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Week 22

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Memory Verse: Psalm 119:89

Questions:  What message do the heavens declare?

Reading #1: Psalm 8

Questions:  According to verse 1, which attribute of God’s is set above the heavens?

Reading #2: Psalm 19

Questions:  According to verses 1-3, which 3 things do the heavens declare, proclaim, or reveal?

Reading #3: Psalm 50

Questions:  According to verse 6, which attribute of God’s do the heavens declare?

Reading #4: Psalm 97

Questions:  According to verse 6, which attribute of God’s do the heavens proclaim?

Psalms and Hymns

Psalm 8B “When I view the skies above which your own fingers made, When I see the moon and stars which you in order laid, What is man so frail and weak that you should remember him?  What can be the son of man that you should care for him?”

Psalm 19A “The spacious heavens declare the glory of our God;  The firmament displays His handiwork abroad.”

Praying Under the Same Sky

Qatar, Romania, Russia

Week 18

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Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 32:43

Reading #1:1 Chronicles 16:8-36
Questions: In verses 8-12 what 9 imperatives are given to God’s people? What indicatives, or reasons for the imperatives, are we given in verses 25, 26, and 34?

Reading #2: Psalm 96
Questions: In verses 1-10 what 10 imperatives are given to God’s people? In verses 11-13 what 5 imperatives are given to nature?

Reading #3: Psalm 148
Questions: What imperative is given to every element of creation? What indicatives, or reason for the imperatives, are given in verses 5 and 13?

Reading #4:Psalm 150
Questions: According to verses 3-5 what form of praise is being commanded? How might the heavens mentioned in verse 1 figure in to that form of praise?

Psalms and Hymns
Psalm 96A
Psalm 148

Praying Under the Same Sky

Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands

Week 14

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Memory Verse: Job 31:26-28

Reading #1: Exodus 32
Questions: What reasons do the Israelites (and Aaron) give for their idolatry in verses 1 and 21-25? According to verse 10, why was God intent on consuming the Israelites in His wrath? According to verses 12 and 13, what 2 reasons does Moses give for God to relent from His anger? How did Moses’ attitude change in verses 19 and 20 when he actually saw what was going on? What were the consequences of the Israelites’ idolatry?

Reading #2: Deuteronomy 4:15-40
Questions: In verse 20 and 24, what reasons does Moses give for the Lord’s warnings against idolatry? According to verses 25-27, what will be the consequence of the Israelites idolatry in the land they are going in to possess? According to verses 29-31, how will God use that painful discipline for their good?

Reading #3: Ezekiel 8
Questions: What sequence of abominations does Ezekiel witness in verses 5-6, 10-12, and 14-16? According to verse 18 what will the consequence of Judah’s idolatry be?

Reading #4: Acts 7
Questions: Which sin did God give His people over to in verse 42? How does Stephen’s intercessory prayer in verse 60 echo Moses’s in Exodus 32:11-14 and Christ’s in Luke 23:34?

Psalms and Hymns
At the Cross  “Well might the sun in darkness hide, and shut his glories in, when Christ, the mighty Maker, died for man the creature’s sin”
The Love of God  “The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell. It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell.”

Praying Under the Same Sky
Jamaica, Japan, and Kenya