Daily Daniel etc in 2023

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Forgive our sins, as we forgive, You taught us, Lord, to pray; But you alone can grant us grace To live the words we say. How can your pardon reach and bless The unforgiving heart That broods on wrongs and will not let Old bitterness depart? In blazing light your cross reveals The truth we dimly knew: How trifling others’ debts to us; How great our debt to you! Lord, cleanse the depths within our souls And bid resentment cease; Then, by your mercy reconciled, Our lives will spread your peace.  Amen.   Ezra 8:31 –32 We set out from the Ahava River on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem. We were strengthened by our God, and he kept us from the grasp of the enemy and from ambush along the way. 32  So we arrived at Jerusalem and rested there for three days. Helpful notes on Ezra 8:31–32     For yourself pray: That for Jesus' sake God's hand is on you all ...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Forgive our sins, as we forgive, You taught us, Lord, to pray; But you alone can grant us grace To live the words we say. How can your pardon reach and bless The unforgiving heart That broods on wrongs and will not let Old bitterness depart? In blazing light your cross reveals The truth we dimly knew: How trifling others’ debts to us; How great our debt to you! Lord, cleanse the depths within our souls And bid resentment cease; Then, by your mercy reconciled, Our lives will spread your peace.  Amen.   Ezra 8:24 –30 I selected twelve of the leading priests, along with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers.  24  I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the articles-- the contribution for the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites who were present had offered. 26  I weighed out to them 24 tons of silver, silver...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Forgive our sins, as we forgive, You taught us, Lord, to pray; But you alone can grant us grace To live the words we say. How can your pardon reach and bless The unforgiving heart That broods on wrongs and will not let Old bitterness depart? In blazing light your cross reveals The truth we dimly knew: How trifling others’ debts to us; How great our debt to you! Lord, cleanse the depths within our souls And bid resentment cease; Then, by your mercy reconciled, Our lives will spread your peace.  Amen.   Ezra 8:21 –23 I proclaimed a fast by the Ahava River, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions. 22  I did this because I was ashamed to ask the king for infantry and cavalry to protect us from enemies during the journey, since we had told him, "The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek him,...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Forgive our sins, as we forgive, You taught us, Lord, to pray; But you alone can grant us grace To live the words we say. How can your pardon reach and bless The unforgiving heart That broods on wrongs and will not let Old bitterness depart? In blazing light your cross reveals The truth we dimly knew: How trifling others’ debts to us; How great our debt to you! Lord, cleanse the depths within our souls And bid resentment cease; Then, by your mercy reconciled, Our lives will spread your peace.  Amen.   Ezra 8:15 –20 I gathered them at the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I searched among the people and priests, but found no Levites there. 16  Then I summoned the leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, as well as the teachers Joiarib and Elnathan. 17  I sent them to Iddo, the leader at Casip...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Forgive our sins, as we forgive, You taught us, Lord, to pray; But you alone can grant us grace To live the words we say. How can your pardon reach and bless The unforgiving heart That broods on wrongs and will not let Old bitterness depart? In blazing light your cross reveals The truth we dimly knew: How trifling others’ debts to us; How great our debt to you! Lord, cleanse the depths within our souls And bid resentment cease; Then, by your mercy reconciled, Our lives will spread your peace.  Amen.   Ezra 8:1 –14 These are the family heads and the genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes: 2  Gershom, from Phinehas's descendants; Daniel, from Ithamar's descendants; Hattush, from David's descendants,  3  who was of Shecaniah's descendants; Zechariah, from Parosh's descendants, and 150 men with him who were regis...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: O Lord, you have in your pure grace  Made shine on us a Father’s face: Arise, your holy name make known;  Take up your power and reign alone; On earth, in us, let your pure will Be done as angels do it still.   O King and Father, kind and dread,  Give us this day our daily bread; Forgive us, who have learned to bless Our enemies, all trespasses; Spare us temptation; let us be From Satan set forever free.  Yours is the kingdom; unto you  We bow the knee in homage true. And yours the pow’r; no power is there  That stands against you anywhere. The glory yours; by every tongue Your praise shall be forever sung! Amen.   Ezra 7:27 –28 Blessed be the L ORD , the God of our fathers, who has put it into the king's mind to glorify the house of the L ORD in Jerusalem,  28  and who has shown favor to me before the king, his counselors, and all his powerfu...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: O Lord, you have in your pure grace  Made shine on us a Father’s face: Arise, your holy name make known;  Take up your power and reign alone; On earth, in us, let your pure will Be done as angels do it still.   O King and Father, kind and dread,  Give us this day our daily bread; Forgive us, who have learned to bless Our enemies, all trespasses; Spare us temptation; let us be From Satan set forever free.  Yours is the kingdom; unto you  We bow the knee in homage true. And yours the pow’r; no power is there  That stands against you anywhere. The glory yours; by every tongue Your praise shall be forever sung! Amen.   Ezra 7:21 –26 I, King Artaxerxes, issue a decree to all the treasurers in the region west of the Euphrates River: Whatever Ezra the priest, an expert in the law of the God of the heavens, asks of you must be provided in full, 22 up to 7,500 po...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: O Lord, you have in your pure grace  Made shine on us a Father’s face: Arise, your holy name make known;  Take up your power and reign alone; On earth, in us, let your pure will Be done as angels do it still.   O King and Father, kind and dread,  Give us this day our daily bread; Forgive us, who have learned to bless Our enemies, all trespasses; Spare us temptation; let us be From Satan set forever free.  Yours is the kingdom; unto you  We bow the knee in homage true. And yours the pow’r; no power is there  That stands against you anywhere. The glory yours; by every tongue Your praise shall be forever sung! Amen.   Ezra 7:11 –20 This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the L ORD 's commands and statutes for Israel:  12  Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, an expert in ...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: O Lord, you have in your pure grace  Made shine on us a Father’s face: Arise, your holy name make known;  Take up your power and reign alone; On earth, in us, let your pure will Be done as angels do it still.   O King and Father, kind and dread,  Give us this day our daily bread; Forgive us, who have learned to bless Our enemies, all trespasses; Spare us temptation; let us be From Satan set forever free.  Yours is the kingdom; unto you  We bow the knee in homage true. And yours the pow’r; no power is there  That stands against you anywhere. The glory yours; by every tongue Your praise shall be forever sung! Amen.   Ezra 7:8 – 10 Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, during the seventh year of the king. 9  He began the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month and arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month since the ...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: O Lord, you have in your pure grace  Made shine on us a Father’s face: Arise, your holy name make known;  Take up your power and reign alone; On earth, in us, let your pure will Be done as angels do it still.   O King and Father, kind and dread,  Give us this day our daily bread; Forgive us, who have learned to bless Our enemies, all trespasses; Spare us temptation; let us be From Satan set forever free.  Yours is the kingdom; unto you  We bow the knee in homage true. And yours the pow’r; no power is there  That stands against you anywhere. The glory yours; by every tongue Your praise shall be forever sung! Amen.   Ezra 7:1 –7 After these events, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra— Seraiah's son, Azariah's son, Hilkiah's son,  2  Shallum's son, Zadok's son, Ahitub's son, 3 Amariah's son, Azariah's son, Meraioth's son,  4 ...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Oh, bless the Lord, my soul! Let all within me join And aid my tongue to praise his name Whose favors are divine. Oh, bless the Lord, my soul,  Nor let his mercies lie Forgotten in unthankfulness And without praises die. ’Tis he forgives my sins; ’Tis he relieves my pain; ’Tis he that heals my sicknesses And makes me young again. He fills the poor with good; He gives the sufferers rest; The Lord has judgments for the proud And justice for the oppressed. His wondrous works and ways He made my by Moses known, But sent the world his truth and grace By his beloved Son.  Amen.   Proverbs 16:3 3 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the L ORD . Helpful notes on Proverbs 16:33  , a verse which summarizes one aspect of Esther well   For yourself pray: That God gives you peace over a difficult decision you have made For others pray: That God gives his Spi...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Oh, bless the Lord, my soul! Let all within me join And aid my tongue to praise his name Whose favors are divine. Oh, bless the Lord, my soul,  Nor let his mercies lie Forgotten in unthankfulness And without praises die. ’Tis he forgives my sins; ’Tis he relieves my pain; ’Tis he that heals my sicknesses And makes me young again. He fills the poor with good; He gives the sufferers rest; The Lord has judgments for the proud And justice for the oppressed. His wondrous works and ways He made my by Moses known, But sent the world his truth and grace By his beloved Son.  Amen.   Esther 10:1 –3 King Ahasuerus imposed a tax throughout the land even to the farthest shores.  2  All of his powerful and magnificent accomplishments and the detailed account of Mordecai's great rank with which the king had honored him, have they not been written in the Book of the Historical Events ...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Oh, bless the Lord, my soul! Let all within me join And aid my tongue to praise his name Whose favors are divine. Oh, bless the Lord, my soul,  Nor let his mercies lie Forgotten in unthankfulness And without praises die. ’Tis he forgives my sins; ’Tis he relieves my pain; ’Tis he that heals my sicknesses And makes me young again. He fills the poor with good; He gives the sufferers rest; The Lord has judgments for the proud And justice for the oppressed. His wondrous works and ways He made my by Moses known, But sent the world his truth and grace By his beloved Son.  Amen.   Esther 9:29 –32 Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote this second letter with full authority to confirm the letter about Purim. 30  He sent letters with assurances of peace and security to all the Jews who were in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,  31 ...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Oh, bless the Lord, my soul! Let all within me join And aid my tongue to praise his name Whose favors are divine. Oh, bless the Lord, my soul,  Nor let his mercies lie Forgotten in unthankfulness And without praises die. ’Tis he forgives my sins; ’Tis he relieves my pain; ’Tis he that heals my sicknesses And makes me young again. He fills the poor with good; He gives the sufferers rest; The Lord has judgments for the proud And justice for the oppressed. His wondrous works and ways He made my by Moses known, But sent the world his truth and grace By his beloved Son.  Amen.   Esther 9:23 –28 So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do.   24  For Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them. He cast the Pur — that is, the lot— to crush and destroy them. ...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Oh, bless the Lord, my soul! Let all within me join And aid my tongue to praise his name Whose favors are divine. Oh, bless the Lord, my soul,  Nor let his mercies lie Forgotten in unthankfulness And without praises die. ’Tis he forgives my sins; ’Tis he relieves my pain; ’Tis he that heals my sicknesses And makes me young again. He fills the poor with good; He gives the sufferers rest; The Lord has judgments for the proud And justice for the oppressed. His wondrous works and ways He made my by Moses known, But sent the world his truth and grace By his beloved Son.  Amen.   Esther 9:18 –22 But the Jews in Susa had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. They rested on the fifteenth day of the month, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing. 19  This explains why the rural Jews who live in villages observe the fourteenth day of the month of Ada...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Lord of all nations, grant me grace To love all people, every race, And in each person help me view My kindred loved, redeemed by you. Break down the wall that would divide Your children, Lord, on every side. My neighbor’s good let me pursue; Bind them to me and all to you. Forgive me, Lord, where I have erred By loveless act and thoughtless word. Make me to see the wrong I do Will hurt my neighbor, Lord, and you. Give me your courage, Lord, to speak Whenever strong oppress the weak. And should I be a victim, too, Help me forgive, remembering you. With your own love may I be filled And by your Holy Spirit willed, That all I touch, whate’er I do, May be divinely touched by you .  Amen.   Esther 9:11 –17 On that day the number of people killed in the fortress of Susa was reported to the king. 12  The king said to Queen Esther, "In the fortress of Susa the Jews have killed and dest...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Lord of all nations, grant me grace To love all people, every race, And in each person help me view My kindred loved, redeemed by you. Break down the wall that would divide Your children, Lord, on every side. My neighbor’s good let me pursue; Bind them to me and all to you. Forgive me, Lord, where I have erred By loveless act and thoughtless word. Make me to see the wrong I do Will hurt my neighbor, Lord, and you. Give me your courage, Lord, to speak Whenever strong oppress the weak. And should I be a victim, too, Help me forgive, remembering you. With your own love may I be filled And by your Holy Spirit willed, That all I touch, whate’er I do, May be divinely touched by you .  Amen.   Esther 9:5 –10 The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them. They did what they pleased to those who hated them. 6  In the fortress of Susa the Jews killed and destroy...