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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">Monday 17 January 2011 </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">DAILY LECTIONARY</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Email Evangelism, forward to a friend:
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Isaiah 44:6-8,21-23<o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and his
Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">I am the first and I am the last;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>besides
me there is no god. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Who is like me? Let them proclaim it,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>let them
declare and set it forth before me.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Who has announced from of old the things to come?*</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>Let them
tell us* what is yet to be. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Do not fear, or be afraid;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>have I
not told you from of old and declared it?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>You are
my witnesses!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Is there any god besides me?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>There is
no other rock; I know not one. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Remember these things, O Jacob,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and
Israel, for you are my servant;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">I formed you, you are my servant;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>O
Israel, you will not be forgotten by me. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and your
sins like mist;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">return to me, for I have redeemed you. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>shout, O
depths of the earth;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">break forth into singing, O mountains,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>O
forest, and every tree in it!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and will
be glorified in Israel.<o:p style=""></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Ephesians 4:1-16</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a
life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and
gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every
effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one
body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling,
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all
and through all and in all.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>But each of us
was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is
said,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">‘When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a
captive;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>he gave
gifts to his people.’ </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">(When it says, ‘He ascended’, what does it mean but that he
had also descended* into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is the
same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all
things.) The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets,
some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work
of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the
unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the
measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to
and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by
their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in love, we must
grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole
body, joined and knitted together by every ligament with which it is equipped,
as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself
up in love.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Mark 3:7-19a</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Jesus departed with his disciples to the lake, and a great
multitude from Galilee followed him; hearing all that he was doing, they came
to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and
the region around Tyre and Sidon. He told his disciples to have a boat ready
for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him; for he had
cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him.
Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted,
‘You are the Son of God!’ But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>He went up the
mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him. And he
appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles,* to be with him, and to be sent
out to proclaim the message, and to have authority to cast out demons. So he
appointed the twelve:* Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); James son of
Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that
is, Sons of Thunder); and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and
Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, and
Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Then he went home;</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Morning Psalms: Psalm 25</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Psalm 25</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">O my God, in you I trust;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>do not
let me be put to shame;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>do not
let my enemies exult over me. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>let them
be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Make me to know your ways, O Lord;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>teach me
your paths. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Lead me in your truth, and teach me,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>for you
are the God of my salvation;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>for you
I wait all day long. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Be mindful of your mercy, O Lord, and of your steadfast
love,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>for they
have been from of old. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="">
</span>according to your steadfast love remember me,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>for your
goodness’ sake, O Lord! </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Good and upright is the Lord;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="">
</span>therefore he instructs sinners in the way. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">He leads the humble in what is right,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and
teaches the humble his way. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and
faithfulness,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>for
those who keep his covenant and his decrees. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">For your name’s sake, O Lord,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>pardon
my guilt, for it is great. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Who are they that fear the Lord?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>He will
teach them the way that they should choose. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">They will abide in prosperity,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and
their children shall possess the land. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and he
makes his covenant known to them. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">My eyes are ever towards the Lord,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>for he
will pluck my feet out of the net. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Turn to me and be gracious to me,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>for I am
lonely and afflicted. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Relieve the troubles of my heart,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and
bring me* out of my distress. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Consider my affliction and my trouble,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and
forgive all my sins. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Consider how many are my foes,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and with
what violent hatred they hate me. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">O guard my life, and deliver me;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>do not
let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">May integrity and uprightness preserve me,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>for I
wait for you. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Redeem Israel, O God,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>out of
all its troubles.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Evening Psalms: Psalm 9, 15</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Psalm 9</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>I will
tell of all your wonderful deeds. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">I will be glad and exult in you;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>I will
sing praise to your name, O Most High. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">When my enemies turned back,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>they
stumbled and perished before you. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">For you have maintained my just cause;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>you have
sat on the throne giving righteous judgement. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>you have
blotted out their name for ever and ever. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>their
cities you have rooted out;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>the very
memory of them has perished. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">But the Lord sits enthroned for ever,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>he has
established his throne for judgement. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">He judges the world with righteousness;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>he
judges the peoples with equity. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>a
stronghold in times of trouble. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">And those who know your name put their trust in you,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>for you,
O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>Declare
his deeds among the peoples. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>he does
not forget the cry of the afflicted. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Be gracious to me, O Lord.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>See what
I suffer from those who hate me;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>you are
the one who lifts me up from the gates of death, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">so that I may recount all your praises,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and, in
the gates of daughter Zion,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>rejoice in
your deliverance. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>in the
net that they hid has their own foot been caught. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgement;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>the
wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>Higgaion. Selah</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">The wicked shall depart to Sheol,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>all the
nations that forget God. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">For the needy shall not always be forgotten,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>nor the
hope of the poor perish for ever. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>let the
nations be judged before you. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Put them in fear, O Lord;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>let the
nations know that they are only human.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>Selah</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Palm 15</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">O Lord, who may abide in your tent?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>Who may
dwell on your holy hill? </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and speak
the truth from their heart; </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">who do not slander with their tongue,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and do
no evil to their friends,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>nor take
up a reproach against their neighbours; </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">in whose eyes the wicked are despised,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>but who
honour those who fear the Lord;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">who stand by their oath even to their hurt; </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">who do not lend money at interest,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style=""> </span>and do
not take a bribe against the innocent. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> <o:p style=""></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;">Those who do these things shall never be moved.</div>
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