Week Thirteen - Rest!

Want to use this time to catch up from last week's reading?

HERE'S HOW:

1. Grab a Bible. If it fits your style, also grab a journal to write in.

   • Which Bible version is best? The one you read! If you don’t have one, let us know! Print, Online, and Apps are available.

   • Invite family or friends to join you.

2. Pray! Ask the Holy Spirit to help you as you read. HE WILL.

3. Check to see if there is a video to watch today

4. Look up and read the assigned reading for the day.

5. Look up the assigned Psalm that day: pray it out loud.

6. Pray! Ask the Father to apply those readings to your life and to help you join Jesus where He is already working. HE WILL.

7. Participate in Worship on Sunday!

Prefer a printable study guide? Click this button which contains our reading guide from now through the end of March. All the videos will be here, so check back each week!

March 25

Read 1 Samuel 21-24, then Pray Psalm 84.

March 26

Read 1 Samuel 25-27, then Pray Psalm 85.

March 27

Read 1 Samuel 28-31, then Pray Psalm 86.

March 28

Watch our Read Scripture video on the book of 2 Samuel, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In 2 Samuel, David becomes God's most faithful king, but then rebels, resulting in the slow destruction of his family and kingdom.

Read 2 Samuel 1-3, then Pray Psalm 87. A difficult opening narrative from where our cliché, “don’t kill the messenger” comes.

March 29

In this video, we explore the mysterious promise on page three of the Bible, that a promised deliverer would one day come to confront evil and rescue humanity. We trace this theme through the family of Abraham, the messianic lineage of David, and ultimately to Jesus who defeated evil by letting it defeat him.

Read 2 Samuel 4-8, then Pray Psalm 88. Chapter 7, verses 8-16 is known as the Davidic, or Messianic Covenant, where God sets forth the plan of the coming Messiah, who will indeed be the Son of David.

March 30

Read 2 Samuel 9-12, then Pray Psalm 89. The tragic reminder that there is only one character in all of Scripture who never falls (Jesus Himself). Even this man, David, the one after God’s own heart, succumbs to the disease of sin. It was after these events that David penned Psalm 51.

March 31

Read 2 Samuel 13-15, then Pray Psalm 90. The brokenness persists through David’s family.