Read To Me Daily Semester 4Sample

HOSEA 11-12:
In yesterday’s reading in Hosea, as the Lord was pleading with Israel and using agricultural metaphors, He said,

Hos. 10:12 GNT I said, ‘Plow new ground for yourselves, plant righteousness, and reap the blessings that your devotion to me will produce. It is time for you to turn to me, your Lord, and I will come and pour out blessings upon you.’
13 But instead you planted evil and reaped its harvest. You have eaten the fruit produced by your lies.

PROVERBS 25a:
Here is today’s highlighted proverb:

Pro. 25:11 NLT Timely advice is lovely,
like golden apples in a silver basket.

MATTHEW 6b:
Yesterday in the Sermon on the Mount there was this three-times repeated emphasis: “Don’t be like the hypocrites.” And we heard the Lord’s prayer. The first line of the Lord’s prayer, ‘hallowed be Thy _name_’ can be taken as a metonymy for the person of the Father, not just his name. So I translate this famous verse like this: “Our Father in heaven, [may all people honor You as the Holy God//may You always and everywhere be regarded as holy].” Even so, we must bear in mind that God shows great concern for his name in the Old Testament— beginning in the Ten Commandments. If that phrase is translated with that in mind, it could also be translated, “May your name always be spoken with respect befitting your holiness.” Both ideas may be in view in that first line of the prayer.

Let’s pray.
Our Father in heaven, we praise You that You are the One who sees everything that happens in secret. Lord, may we not be listed among the hypocrites— those who just make a show of being your followers, but in secret, they are not. Lord one of the hardest things in Jesus’ prayer is that we must learn to forgive others when they wrong us. Help us to realize how much You have forgiven us. How can we NOT forgive others their little wrongs, when we have been forgiven of so much? So now, Lord Jesus, we will pray the prayer you taught us:

Our Father in heaven: May all people honor You as the Holy God.
May You come and set up your Kingdom on earth;
May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today the food we need.
Forgive us the wrongs we have done, as we forgive the wrongs that others have done to us.
Please do not bring us to hard testing.
Keep us safe from the Evil One.
For You alone rule over the Kingdom, and You forever possess all power and glory.