Luke 2:8-20<\/p>\n
Chapter 2<\/h4>
8<\/small><\/span> In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.<\/p> 9<\/small><\/span> And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened.<\/p> 10<\/small><\/span> But the angel said to them, \"Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people;<\/p> 11<\/small><\/span> for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.<\/p> 12<\/small><\/span> \"This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.\"<\/p> 13<\/small><\/span> And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,<\/p> 14<\/small><\/span> \"Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.\"<\/p> 15<\/small><\/span> When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, \"Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.\"<\/p> 16<\/small><\/span> So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger.<\/p> 17<\/small><\/span> When they had seen this, they made known the statement which had been told them about this Child.<\/p> 18<\/small><\/span> And all who heard it wondered at the things which were told them by the shepherds.<\/p> 19<\/small><\/span> But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart.<\/p> 20<\/small><\/span> The shepherds went back, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as had been told them.<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n #9: Moses, A Wanted Murderer \u201cSlow Of Speech,\u201d Leads The Israelites Out Of Slavery<\/strong><\/p>\n Exodus 3:1-22<\/p>\n 1<\/small><\/span> Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.<\/p> 2<\/small><\/span> The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.<\/p> 3<\/small><\/span> So Moses said, \"I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.\"<\/p> 4<\/small><\/span> When the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, \"Moses, Moses!\" And he said, \"Here I am.\"<\/p> 5<\/small><\/span> Then He said, \"Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.\"<\/p> 6<\/small><\/span> He said also, \"I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.\" Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.<\/p> 7<\/small><\/span> The LORD said, \"I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.<\/p> 8<\/small><\/span> \"So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.<\/p> 9<\/small><\/span> \"Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.<\/p> 10<\/small><\/span> \"Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.\"<\/p> 11<\/small><\/span> But Moses said to God, \"Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?\"<\/p> 12<\/small><\/span> And He said, \"Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.\"<\/p> 13<\/small><\/span> Then Moses said to God, \"Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, 'What is His name?' What shall I say to them?\"<\/p> 14<\/small><\/span> God said to Moses, \"I AM WHO I AM\"; and He said, \"Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'\"<\/p> 15<\/small><\/span> God, furthermore, said to Moses, \"Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.<\/p> 16<\/small><\/span> \"Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, \"I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.<\/p> 17<\/small><\/span> \"So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.\"'<\/p> 18<\/small><\/span> \"They will pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.'<\/p> 19<\/small><\/span> \"But I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, except under compulsion.<\/p> 20<\/small><\/span> \"So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.<\/p> 21<\/small><\/span> \"I will grant this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.<\/p> 22<\/small><\/span> \"But every woman shall ask of her neighbor and the woman who lives in her house, articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and daughters. Thus you will plunder the Egyptians.\"<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n #8: Peter, A Self Described \u201cSinful Man,\u201d Drops Everything To Follow Jesus And Become A \u201cFisher Of Man\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Luke 5:1-11<\/p>\n 1<\/small><\/span> Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret;<\/p> 2<\/small><\/span> and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.<\/p> 3<\/small><\/span> And He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little way from the land. And He sat down and began teaching the people from the boat.<\/p> 4<\/small><\/span> When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, \"Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.\"<\/p> 5<\/small><\/span> Simon answered and said, \"Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.\"<\/p> 6<\/small><\/span> When they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to break;<\/p> 7<\/small><\/span> so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, so that they began to sink.<\/p> 8<\/small><\/span> But when Simon Peter saw that, he fell down at Jesus' feet, saying, \"Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man!\"<\/p> 9<\/small><\/span> For amazement had seized him and all his companions because of the catch of fish which they had taken;<\/p> 10<\/small><\/span> and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, \"Do not fear, from now on you will be catching men.\"<\/p> 11<\/small><\/span> When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n #7: Gideon, Who Was Hiding In Fear From The Midianites, Became A \u201cMighty Man Of Valor\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Judges 6:11-16<\/p>\n 11<\/small><\/span> Then the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.<\/p> 12<\/small><\/span> The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, \"The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.\"<\/p> 13<\/small><\/span> Then Gideon said to him, \"O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.\"<\/p> 14<\/small><\/span> The LORD looked at him and said, \"Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?\"<\/p> 15<\/small><\/span> He said to Him, \"O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's house.\"<\/p> 16<\/small><\/span> But the LORD said to him, \"Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man.\"<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n Judges\u00a07:17-25<\/p>\n 17<\/small><\/span> He said to them, \"Look at me and do likewise. And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.<\/p> 18<\/small><\/span> \"When I and all who are with me blow the trumpet, then you also blow the trumpets all around the camp and say, 'For the LORD and for Gideon.'\"<\/p> 19<\/small><\/span> So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.<\/p> 20<\/small><\/span> When the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and cried, \"A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!\"<\/p> 21<\/small><\/span> Each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran, crying out as they fled.<\/p> 22<\/small><\/span> When they blew 300 trumpets, the LORD set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.<\/p> 23<\/small><\/span> The men of Israel were summoned from Naphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.<\/p> 24<\/small><\/span> Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, \"Come down against Midian and take the waters before them, as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.\" So all the men of Ephraim were summoned and they took the waters as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.<\/p> 25<\/small><\/span> They captured the two leaders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb, while they pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon from across the Jordan.<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n #6: Esther, A Young Jewish Girl, Became Queen Of Persia And Saved Her People From Annihilation<\/strong><\/p>\n Esther 2:1-18<\/p>\n 1<\/small><\/span> After these things when the anger of King Ahasuerus had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.<\/p> 2<\/small><\/span> Then the king's attendants, who served him, said, \"Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.<\/p> 3<\/small><\/span> \"Let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom that they may gather every beautiful young virgin to the citadel of Susa, to the harem, into the custody of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let their cosmetics be given them.<\/p> 4<\/small><\/span> \"Then let the young lady who pleases the king be queen in place of Vashti.\" And the matter pleased the king, and he did accordingly.<\/p> 5<\/small><\/span> Now there was at the citadel in Susa a Jew whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,<\/p> 6<\/small><\/span> who had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the captives who had been exiled with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had exiled.<\/p> 7<\/small><\/span> He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful of form and face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.<\/p> 8<\/small><\/span> So it came about when the command and decree of the king were heard and many young ladies were gathered to the citadel of Susa into the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken to the king's palace into the custody of Hegai, who was in charge of the women.<\/p> 9<\/small><\/span> Now the young lady pleased him and found favor with him. So he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and food, gave her seven choice maids from the king's palace and transferred her and her maids to the best place in the harem.<\/p> 10<\/small><\/span> Esther did not make known her people or her kindred, for Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make them known.<\/p> 11<\/small><\/span> Every day Mordecai walked back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and how she fared.<\/p> 12<\/small><\/span> Now when the turn of each young lady came to go in to King Ahasuerus, after the end of her twelve months under the regulations for the women--for the days of their beautification were completed as follows: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and the cosmetics for women--<\/p> 13<\/small><\/span> the young lady would go in to the king in this way: anything that she desired was given her to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.<\/p> 14<\/small><\/span> In the evening she would go in and in the morning she would return to the second harem, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not again go in to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.<\/p> 15<\/small><\/span> Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her as his daughter, came to go in to the king, she did not request anything except what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of all who saw her.<\/p> 16<\/small><\/span> So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus to his royal palace in the tenth month which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.<\/p> 17<\/small><\/span> The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found favor and kindness with him more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.<\/p> 18<\/small><\/span> Then the king gave a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his princes and his servants; he also made a holiday for the provinces and gave gifts according to the king's bounty.<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Most Unlikely People God Used For His Purposes Honorable Mentions<\/strong><\/p>\n Nothing makes the ordinary extraordinary like experiencing the life changing salvation of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Though we couldn\u2019t include them all on our list, here are three such people who were changed by meeting Jesus who, in turn, went on to share the good news with others.<\/p>\n Matthew\/Levi, A Despised Tax Collector, Goes On To Become A Disciple Of Jesus Christ<\/strong><\/p>\n Matthew 9:9-13<\/p>\n 9<\/small><\/span> As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector's booth; and He *said to him, \"Follow Me!\" And he got up and followed Him.<\/p> 10<\/small><\/span> Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples.<\/p> 11<\/small><\/span> When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, \"Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?\"<\/p> 12<\/small><\/span> But when Jesus heard this, He said, \"It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.<\/p> 13<\/small><\/span> \"But go and learn what this means: 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.\"<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n A Demon Possessed Man Living In Tombs Is Set Free By Jesus And Returns Home To Share His Story With His Family<\/strong><\/p>\n Mark 5:1-20<\/p>\n 1<\/small><\/span> They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.<\/p> 2<\/small><\/span> When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him,<\/p> 3<\/small><\/span> and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain;<\/p> 4<\/small><\/span> because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.<\/p> 5<\/small><\/span> Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.<\/p> 6<\/small><\/span> Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him;<\/p> 7<\/small><\/span> and shouting with a loud voice, he *said, \"What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!\"<\/p> 8<\/small><\/span> For He had been saying to him, \"Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!\"<\/p> 9<\/small><\/span> And He was asking him, \"What is your name?\" And he *said to Him, \"My name is Legion; for we are many.\"<\/p> 10<\/small><\/span> And he began to implore Him earnestly not to send them out of the country.<\/p> 11<\/small><\/span> Now there was a large herd of swine feeding nearby on the mountain.<\/p> 12<\/small><\/span> The demons implored Him, saying, \"Send us into the swine so that we may enter them.\"<\/p> 13<\/small><\/span> Jesus gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them; and they were drowned in the sea.<\/p> 14<\/small><\/span> Their herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see what it was that had happened.<\/p> 15<\/small><\/span> They *came to Jesus and *observed the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the \"legion\"; and they became frightened.<\/p> 16<\/small><\/span> Those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about the swine.<\/p> 17<\/small><\/span> And they began to implore Him to leave their region.<\/p> 18<\/small><\/span> As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed was imploring Him that he might accompany Him.<\/p> 19<\/small><\/span> And He did not let him, but He *said to him, \"Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you.\"<\/p> 20<\/small><\/span> And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.<\/p><\/div>\n Translation: NASB<\/em><\/p>\n The Samaritan Woman At The Well Shares Her Story And Helps Many Find Salvation<\/strong><\/p>\n John 4:1-42<\/p>\n 1<\/small><\/span> Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John<\/p>Chapter 3<\/h4>
Chapter 5<\/h4>
Chapter 6<\/h4>
Chapter 7<\/h4>
Chapter 2<\/h4>
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<\/p>\nChapter 9<\/h4>
Chapter 5<\/h4>
Chapter 4<\/h4>