All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy : 3 : 14 - 16
Readings this week : Jeremiah 31 : 7- 9; Hebrews 7 : 23 - end; Mark 10 : 46 - end
Thought for this week
I wonder how many words we have heard this week? I wonder how many words fill our lives each day, and how many are words that build us or help us grow?
Today is Bible Sunday as we give thanks for the Lord’s gift to us of the Bible. Smuggled, supressed, translated into nearly every language on earth, transmitted, spoken from space, taken to the remotest places, opened to the very young and remembered by the very old, God’s Word fills this world with the life of the Holy Spirit and the love of the Father in the person of Jesus.
As a young man I carried a Bible in my rucksack wherever I went – yet I never opened it. It was only when I began reading the Gospels that I began to realise who Jesus is. The Bible opened for me the truth about this world and the truth of who I am, loved by God.
You may read your Bible every day. You may open it sometimes. You may not have a Bible you can read. The Bible is God’s gift to us to learn of His love and grow as the people He wants us to be.
Can you share with someone today something you have read? Can you open this gift to you every day?
Rev Paul
Prayer for this week
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: help us so to hear them, to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them that, through patience, and the comfort of your holy word, we may embrace and for ever hold fast the hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen
The Lord hears his people when they call to him for help.
He rescues them from all their troubles.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted;
He rescues those who are crushed in spirit.
The Lord will redeem those who serve him.
Everyone who trusts in him will be freely pardoned.
~ Psalm 34:17-18, 22 NLT translation
People to pray for
Nations where Bibles are in short supply
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