Peoples Gospel Church's "Listening to God" Devotional

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+005     Chapter Five (ESV) 1 When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. 3 And when the people of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+004     Chapter Four (ESV) 1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek. 2 The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+003     Chapter Three (ESV) 1 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. 2 At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+002     Chapter Two (ESV) 1 And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. 2 “There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Samuel+001   1 Samuel Introduction The books commonly known as 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings are really one long book. (They were separated due to the length of ancient scrolls.) Beginning with Samuel, the last of the judges, this book describes what happened in the days of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Corinthians+016   CHAPTER 16 (ESV) 13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in love. 15 Now I urge you, brothers—you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Corinthians+015   CHAPTER 15 (ESV) 50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Corinthians+014   CHAPTER 14 (ESV) 6 Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? 7 If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Corinthians+013   CHAPTER 13 (ESV) 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Corinthians+012   CHAPTER 12 (ESV) 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and…