July 10th Bible Reading: John 4-6

July 9th Bible Reading: John 1-3

July 8th Bible Reading: Luke 22-24

John Bunyan, author of the classic Pilgrim’s Progress, wrote in the cover of his Bible, 

“Either this book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.” 

July 7th Bible Reading: Luke 19-21

Luke 19:41-42

And when He drew near and saw the city, He wept over it saying, "Would that even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes!"

This passage really struck me because earlier today my pastor sermon on what we should we pray for. Though he was using verses from Ephesians, this verse references a similar idea, the idea of God hiding and reveling that which is unknown.

In his letter, Paul was praying that the Ephesian Christians would receive revelation in the knowledge of God. He was not only praying this for the unsaved, but the believers as well.

Spiritual truth is not perceived by the physical senses, though it may feel that way, but in the spiritual realm. We need to be diligently and fervently praying that the Lord continues to speak to us though His Word, because without Him giving us revelation we fall back into the motions of reading the Bible, and attempting to sanctify ourselves.

That is my prayer for you, my friends, as well as myself. That the Lord would continually open our eyes!

July 6th Bible Reading: Luke 16-18

July 5th Bible Reading: Luke 13-15

The first commandment is to love the Lord you God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

And the second is to love your neighbor as yourself.
(Mark 12)

Luke 14:26

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

Jesus is calling us to be willing to be willing to give up everything to follow Him. Look at the lives of the disciples. Most of them left their family's, devoted their lives to His service, and at the end, gave up their lives. God may not ask us to give up these things, or He may, but are we willing ?

July 4th Bible Reading: Luke 10-12

Prayer is such a privileged. It glorifies and pleases God, as well as brings us to a point of humility and a deeper relationship with Him. I encourage you not to forget to whom you are praying to, or to underestimate what He can do when it is within His will. 

Luke 11:13
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!

Today, being the 4th of July, I just want to ask you to take a few minutes out of your celebrating to pray for this country and its leaders, who God has put in authority. 

I was really blessed by this testimony to the power of prayer, and I pray you will be too:


President Lincoln's Prayer Before Gettysburg


"…oppressed by the gravity of our affairs, I went to my room one day and locked the door and got down on my knees before almighty God and prayed to Him mightily for victory at Gettysburg. I told Him that this war was His, and our cause His cause, but we could not stand another Fredricksburg or Chancellorsville. Then and there I made a solemn vow to almighty God that if He would stand by our boys at Gettysburg, I would stand by Him. And after that, I don't know how it was, and I cannot explain it, soon a sweet comfort crept into my soul. The feeling came that God had taken the whole business into His own hands, and that things would go right at Gettysburg…"

Gettysburg was won by the Union forces on July 3, 1863, and is often considered a major turning point in the war.