Wednesday Bible Readings
october 9th, 2024
From The Bible
I Kings 19:11 Go (to 4th ,), 11 a, 12
... Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, ... a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Isa. 59:19 When
... When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
Ps. 69:13 2nd O (to 5th ,), 14 (to 1st ,), 14 2nd and, 15 (to 2nd ,)
... O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, ...
Deliver me out of the mire, ... and out of the deep waters. Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, ...Gen. 6:13 (to 1st ,), 17 behold (to 5th ,), 18 (to ;)
And God said unto Noah, ...
behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, ...
But with thee will I establish my covenant; ...Ps. 107:15, 20, 29, 30 so
Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! ...
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. ...
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
... so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.Mark 1:9 it (to 2nd ,), 34 (to ;); 3:7 (to :)
... it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, ...
And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; ...
But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: ...Mark 4:37–40 (to ,), 40 how, 41 (to they), 41 said
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, ... how is it that ye have no faith? And they ... said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
Matt. 24:1 (to ,), 1 3rd and, 2 (to 1st ,), 2 verily, 3 2nd the (to 1st ?), 4 (to ,), 6 see (to ,), 7, 11, 34, 37, 42, 43
And Jesus went out, ... and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, ... verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
... the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? ...
And Jesus answered and said unto them, ... see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, ...
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. … And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. ...
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. ...
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ...
... ¶ Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.Luke 21:36 (to 3rd ,)
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, ...
I John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Eph. 5:14 Awake
... Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Rev. 3:2 (to 1st ,)
Be watchful, ...
Rev. 12:7 (to :), 15, 16 (to 1st ,), 16 3rd and
And there was war in heaven: … And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, ... and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Rev. 12:10 (to :)
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: ...
Rev. 19:6 Alleluia
... Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
SH 1:-1
Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him. — Christ Jesus.
SH vii:1–2
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.
SH 454:5–7 (to 2nd ,)
The understanding, even in a degree, of the divine All-power destroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path, ...
SH 254:10–12
When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path.
SH 180:27
The only way to this living Truth, which heals the sick, is found in the Science of divine Mind as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus.
SH 162:9
The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.
SH 275:20
Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understanding, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — that is, all power, all presence, all Science. Hence all is in reality the manifestation of Mind.
SH 122:1–7
The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the real Science of being, and so creates a reign of discord, — assigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and death; but the great facts of Life, rightly understood, defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false witnesses, and reveal the kingdom of heaven, — the actual reign of harmony on earth.
SH 494:19
Reason, rightly directed, serves to correct the errors of corporeal sense; but sin, sickness, and death will seem real (even as the experiences of the sleeping dream seem real) until the Science of man’s eternal harmony breaks their illusion with the unbroken reality of scientific being.
SH 96:12–13, 15
This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. ... The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears. These disturbances will continue until the end of error, when all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth.
SH 288:3
The suppositional warfare between truth and error is only the mental conflict between the evidence of the spiritual senses and the testimony of the material senses, and this warfare between the Spirit and flesh will settle all questions through faith in and the understanding of divine Love.
SH 118:26
The definitions of material law, as given by natural science, represent a kingdom necessarily divided against itself, because these definitions portray law as physical, not spiritual. Therefore they contradict the divine decrees and violate the law of Love, in which nature and God are one and the natural order of heaven comes down to earth.
SH 293:13–16, 21
The material so-called gases and forces are counterfeits of the spiritual forces of divine Mind, whose potency is Truth, whose attraction is Love, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the eternal facts of being. ...
There is no vapid fury of mortal mind — expressed in earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity — and this so-called mind is self-destroyed. The manifestations of evil, which counterfeit divine justice, are called in the Scriptures, “The anger of the Lord.” In reality, they show the self-destruction of error or matter and point to matter’s opposite, the strength and permanency of Spirit. Christian Science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil.SH 369:5
In proportion as matter loses to human sense all entity as man, in that proportion does man become its master. He enters into a diviner sense of the facts, and comprehends the theology of Jesus as demonstrated in healing the sick, raising the dead, and walking over the wave. All these deeds manifested Jesus’ control over the belief that matter is substance, that it can be the arbiter of life or the constructor of any form of existence.
SH 149:29–31
We need to understand the affirmations of divine Science, dismiss superstition, and demonstrate truth according to Christ.
SH 182:32–4
The law of Christ, or Truth, makes all things possible to Spirit; but the so-called laws of matter would render Spirit of no avail, and demand obedience to materialistic codes, thus departing from the basis of one God, one lawmaker.
SH 97:7–13
According to human belief, the lightning is fierce and the electric current swift, yet in Christian Science the flight of one and the blow of the other will become harmless. The more destructive matter becomes, the more its nothingness will appear, until matter reaches its mortal zenith in illusion and forever disappears.
SH 480:1–2, 3–5 the
When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Science, the nothingness of matter is recognized. ... the spirit of God is, and there is no place where God is not, evil becomes nothing, — the opposite of the something of Spirit.
SH 592:22 (only, to .), 22 knowledge
Noah. ... knowledge of the nothingness of material things and of the immortality of all that is spiritual.
SH 264:20–21
Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being. Matter disappears under the microscope of Spirit.
SH 450:19–22
The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good.
SH 568:13–15 (to :); 569:3
Revelation xii. 10–12. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: ...
... Every mortal at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God.SH 567:18–21 (to ,), 21–23 and
That false claim — that ancient belief, that old serpent whose name is devil (evil), claiming that there is intelligence in matter either to benefit or to injure men — is pure delusion, ... and it is cast out by Christ, Truth, the spiritual idea, and so proved to be powerless.
SH 570:8–11 (to 1st ,), 11 2nd and, 18–21, 24
Revelation xii. 15, 16. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood, after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, ... and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
... What if the old dragon should send forth a new flood to drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the deep waters of chaos and old night. ... The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the wave.Hymn. 183
Make haste, O man, to do / Whatever must be done; / Thou hast no time to lose in sloth, / When all to Truth must come.
The useful and the great, / The thing that never dies, / The silent toil that is not lost,— / Set these before thine eyes.
Up, face the task and work; / Fling ease and self away; / This is no time for thee to sleep; / Up, watch, and work, and pray.
Words: Horatius Bonar, adapted
Music: Mason and Webb’s Cantica Laudis, 1850
Hymn. 539
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power; / O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour, / Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight! / Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye / Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall: / His habitation high is here, and nigh, / His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear, / For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! / Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear / No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing; / In that sweet secret of the narrow way, / Seeking and finding, with the angels sing: / “Lo, I am with you alway,”—watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain; / No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain, / And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.Words: Mary Baker Eddy
Music: Lisa Redfern; arr. CSPS
Hymn. 10
All power is given unto our Lord, / On Him we place reliance; / With truth from out His sacred word / We bid our foes defiance. / With Him we shall prevail, / Whatever may assail; / He is our shield and tower, / Almighty is His power; / His kingdom is forever.
Rejoice, ye people, praise His name, / His care doth e’er surround us. / His love to error’s thralldom came, / And from its chains unbound us. / Our Lord is God alone, / No other power we own; / No other voice we heed, / No other help we need; / His kingdom is forever.
O then give thanks to God on high, / Who life to all is giving; / The hosts of death before Him fly, / In Him we all are living. / Then let us know no fear, / Our King is ever near; / Our stay and fortress strong, / Our strength, our hope, our song; / His kingdom is forever.Words: Frederic W. Root based on hymn by Martin Luther
Music: Martin Luther
