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Category: Verse to DATE

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 22 (9/22) is Esther 9:22

    “As the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which
    was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that
    they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents
    to one another and gifts to the poor.” – Esther 9:22
    It was Time to CELEBRATE!!

    Our verse to consider called for the JEWS to pause and CELEBRATE as the plot of evil Haman to destroy (literally annihilate) the Jews was foiled and had greatly failed. With reports coming into the capital of how the Jews had not just protected themselves from their enemies but had killed their enemies, Mordecai determined it was time to CELEBRATE.  And it was a very deserved CELEBRATION as just a few chapters earlier in the book of Esther the Jewish people were facing annihilation. But because of the bravery of Esther to expose Haman’s plot and her request for the Jews to defend themselves the Jewish people rallied and experienced one of its greatest victories.  And when there is a victory there needs to be a celebration!  

    Do you know how to pause to celebrate?  I heard once that Christians don’t celebrate well.  The thought was presented at a leadership conference.  The challenge was given that as we lay out the vision and goals we believe God would have us do and then see God do the miraculous to accomplish those goals that we should PAUSE to CELEBRATE.  I will state here that I was convicted, and was greatly challenged to incorporate the PAUSE to CELEBRATE into our schedule.  Working at a university did offer natural PAUSES and we decided to start taking advantage of the end of the school year with end-of-the-year banquets or CELEBRATIONS.  While we did not do everything found in Esther 9:22 we did try to have a time of feasting.  And there was lots of joy as we shared stories of how God worked.   

    As you consider to incorporate PAUSE to CELEBRATE I will tell you that there is great value in doing so. It allows for reflection that leads to gratitude to God and for a time to say thank you to those who worked so hard to make the dreams become a reality. Pausing to celebrate leads to glorifying God for the great things HE DID.  Pausing to celebrate will also bring about more dreaming.   

    So, how do you PAUSE to CELEBRATE the workings of God in your life, your church, your ministries, etc.?  

    Verse to DATE the Word on September 22 (9/22) is Esther 9:22. It says, “As the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor.” 

    Most of us know how to celebrate a sport’s victory.  Let us celebrate spiritual victories! 

    Continue Strong with an occasional PAUSE to CELEBRATE
    And remember to DATE the Word

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 21 (9/21) is Matthew 9:21

    “For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.” – Matthew 9:21
    A PATIENT OF FAILED PHYSICIANS BELIEVES JESUS IS THE GREAT PHYSICIAN

    As Matthew lays out his book about Jesus Christ he will in chapters 8 and 9 show the POWER that Jesus has.  He will tell one story after another so we can learn that there is absolutely nothing He cannot handle.  Whether it is a disease, a demon, or even death, Jesus is more powerful than any of these things.  In these chapters, He healed what was considered unhealable as seen when He healed the leper and the paralytics.  In these chapters, He will calm the raging storm on the sea and in doing so astonish with amazement His own disciples as they just could not believe how powerful He was.  

    As Matthew tells these amazing stories of the POWER of Jesus, he tells how two different people approached Him, both bringing to Him basically impossible situations. First would be a man named Jarius who was a leader in the synagogue.  He comes to Jesus with one of the most stunning requests one could give a person as he “bowed down before Jesus, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”  Talk about asking for the impossible to happen!! 

    To the request, as you probably know, Jesus got up and followed him and Matthew will tell that Jesus would raise this girl from the dead! 

    As Jesus is making His way to Jarius’ home Matthew tells of a second person who will display amazing, and in some ways, alarming faith.  Matthew describes her in verse 20 as being a woman who has suffered for 12 years from a blood issue.  Mark tells us that with the health issue she “had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse.” (Mark 5:26) Luke tells us she could not be healed by anyone. (Luke 8:43)

    What a sad and painful story.  However, this poor woman somehow hears about Jesus and all the powerful things He has done.   In her desperation, she decides to go where Jesus is and get the help she desperately needs. But unlike Jarius who will go up to Jesus to ask the impossible this woman comes up behind Jesus with the belief that all she needs to do is TOUCH HIS GARMENT.  What faith she had to believe that just a touch of His garment would bring about the healing numerous physicians had not been able to bring about over 12 long years.  

    I feel like I want to stand up and APPLAUD her. What about you? Some might describe her as having superstitious faith but what we read is really simple faith.   It was not superstitious or even superior or supernatural faith but simple, pure, genuine faith.  She had heard of His work with others and believed that He could change her life! So, by faith, she went to Him and touched His garment, and HE CHANGED HER!

    I trust you will pause and ponder the actions of this desperate hurting woman and decide to take your needs to Jesus!  

    Verse to DATE the Word on September 21 (9/21) is Matthew 9:21. It says, “For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.”

    Continue Strong trusting Him with Everything!  
    And remember to DATE the WORD!

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 20 (9/20) is Acts 9:20

    “Immediately Saul preached the Christ in the synagogues,
    that He is the Son of God.” – Acts 9:20
    From Persecuting Christians to Proclaiming Christ

    Saul, who as you know would soon be known as Paul, has an ENCOUNTER with the Lord Jesus Christ on the Damascus Road that CHANGED his life as he goes from being an UNBELIEVER to a believer.  With that decision, he went from the feared persecutor of the faith to the fearless preacher of the faith!  He went from persecuting Christians to proclaiming Christ!   

    What a reminder to us that no matter how far someone may be from Christ or even how much they may be against Christ they can come to know Christ and then start making Him known! Persecutors can become preachers!  Resisters can repent. The hardhearted become soft! The one who rejects Christ receives Christ! 

    In pondering Acts 9:20 where we read that Saul is immediately preaching Christ, we should consider that earlier in Acts 9:1-2 Saul had other plans.  Acts. 9:1-2 says “Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.”  Saul does not sound like a preacher of the gospel here. With that passion to persecute Christians who would have ever believed that we would read 18 verses later he is preaching in synagogues that Jesus Christ was the Son of God!   

    Please let this change in the life of Saul remind you to keep praying and keep witnessing to that person who right now is the farthest from Christ (the closest to hell) and the most against Christ, His church, Christians, and Christianity.  They are one decision from EVERYTHING CHANGING, changing so much that family and friends will surely be saying they can’t believe the change!!  

    Verse to DATE the Word on September 20 (9/20) is Acts 9:20. It says, “Immediately Saul preached the Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.”

    Keep sharing the salvation story with sinners so that they might know the Savior!

    Continue Strong being a fearless witness for the Lord!  
    And remember to DATE the WORD!

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 19 (9/19) is Nehemiah 9:19

    “Yet in Your manifold mercies You did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day, to lead them on the road; Nor the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, And the way they should go.” – Nehemiah 9:19
    I WILL SING OF YOUR MANIFOLD MERCIES

    In my humble opinion, God’s greatest promise is His promise of His continual presence with us as He has stated over and over that He will never forsake us. That means even when we resist His guidance, He stays with us. We see with the Israelites that instead of walking away from them, He continued to walk and work with them. Though they were committing awful blasphemies (Nehemiah 9:18) God never deserted His people.  

    We might ask what brought Him to do this level of commitment to those who were not fully committed to Him.  Nehemiah 9:19 tells us it was His manifold MERCIES.  

    I don’t know about you, but the word MANIFOLD grabs my attention as much as mercy does. It was not just His mercy but His MANIFOLD MERCIES.  What a word to describe God’s mercies – they are MANIFOLD! To be manifold is to say there was abundant mercy.  To say manifold is to say it exceeded the amount needed. To say manifold is to say it was a GREAT mercy and a great mercy was needed because great sins were being committed.  His MANIFOLD MERCIES kept God from giving them what they deserved and being gracious, He continued to walk and work with them as their guide LEADING them!  

    Quick thoughts of God’s mercy; From Nehemiah 9:19 we are told about there being manifold mercies. 
    Ephesians 2:4 tells us that God is RICH in mercy. 
    Psalm 119:156 proclaims “Great are Your tender mercies.” 
    1 Peter 1:3 tells of His abundant mercy! 
    Psalm 23:6 tells us that “surely goodness and MERCY follows us all the day long.”

    In several places in the Psalms David wrote that he would sing, especially singing of God’s mercy.
    Ps 59:16  But I will sing of Your power; Yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; For You have been my defense And refuge in the day of my trouble.
    Ps 89:1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations.
    Ps 101:1  A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and justice; To You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

    May we like David sing of His mercy to us that is renewed day by day for as Lamentation 3:22 says, “Through the LORD’S mercies we are not consumed,”

    Verse to DATE the Word on September 19 (9/19) is Nehemiah 9:19. It says, “Yet in Your manifold mercies You did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day, To lead them on the road; Nor the pillar of fire by night, To show them light, And the way they should go.”

    Continue Strong with gratitude and singing praises for God’s mercy!  
    And remember to DATE the WORD!

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 18 (9/18) is Ecclesiastes 9:18

    “Wisdom is better than weapons of war; But one
    sinner destroys much good.” – Ecclesiastes 9:18
    Reading through Ecclesiastes one will read a number of verses that are called contrastive verses.  They are easily recognizable as they will have the words “better than” or “but.”  Here we have a contrastive verse that has both “better than” and “but.”  Ecclesiastes 9:18 is one of those verses that demand we pause to ponder and let the verse challenge our thinking about how we live.

    Pause then to ponder that WISDOM is BETTER THAN WEAPONS OF WAR.  

    Can you picture the contrast?

    Wisdom here means to have skills, and, in this case, it would be skills of diplomacy as well as skills of preparation.  Diplomacy seeks to resolve issues rather than allowing for the issue to divide and dissolve which could then lead to massive destruction and death.  Wisdom also brings to the table the skills to prepare so that one is protected.  The concept of PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH comes to mind.  

    WEAPONS OF WAR.  Can you picture them?  While there is a time for war (Eccl. 3:8) one must know how horrific the weapons of war will be.  Diplomacy and defense are BETTER THAN the destructiveness of war.

    BUT.  There is another contrast in this verse that tells us that even as wisdom is sought so that wars are not started ONE, yes, just ONE sinner can destroy much good.   What a warning.  This warning is not just for a nation or nations but for a couple or a family or a church or any organization.  ONE sinner bent on having their own way brings about destruction.  Arrogance, pride, and ego contaminate the good work others are seeking to do!  

    Practical application: Wisdom says SEEK TO RESOLVE and be very SLOW to DISSOLVE! 

    To those who lead, be it family, church, businesses, government, etc. you must be on guard for the ONE who can poison the good work!  Recall the story of Achan in Joshua 6 and 7.  

    And for a non-biblical illustration recall the story of Archimedes, the greatest mathematician who did so much good for Syracuse and the world yet was killed in an instant by an angry soldier.  

    Our verse to DATE the Word on September 18 (9/18) is Ecclesiastes 9:18. It says, “Wisdom is better than weapons of war; But one sinner destroys much good.”

    Continue Strong seeking to resolve relationships, not dissolve them.  
    And remember to DATE THE WORD!

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 17 (9/17) is Nehemiah 9:17

    “They refused to obey, and they were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion, they appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are God, ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.” – Nehemiah 9:17
    God’s REMARKABLE Response to the REBELLION of His People

    Nehemiah 9 recalls the history of Israel as they are gloriously delivered out of slavery in Egypt by God’s mighty hand and their journey toward the Promised Land. Nehemiah 9 tells how God was so faithful to them even when they were rebellious toward Him.  In reading Nehemiah 9:17 one cannot help but notice the contrasting descriptions of how God’s people acted and how God responded.  With God’s people, there is REBELLION.  Let that word sink in for it is very descriptive.  REBELLION means to be in OPPOSITION.  How did they REBEL? V 17 says, “They REFUSED TO OBEY.”  Furthermore, they failed TO REMEMBER God’s wonders in bringing about deliverance from Egypt.  They RESISTED what He was doing (HARDENED THEIR NECKS.) In other words, they were STUBBORN. They were a STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE which meant they were resistant TO TURNING to go God’s way. They were so against what God was doing and where He was taking them that they RECRUITED leadership (are you ready) to RETURN THEM TO SLAVERY.  

    Talk about a sad summation of the people of God as they started their journey to the Promised Land.  And yet their story is so often our story as we still after getting saved, rebel and resist going and doing what God wants us to do. 

    Now if you were God how would you respond to such REBELLION?  After responding to their request for relief from their bondage you have Your people REBEL, resisting Your leadership in their lives. Their rebelling against God has them not just wishing to return to Egyptian slavery but working to return BACK to slavery.  Seriously, if you were God, how would you respond?

    From Nehemiah 9:17 we find out how God does respond and it is nothing short of REMARKABLE.  The verse gives us one of the best descriptions of God we get in the Bible about our God, especially considering how the people of God are behaving.  
    Nehemiah 9:17 tells us that GOD is, well, GOD!  “BUT You are GOD!”  And as GOD you are ready to FORGIVE!  As GOD, He is GRACIOUS.  This means He will continue to give what they don’t deserve.  As GOD He is MERCIFUL.  This means He will continue to NOT give them what they deserve.  As GOD He is SLOW TO ANGER or He is LONGSUFFERING, meaning He has a long fuse. His anger does arise but with great control.  As GOD He is not just kind but demonstrates ABUNDANT KINDNESS which means He does for His people things they never would have expected.  As GOD, He does not forsake.  He keeps His promise!  What a REMARKABLE response, wouldn’t you say?

    Nehemiah 9:17 is one of these verses you want to have tucked away in your heart and mind as a reminder of 1) WHAT NOT TO BE and it gives 2) a tremendous reminder of WHO GOD IS!  

    Verse to DATE the Word on September 17 (917/) is Nehemiah 9:17. It says, “They refused to obey, and they were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion, they appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are God, ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.”

    Continue Strong with much gratitude to God’s remarkable response to your rebellion!
    And remember to DATE the WORD!

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 16 (9/16) is 1 Corinthians 9:16

    “Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. 
    Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!” – 1 Corinthians 9:16
    A PASSIONATE PASSION TO PREACH THE GOSPEL

    As the Apostle Paul defends his apostleship to the Corinthians he tells them that he does not look at preaching the gospel as something to brag or boast about to them.  Rather he felt an overwhelming compulsion to preach the precious message that would rescue a lost sinner from a burning hell.  Before he himself was saved the last thing he would have ever done was preach the gospel but now that he has been saved it is the first thing and the most important thing he believes he must do. One might say he had a PASSIONATE PASSION TO PREACH the GOSPEL.  Talk about a changed life!  

    What about you?  Since Jesus came into your wicked heart and changed you do you have a passion to preach the gospel?  I do not speak about being a “preacher” but being one who makes known through daily witnessing the gospel to those who are in your sphere of influence.  Is there a feeling, a burden, a passion, yes, a compulsion where you MUST TELL OTHERS ABOUT JESUS?  

    In our verse to consider Paul added that for him it was painful not to share.  He said, “WOE IS ME” or tremendous grief comes to me, a pain comes to me, if I do not preach and proclaim to others the gospel.  I wonder if we feel any pain for not sharing the gospel when opportunities cross our paths.

    May we ponder and consider from 1 Corinthians 9:16 how important it is now that we have heard and believed the gospel to make sure others hear so that they might believe!  May you be passionate this day to proclaim, yes, preach the gospel.

    Verse to DATE the Word on September 16 (9/16) is 1 Corinthians 9:16. It says, “Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!”

    While sharing the gospel may have been the last thing you ever thought of doing may it now be the first thing you think of doing!

    Continue Strong preaching the gospel,
    And remember to DATE the Word

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 15 (9/15) is 2 Corinthians 9:15

    “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” – 2 Corinthians 9:15
    Trying to DESCRIBE the INDESCRIBABLE

    Occasionally I get the opportunity to watch a sunrise over a beach in south Florida.  As the morning broke one particular morning the sky was filled with such brilliant color that I found myself at a loss for the exact words to describe what I was seeing.  It was so incredible that I found myself saying this handiwork of God is INDESCRIBABLE.   

    Have you ever found yourself looking at something that you found INDESCRIBABLE? The Apostle Paul was a wonderful and gifted wordsmith who could give us very descriptive words to define what love does in 1 Corinthians 13 but when he sought to describe God’s gift of Jesus Christ as our SAVIOR and the gift of salvation that He and He alone provides he found the best he could do to describe this gift was to say it was INDESCRIBABLE – too extraordinary for description.  

    Ponder what God did for us in GIVING His Son (think John 3:16!) and what Jesus GAVE (think Galatians 1:4 “Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father).  Is it not beyond description?  Can any words truly express properly the greatness of the gift? I don’t know about you, but it is so very hard for my mind to comprehend such love, such a free gift!!

    Yet while the gift of salvation from our gracious Savior is so hard to describe and comprehend it is not a gift that cannot be understood by a young child.  A child can hear the glorious gospel and be saved. 

    I challenge you to ponder the gift of salvation that you received from our Heavenly Father.  As you ponder consider just how truly indescribable His gift is as you seek to fully express how meaningful and grateful you are for God’s gift of salvation. I suspect the exercise will be very humbling as to consider His gift of salvation is to consider what it took for our Savior to provide such a gift.  He loved us and washed our sins away by dying on the cross.  He restored us to a relationship with God that comes with a promise of an eternal home in heaven when we die.  WHAT A GIFT!  What an undeserving gift.   

    No wonder the Apostle Paul described it as INDESCRIBABLE.

    Verse to DATE the Word on September 15 (9/15) is 2 Corinthians 9:15. It says, “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”

    Continue strong with gratitude for God’s indescribable gift of salvation,
    And remember to DATE THE Word

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 14 (9/14) is Joshua 9:14

    “Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions, 
    but they did not ask counsel of the LORD.” – Joshua 9:14
    Running Ahead of the Lord, acting like an Atheist

    Are you a practicing atheist? You may be a little taken aback by the question.  I won’t apologize though for asking as I am concerned (even for myself) that there are times we live life as if there is no God.  We find ourselves facing decisions and while we have an available Advisor to acknowledge and to ask for His guidance we make the decision without any consultation with the One who is supposed to be in charge of our lives.  In other words, we are living life as if there were no God.  In reality, when we live this way we are practicing atheists.   

    This idea of living life as if there is no God is the central theme of Joshua 9:14   They were facing a situation in which God needed to be involved.  Going from one battle to another in order to take possession of the Promised Land they encounter the Gibeonites who are seeking to deceive the men of Israel.  The men of Israel should have been acknowledging and asking God for His take on the situation. Joshua  9:14 makes this very indicting analysis as we read, “BUT they did not ask counsel of the LORD.”   

    Being honest with yourself, I ask if “BUT THEY (YOU) DID NOT ASK COUNSEL OF THE LORD” is a true evaluation of how you are making your life decisions.  Are you running ahead of the Lord in making decisions as you are relying on your own understanding?  

    As believers, we are always to be acknowledging God and asking for direction from Him. Pastor James rebukes his readers in James 4:13-16 with this challenge about running ahead of God.  These verse says, “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas, you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.”

    For the believer, we are to be putting Proverbs 3:5-6 into daily, yes, even hourly practice.  In case you need a reminder it says, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.”

    Friends, Acknowledge the best ADVISOR in ALL your WAYS/decisions!!!

    Verse to DATE the Word on September 14 (9/14) is Joshua 9:14. It says, “Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions, but they did not ask counsel of the LORD.”

    It is not good to be out of step with the Lord.  You don’t want to be falling behind and you don’t want to be running ahead.  To be in step with the Lord is to WALK WITH THE LORD after WAITING ON THE LORD!   

    Continue Strong acknowledging the Lord in ALL your ways/decisions!  
    And remember to DATE the Word!

  • Verse to DATE the Word on September 13 (9/13) is 1 Chronicles 9:13

     “And their brethren, heads of their fathers’ houses—1,760. They were very able 
    men for the work of the service of the house of God.” – 1 Chronicles 9:13
    VERY ABLE, yes CAPABLE for the Work of God

    1 Chronicles is one of the books we pass over as we seek to read through our Bibles.  It is full of genealogies and lists and names that are hard to pronounce.  It tells of people doing things that we don’t relate to and tells of how many are with this group and how many are with that family.  And we pass over the chapters and verses rather quickly.  However, there is within this very vital book some real nuggets of spiritual insight.  1 Chronicles 9:13 begins with the FACTS about a group of priests and tells us there were 1760 that were heads of homes who would be involved in the work that was to be done at the House of God or the temple.  Along with the FACTS comes a description of these men that catch our attention for these men were VERY ABLE MEN for the work that they would be assigned.  They were VERY ABLE or as one version states THEY WERE CAPABLE.  

    Not everyone can do everything and not everyone is qualified to do some specific things.  Some tasks demand that those doing them are ABLE or CAPABLE.  Think of a brain surgeon or air traffic controller, for instance.  The writer here in 1 Chronicles says definitely that these men were ABLE for the work  They had what it took to do the job.  

    As I read and re-read this verse I could not help but think of what Jethro told his son-in-law Moses as he instructed Moses to select helpers.  In Exodus 18:21 one reads of the qualifications to be a helper and it reads “Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”  The first characteristic was ABLE men.  They had to be CAPABLE.  

    Having been a part of the process of selecting literally thousands of student leaders a year to serve in various roles we worked hard to help determine what we were looking for in the candidate.  The list included a review of their character.  We wanted to review their concern for people.  We wanted to review their commitment, which included their work ethic.  We then reviewed their competence, which was the question of being capable of doing the job. Along with being capable was the question of their capacity.  We wanted to probe to see if they could handle more responsibilities.   Then we asked the question if they were coachable.  Almost all have to grow into a new position so while being capable we were looking to expand their capabilities and that only happened with being coachable.  We also wanted to review if they were living a Christ-like life in order to be faithful to Him and an example to others.  The last question we wanted to ask was about their calling to this particular service.   With these questions and maybe a few others, we felt we could determine if a student was ABLE to serve in the desired role.  Guided by Exodus 18:21 and 1 Chronicles 9:13 we wanted to find ABLE student leaders. 

    As you look at the last part of 1 Chronicles 9:13 how does it help you in being a servant for the Lord and how does it help you that are selecting others for various roles? 

    Verse to DATE the Word on September 13 (9/13) is 1 Chronicles 9:13.  It says,  “and their brethren, heads of their fathers’ houses—1,760. They were very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.”

    Continue Strong being a CAPABLE servant for the Lord
    And remember to DATE the Word