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July 01, 2026
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From Pit to Promise:
Deliverance and Resurrection!
Life often casts us into dark places—pits of despair, dens of danger, or graves of hopelessness. Yet the Bible reveals a God who specializes in dramatic deliverances, culminating in the ultimate victory of Jesus Christ over death itself.
Consider Joseph, sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and thrown into a pit (Genesis 37). Betrayed and forgotten, he seemed destined for ruin. But God had a plan. Joseph rose from that pit to become Egypt’s second-in-command, saving nations from famine—including his own family. His story shouts that no betrayal is beyond God’s redemption. What others meant for evil, God turned for good (Genesis 50:20 TLB).
Then there is Daniel, thrown into the lions’ den for faithfully praying to the true God (Daniel 6). Surrounded by hungry beasts, Daniel faced certain death. Yet God shut the lions’ mouths. Daniel emerged unharmed, and his enemies faced the very judgment they planned for him. This miracle declared God’s power to protect His servants in the most terrifying circumstances. Faithfulness in exile brought heavenly intervention.
Next, Lazarus, Jesus’ dear friend, lay dead four days in a tomb, his body already decaying (John 11). Mourners wept in despair. But Jesus called, “Lazarus, come forth!” And the dead man walked forth, still wrapped in grave clothes. Jesus proved He is the Resurrection and the Life. Even death could not hold those whom He loves.
These deliverances point forward to the greatest miracle: Jesus Christ. Betrayed, crucified at Calvary for our sins, He hung upon the cross, bearing the punishment we deserved. Laid in a borrowed tomb, He rested on the Sabbath. But early on the third day, the stone rolled away. Jesus arose and walked out of the grave—alive forevermore! (Matthew 28; John 20). Death could not keep its prey. The grave had no victory!
Because Jesus arose, we too can rise. No pit is too deep, no den too dark, no grave too final. His resurrection guarantees our hope, forgiveness, and eternal life. Trust Him today. The same power that raised Jesus works in you (Romans 8:11).
Let these stories fuel your faith. Come out of whatever holds you back—into the abundant life Christ secured at Calvary and the empty tomb.
Share this truth boldly, dear reader. He is risen indeed!
AMEN!
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Let us Praise Him Daily!
A good way to learn to Praise God is to memorize the first 6 Verses of Psalms 148:
1 Praise the Lord, O heavens! Praise Him from the skies!
2 Praise Him, all His angels, all the armies of heaven.
3 Praise Him, sun and moon and all you twinkling stars.
4 Praise Him, skies above. Praise Him, vapors high above the clouds.
5 Let everything He has made give praise to Him. For He issued His command, and they came into being;
6 He established them forever and forever. His orders will never be revoked.
PLEASE read the last 6 Chapters of Psalms: 145-150 so that you will learn how to Praise God like David did!
If you don’t want to get your Bible, Here they all are, just click on each Chapter and I will read them to you:
PSALMS 145 PSALMS 146 PSALMS 147 PSALMS148 PSALMS 149 PSALMS 150
JESUS IS:
THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH,
THE LEADER,
THE ORIGINATOR,
THE LORD & MASTER,
THE SUPREME LEADER,
OUR HOPE,
1ST BORN FROM THE DEAD WITH AN IMMORTAL BODY TO NEVER DIE AGAIN,
THE 1ST FRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION,
HE IS OUR FESTIVAL OF HOPE,
OUR PARDON,
GIVEN 1ST PLACE IN EVERYTHING,
HAS BEEN EXALTED AS SUPREME OVER EVERYTHING,
IS ENOUGH,
THE FULLNESS OF GOD DWELLS IN US THROUGH JESUS,
JESUS HAS BROUGHT US INTO HARMONY WITH GOD,
HE HAS BROKERED A PEACE TREATY BETWEEN GOD & MAN,
YOU WERE BORN ON THE WRONG SIDE, BUT BY ACCEPTING JESUS
YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE NOW,
YOU ARE BEYOND REPROACH,
JESUS WAS THE SOLUTION BEFORE YOU HAD A SIN PROBLEM,
NEVER GET OVER WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU!
NOW:
THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH:
TO TEACH US TO LEAD OTHERS TO CHRIST!
AMEN!
(You might want to copy those down and memorize them!)
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DAILY BIBLE READING:
>1. Chapter for the DAY in Proverbs;
>2. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the Old Testament AND
>3. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the New Testament Daily:
Chapter 01 in Proverbs for today: (JULY 01 (MT) (ESV)
1 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
2 To know wisdom and instruction,
to understand words of insight,
3 to receive instruction in wise dealing,
in righteousness, justice, and equity;
4 to give prudence to the simple,
knowledge and discretion to the youth—
5 Let the wise hear and increase in learning,
and the one who understands obtain guidance,
6 to understand a proverb and a saying,
the words of the wise and their riddles.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The Enticement of Sinners
8 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
9 for they are a graceful garland for your head
and pendants for your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you,
do not consent.
11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
let us ambush the innocent without reason;
12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive,
and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
13 we shall find all precious goods,
we shall fill our houses with plunder;
14 throw in your lot among us;
we will all have one purse”—
15 my son, do not walk in the way with them;
hold back your foot from their paths,
16 for their feet run to evil,
and they make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain is a net spread
in the sight of any bird,
18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood;
they set an ambush for their own lives.
19 Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain;
it takes away the life of its possessors.
The Call of Wisdom
20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street,
in the markets she raises her voice;
21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?
23 If you turn at my reproof,[a]
behold, I will pour out my spirit to you;
I will make my words known to you.
24 Because I have called and you refused to listen,
have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,
25 because you have ignored all my counsel
and would have none of my reproof,
26 I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when terror strikes you,
27 when terror strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
29 Because they hated knowledge
and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
30 would have none of my counsel
and despised all my reproof,
31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way,
and have their fill of their own devices.
32 For the simple are killed by their turning away,
and the complacency of fools destroys them;
33 but whoever listens to me will dwell secure
and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:23 Or Will you turn away at my reproof?
CHAPTER 38 ISAIAH for today: (JULY 01 (JJ) (ESV)
38 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”[a] 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 and said, “Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: 5 “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.[b] 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.
7 “This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised: 8 Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.[c]
9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
10 I said, In the middle[d] of my days
I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the Lord,
the Lord in the land of the living;
I shall look on man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;
13 I calmed myself[e] until morning;
like a lion he breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.
14 Like a swallow or a crane I chirp;
I moan like a dove.
My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
15 What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
I walk slowly all my years
because of the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these is the life of my spirit.
Oh restore me to health and make me live!
17 Behold, it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
but in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
18 For Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.
19 The living, the living, he thanks you,
as I do this day;
the father makes known to the children
your faithfulness.
20 The Lord will save me,
and we will play my music on stringed instruments
all the days of our lives,
at the house of the Lord.
21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” 22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 38:1 Or live; also verses 9, 21
- Isaiah 38:5 Hebrew to your days
- Isaiah 38:8 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
- Isaiah 38:10 Or In the quiet
- Isaiah 38:13 Or (with Targum) I cried for help
Revelation 11
for today: (JULY 01 (NN) ESV)
11 Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, 2 but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. 3 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. 6 They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. 7 And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit[a] will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically[b] is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 10 and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 11 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13 And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.
The Seventh Trumpet
15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying,
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
who is and who was,
for you have taken your great power
and begun to reign.
18 The nations raged,
but your wrath came,
and the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
and those who fear your name,
both small and great,
and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings,[c] peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
Footnotes
- Revelation 11:7 Or the abyss
- Revelation 11:8 Greek spiritually
- Revelation 11:19 Or voices, or sounds
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