The Tuesday Lectionary Group invites you to share some of your favorite scriptures, which we will then share with all members.
Please email them to:
maryann13fenstermacher@gmail.com.
Psalm 146:3-9 Don't trust leaders; don't trust any human beings—there's no saving help with them! Their breath leaves them, then they go back to the ground. On that very same day, their plans die too. The person whose help is the God of Jacob—the person whose hope rests on the Lord their God—is truly happy! God: the maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, God: who is faithful forever, who gives justice to people who are oppressed, who gives bread to people who are starving! The Lord: who frees prisoners. The Lord: who makes the blind see. The Lord: who straightens up those who are bent low. The Lord: who loves the righteous. The Lord: who protects immigrants, who helps orphans and widows, but who makes the way of the wicked twist and turn!
Isaiah 45:18-25 For this is what the Lord said, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who established it, who didn't create it a wasteland but formed it as a habitation: I, the Lord, and no other! I didn't speak in secret or in some land of darkness; I didn't say to the offspring of Jacob, “Seek me in chaos.” I am the Lord, the one who speaks truth, who announces what is correct. Gather and come, draw near together, fugitives of the nations!
Those who carry their wooden idols don't know; those who pray to a god who won't save. Announce! Approach! Confer together! Who proclaimed this from the beginning, announced it from long ago? Wasn't it I, the Lord? There's no other God except me, a righteous God and a savior; there's none besides me! Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth, for I am God, and there's no other. I have sworn a solemn pledge; a word has left my mouth; it is reliable and won't fail. Surely every knee will bow and every tongue confess; they will say, “Righteousness and strength come only from the Lord. All who are angry with him will come to shame. All the Israelites will be victorious and rejoice.”
Mark 5:15-20 They came to Jesus and saw the man who used to be demon-possessed. They saw the very man who had been filled with many demons sitting there fully dressed and completely sane, and they were filled with awe. Those who had actually seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man told the others about the pigs. Then they pleaded with Jesus to leave their region. While he was climbing into the boat, the one who had been demon-possessed pleaded with Jesus to let him come along as one of his disciples. But Jesus wouldn't allow it. “Go home to your own people,” Jesus said, “and tell them what the Lord has done for you and how he has shown you mercy.” Then the man went away and began to proclaim in the Ten Cities all that Jesus had done for him, and everyone was amazed.
Ephesians 6:18-20 Offer prayers and petitions in the Spirit all the time. Stay alert by hanging in there and praying for all believers. As for me, pray that when I open my mouth, I'll get a message that confidently makes this secret plan of the gospel known. I'm an ambassador in chains for the sake of the gospel. Pray so that the Lord will give me the confidence to say what I have to say.
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