JANUARY 24, 2025 PORTALS OF PRAYER READINGS
Acts 16:1-5
Timothy Joins Paul and Silas
16 Paul[a] came also
to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a
Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. 2 He was well spoken of by the brothers[b] at Lystra
and Iconium. 3 Paul wanted Timothy to
accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were
in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 4 As they went on their way through the cities, they
delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the
apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. 5 So
the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers
daily.
Footnotes
Psalm 84
My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[a] A Psalm of
the Sons of Korah.
84 How lovely
is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints
for
the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to
the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and
the swallow a nest for herself,
where
she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my
King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever
singing your praise! Selah
5 Blessed are those whose
strength is in you,
in
whose heart are the highways to Zion.[b]
6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
they
make it a place of springs;
the
early rain also covers it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength;
each
one appears before God in Zion.
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give
ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 Behold our shield, O God;
look
on the face of your anointed!
10 For a day in your courts is
better
than
a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than
dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is a
sun and shield;
the
Lord bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from
those who walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts,
blessed
is the one who trusts in you!
Footnotes
- Psalm 84:1 Probably
a musical or liturgical term
- Psalm 84:5 Hebrew
lacks to Zion
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