The WeakDay Devotion has been written fresh every week day morning since 1999.

Especially for those who want more Scripture with their devotion than most offer.

The current series is about ‘Foods of the Bible’ and is dedicated to Audley McLean, an exceptional Bible teacher.

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Tithe-free Rue

“Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in and reclined at the table.  When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first ceremonially washed before the meal. 

 

“But the Lord said to him…

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Sweetening Disobedience

“Then their father Israel said to them, ‘If it must be so, then do this:  take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man as a present, a little balm and a little honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.’” Genesis 43:11

 

[God speaking] “’Go up to a land flowing with milk and…

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Little Red Boxes

“Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the Lord, he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.  All the days of…

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Validate the Bible

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” John 1:1-3

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Quail in Psalms

“Then He brought them out with silver and gold; and among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.  Egypt was glad when they departed; for the dread of them had fallen upon them.

 

“He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to illumine by night.  They asked, and He brought quail, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. 

 

“He opened the rock, and water flowed out; it ran in the dry places like…

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Discontent In Excess

“Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh.  Now Miriam died there and was buried there.  There was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron.  The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, ‘If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord! 

 

“’Why then have you brought the Lord’s assembly into…

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Offer Your Best

“Juda said to his father Israel, ‘Send the land with me and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, we as well as you and our little ones.  I myself will be surety for him; you may hold me responsible for him.  If I do not bring him back to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame before you forever.  For if we had not delayed, surely by now…

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Are you perfect?

““By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.  Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins fort all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet. 

 

“For by one offering He has perfected for…

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WeakEnd Assignment – Bible Gems!

“All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.” II Timothy 3:16

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Like a Flea!

“Then Saul recognised David’s voice and said, ‘Is this your voice, my son David?’  And David said, ‘It is my voice, my lord the king.’  He also said, ‘Why then is my lord pursuing his servant?  For what have I done?  Or what evil is in my hand?’

 

“’Now therefore, please let my lord the king listen to…

“’It shall come about, the one who…

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12 Oxen

“The Lord said to him [Elijah], ‘Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you have arrived, you shall anoint Hazael king over Aram; and Jehu the son of Nimsha you shall anoint king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.

 

“’It shall come about, the one who…

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The ‘Complainers’

“Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. 

 

“The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord and the fire died out.  So the name of that place was called…

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Pressing Olives

“With what shall I come to the Lord and bow myself before the God on High?  Shall I come to Him with burnt offerings, with yearling calves?  Does the Lord take delight in thousands of rams, in ten thousand rivers of oil? 

 

“’Shall I present my firstborn for my rebellious acts, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?  He has told you, O man, what is good; and…

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Shaken Fruit

“’Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.  It will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain, as his arm harvests the ears, or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim. 

 

“’Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives on the topmost bough, four or…

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WeakEnd Assignment - Sin

[Jesus teaching] “’Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law”

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Battle Bread

[God speaking] “’But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; and you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.  Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. 

 

“’The water you drink shall be

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Milk of Faithfulness

“Most blessed of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; most blessed is she of women in the tent.  He asks for water and she gave him milk; in a magnificent bowl she brought him curds. 

 

“She reached out her hand for

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Murky Milk

[Job speaking with God] “’Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, and would You destroy me?  Remember now, that You have made me as clay’ and would You turn me into dust again? 

Did You not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese; cloth me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews?

“’You have granted me

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…and honey

‘Then the Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’

 

“’I will send…

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Selective Remembering

“And the rabble who were among them had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, ‘

Who will give us meat to eat?  We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the,…

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