This past Sunday was the beginning of Advent and this year I am determined to keep in the season. So we will not be celebrating Christmas UNTIL Christmas! So to help our family focused on the coming of Christ we are trying something new. We are going to do a Jesse Tree. I know this is not something “new” however it is something new to us. We participated in it when we were in formation in Texas but have never actively done one ourselves. So we are embarking on a new challenge and we invite you to join us this year.
Here are the readings for this week:
Sunday 1 Samuel 16:1-13
Monday 1 Genesis 1:24-28
Tuesday Genesis 3:1-24
Wednesday 6:11-22, 8:6-12
Thursday Genesis 12:1-7, 13:6-18
Friday Genesis 22:1-14
Saturday Genesis 27: 41-28:22
Here are the first three days typed out for you to read.
Sunday week 1
1 Samuel 16:1-13
1The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you go on grieving over Saul: I have rejected him as king of Israel/ bur now get some olive oil and go to Bethlehem; to a man named Jesse, because I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”
2”How can I do that:” Samuel asked. “If Saul hears about it, he will kill me!”
The Lord answered, “Take a calf with you and say that you are there to offer a sacrifice to the Lord. 3Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will tell you what to do. You will anoint as king the man I tell you to.”
4Samuel did what the Lord told him to do and went to Bethlehem, where the city leaders came trembling to meet him and asked, “Is this a peaceful visit, seer?”
5”Yes,” he answered. “I have come to offer a sacrifice to the Lord. Purify yourselves and come with me.” He also told Jesse and his sons to purify themselves, and he incited them to the sacrifice.
6when they arrived, Samuel saw Jesse’s son Eliab and said to himself, “This man standing here in the Lord’s presence is surely the one he has chosen.” 7But the Lord said to him, “Pay no attention to how tall and handsome he is. I have rejected him, because I do not judge as man judges. Man looks at the outward appearance, but I look at the heart.”
8Then Jesse called his son Abinadab and brought him to Samuel. But Samuel said, “No, the Lord hasn’t chosen him either.” 9Jesse then brought Shammah. “No, the Lord hasn’t chosen him either,” Samuel said. 10In this way Jesse brought seven of his sons to Samuel. And Samuel said to him, “No, the Lord hasn’t chosen any of these.” 11Then he asked him, “Do you have any more sons?”
Jesse answered, “There is still the youngest, but he is out taking care of the sheep.”
“Tell him to come here,” Samuel said. “We won’t offer the sacrifice until he comes.” 12So Jesse sent for him. He was a handsome, healthy young man, and his eyes sparkled. The Lord said to Samuel, “This is the one—anoint him!” 13Samuel took the olive oil and anointed David in front of his brothers. Immediately the spirit of the Lord took control of David and was with him from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.
Monday week 1
Genesis 1: 24-28
24Then God commanded, “Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life: domestic and wild, large and small:--and it was done. 25So God made them all, and he was pleased with what he saw.
26Then God said, “And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small.” 27So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female, 28blessed them, and said, “Have many children, so that your decedents will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.
Tuesday week 1
Genesis 3: 1-24
The Disobedience of Man
Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made. The snake asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”
2”We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden,” the woman answered, 3 “except the tree in the middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of that tree or even touch it; if we do, we will die.”
4The snake replied, “That’s not true; you will not die. 5God said that because he knows that when you eat it, you will be like God and know what is good and what is bad.”
6The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruits would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it. 7As soon as they had eaten it, they were given understanding and realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and covered themselves.
8That evening they heard the Lord God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees. 9But the Lord God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
10He answered, “I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked.”
11”Who told you that you were naked?” God asked. “Did you eat the fruit that I told you not to eat?”
12 The man answered, “The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
13 The Lord God asked the woman, “Why did you so this?”
She replied, “The snake tricked me into eating it.”
God Pronounced Judgment
14Then the Lord God said to the snake, “You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live. 15I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite their heel.”
16And he said to the woman, “I will increase you trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for you husband, yet you will be subject to him.”
17And he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you. 18It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants. 19You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made form soil, and you will become soil again.”
20Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all human beings. 21And the Lord God made cloths out of animal skins for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them.
Adam and Eve Are Sent Out of the Garden
22Then the Lord God said, “Now the man has become like one of us and has knowledge of what is good and what is bad. He must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, and live forever.” 23So the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden and made him cultivate the soil from which he had been formed. 24Then at the east side of the garden he put living creatures and a flaming sword which turned in all directions. This was to keep anyone from coming near the tree that gives life.
Here are the readings for this week:
Sunday 1 Samuel 16:1-13
Monday 1 Genesis 1:24-28
Tuesday Genesis 3:1-24
Wednesday 6:11-22, 8:6-12
Thursday Genesis 12:1-7, 13:6-18
Friday Genesis 22:1-14
Saturday Genesis 27: 41-28:22
Here are the first three days typed out for you to read.
Sunday week 1
1 Samuel 16:1-13
1The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you go on grieving over Saul: I have rejected him as king of Israel/ bur now get some olive oil and go to Bethlehem; to a man named Jesse, because I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”
2”How can I do that:” Samuel asked. “If Saul hears about it, he will kill me!”
The Lord answered, “Take a calf with you and say that you are there to offer a sacrifice to the Lord. 3Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will tell you what to do. You will anoint as king the man I tell you to.”
4Samuel did what the Lord told him to do and went to Bethlehem, where the city leaders came trembling to meet him and asked, “Is this a peaceful visit, seer?”
5”Yes,” he answered. “I have come to offer a sacrifice to the Lord. Purify yourselves and come with me.” He also told Jesse and his sons to purify themselves, and he incited them to the sacrifice.
6when they arrived, Samuel saw Jesse’s son Eliab and said to himself, “This man standing here in the Lord’s presence is surely the one he has chosen.” 7But the Lord said to him, “Pay no attention to how tall and handsome he is. I have rejected him, because I do not judge as man judges. Man looks at the outward appearance, but I look at the heart.”
8Then Jesse called his son Abinadab and brought him to Samuel. But Samuel said, “No, the Lord hasn’t chosen him either.” 9Jesse then brought Shammah. “No, the Lord hasn’t chosen him either,” Samuel said. 10In this way Jesse brought seven of his sons to Samuel. And Samuel said to him, “No, the Lord hasn’t chosen any of these.” 11Then he asked him, “Do you have any more sons?”
Jesse answered, “There is still the youngest, but he is out taking care of the sheep.”
“Tell him to come here,” Samuel said. “We won’t offer the sacrifice until he comes.” 12So Jesse sent for him. He was a handsome, healthy young man, and his eyes sparkled. The Lord said to Samuel, “This is the one—anoint him!” 13Samuel took the olive oil and anointed David in front of his brothers. Immediately the spirit of the Lord took control of David and was with him from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.
Monday week 1
Genesis 1: 24-28
24Then God commanded, “Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life: domestic and wild, large and small:--and it was done. 25So God made them all, and he was pleased with what he saw.
26Then God said, “And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small.” 27So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female, 28blessed them, and said, “Have many children, so that your decedents will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.
Tuesday week 1
Genesis 3: 1-24
The Disobedience of Man
Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made. The snake asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”
2”We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden,” the woman answered, 3 “except the tree in the middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of that tree or even touch it; if we do, we will die.”
4The snake replied, “That’s not true; you will not die. 5God said that because he knows that when you eat it, you will be like God and know what is good and what is bad.”
6The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruits would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it. 7As soon as they had eaten it, they were given understanding and realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and covered themselves.
8That evening they heard the Lord God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees. 9But the Lord God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
10He answered, “I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked.”
11”Who told you that you were naked?” God asked. “Did you eat the fruit that I told you not to eat?”
12 The man answered, “The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
13 The Lord God asked the woman, “Why did you so this?”
She replied, “The snake tricked me into eating it.”
God Pronounced Judgment
14Then the Lord God said to the snake, “You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live. 15I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite their heel.”
16And he said to the woman, “I will increase you trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for you husband, yet you will be subject to him.”
17And he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you. 18It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants. 19You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made form soil, and you will become soil again.”
20Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all human beings. 21And the Lord God made cloths out of animal skins for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them.
Adam and Eve Are Sent Out of the Garden
22Then the Lord God said, “Now the man has become like one of us and has knowledge of what is good and what is bad. He must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, and live forever.” 23So the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden and made him cultivate the soil from which he had been formed. 24Then at the east side of the garden he put living creatures and a flaming sword which turned in all directions. This was to keep anyone from coming near the tree that gives life.
I pray that this Advent season brings you much peace.
God Bless, Melinda
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