Wednesday, September 27, 2023
28"And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 29Even
on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. 30I
will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows
of smoke. 31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. 32And
everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and
in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the
survivors whom the LORD calls.
Joel 3:1-3
1"In
those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and
Jerusalem, 2I will gather all nations and bring them down to the
Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning
my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the
nations and divided up my land. 3They cast lots for my people and
traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.
Psalm
84
1For the
director of music. According to [gittith.] Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. How
lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! 2My soul yearns,
even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the
living God. 3Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a
nest for herself, where she may have her young-- a place near your altar, O
LORD Almighty, my King and my God. 4Blessed are those who dwell in
your house; they are ever praising you. [Selah] 5Blessed are those
whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. 6As
they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the
autumn rains also cover it with pools. 7They go from strength to
strength, till each appears before God in Zion. 8Hear my prayer, O
LORD God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob. [Selah] 9Look upon
our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one. 10Better is
one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. 11For
the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good
thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. 12O LORD
Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
Romans
14:1–12
1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing
judgment on disputable matters. 2One man's faith allows him to eat
everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3The
man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who
does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted
him. 4Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master
he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5One man considers one day more sacred than another;
another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in
his own mind. 6He who regards one day as special, does so to the
Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he
who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none
of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8If
we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we
live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9For this very reason, Christ died and returned to
life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. 10You,
then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother?
For we will all stand before God's judgment seat. 11It is written:
" 'As surely as
I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee will bow before me; every tongue will
confess to God.' "
12So then, each of us will give an account of himself
to God.
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