Bible Reading Markoff Chart for 2010

HISTORY
Genesis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
Exodus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 32 33 34
Numbers 11 12 13 14 16 17 20 21 22 23 24 25
Deuteronomy 8 9 10 11 29 30 31 34
Josh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Judges 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Ruth 1 2 3 4
1 Samuel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 35 26 27 28 29 30 31
2 Samuel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 24
1 Kings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
2 Kings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
1 Chronicles 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 28 29
2 Chronicles 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
Ezra 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Nehemiah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Ester 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

LAW / GENEALOGY
Exodus 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 35 36 37 38 39 40
Leviticus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 18 19 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
Deuteronomy 4 5 6 7 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
1 Chronicles 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 23 24 25 26 27

PSALMS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150


POETIC
Exodus 15 Deut 32 33 2 Sam 22-23:7 1 Cron 16:8-36
Job 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
Proverbs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Ecclesiastes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Song of Solomon 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

PROPHETS
Isaiah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66
Jeremiah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 Lamentations 1 2 3 4 5
Ezekiel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
Daniel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Hosea 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Joel 1 2 3 Amos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Obadiah 1 1 Jonah 1 2 3 4
Micah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Nahum 1 2 3 Habakkuk 1 2 3
Zephaniah 1 2 3 Haggai 1 2
Zechariah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Malachi 1 2 3 4
Revelation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

GOSPELS / ACTS
Matthew 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Mark 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Luke 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
John 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Acts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

ROMANS – JUDE
Romans 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
1 Corinthians 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
2 Corinthians 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Galatians 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ephesians 1 2 3 4 5 6
Philippians 1 2 3 4 Colossians 1 2 3 4
1 Thessalonians 1 2 3 4 5 2 Thessalonians 1 2 3
1 Timothy 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 Timothy 1 2 3 4
Titus 1 2 3 Philemon 1
Hebrews 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
James 1 2 3 4 5 1 Peter 1 2 3 4 5 2 Peter 1 2 3
1 John 1 2 3 4 5 2 John 1 3 John 1 Jude 1

1 Chapter a day = about 3 years 3 months
2 Chapters a day = 1 year 7 ½ months
3 Chapters a day = 1 year and one month
4 Chapters a day = under 10 months
5 Chapters a day = under 8 months
10 Chapters a day = just under 4 months
in my Bible 38 pages a day = 1 month
The Bible has 66 books, 1189 chapters , 31,173 verses and 807,361 words.
At 200 words a minute you can read the Bible in 68 hours
Read 2 ch OT; 2 ch NT 1 ch Psalms daily = OT once NT twice Psalms twice.
I read these 7 categories in concurrent cycles. Romans Jude much faster than the Law.

Preach the Gospel to the Blind and Lost

I was thinking about salvation and how God works with us to bring people to repentance and enter into His kingdom. When I read Acts 26:16-18 this gave me an answer of how we can preach to the lost when the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving. 2 Corinthians 4:3,4

Paul is able to open their eyes Acts 26:16-18 to make a choice for Jesus. All that was given to Paul is given to us for we are asked to follow his example. Philippians 3:17 If we were not given what Paul was given then we would not be able to do what we are asked to do! We can also ask for grace and mercy to accomplish what is needed. Hebrews 4:16 There is no limit to what God will give. Ephesians 3:20 All of God's resources are available to those who believe according to the purpose of God. John 14:14 And it is God's will that all come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 So the ball is in our court. Are we going to live for the purpose of God or just please ourselves?

How can they believe with out a preacher? Romans 10:14 As we go and preach we are opening their eyes. People have the choice of accepting the gospel or rejecting it. Romans 10:16

Unfortunately Satan understands the power of the Word of God. He waits to snatch the word immediately after it is heard. Luke 8:12 This can be counteracted by our prayer in spiritual warfare.Psalm 24:7-10

We can reason with the lost about their sin and the consequences of ignoring the offer of salvation. Isaiah 1:18-20 Explaining God's love for them may open the eyes of their heart to receive and believe. John 1:12 I think reasoning with people instead of just saying they are lost and condemned would be more effective.

Since Satan is a defeated foe Luke 10:18,19 as we walk in the light we can express our victory and bind the enemy in prayer. Matthew 18:18, Psalm 2:8,9

Reaching out to the lost is not my natural choice. But it's God choice. I want to follow God not my flesh and I want to walk in the Spirit. Romans 8:6 So I continue to pray that I will follow God's leading and lead the lost to salvation. I want to reject my comfort zone and embrace the leading of the Spirit. But there is a time to stop praying and go. Exodus 14:15

Walk in the Spirit not the Flesh

Romans 8:6-15
Romans 8:6-11
We set our minds on the things of the Spirit to have life. Christians have the Spirit in them which was given at salvation. Eph 1:13 As we follow the leading of the Spirit and not the desires of the flesh we have spiritual life.

Romans 8:12-14
To live by the Spirit is to make no provision for the flesh (Rom 13:14) and to put to death the deeds, desires, wants, wishes of the flesh.
“For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.” Romans 8:14

verse 15 is the first step of this life of the Spirit. God is our Father and we can call Him Abba, Daddy.

The Lord's prayer starts out with, “Our Father which art in heaven. Prayer to God is the beginning the middle and the end of spiritual life. Life flows from this interaction. We can't deny our flesh if there is nothing to replace it with. Now people do deny it in action but not in thought. Sometimes people can deny both action and thought and not live in the Spirit but they are not happy. Joy comes from the flow of the Spirit. And they are unfruitful because life flows from the Spirit not ideas or rules.

A W Tozer

I have been listening to A W Tozer on mp3

Here is a link to 400+ sermons

He always seems to try to bring the listener to a deeper walk with Jesus.

Unanswered Prayer

Ps 66:18
“If I regard wickedness in my heart,
The Lord will not hear; “

We can not on the one hand have sin in as a purpose and on the other hand ask God and expect Him to answer. We are followers of Christ. We are following what Jesus taught. If on the other hand we decide to reject what He taught how can we at that point expect God to honor our request?

The basis of Christian walk is humble belief in what God has given.

1 John 3:20-22
20in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
21Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
22and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

An honest heart before God and reading the Bible with an open heart will show us if we are walking in the light of God or not.

Isa 59:2
“But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. “

Sin separates us from God. In the Lord's prayer we ask forgiveness for our sin and are forgiven because of the promise of 1 John 1:9. But if we do not repent of our sin then there is a separation and our sins are not forgiven. The blood will wash away our sins and as we ask forgiveness we are cleansed by the blood.
The Holy Spirit convicts of sin (John 16:9)

Ezekiel 14:3
"Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and have put right before their faces the stumbling block of their iniquity Should I be consulted by them at all?”

What is an idol? Something I worship instead of God. Western world worships personal peace and affluence. I want to give up my personal peace to reach out to others.

Booze

My 19 year old son called me from Baltimore at a wedding reception and asked if it was OK to drink beer. I told him I could not anymore tell him what to do.

He said that he respected my opinion and whanted to know what I thought. I told him no don't drink.

Later I sent him this PM on face book:

I was asleep on the couch when you called. I needed to be woken up.

The issue of booze.

I can't tell you in the long run anymore what to do. The decision is yours.

My thinking on booze is this. You may reject my reasoning but it did not come without seeing many people ruined because of booze.

I think that it is of no use to drink booze. Name me an on fire Christian that is leading others to saving faith in Christ that drinks! Now maybe you know people but in my experience I do not know any.

There is the issue of the flesh Romans 8:5. Booze is of the flesh. It is of the world. 1 Jn 2:15-17

To just have a rule not to drink is of no use. Col 2:20-23

But to have a mindset to not live according to the ways of the world so that you can be a light to the lost, will work. Romans 8:6

Have you ever heard of people that gathered to pray for the lost and brought a bottle of booze to pass around while they were praying?

Jesus Habit of Prayer and Prayers

Jesus Habit of Prayer and Prayers

Luke 6:12 Prayed all night
Matthew 14:23 Sent crowds away, went alone to mountain to pray.
Luke 5:16 Jesus would often slip away to the wilderness to pray.
Luke 9:18 While He was praying alone
Luke 9:28 went to the mountain to pray with the 3
Luke 9:29 while He was praying His appearance became different.
Mark 1:35 Early morning while it was still dark He got up and left the house and prayed in a secluded place.
Luke 3:21 While He was prayi8ng heaven opened.
Mark 6:46 After bidding them farewell He left for the mountain to pray.
Luke 22:41-44 wrestle in prayer before the cross. Garden of Gethsemane
John 17 all High Priestly prayer
Luke 4:1,2 40 days in the wilderness
John 11:41,42 prayed before raising Lazarus from the dead
Luke 22:31,32 described prayer for Peter.
Matthew 6:9-13 Lord's prayer outline
John 12:27,28 A pre garden of Gethsemane prayer
Luke 23:34 forgiveness prayer from the cross
Mark 15:34 A prayer of desperation from the cross
Luke 23:46 A finality prayer from the cross
Luke 11:1 Jesus prayer in in a certain place