Monday, January 24, 2022
Daily Scripture & Questions
II Timothy 1-4 In this, his last letter, Paul powerfully challenges Timothy to follow his example: to not be ashamed of the gospel but to be willing to suffer for it (see 1:8 compared with 1:12). How does II Timothy 2:2 present a multiplication factor for Biblical teaching? Are you being a good soldier, athlete and farmer (see 2:3-7)? How does 2:19 hold the sovereignty of God and our responsibility in tension? Are you set apart to be wholly useful to the Master, ready for every good work (2:21)? What are we to avoid (2:16-23; 3:5)? In 3:10-16, Paul again tells Timothy to follow his example, specifically one that is in line with God's Word. How is the charge in 4:1-5 a consistent follow up to the previous paragraph? How does 4:6-22 betray the challenges and confidence Paul experienced at the end of his earthly life? Are you willing to suffer for the gospel? Are you confident in the Lord's ability to bring you safely home to His heavenly kingdom?
Family Devotions—Scripture & Questions
Read II Timothy 3:10-17. How does Paul use his life as an example for Timothy to follow? In what is Timothy to continue? What is so special about the inspired Scriptures? Do you understand what a treasure we have in God's Word, the Bible? How is the way that you treat it show that you know that it is a treasure?
Biblical Prayer Focus
Jeremiah 18:19-23 Hear me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of my adversaries. Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle. May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet. Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
Give your enemies to God in prayer. Don't seek your own vengeance.
II Timothy 1-4 In this, his last letter, Paul powerfully challenges Timothy to follow his example: to not be ashamed of the gospel but to be willing to suffer for it (see 1:8 compared with 1:12). How does II Timothy 2:2 present a multiplication factor for Biblical teaching? Are you being a good soldier, athlete and farmer (see 2:3-7)? How does 2:19 hold the sovereignty of God and our responsibility in tension? Are you set apart to be wholly useful to the Master, ready for every good work (2:21)? What are we to avoid (2:16-23; 3:5)? In 3:10-16, Paul again tells Timothy to follow his example, specifically one that is in line with God's Word. How is the charge in 4:1-5 a consistent follow up to the previous paragraph? How does 4:6-22 betray the challenges and confidence Paul experienced at the end of his earthly life? Are you willing to suffer for the gospel? Are you confident in the Lord's ability to bring you safely home to His heavenly kingdom?
Family Devotions—Scripture & Questions
Read II Timothy 3:10-17. How does Paul use his life as an example for Timothy to follow? In what is Timothy to continue? What is so special about the inspired Scriptures? Do you understand what a treasure we have in God's Word, the Bible? How is the way that you treat it show that you know that it is a treasure?
Biblical Prayer Focus
Jeremiah 18:19-23 Hear me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of my adversaries. Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle. May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet. Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
Give your enemies to God in prayer. Don't seek your own vengeance.
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