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1412. The Advantages of Companionship Today's Passage: Ecclesiastes 4:7-12 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 3rd strategy For Familiar Passages. Read Anew! Read the passage from Last to First! © RR&BC, LLC 2020 Sometimes we have read a passage of Scripture so many times we can't see it with new eyes. How can we change the passage without changing the meaning? What would we see if we take a passage and begin with the last verse and read the verses from for example: Read Chapter 3:10-1.
7. I observed yet another example of something meaningless under the sun. 8. This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and despressing. 9. Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other suceed. 10. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. 11. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? 12. A persons standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4: 7-12 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn 
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1411. Oppression Takes Place Under the Sun Today's Passage: Ecclesiastes 4:7-12 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 1st strategy From the Ancients - Lectio Divina
THIS STRATEGY IS AN AGE OLD STRATEGY - No one has a copyright on this - use it freely! It is wonderful! All other strategies, please contact the author at rrandbc@readthebiblewithrobyncox.com 1. Again, I observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them The oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless. 2. So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living. 3. But the most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun. 4. Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless — like chasing the wind. 5. "Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin." 6. And yet, "Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind." Ecclesiastes 4:1-6 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn 1410. The Injustices of Life Today's Passage: Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 9th strategy. Read and summarize each verse into as few words as you can. Goal 1 or 2 words.
16. I also noticed that under the sun there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt! 17. I said to myself, "In due season God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds." 18. I also thought about the human condition —how God proves to people that they are like animals. 19. For people and animals share the same fate — both breathe and both must die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless! 20. Both go to the same place — they came from dust and they return to dust. 21. or who can prove that the human spirit goes up and the spirit of animals goes down into the earth? 22. So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work.That is why we are here! No one will bring us back from death to enjoy life after we die. Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn 1409. A Time for Everything Today's Passage: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 2nd strategy Meditation in WORSHIP © RR&BC, LLC 2020
1. For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. 2. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. 3. A time to kill and time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up. 4. A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance. 5. A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones. A time to search and time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away. 7. A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be quiet and a time to speak. 8. A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace. 9. What do people really get for all their hard work? 10. I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. 11. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, poeple cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. 12. So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. 13. And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God. 14. And I know that whatever God does is final. nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God's purpose is that people should fear him. 15. What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again. Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 4.
Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn 1408. The LORD'S Compassion on Israel Today's Passage: Micah 7:14-20 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 19th strategy. Asking Questions about the Passage and Allowing this Passage to Change My Life. © RR&BC, LLC 2020
14. O LORD, protect your people with your shepherd's staff; lead your flock, your special possession. Though they live alone in a thicket on the heights of Mount Carmel, let them graze in the fertile pastures of Bashan and Gilead as they did long ago. 15. "Yes," says the LORD, "I will do mighty miracles for you, like those I did when I rescued you from slavery in Egypt." 16. All the nations of the world will stand amazed at what the LORD will do for you. They will be embarrassed at their feeble power. They will cover their mouths in silent awe, deaf to everything around them. 17. Like snakes crawling from their holes, they will come out to meet the LORD our God. They will fear him greatly, trembling in terror at his presence. 18. Where is another God like you, who pardons the guilt of the remnant, overlooking the sins of his special people? You will not stay angry with your people forever, because you delight in showing unfailing love. 19. Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean! 20. You will show us your faithfulness and unfailing love as you promised to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob long ago. Micah 7:14-20 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn 1407. Misery turned to Hope Today's Passage: Micah 7:1-13 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 19th strategy. Asking Questions about the Passage and Allowing this Passage to Change My Life. © RR&BC, LLC 2020
1. How miserable I am! I feel like the fruit picker after the harvest who can find nothing to eat. Not a cluster of grapes or a single early fig can be found to satisfy my hunger. 2. The godly people have all disappeared; not one honest person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, setting traps even for their own brothers. 3. Both their hands are equally skilled at doing evil! Officials and judges alike demand bribes. The people with influence get what they want, and togther they scheme to twist justice. 4. Even the best of them is like a brier, the most honest is as dangerous as a hedge of thorns. But your judgment day is coming swiftly now. Your time of punishment is here, a time of confusion. 5. Don't trust anyone — not your best friend or even your wife! 6. For the son despises his father. The daughter defies her mother. The daughter-in-law defies her mother-in-law. Your enemies are right in your own household! 7. As for me, I look to the LORD for help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me. 8. Do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though I fall, I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. 9. I will be patient as the LORD punishes me, for I have sinned against him But after that, he will take up my case and give me justice for all I have suffered from my enemies. The LORD will bring me into the light, and I will see his righteousness. 10. Then my enemies will see that the LORD is on my side. They will be ashamed that they taunted me, saying, "So where is the LORD — that God of yours?" With my own eyes I will see their downfall; they will be trampled like mud in the streets. 11. In that day, Israel, your cities will be rebuilt, and your borders will be extended. 12. People from many lands will come and honor you — from Assyria all the way to the towns of Egypt, from Egypt all the way to the Euphrates River, and from distant seas and mountains. 13. But the land will become empty and desolate beause of the wickedness of those who live there. Micah 7:1-13 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn 1406. The LORD'S Case Against Israel Today's Passage: Micah 6:9-16 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 1st strategy From the Ancients - Lectio Divina
THIS STRATEGY IS AN AGE OLD STRATEGY - No one has a copyright on this - use it freely! It is wonderful! All other strategies, please contact the author at rrandbc@readthebiblewithrobyncox.com 9. Fear the LORD If you are wise! His voice calls to everyone in Jerusalem: "The armies of destruction are coming; the LORD is sending them. 10. What shall I say about the homes of wicked filled with treasures gained by cheating? What about the disgusting practice of measuring out grain with dishonest measures? 11. How can I tolerate your merchants who use dishonest scales and weights? 12. The rich among you have become wealthy through extortion and violence. Your citizens are so used to lying that their tongues can no longer tell the truth. 13. "Therefore, I will wound you! I will bring you to ruin for all your sins. 14. You will eat but never have enough. Your hunger pangs and emptiness will remain. And though you try to save your money, it will come to nothing in the end. You will save a little, but I will give it to those who conquer you. 15. You will plant crops but not harvest them. You will press your olives but not get enough oil to anoint yourselves. You will trample the grapes but get no juice to make your wine. 16. You keep only the laws of evil King Omri; you follow only the example of wicked King Ahab! Therefore, I will make an example of you, bringing you to complete ruin. You will be treated with contempt, mocked by all who see you." Micah 6:9-6 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn 1405. The Lord's Case Against Israel Today's Passage: Micah 6:1-8 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 1st strategy From the Ancients - Lectio Divina
THIS STRATEGY IS AN AGE OLD STRATEGY - No one has a copyright on this - use it freely! It is wonderful! All other strategies, please contact the author at rrandbc@readthebiblewithrobyncox.com 1. Listen to what the LORD is saying: "Stand up and state your case againt me. Let the mountains and hills be called to witness your complaints. 2. And now, O mountains, listen to the LORD'S complaint! He has a case against his people. He will bring charges against his people. 3. "O my people, what have I done to you? What have I done to make you tired of me? Answer me.! 4. For I brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from slavery, I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to help you. 5. Don't you remember, my people, how king Balak of Moab tried to have you cursed and how Balaam son of Beor blessed you instead? And remember your journey from Acacia Grove to Gilgal, When I, the LORD, did everything I could to teach you about faithfulness." 6. What can we bring to the LORD? What kind of offerings should we give him? Should we bow before God with offerings of yearling calves? 7. Should we offer him thousands of rams and ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for our sins? 8. No, O people, the LORD has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:1-8 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn 1404. The Remnant Purified Today's Passage: Micah 5:7-15 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 2nd strategy Meditation in WORSHIP © RR&BC, LLC 2020
7. Then the remnant left in Israel will take their place among the nations. They will be like dew sent by the LORD or like rain falling on the grass, which no one can hold back and no one can restrain. 8. The remnant left in Israel will take their place among the nations. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a strong young lion among flocks of sheep and goats, pouncing and tearing as they go with no rescuer in sight. 9. The people of Israel will stand up to their foes, and all their enemies will be wiped out. 10 "In that day," says the LORD, "I will slaughter your horses and destroy your chariots. 11. I will tear down your walls and demolish your defenses. 12. I will put an end to all witchcraft, and there will be no more fortune-tellers. 13. I will destroy all your idols and sacred pillars, so you will never again worship the work of your own hands. 14. I will abolish your idol shrines with their Asherah poles and destroy your pagan cities. 15. I will pour out my vengeance on all the nations that refuse to obey me." Micah 5:7-15 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn 1403. Birth of the King in Bethlehem Today's Passage: Micah 5:1-6 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). 2. Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom. If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now. He knows it. You are forgiven. Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out. a prayer: Thank You for meeting me, LORD. I welcome you into this place. Please prepare my heart Jehovah. Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight. 3. 2nd strategy Meditation in WORSHIP © RR&BC, LLC 2020 God is able to speak to us through those words that we read and reread, as we think about what we have read and ponder those words infiltrate our minds and change us. They give us a better understanding of what God is saying in His word. Through that better understanding we begin to think differently, and our attitudes and lives change. Even our actions toward ourselves, others and the world change to be more Christlike. And isn't that what Christians desire? To be Christ like. To be Christ followers. To know God. With these precepts or tenets in place, let us begin with WORSHIP.
1. Mobilize! Marshal your troops! The enemy is laying siege to Jerusalem. They will strike Israel's leader in the face with a rod. 2. But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from the distant past. 3. The people of Israel will be abandoned to their enemies until the woman in labor gives birth. Then at last his fellow countrymen will return from exile to their own land. 4. And he will stand to lead his flock with the LORD'S strength, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. Then his people will live there undisturbed, for he will be highly honored around the world. 5. And he will be the source of peace. When the Assyrians invade our land and break through our defenses, we will appoint seven rulers to watch over us, eight princes will lead us. 6. They will rule Assyria with drawn swords and enter the gates of the land of Nimrod. He will rescue us from the Assyrians when they pour over the borders to invade our land. Micah 5:1-6 NLT 4. Thank God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for meeting you today. We, Robyn and Biff Thank you for coming today. Please leave your first name and last initial. Any comments even a period says you were here. Any response is a blessing to this community. And remember, You are prayed for every day at 8:00 am EST And I will be back here tomorrow, typing, reading, preparing, or commenting. I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn |
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