ABIDING IN THE WORD: 4TH QUARTER, 2024

WEEK 1

James 3

Jeremiah 6

Exodus 18

Matthew 3

Psalms chapters 38 and 50

Deuteronomy 4

Isaiah 65

Practice: ⁷ Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of The Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. ⁸ You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of The Lord is at hand (James 5).

WEEK 2

Matthew 5

Revelations 2

Deuteronomy 18

Romans 2

Psalm chapters 4 and 67

Hebrews 4

Isaiah chapters 55 and 56

Practice: If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ² Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. ³ For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3).

WEEK 3

Romans 10

Malachi 3

1 Corinthians 1

1 Kings 8

1 Timothy 1

2 Samuel 22

Daniel 7

Practice: ⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. ⁸ For if we live, we live to The Lord; and if we die, we die to The Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are The Lord’s. ⁹ For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living (Romans 14).

WEEK 4

Daniel 12

John 16

Genesis 18

Psalm chapters 2 and 35

1 Thessalonians 4

Leviticus 10

Revelations 16

Practice: ³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; ⁴ that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵ not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; ⁶ that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because The Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified (1 Thessalonians). 

WEEK 5

Hebrews 1

Proverbs 14

Psalm 20

Isaiah 59

2 Timothy 2

2 Chronicles 16

1 Corinthians 6

Practice: ¹⁵ Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. ¹⁶ But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness (2 Timothy 2).

WEEK 6

Psalm chapters 97 and 102

2 Kings 3

1 Corinthians 13

Matthew 6

Deuteronomy 30

2 Thessalonians 1

Job 5

Practice: ⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the Kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in The Name of The Lord Jesus and by The Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians 6).

WEEK 7

Joel 2

John 12

Ezekiel 7

Isaiah 40

Psalm 63

Leviticus 11

Colossians 3

Practice: ⁶ When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.
⁷ Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.⁸ My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me (Psalm 63).

WEEK 8

John4

Exodus 33

1 Corinthians 15

2 Kings 4

Isaiah 49

Luke 4

Psalm 113

Practice: ¹⁹ “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also (Matthew 6).

WEEK 9

Isaiah 57

Psalm 149

Romans 14

Proverbs 16

Jeremiah 26

1 Peter 3

Luke 22

Practice: ⁸ Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; ⁹  not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing (1 Peter 3).

WEEK 10

Job 22

Romans 15

Jeremiah 31

Mark 13

Isaiah 13

Psalm 77

Ezekiel 34

Practice: ¹² “Now, therefore,” says The Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”¹³ So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to The Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. And He relents from doing harm (Joel 2).

WEEK 11

Luke 8

Psalm 50

Hebrew 13

2 Samuel 12

John 17

Romans 3

Job 34

Practice: ²² “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:²³ Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; And to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the Salvation of God (Psalm 50).”

WEEK 12

Acts 16

Jeremiah 18

Hebrews 6

Galatians 2

Isaiah 4

2 Corinthians 12

1 Kings 18

Practice: ¹¹ Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. ¹² For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ¹³ And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account (Hebrews 4).