Together in the Word: Day 23

Together in the Word: Day

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Psalm 27:7-14; Judges 7:12-22; Philippians 2:12-18

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2023 | EPIPHANY
TUESDAY AFTER THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
YEAR A

         Psalm       Psalm 27:7–14
         First Reading       Judges 7:12–22
         Second Reading       Philippians 2:12–18

Index of Readings

PSALM
Psalm 27:7–14

     7Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice,
     And be gracious to me and answer me.
     8When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You,
     “Your face, O LORD, I shall seek.”
     9Do not hide Your face from me,
     Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
     You have been my help;
     Do not abandon me nor forsake me,
     O God of my salvation!
     10For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
     But the LORD will take me up.

     11Teach me Your way, O LORD,
     And lead me in a level path
     Because of my foes.
     12Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
     For false witnesses have risen against me,
     And such as breathe out violence.
     13I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD
     In the land of the living.
     14Wait for the LORD;
     Be strong and let your heart take courage;
     Yes, wait for the LORD.

FIRST READING
Judges 7:12–22
12Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.
13When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating a dream to his friend. And he said, “Behold, I had a dream; a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat.”
14His friend replied, “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.”
15When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the camp of Midian into your hands.”
16He divided the 300 men into three companies, and he put trumpets and empty pitchers into the hands of all of them, with torches inside the pitchers.
17He said to them, “Look at me and do likewise. And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.
18“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.’ ”

19So 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.
20When 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!”
21Each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran, crying out as they fled.
22When they blew 300 trumpets, the LORD set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole army; and the 1army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

SECOND READING
Philippians 2:12–18
12So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;
13for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
14Do all things without grumbling or disputing;
15so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,
16holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.
17But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
18You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.

Consultation on Common Texts, Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2011).

Mat 6:9-13 NASB  “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.  (10)  ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.  (11)  ‘Give us this day our daily bread.  (12)  ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.  (13)  ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’