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“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’ Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” 
Luke 15:8‭-‬10 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/luk.15.8-10.NKJV 
 
Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 
Romans 12:15 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/rom.12.15.NKJV 
 
Thought For the Day: How can I share in someone"s joy today? 
 
Prayer: Dear Lord, you have created us for each other. Help us to rejoice with those who are happy just as we weep with those who are sad. Amen. 
 
Prayer Focus: Those Who Are Experiencing Joy

“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’ Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Luke 15:8‭-‬10 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/luk.15.8-10.NKJV

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
Romans 12:15 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/rom.12.15.NKJV

Thought For the Day: How can I share in someone"s joy today?

Prayer: Dear Lord, you have created us for each other. Help us to rejoice with those who are happy just as we weep with those who are sad. Amen.

Prayer Focus: Those Who Are Experiencing Joy

The Upper Room| Luke 15:8-10 NKJV| Share My Joy| by: Thomas Blanton

And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” They immediately left their nets and followed Him. Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him. 
Matthew 4:18‭-‬22 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.4.18-22.NKJV 
 
☆ Saul was looking for his father's donkeys -- 1 Samuel 9:3,4 
☆ David was keeping his father's sheep -- 1 Samuel 17:34-37 
☆ The shepherd were guarding their flocks -- Luke 2:8-14 
☆ Amos was farming in Tekoa -- Amos 7:14 
☆ Matthew was working at the tax collector's table -- Matthew 9:9-13; Mark 2:13-17; Luke 5:27,28 
☆ Moses was tending his father-in-law's flock -- Exodus 3:1-3 
☆ Gideon was threshing wheat -- Judges 6:11

And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” They immediately left their nets and followed Him. Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.
Matthew 4:18‭-‬22 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.4.18-22.NKJV

☆ Saul was looking for his father's donkeys -- 1 Samuel 9:3,4
☆ David was keeping his father's sheep -- 1 Samuel 17:34-37
☆ The shepherd were guarding their flocks -- Luke 2:8-14
☆ Amos was farming in Tekoa -- Amos 7:14
☆ Matthew was working at the tax collector's table -- Matthew 9:9-13; Mark 2:13-17; Luke 5:27,28
☆ Moses was tending his father-in-law's flock -- Exodus 3:1-3
☆ Gideon was threshing wheat 

Matthew 4:18-22 NKJV| Four Fishermen Called as Disciples

“If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs. Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin among you. You shall surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand. For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’ 
Deuteronomy 15:7‭-‬11 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/deu.15.7-11.NKJV 
 
Verse of the Day!: And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 
Exodus 33:14 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/exo.33.14.NKJV 
 
Thoughts of the Day: If I ask, God will give me opportunities to show love to others. 
 
Prayer: Dear Lord, help us to be your hands and feet to the world around us. Amen.

“If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs. Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin among you. You shall surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand. For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’
Deuteronomy 15:7‭-‬11 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/deu.

The Upper Room| Tangible Acts Of Love| Deuteronomy 15:7-11 NKJV| by: Jami Gustafson

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 
Isaiah 53:1‭-‬5 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/isa.53.1-5.NKJV 
 
Thought for the Day: I will not let my circumstances define my relationship with God. 
 
Prayer: Heavenly Father, hear our cry. We pray that you will surround the oppressed, the downtrodden, and those sick in body and spirit with your comfort and your love. Amen. 
 
Prayer Focus: Surgeons

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:1‭-‬5 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/isa.53.1-5.NKJV

Thought for the Day: I will not let my circumstances define my relationship with God. 

Prayer: Heavenly Father, hear our cry. We pray that you will surround the oppressed, the downtrodden, and those sick in body and spirit with 

The Upper Room| God, Where Are You?| Isaiah 53: 1-5 NKJV| by Dean Gammons

Then they also brought infants to Him that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.” 
Luke 18:15‭-‬17 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/luk.18.15-17.NKJV 
 
Verse of The Day: 
Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. 
Proverbs 22:6 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.22.6.NKJV 
 
Thought For The Day: How can I encourage someone to seek the path that leads to God? 
 
Prayer: Dear God, thank You for people of faith who mentor children and provide opportunities for them to know you. Amen. 
 
Prayer Focus: Single- Parent Households

Then they also brought infants to Him that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.”
Luke 18:15‭-‬17 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/luk.18.15-17.NKJV

Verse of The Day:
Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.22.6.NKJV

Thought For The Day: How can I encourage someone to seek the path that leads to God?

Prayer: Dear God, thank You for people of faith who mentor children and provide opportunities for them to know you. Amen.

Prayer Focus: Single- Parent Households

The Upper Room Devotional| Luke 18:15-17 NKJV| A Steady Path| by: Gloria Amparo Valencia Riascos

And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar, as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor. Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim. And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews, to the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had prescribed for them, and as they had decreed for themselves and their descendants concerning matters of their fasting and lamenting. So the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written in the book. 
Esther 9:20‭-‬22‭, ‬29‭-‬32 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/est.9.20-32.NKJV 
 
Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain. If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.” Then the king’s scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded—to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the officials of all people, to every province according to its script, and to every people in their language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king’s signet ring. And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions. A copy of the document was to be issued as law in every province, being published for all people, that they should be ready for that day. 
Esther 3:8‭-‬9‭, ‬12‭-‬14 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/est.3.8-14.NKJV 
 
How do you react to instances where it seems like God is being "banished"? In what ways do you see Him today?

And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar, as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor. Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim. And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews, to the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had prescribed for them, and as they had decreed for themselves and their descendants concerning matters of their fast

Our Daily Bread| Uncommon Era| Esther 9:20-23, 29-32 NKJV| by: Tim Gustafson

Our Daily Breads 
 
Rediscovered 
Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. The king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the Levites, and all the people, great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord. Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. 
II Chronicles 34:29‭-‬31 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/2ch.34.29-31.NKJV 
 
Questions 
1. How did you come to know the Bible as a treasure? 
2. How have you grown in your understanding of it's great worth? 
 
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Lego Lessons 
 
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation, but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away. For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits. Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 
James 1:2‭-‬12 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/jas.1.2-12.NKJV 
 
Questions 
1. What trials are you facing these days? 
2. How can God help you live wholeheartedly for Him?

Our Daily Breads

Rediscovered 
Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. The king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the Levites, and all the people, great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord. Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
II Chronicles 34:29‭-‬31 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/2ch.34.29-31.NKJV

Questions
1. How did you come to know the Bible as a treasure?
2. How have you grown in your understanding of it's great worth?

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Lego Lessons 

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the t

Our Daily Breads| Rediscovered (2 Chron. 34:29-31| Lego Lessons (James 1:2-12)

Thought of the Day: What do I need to clean out of my heart to make more room for God? 
 
Prayer Focus: People who have lost their housing 
 
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? For a voice declares from Dan And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim: “Make mention to the nations, Yes, proclaim against Jerusalem, That watchers come from a far country And raise their voice against the cities of Judah. Like keepers of a field they are against her all around, Because she has been rebellious against Me,” says the Lord. “Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitter, Because it reaches to your heart.” 
Jeremiah 4:14‭-‬18 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/jer.4.14-18.NKJV

Thought of the Day: What do I need to clean out of my heart to make more room for God?

Prayer Focus: People who have lost their housing 

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? For a voice declares from Dan And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim: “Make mention to the nations, Yes, proclaim against Jerusalem, That watchers come from a far country And raise their voice against the cities of Judah. Like keepers of a field they are against her all around, Because she has been rebellious against Me,” says the Lord. “Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitter, Because it reaches to your heart.”
Jeremiah 4:14‭-‬18 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/jer.4.14-18.NKJV

The Upper Room Devotional| Spiritual Clutter| Jeremiah 4:14-18 NKJV| by Megan L. Anderson

Jeremiah 25:1‭-‬38 NKJV 
https://bible.com/bible/114/jer.25.1-38.NKJV 
 
Meaning of Jeremiah 25: 
25:1 The fourth year of Jehoiakim and the first of Nebuchadnezzar was 605 B.C. 
 
25:3-7 The people of Judah were not in trouble for lack of revelation and knowledge of the truth. In fact, God had been faithful to send them prophets to declare the truth. The problem was not lack of knowledge, but willful rebellion. The 13th year of Josiah (v.3) dated the beginning of Jeremiah's prophetic Ministry around 626 B.C. ( Jeremiah 1:2). 
 
25:11,12 The 70 years of Babylonian Exile lasted from approximately 605 to 538 B.C. Babylon, though the instrument of the Lord to accomplish His judgment against, Judah, was a pagan nation full of idolatry and sin and under divine condemnation. Babylon was conquered by Cyrus of Persia in 539 B.C. This message would have been a comfort to the remnant. 
 
25:15 The cup of fury symbolizes divine judgment. Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Habakkuk used similar terminology (Isaiah 51:17,21,22; Ezekiel 23:32-34; Habakkuk 2:16) 
 
25:15-38 God would judge not only Judah, but pagan nations as well. This passage anticipates the oracles against the nations (Jeremiah 46:1-51:64). God's judgment was focused on His people, who were His chief representatives to these nations. 
 
25:26 Sheshach is possibly a cipher or code name for Babylon written as an Atbash, a literary device which exchanges the letters of a name counted from the beginning of the alphabet for letters counted from the end.

Jeremiah 25:1‭-‬38 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/jer.25.1-38.NKJV

Meaning of Jeremiah 25:
25:1 The fourth year of Jehoiakim and the first of Nebuchadnezzar was 605 B.C.

25:3-7 The people of Judah were not in trouble for lack of revelation and knowledge of the truth. In fact, God had been faithful to send them prophets to declare the truth. The problem was not lack of knowledge, but willful rebellion. The 13th year of Josiah (v.3) dated the beginning of Jeremiah's prophetic Ministry around 626 B.C. ( Jeremiah 1:2).

25:11,12 The 70 years of Babylonian Exile lasted from approximately 605 to 538 B.C. Babylon, though the instrument of the Lord to accomplish His judgment against, Judah, was a pagan nation full of idolatry and sin and under divine condemnation. Babylon was conquered by Cyrus of Persia in 539 B.C. This message would have been a comfort to the remnant.

25:15 The cup of fury symbolizes divine judgment. Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Habakkuk used similar terminology (Isaiah 51:17,

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