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Day 4 - Wednesday | Daily Devotions | Connect the Testaments | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | My UtMost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

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  May 27: Math: Maybe Not a Mystic Language After All 1 Chronicles 21:1–22:19 ; 2 Timothy 2:14–26; Psalm 86:1–87:7 In a world of metrics, it’s easy to become obsessed with statistics and start to quantify every aspect of our lives. Stats can even become a type of scorekeeping between churches or pastors: “We have more members than you do.” We may never say those words out loud, but we think them; more than one person has made the mistake of measuring a ministry based on attendance. But God has His own method for measuring success. Prompted by an adversary (“Satan” is often better translated as “adversary” or “accuser” in the Old Testament), David decides to seek metrics—to count the people of Israel. This account illustrates the harm of seeking gratification or understanding in numbers. In 1 Chronicles 21, major problems emerge, including placing an adversary’s will above God’s and predicting God’s will rather than seeking it regularly. Rather than counting our successes, we sh...
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Day 3 - Tuesday | Daily Devotions | Connect the Testaments | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | My UtMost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

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  May 26: A Long-suffering God 1 Chronicles 18:1–20:8; 2 Timothy 2:1–13 ; Psalm 85 God is long-suffering, but sometimes we take this for granted. How often have we given in to temptation, expecting to be obedient at a later date? Psalm 85 gives a testimony of God’s faithfulness in the past: “O Yahweh, you favored your land. You restored the fortunes of Jacob. You took away the guilt of your people; you covered all their sin. You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your burning anger” (Psa 85:1–3). As he experiences that judgment, the psalmist remembers God’s past restoration. He hopes for it once more: “I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful ones”; he also sets a condition: “but let them not return to folly” (Psa 85:8). Do we wait until bad times before we realize God’s amazing grace? God’s faithfulness is also expressed in surprising moments in the New Testament, like Paul’s exhortation to Timothy. Paul tel...
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Day 2 - Monday | Daily Devotions | Connect the Testaments | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | My UtMost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

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  May 25: Longing and Being 1 Chronicles 16:1–17:27 ; 2 Timothy 1:3–18; Psalm 84:1–12 The general sense of what worship “is” is widely known, but the specifics of what it means are a little vague. Aside from obedience (i.e., avoiding sin and following what God asks of us), there are specific ways to show God admiration. In 1 Chronicles, during David’s many great acts, we get a glimpse into ancient worship practices that are still applicable today. We know that the biblical “editors” favored these practices because they would later ascribe countless psalms to David. His way of worship was deemed “the way to worship.” After David and his comrades journey to Obed-Edom to bring back the ark of the covenant—the symbol of Yahweh’s provision and advocacy for His people—David appoints “some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of Yahweh” (1 Chr 16:4). The Levites, the tribe designated as religious teachers, are first to “invoke” Yahweh (call upon Him). They are then to do what sho...
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Day 1 - Lord's Day - Sunday | Daily Devotions | The KJV Standard Lesson Commissary, 2025-2026 |

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  May 24 Lesson 12 (KJV) Christian Rhythms of Life Devotional Reading: Ecclesiastes 2:20–25 Background Scripture: Jeremiah 31:12–13; Mark 2:18–28; 6:30–32; John 2:1–11 Mark 2:18–28 18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? 19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. 21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. 22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new ...
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