is a difference between a judge and a prophet in the Bible. A judge was typically a military and civil leader. God raised up the judges from approximately 1200 to 1020 BC to deliver or rescue Israel from their enemies. The...

Day 87

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Today's Reading:Judges 10Judges 11Judges 12Judges 13 In Judges 13:8, Manoah does not assume he has life figured out. When the angel announced they would have a son, he prayed in anticipation of raising the boy. “I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to...