Sunday 21 October 2040

8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.9Moses said to Joshua,“Choose men for us,and go out to fight with Amalek.Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”10So Joshua did as Moses had told him,and fought with Amalek;and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.11When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed.When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.12But Moses’ hands were heavy;so they took a stone,and put it under him, and he sat on it.Aaron and Hur held up his hands,the one on the one side,and the other on the other side.His hands were steady until sunset.13Joshua defeated Amalekand his people with the edge of the sword.

1I will lift up my eyes to the hills.Where does my help come from?2My help comes from the Lord,who made heaven and earth.

3He will not allow your foot to be moved.He who keeps you will not slumber.4Behold, he who keeps Israelwill neither slumber nor sleep.

5The Lord is your keeper.The Lord is your shade on your right hand.6The sun will not harm you by day,nor the moon by night.

7The Lord will keep you from all evil.He will keep your soul.8The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in,from this time forward, and forever more.

14But you remain in the thingswhich you have learned and have been assured of,knowing from whom you have learned them.15From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptureswhich are able to make you wise for salvation through faithwhich is in Christ Jesus.16Every Scripture is God-breathedand profitable for teaching,for reproof, for correction,and for instruction in righteousness,17that each person who belongs to God may be complete,thoroughly equipped for every good work.

1I command you therefore before Godand the Lord Jesus Christ,who will judge the livingand the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:2preach the word;be urgent in season and out of season;reprove, rebuke,and exhort with all patience and teaching.

1He also spoke a parable to themthat they must always pray and not give up,2saying, “There was a judge in a certain citywho didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.3A widow was in that city,and she often came to him,saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’4He wouldn’t for a while;but afterward he said to himself,‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,5yet because this widow bothers me,I will defend her,or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”

6The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.7Won’t God avenge his chosen oneswho are crying out to him day and night,and yet he exercises patience with them?8I tell you that he will avenge them quickly.Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes,will he find faith on the earth?”