Scripture is God-breathed and true. When we memorize it, we carry His Word with us wherever we go.
This week, we will add verse 21. As you are making your morning coffee, driving to work, or eating lunch, practice saying this verse out loud with the verses you have already memorized until you can recite Acts 13:17–21. Don’t be discouraged if you can’t remember it all yet! Keep coming back throughout the week as you work on committing this passage to memory.
17 The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, made the people prosper during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm. 18 And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness; 19 and after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. 20 This all took about 450 years. After this, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 After removing him, he raised up David as their king and testified about him, “I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my will.”
23 From this man’s descendants, as he promised, God brought to Israel the Savior, Jesus.
—Acts 13:17–23
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HOME!! My daughter and I made it home from Oklahoma last night.
Glad to be back at my weekend quiet spot. With my iced coffee and spending time with Jesus. And reflecting on the last few days. God provided and I am grateful. It was a beautiful beautiful wedding. Jesus was the center of it all.
I read a devotion at night as well as SRT. I’m reading “Portraits of Devotion” by Beth Moore. Last night I read in Acts. It was about James death and Peter’s imprisonment and how John must have felt. Beth wrote at the end of the devotion, “Solitude is not so much the place we find answers. It’s the place we find our own square foot of earth from which to grapple with heaven and decide if we’re going on — possibly alone — without our answers. And many of us will. Why? Because the privilege of wrestling with such a holy and mysterious God still beats the numbness — the pitiful mediocrity — of an otherwise life. Sometimes we don’t realize how real He is until we’ve experienced the awesomeness of His answerless Presence. He knows that what we crave far more than explanations is the unshakable conviction that Hs is utterly, supremely God.” Many of us wonder about these things. I just wanted to share this. Have a blessed Sunday sister.
Beautiful ❤️
Kaitlin I’m joining my prayers to all my sister’s prayers here for Derek and this surgery. So often I’m reading long after surgeries or tests, but this morning I joined in right in time fo this surgery to start praying.
I’m a day late but I wanted to wish you Happy Anniversary Rhonda J. My husband and I took a long road to get together…we celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary in January but this coming November we’ll celebrate the 46th anniversary of our 1st date.
I’m praying for all y’all today as I celebrate the Lord’s day. May He bless each of you richly and I know He will meet your every need.
Kaitlin, praying too for all the doctors, nurses that everything goes smooth. Praying for you, that the peace that passes all understanding will be felt within you. Praying for the surgery.
@maura what a beautiful prayer, it brought me such peace to read in waiting room thank you so much for your powerful and comforting words
I feel horrible. I am having neurological issues and I cannot memorize these. I can every week, but no matter how hard I try, I cannot memorize it all. Does anyone else have these same neurological issues? I know the scripture when I see it so I know it’s in my heart, but feel bad I cannot recite it.
Jamie, chapter and verse numbers were inserted by translators to serve as a convenient index for us to locate specific portions of God’s Word. Praise God, His Holy Spirit doesn’t need the “address” of a specific truth because He wrote it!…And He can bring that powerful truth back to our mind after we have studied it, even if we forget the “address”. You are in good company, as many fellow believers rely on a concordance for reference to locate chapter and verse of a truth they recall from Scripture.
Kaitlin this is wonderful news I will be praying for successful surgery and recovery
Kaitlin Praying for the surgery and recovery.