daily reading 46.3 (Nehemiah 6:10–14)

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Our opening prayer for this week:

Jesus, your blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress.
Midst flaming worlds with these arrayed
With joy shall I lift up my head.

Bold shall I stand on that great day.
Who can a word against me say?
Fully through these absolved I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

Lord, I believe your precious blood, 
Which at the very throne of God
Forever will for sinners plead,
For me— e’en for my soul— was shed.

Lord, I believe were sinners more
Than sands upon the ocean shore,
You have for all a ransom paid,
For all a full atonement made.

When from the dust of death I rise
To claim your heavenly kingdom prize,
Then this shall be my only plea:
Jesus has lived and died for me.

Jesus, be worshiped endlessly!
Your boundless mercy has for me,
For me and all your hands have made,
An everlasting ransom paid. Amen.

 

Nehemiah 6:10–14

  • I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was restricted to his house. He said: Let's meet at the house of God, inside the temple. Let's shut the temple doors because they're coming to kill you. They're coming to kill you tonight!
  • 11 But I said, "Should a man like me run away? How can someone like me enter the temple and live? I will not go."
  • 12 I realized that God had not sent him, because of the prophecy he spoke against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 13 He was hired, so that I would be intimidated, do as he suggested, sin, and get a bad reputation, in order that they could discredit me.
  • 14 My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the other prophets who wanted to intimidate me.


























For yourself pray:

  • That God in Christ takes away your biggest fear

For others pray:

  • That God is patient in Christ with those you know struggling with shame when it comes to their sexual feelings and desires

A psalm to listen to and ponder, as time allows:

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