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06/09/2026

Matthew 7:13-14 (King James Version)

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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06/08/2026

READ THE BIBLE! June 9
Read Second Corinthians, Chapter 11

2 Corinthians 11
(KJV updated)

1 I hope before God that you could bear with me a little in my foolishness: And indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with Godly jealousy: For I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, yet you have well tolerated him.
5 For I suppose I was not an iota behind the very chiefest apostles.
6 But though I be unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
7 Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the Gospel of God freely?
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: For that which was lacking to me the brothers which came from Macedonia supplied: And in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knows.
12 But what I do, that will I continue to do, that I may cut off any occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And do not marvel; for Satan also transforms himself into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also are transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16 I say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.
20 For you suffer, if a man brings you into bo***ge, if a man devours you, if a man takes of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man smites you on the face.
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Nevertheless wherever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.
24 Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once was I stoned, three times I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 In journeyings often, in dangers of waters, in dangers of robbers, in dangers by my own countrymen, in dangers by the heathen, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my weaknesses.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knows that I lie not.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to apprehend me:
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

06/08/2026

READ THE BIBLE! June 9
Read the Second Book of Kings, Chapters 21 and 22

2 Kings 21
(KJV updated)

1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 And he built altars in the House of the LORD, of which the LORD said, “In Jerusalem will I put My Name.”
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the House of the LORD.
6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: He wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this House, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put My Name forever:
8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that My servant Moses commanded them.
9 But they hearkened not: And Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
11 “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols:”
12 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel, “Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
14 And I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
15 Because they have done that which was evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: And Amon his son reigned in his place.
19 Amon was twenty two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
26 And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza: And Josiah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 22
(KJV updated)

1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the House of the LORD, saying,
4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the House of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the House of the LORD: And let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the House of the LORD, to repair the damages to the House,
6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the House.”
7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the House of the LORD.”And Hilkiah gave the Book to Shaphan, and he read it.
9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, “Your servants have gathered the money that was found in the House, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the House of the LORD.”
10 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a Book.” And Shaphan read it before the king.
11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the Words of the Book of the Law, that he rent his clothes.
12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
13 “Go you, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the Words of this Book that is found: For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened unto the Words of this Book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.”
14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
15 And she said unto them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
16 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of it, even all the Words of the Book which the king of Judah has read:
17 Because they have forsaken Me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore My wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, As touching the Words which you have heard;
19 Because your heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have rent your clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.
20 Behold therefore, I will gather you unto your fathers, and you shall be gathered into your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.”And they brought the king word again.

06/08/2026

STUDY THE BOOK! June 9,
Study these Chapters: 2 Kings 21-22, 2 Corinthians 11

2 Kings 22: 8 “And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the House of the LORD.”And Hilkiah gave the Book to Shaphan, and he read it.”

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. And he had men repair the House of the Lord. As they worked, Hilkiah found the Book of the Law. This Book was the five Books of Moses, known as the Pentateuch. Shaphan took the Book and read it before Josiah. And when Josiah heard it, he tore his robe. He knew the Lord’s anger was against them because until now, they had not obeyed this Book.
That generation of God's people had lost the Word, just like many Christians today. Even though we have the Word but we don't read it. Josiah responded to the Word with tears and obedience like we should.
Let’s rediscover the Book of God.
It says in The Book of Revelation 1:3, “Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the Words of this Prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: For the time is at hand.”

06/07/2026

READ THE BIBLE! June 8th
Read Second Corinthians, Chapter 10

2 Corinthians 10
(KJV updated)

1 Now I Paul myself beg you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in your presence I am humble among you, but being absent I am bold toward you:
2 But I beg you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11 Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
12 For we dare not include ourselves with the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: But they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, they are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
14 For we do not stretch ourselves beyond our measure, as though we had not reached to you: For we are come as far as to you also in preaching the Gospel of Christ:
15 Not boasting of things beyond our measure, that is, of other men's labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
16 To preach the Gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's area of things made ready to our hand.
17 But he that glories, let him glory in the Lord.
18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

06/07/2026

READ THE BIBLE! June 8
Read the Second Book of Kings, Chapters 19 and 20

2 Kings 19
(KJV updated)

1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the House of the LORD.
2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the Living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD your God has heard: Wherefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, “Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: For he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he is come out to fight against you:” He sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, “Let not your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: And shall you be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?”
14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: And Hezekiah went up into the House of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, “O LORD God of Israel, which dwells between the cherubim, You are the God, even You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; You have made heaven and earth.
16 LORD, bow down Your ear, and hear: Open, LORD, Your eyes, and see: And hear the words of Sennacherib, which has sent him to reproach the living God.
17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 And have cast their gods into the fire: For they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: Therefore they have destroyed them.
19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I plead with You, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD God, even you only.”
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, That which you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This is the Word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion has despised you, and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
22 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By your messengers you have reproached the LORD, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees of it, and the choice fir trees of it: And I will enter into the lodgings of His borders, and into the forest of His Carmel.
24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25 Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
27 But I know your abode, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against Me.
28 Because your rage against Me and your tumult is come up into My ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
29 And this shall be a sign unto you, you shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of it.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: The zeal of the LORD of Hosts shall do this.”
32 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, “He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, says the LORD.
34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.”
35 And it came to pass that night, that the Angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty five thousand: And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: And they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 20
(KJV updated)

1 In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, “Thus says the LORD, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.”
2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
3 “I plead with you, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept sore.
4 And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the Word of the LORD came to him, saying,
5 “Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: Behold, I will heal you: On the third day you shall go up unto the House of the LORD.
6 And I will add unto your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.”
7 And Isaiah said, “Take a lump of figs." And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the House of the LORD the third day?”
9 And Isaiah said, “This sign shall you have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He has spoken: Shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?"
10 And Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: No, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees."
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: And He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
12 At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: For he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shown them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shown them not.
14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, “What said these men? And from whence came they unto you?” And Hezekiah said, “They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.”
15 And he said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “All the things that are in my house have they seen: There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, “Hear the Word of the LORD.
17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.
18 And of your sons that shall issue from you, which you shall give birth, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, “Good is the Word of the LORD which you have spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?”
20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: And Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

06/07/2026

Read The Book! June 8
Study these Chapters: 2 Kings 19–20, 2 Corinthians 10

2 Corinthians 10:3 “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh!”

Every Christian is in a war. But it is a spiritual war. There is always the temptation when we are attacked in the flesh, to respond in the flesh. But there is a better way. The weapons we are suppose to use are not only spiritual in nature but powerful in the Spirit. If we will allow the Spirit of God to lead us, we will be able to take advantage of these powerful spiritual weapons that can destroy every enemy stronghold. “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.” v. 4.
Fearful imaginations and false arguments can arise that will try to destroy our knowledge of God. But they are destroyed by our obedience to Christ. v. 5 “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”
Let’s bind every thought in the authority of Jesus that does not agree with God’s Will. Then we will be more than conquers if we will fight our battles in the Spirit.

06/07/2026

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06/07/2026

Republican governors across the US are offering Biblically framed alternatives to June LGBTQ Pride Month celebrations, in turn celebrating God's design for families.

Red states are using the opportunity to promote a variety of messages. For example, some are seeking to protect unborn life as a necessary step to support the nuclear family.

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06/07/2026

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