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Day 1 - Lord's Day 1 - Lord's Day | Sunday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

  Morning, May 11 Go To Evening Reading “I am with you alway.” —Matthew 28:20 There is one who is ever the same, and who is ever with us. There is one stable rock amidst the billows of the sea of life. O my soul, set not thine affections upon rusting, moth-eaten, decaying treasures, but set thine heart upon him who abides for ever faithful to thee. Build not thine house upon the moving quicksands of a deceitful world, but find thy hopes upon this rock, which shall stand immovably secure amid descending floods, rain, and roaring. My soul, I charge thee, lay up thy treasure in the only secure cabinet; store thy jewels where thou canst never lose them. Put thine all in Christ; set all thine affections on his person, all thy hope in his merit, all thy trust in his efficacious blood, all thy joy in his presence, and so thou mayest laugh at loss, and defy destruction. Remember that all the flowers in the world’s garden fade by turns, and the day cometh when nothing will be left bu...

Day 1 - Lord's Day - Sunday | Daily Devotions | The Church, Personal, and Office Lectionaries |

  Sunday, May 11, 2025 | Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Old Testament Ezekiel 34:11–16 Psalm Psalm 23 New Testament 1 Peter 2:21–25 Gospel John 10:11–16   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009). Sunday, May 11, 2025 | Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C First Reading Acts 9:36–43 Psalm Psalm 23 Second Reading Revelation 7:9–17 Gospel John 10:22–30   Episcopal Church (USA) Revised Common Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016). Sunday, May 11, 2025 | Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Old Testament Isaiah 40:25–31 or Lamentations 3:22–33 Psalm Psalm 147:1–11 Epistle 1 Peter 2:11–20 or 1 John 3:1–3 Gospel John 16:16–22   Lutheran Service Book Historic (One Year) Lectionary (Bellingham, WA: Concordia Publishing House, 2009). Sunday, May 11, 2025 | Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C First Reading Acts 9:36–43 Psalm...

Day 7 - Lord's. Day - Sunday | Daily Devotions | The KJV Standard Lesson Commentary, 2024-2025 |

  May 11 Lesson 11 (KJV) Solomon Dedicates the Temple Devotional Reading: 2 Chronicles 6:12, 14–27 Background Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:1–20 2 Chronicles 7:1–7, 11 1 Now, when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house. 2 And the priests could not enter into the Lord's house, because the Lord's glory had filled the Lord’s house. 3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. 6 And the priests w...