By Riqui Ricón*
… that the communication of thy
faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. (Philemon
1:6, KJV)
This verse
holds a wonderful secret: active
faith, effective faith,
reveals to you all the good that IS ALREADY inside you through Christ
Jesus. Pay close attention to how wonderful this is, because
once again, the Bible, the Word of God,
reveals to you that perfect
plan full of Love that only God could
conceive for you.
Let me explain:
Whosoever believeth
that Jesus is the Christ is born of God… (1 John 5:1, KJV)
Indeed, as the Scripture—the Bible,
which does not lie—says, when by faith you recognized Jesus Christ as your
Lord and Savior, you were born of
God. YOU WERE BORN AGAIN! And right here is where all the good inside you begins.
In yesterday's Bible reading,
we read that through Jesus we were regenerated and renewed, which means being made TOTALLY NEW. Not a simple touch-up or quick coat of paint, as they
say, but TOTALLY NEW.
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of
God, which liveth and abideth for ever. (1 Peter
1:23, KJV)
This wonderful miracle was made possible
thanks to God’s Love and because the seed used to make you a completely new person was nothing less than the infallible, unalterable, Eternal, and
perfect Word of God.
For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not
his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through
him might be saved. (John 3:16-17, KJV)
I cannot stop reminding you, time and again, that God loves you so much that He
preferred to give His own Son to pay for all your sins, rather
than lose you.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for
his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace
ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the
exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (Ephesians
2:4-7, KJV)
Think about it carefully: the Lord was not
going to give His own Son to rescue you from the slavery of sin and then leave
you with the same nature that had bound you as a slave.
Otherwise, Jesus' sacrifice
would have been illogical and useless. No, my beloved, God's
Plan for your life is as amazingly perfect
as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
When you believed
God, trusting His Word, and accepted Jesus Christ as the
Lord and Savior of your life, you stopped being a sinner destined for eternal
death and became a Born-Again Child of God. Just like Jesus!
Herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness
in the day of judgment:
because as he is, so are we in this world. (1 John
4:17, KJV)
Being a Born-Again Child of God means that you are now a new kind of being that didn't exist before, designed
and equipped by God to be more than a conqueror, so that you can establish the
Kingdom of Heaven on earth and demonstrate ALL THE GOOD that is in you through
Christ Jesus.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall
he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my
Father. (John 14:12, KJV)
Because of ALL the good that is already in you thanks to Christ
Jesus, you are called to do the same things He did and even greater ones,
because you and Jesus are now Children of the same Father.
Now then,
I just want to remind you
that it doesn't matter if
you don't feel or look that
way, because you walk by faith, not by sight [by trusting God, believing His
Word]. In other words, today or at this moment in your life, it doesn't matter
how you feel or see yourself; what truly matters is everything God says about you in His Word. For it is the Truth,
and besides, if God said it,
then He will fulfill it; if God spoke it, then He will perform it.
You are no longer a bad man or a bad woman,
nor an inveterate sinner. That is
what the devil WANTS YOU TO
KEEP BELIEVING. No! Not at all! In
honor of the Truth, you are who God SAYS you are:
See how much the Heavenly Father
loves us, that he allows us to be called children of God. And the most wonderful thing is that we truly are! Naturally, since most people do not know
God, they do not understand why we are. (1 John
3:1, NLT)
You are a beloved
Child of God. He Himself
calls you His own Child!
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new. (2
Corinthians 5:17, KJV)
You are a New creation.
Your entire past is buried,
and ahead of you, you have
not just a new life, but a completely new life. You have been created anew!
Realize that all this does not mean that you
somehow have to make yourself new, but that God has already done it out of Love
for you. He did it on the cross! He did it by declaring it with His Mouth and
putting it in writing in His Word, the Bible! He did it by rising
from the dead, defeating death purely out of Love for you!
Forasmuch then as the children are
partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself
likewise took part of the same; that through death he might
destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver
them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews
2:14-15, KJV)
Now you are Eternal. Death is defeated,
and you can live a Full Life completely
free from the fear of death.
Amazing, right?
So, no matter the illness, problem, or situation you might
be facing today,
you must know and believe that, through the Word of God, you will press forward with Victory in your hands. Heaven
and earth will pass away, but His Word will not pass away.
Today is the day; it is time for you to display
all the good that is in you. If you can believe, all things are
possible to him who believes!
… that the communication of thy
faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. (Philemon
1:6, KJV)
This verse
holds a wonderful secret: active
faith, effective faith,
reveals to you all the good that IS ALREADY inside you through Christ
Jesus. Pay close attention to how wonderful this is, because
once again, the Bible, the Word of God,
reveals to you that perfect
plan full of Love that only God could
conceive for you.
Let me explain:
Whosoever believeth
that Jesus is the Christ is born of God… (1 John 5:1, KJV)
Indeed, as the Scripture—the Bible,
which does not lie—says, when by faith you recognized Jesus Christ as your
Lord and Savior, you were born of
God. YOU WERE BORN AGAIN! And right here is where all the good inside you begins.
In yesterday's Bible reading,
we read that through Jesus we were regenerated and renewed, which means being made TOTALLY NEW. Not a simple touch-up or quick coat of paint, as they
say, but TOTALLY NEW.
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of
God, which liveth and abideth for ever. (1 Peter
1:23, KJV)
This wonderful miracle was made possible
thanks to God’s Love and because the seed used to make you a completely new person was nothing less than the infallible, unalterable, Eternal, and
perfect Word of God.
For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not
his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through
him might be saved. (John 3:16-17, KJV)
I cannot stop reminding you, time and again, that God loves you so much that He
preferred to give His own Son to pay for all your sins, rather
than lose you.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for
his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace
ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the
exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (Ephesians
2:4-7, KJV)
Think about it carefully: the Lord was not
going to give His own Son to rescue you from the slavery of sin and then leave
you with the same nature that had bound you as a slave.
Otherwise, Jesus' sacrifice
would have been illogical and useless. No, my beloved, God's
Plan for your life is as amazingly perfect
as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
When you believed
God, trusting His Word, and accepted Jesus Christ as the
Lord and Savior of your life, you stopped being a sinner destined for eternal
death and became a Born-Again Child of God. Just like Jesus!
Herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness
in the day of judgment:
because as he is, so are we in this world. (1 John
4:17, KJV)
Being a Born-Again Child of God means that you are now a new kind of being that didn't exist before, designed
and equipped by God to be more than a conqueror, so that you can establish the
Kingdom of Heaven on earth and demonstrate ALL THE GOOD that is in you through
Christ Jesus.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall
he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my
Father. (John 14:12, KJV)
Because of ALL the good that is already in you thanks to Christ
Jesus, you are called to do the same things He did and even greater ones,
because you and Jesus are now Children of the same Father.
Now then,
I just want to remind you
that it doesn't matter if
you don't feel or look that
way, because you walk by faith, not by sight [by trusting God, believing His
Word]. In other words, today or at this moment in your life, it doesn't matter
how you feel or see yourself; what truly matters is everything God says about you in His Word. For it is the Truth,
and besides, if God said it,
then He will fulfill it; if God spoke it, then He will perform it.
You are no longer a bad man or a bad woman,
nor an inveterate sinner. That is
what the devil WANTS YOU TO
KEEP BELIEVING. No! Not at all! In
honor of the Truth, you are who God SAYS you are:
See how much the Heavenly Father
loves us, that he allows us to be called children of God. And the most wonderful thing is that we truly are! Naturally, since most people do not know
God, they do not understand why we are. (1 John
3:1, NLT)
You are a beloved
Child of God. He Himself
calls you His own Child!
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new. (2
Corinthians 5:17, KJV)
You are a New creation.
Your entire past is buried,
and ahead of you, you have
not just a new life, but a completely new life. You have been created anew!
Realize that all this does not mean that you
somehow have to make yourself new, but that God has already done it out of Love
for you. He did it on the cross! He did it by declaring it with His Mouth and
putting it in writing in His Word, the Bible! He did it by rising
from the dead, defeating death purely out of Love for you!
Forasmuch then as the children are
partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself
likewise took part of the same; that through death he might
destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver
them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews
2:14-15, KJV)
Now you are Eternal. Death is defeated,
and you can live a Full Life completely
free from the fear of death.
Amazing, right?
So, no matter the illness, problem, or situation you might
be facing today,
you must know and believe that, through the Word of God, you will press forward with Victory in your hands. Heaven
and earth will pass away, but His Word will not pass away.
Today is the day; it is time for you to display
all the good that is in you. If you can believe, all things are
possible to him who believes!
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved heavenly Father,
with each passing day I understand more and more of Your great and infinite Love for me. Lord Jesus,
I am truly amazed by You as I
come to understand the scope of what You did for me on the cross. What shall I
say to this, then? If You are for me, who can be against me? Father, You did
not spare even Your own Son, but delivered Him up out of Love for me; how will
You not also with Him freely give me all things? Who will bring any charge
against me if I am chosen by God? It is God who justifies me. Who will condemn
me? Christ, You died and paid the price for ALL my sins out of Love for me;
even more, You also rose again to give me this new life—eternal, full, and
abundant life. Furthermore, You, Jesus, are at the right hand of the Father
interceding for me. Who shall separate me from the love of Christ? Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword? As it is written: For Your sake I am killed all the day long; I am
accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things I, (your name here),
am more than a conqueror
through Him who loved me. For I am persuaded that neither death nor
life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things
to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other
created thing, shall be able to separate
me from Your Love, O God, which is in Christ Jesus my Lord and
Savior. I am ready to believe, receive, and live this eternal, full, and absolute Truth that You, Jesus Christ,
bought for me.
Therefore, I believe
and declare that the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of
sin and death. I have not
received the spirit of bondage to
fear again, but I have received the Spirit of adoption, and today I
can cry out, Abba, Father!
I am healed! I am free! I am prosperous! I am blessed! I am a
Child of God! In Jesus' name. Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Beloved heavenly Father,
with each passing day I understand more and more of Your great and infinite Love for me. Lord Jesus,
I am truly amazed by You as I
come to understand the scope of what You did for me on the cross. What shall I
say to this, then? If You are for me, who can be against me? Father, You did
not spare even Your own Son, but delivered Him up out of Love for me; how will
You not also with Him freely give me all things? Who will bring any charge
against me if I am chosen by God? It is God who justifies me. Who will condemn
me? Christ, You died and paid the price for ALL my sins out of Love for me;
even more, You also rose again to give me this new life—eternal, full, and
abundant life. Furthermore, You, Jesus, are at the right hand of the Father
interceding for me. Who shall separate me from the love of Christ? Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword? As it is written: For Your sake I am killed all the day long; I am
accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things I, (your name here),
am more than a conqueror
through Him who loved me. For I am persuaded that neither death nor
life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things
to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other
created thing, shall be able to separate
me from Your Love, O God, which is in Christ Jesus my Lord and
Savior. I am ready to believe, receive, and live this eternal, full, and absolute Truth that You, Jesus Christ,
bought for me.
Therefore, I believe
and declare that the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of
sin and death. I have not
received the spirit of bondage to
fear again, but I have received the Spirit of adoption, and today I
can cry out, Abba, Father!
I am healed! I am free! I am prosperous! I am blessed! I am a
Child of God! In Jesus' name. Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You
will notice that the program
is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You
will notice that the program
is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily
readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the entire Bible.
Do these daily
readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the entire Bible.
November 12 Philemon / Jeremiah
19-20 / Psalm 128
Philemon
1 Paul, a prisoner
of Jesus Christ,
and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
2 And to our beloved Apphia,
and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my
prayers,
5 Hearing
of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward
the Lord Jesus,
and toward all saints;
6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the
acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the
saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is
convenient,
9 Yet for love's
sake I rather beseech thee,
being such an one as Paul the aged,
and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
11 Which
in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore
receive him, that is, mine own
bowels:
13 Whom I would have retained
with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of
the gospel:
14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit
should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
15 For perhaps he therefore departed
for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
16 Not now as a servant,
but above a servant, a brother beloved,
specially to me, but how much
more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
17 If thou count me therefore
a partner, receive
him as myself.
18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth
thee ought, put that on mine account;
19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand,
I will repay it: albeit
I do not say to thee how
thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord:
refresh my bowels in the Lord.
21 Having
confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing
that thou wilt also do more
than I say.
22 But withal prepare
me also a lodging: for I trust
that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;
24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas,
Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with your spirit. Amen.
Jeremiah
19 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen
bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the
ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom,
which is by the entry of
the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3 And say,
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his
ears shall tingle.
4 Because
they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense
in it unto other gods, whom neither
they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and
have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have
built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings
unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither
came it into my mind:
6 Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place
shall no more be called
Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom,
but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I
will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will
cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases
will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of
the earth.
8 And I will make this city desolate,
and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and
hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will
cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies,
and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt
say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one
breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet,
till there be no place to
bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place,
saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as
Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be
defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they
have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink
offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came
Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to
prophesy; and he stood in the court
of the LORD's house; and said to all the people,
15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the
evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened
their necks, that they might not hear my words.
20 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor
in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were
in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
3 And it
came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah
unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name
Pashur, but Magormissabib.
4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by
the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all
Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive
into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
5 Moreover
I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours
thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of
the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall
spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
6 And thou, Pashur,
and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and
shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied
lies.
7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived;
thou art stronger
than I, and hast prevailed: I
am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because
the word of the LORD was
made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in
his name. But his word was in mine heart
as a burning fire shut up in my bones,
and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
10 For I
heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched
for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we
shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors
shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for
they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
12 But, O LORD of hosts,
that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the
heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the
poor from the hand of evildoers.
14 Cursed
be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother
bare me be blessed.
15 Cursed
be the man who brought
tidings to my father, saying,
A man child is born unto
thee; making him very glad.
16 And let that man be as the cities which the
LORD
overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in
the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might
have been my grave, and her
womb to be always great with me.
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my
days should be consumed with shame?
Psalm
128 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh
in his ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall
be well with thee.
Philemon
1 Paul, a prisoner
of Jesus Christ,
and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
2 And to our beloved Apphia,
and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my
prayers,
5 Hearing
of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward
the Lord Jesus,
and toward all saints;
6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the
acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the
saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is
convenient,
9 Yet for love's
sake I rather beseech thee,
being such an one as Paul the aged,
and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
11 Which
in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore
receive him, that is, mine own
bowels:
13 Whom I would have retained
with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of
the gospel:
14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit
should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
15 For perhaps he therefore departed
for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
16 Not now as a servant,
but above a servant, a brother beloved,
specially to me, but how much
more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
17 If thou count me therefore
a partner, receive
him as myself.
18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth
thee ought, put that on mine account;
19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand,
I will repay it: albeit
I do not say to thee how
thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord:
refresh my bowels in the Lord.
21 Having
confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing
that thou wilt also do more
than I say.
22 But withal prepare
me also a lodging: for I trust
that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;
24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas,
Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with your spirit. Amen.
Jeremiah
19 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen
bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the
ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom,
which is by the entry of
the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3 And say,
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his
ears shall tingle.
4 Because
they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense
in it unto other gods, whom neither
they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and
have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have
built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings
unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither
came it into my mind:
6 Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place
shall no more be called
Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom,
but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I
will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will
cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases
will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of
the earth.
8 And I will make this city desolate,
and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and
hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will
cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies,
and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt
say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one
breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet,
till there be no place to
bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place,
saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as
Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be
defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they
have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink
offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came
Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to
prophesy; and he stood in the court
of the LORD's house; and said to all the people,
15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the
evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened
their necks, that they might not hear my words.
20 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor
in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were
in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
3 And it
came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah
unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name
Pashur, but Magormissabib.
4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by
the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all
Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive
into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
5 Moreover
I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours
thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of
the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall
spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
6 And thou, Pashur,
and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and
shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied
lies.
7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived;
thou art stronger
than I, and hast prevailed: I
am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because
the word of the LORD was
made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in
his name. But his word was in mine heart
as a burning fire shut up in my bones,
and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
10 For I
heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched
for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we
shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors
shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for
they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
12 But, O LORD of hosts,
that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the
heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the
poor from the hand of evildoers.
14 Cursed
be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother
bare me be blessed.
15 Cursed
be the man who brought
tidings to my father, saying,
A man child is born unto
thee; making him very glad.
16 And let that man be as the cities which the
LORD
overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in
the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might
have been my grave, and her
womb to be always great with me.
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my
days should be consumed with shame?
Psalm
128 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh
in his ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall
be well with thee.
3 Thy wife shall
be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house:
thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
4 Behold,
that thus shall the man be blessed
that feareth the LORD.
5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon
Israel.
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