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Rise up, O Lord, in all your power.
With music and singing we
celebrate your mighty acts.
January 26
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PROVERBS 5:16
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2
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My son, pay attention to my
wisdom;
listen carefully to my wise
counsel.
Then you will show discernment,
and your lips will express what
you’ve learned.
For the lips of an immoral woman
are as sweet as honey,
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and her mouth is smoother
than oil.
But in the end she is as bitter as
poison,
as dangerous as a double-edged
sword.
Her feet go down to death;
her steps lead straight to the
grave.*
For she cares nothing about the
path to life.
She staggers down a crooked
trail and doesn’t realize it.
5:5 Hebrew to Sheol.
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JANUARY
Lord, thank you for empowering Moses to take a deep
breath and then tell Pharaoh to set your people free. Give
our leaders the courage to speak truth to power too. Amen.
EXODUS 2:11–3:22
Many years later, when M
oses had
grown up, he went out to visit his own
people, the Hebrews, and he saw how
hard they were forced to work. During
his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating
one of his fellow Hebrews. 12 After
looking in all directions to make sure
no one was watching, Moses killed the
Egyptian and hid the body in the sand.
13 The next day, when
Moses went
out to visit his people again, he saw
two Hebrew men fighting. “Why are
you beating up your friend?” M
oses
said to the one who had started the
fight.
14 The man replied, “Who appointed
you to be our prince and judge? Are
you going to kill me as you killed that
Egyptian yesterday?”
Then Moses was afraid, thinking,
“Everyone knows what I did.” 15 And
sure enough, Pharaoh heard what had
happened, and he tried to kill M
oses.
But Moses fled from Pharaoh and
went to live in the land of Midian.
When Moses arrived in Midian, he
sat down beside a well. 16 Now the
priest of Midian had seven daughters
who came as usual to draw water and
fill the water troughs for their father’s
flocks. 17 But some other shepherds
came and chased them away. So Moses
jumped up and rescued the girls from
the shepherds. Then he drew water for
their flocks.
18 When the girls returned to Reuel,
their father, he asked, “Why are you
back so soon today?”
19 “An Egyptian rescued us from
the shepherds,” they answered. “And
then he drew water for us and watered
our flocks.”
20 “Then where is he?” their father
asked. “Why did you leave him there?
Invite him to come and eat with us.”
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Moses accepted the invitation,
and he settled there with him. In
time, Reuel gave Moses his daughter
Zipporah to be his wife. 22 Later she
gave birth to a son, and M
oses named
him Gershom,* for he explained, “I
have been a foreigner in a foreign
land.”
23 Years passed, and the king of
Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of
slavery. They cried out for help, and
their cry rose up to God. 24 God heard
their groaning, and he remembered
