Sunday 8 August 2027

4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness,and came and sat down under a juniper tree.Then he requested for himself that he might die,and said, “It is enough.Now, O Lord, take away my life;for I am not better than my fathers.”

5He lay down and slept under a juniper tree;and behold, an angel touched him,and said to him, “Arise and eat!”

6He looked, and behold,there was at his head a cake baked on the coals,and a jar of water.He ate and drank, and lay down again.7The Lord’s angel came again the second time,and touched him, and said,“Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

8He arose, and ate and drank,and went in the strength of that food forty daysand forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

2I will bless the Lord at all times.His praise will always be in my mouth.3My soul shall boast in the Lord.The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

4Oh magnify the Lord with me.Let’s exalt his name together.5I sought the Lord, and he answered me,and delivered me from all my fears.

6They looked to him, and were radiant.Their faces shall never be covered with shame.7This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,and saved him out of all his troubles.

8The Lord’s angel encamps around those who fear him,and delivers them.9Oh taste and see that the Lord is good.Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God,in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.31Let all bitterness,wrath, anger, outcry,and slander be put away from you, with all malice.32And be kind to one another,tender hearted, forgiving each other,just as God also in Christ forgave you.

1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved usand gave himself up for us,an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

41The Jews therefore murmured concerning him,because he said, “I am the breadwhich came down out of heaven.”42They said, “Isn’t this Jesus,the son of Joseph,whose father and mother we know?How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?”

43Therefore Jesus answered them,“Don’t murmur among yourselves.44No one can come to me unless the Fatherwho sent me draws him;and I will raise him up in the last day.45It is written in the prophets,‘They will all be taught by God.’Therefore everyone who hears from the Fatherand has learned, comes to me.46Not that anyone has seen the Father,except he who is from God.He has seen the Father.47Most certainly, I tell you,he who believes in me has eternal life.48I am the bread of life.49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.50This is the bread which comes down out of heaven,that anyone may eat of it and not die.51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven.If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.Yes, the breadwhich I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”