Read To Me Daily Semester 4Sample

NEHEMIAH 3-4:
After Nehemiah’s wonderful prayer for Jerusalem, more than three months went by before the king noticed him looking sad. He says he had never before looked sad in the king’s presence, so he must have waited. God must have been in the timing, because the king wonderfully agreed to help Nehemiah in every way. And the leaders in Jerusalem also were enthusiastic in their acceptance of his proposal to rebuild the walls.

ISAIAH 35:
Yesterday in Isaiah we heard how the land of Edom would become an eternal wasteland and a home for owls and other creatures. The land of Edom is in modern-day Jordan, and GoogleMap shows almost nothing green in that whole area.

PHILIPPIANS 3:
Yesterday in Philippians 2 we heard Paul’s wonderful poem of praise about Christ’s humility and subsequent exaltation to the highest place. 

And we heard this promise:

Php. 2:13 GNT because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.

Let’s pray.
Dear heavenly Father, how we thank You for the way Jesus left all his rights, reputation, and position in order to become a human, and then even gave himself for us on the cross. And we see Paul modeling Christ’s example by being willing for his “life’s blood to be poured out like an offering” for the sake of his spiritual children. So may we do the same. But we can’t do this on our own! By your Spirit please help us, Lord. We don’t shine like stars in this corrupt world because we are proud and selfish. Transform us as we gaze on Christ. May we consider our fellow believers as better than ourselves. May we share the same love and thoughts, and be one in soul and mind. May we look out for the interests of others above our own. Please transform and remove all those selfish motives that fuel our arguments. We thank You so much that in this chapter we again find the assurance that You “are always at work in” us, making us “willing and able to obey” your own purpose.