July 31 Ezra 7-8 Psalm 86:11-17 Proverbs 19:12-14 1 Corinthians 9 Quarrelsome Or Prudent? “A foolish child is a father’s ruin and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof. Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.” Proverbs 19:13b-14 NIV These verses describe two different types of homes. One provides a life of joy and peace and the other makes life pure drudgery. The first home has a child who is desc

July 30 Ezra 5-6 Psalm 86:5-10 Proverbs 19:10-11 1 Corinthians 8 Stumbling Blocks “But see to it that this authority of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be built up to eat things sacrificed to idols? For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. And in that way, by sinning against the brother

July 29 Ezra 3-4 Psalm 86:1-4 Proverbs 19:8-9 1 Corinthians 7:17-40 Joy And Weeping “And they sang, praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, saying, ‘For He is good, for His lovingkindness endures forever upon Israel.’ And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised Yahweh because the foundation of the house of Yahweh was laid. Yet many of the priests and Levites and heads of the father’s households, the old men who had seen the first house of Yahweh, were

July 28 Ezra 1-2 Psalm 85:8-13 Proverbs 19:7 1 Corinthians 7:1-16 Sovereignty “In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing. This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of Heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the Earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for Him at J