Evening, June 25
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But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.  — Genesis 8:9
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“The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD at their head.”
— Micah 2:13 NIV

Humanity needs someone to break open a way through the captivity of Satan, his demonic henchmen, and the people of earth that they influence and control. Who will that someone be? It is the “One,” the “King,” the “Lord,” of our verse for today. That someone, of course, is the Messiah. It is Jesus Christ. He initially broke open the way before us and He will continue to break open every gate that remains in Satan’s prison. Wherever there is righteousness and healing, wherever there is goodness and freedom, wherever there is wealth and justice, Jesus Christ has led a breakthrough. Apart from His leadership, the people of earth would know nothing other than Satan’s prison.

Jesus led the breakthrough when He was born of a virgin, lived a righteous life, paid the penalty for our sin at the cross, and was raised to the throne of heaven. From there He rules and reigns over the earth. No more does Satan monopolize the earth. No more does he stand unchallenged as the “prince of this world” (John 16:11). Wherever the knowledge of Jesus Christ is spread abroad, breakthroughs begin to happen.

Maybe you need a breakthrough today. Maybe Satan still has his clutches on you in some area of your life. It’s like a gate that keeps you locked up. If so, then take heart! There’s a leader able to break open a way before you. There’s a leader who can break through the gate and set you free.

Look for Him. He’s there, just ahead of you – leading the way to your breakthrough.
Bible in a Year
Old Testament Reading
Job 4, 5, 6


Job 4 -- Eliphaz Reproves Job

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Job 5 -- Eliphaz Shows that God Is Just

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Job 6 -- Job's Reproves His Friends of Their Unkindness

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New Testament Reading
Acts 7:20-43


Acts 7 -- Stephen's Speech, Stoning and Death

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Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library.
Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion
And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?
Insight
Many people spend all their energy seeking pleasure. Jesus said, however, that a world of pleasure centered on possessions, position, or power is ultimately worthless.
Challenge
Whatever you have on earth is only temporary; it cannot be exchanged for your soul. If you work hard at getting what you want, you might eventually have a “pleasurable” life, but in the end you will find it hollow and empty. Are you willing to make the pursuit of God more important than the selfish pursuit of pleasure? Follow Jesus, and you will know what it means to live abundantly now and to have eternal life as well.
Morning and Evening by Spurgeon
Genesis 8:9  The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.

Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe unto you. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. If your soul can stretch herself at rest, and find the bed long enough, and the coverlet broad enough to cover her in the chambers of sin, then you are a hypocrite, and far enough from any right thoughts of Christ or perception of his preciousness. But if, on the other hand, you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it forever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your God--your God--is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child of God. With all thy sins and imperfections, take this to thy comfort: if thy soul has no rest in sin, thou are not as the sinner is! If thou art still crying after and craving after something better, Christ has not forgotten thee, for thou hast not quite forgotten him. The believer cannot do without his Lord; words are inadequate to express his thoughts of him. We cannot live on the sands of the wilderness, we want the manna which drops from on high; our skin bottles of creature confidence cannot yield us a drop of moisture, but we drink of the rock which follows us, and that rock is Christ. When you feed on him your soul can sing, "He hath satisfied my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle's," but if you have him not, your bursting wine vat and well-filled barn can give you no sort of satisfaction: rather lament over them in the words of wisdom, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!"

Daily Light on the Daily Path
Zechariah 13:7  "Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, And against the man, My Associate," Declares the LORD of hosts. "Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered; And I will turn My hand against the little ones.

Colossians 2:9  For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

Psalm 89:19  Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones, And said, "I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Isaiah 63:3  "I have trodden the wine trough alone, And from the peoples there was no man with Me. I also trod them in My anger And trampled them in My wrath; And their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments, And I stained all My raiment.

1 Timothy 3:16  By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was revealed in the flesh, Was vindicated in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Proclaimed among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.

Isaiah 9:6  For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Hebrews 1:3  And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Hebrews 1:8  But of the Son He says, "YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER, AND THE RIGHTEOUS SCEPTER IS THE SCEPTER OF HIS KINGDOM.

Hebrews 1:6  And when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says, "AND LET ALL THE ANGELS OF GOD WORSHIP HIM."

Revelation 19:16  And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."

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