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Read Through the Bible July Old Testament / New Testament Tue 1 2 Chr. 14-15 / Heb. 4 Wed 2 2 Chr. 16-18 / Heb. 5-6 Thu 3 2 Chr. 19-20 / Heb. 7 Fri 4 2 Chr. 21-22 / Heb. 8 Sat 5 2 Chr. 23-24 / Heb. 9 Sun 6 2 Chr. 25-26 / Heb. 10 Mon 7 2 Chr. 27-28 / Heb. 11 Tue 8 2 Chr. 29-30 / Heb. 12 Wed 9 2 Chr. 31-33 / Heb. 13; Jas. 1 Thu 10 2 Chr. 34-35 / Jas. 2 Fri 11 2 Chr. 36; Ezr. 1 / Jas. 3 Sat 12 Ezr. 2-3 / Jas. 4 Sun 13 Ezr. 4-5 / Jas. 5 Mon 14 Ezr. 6-7 / 1 Pet. 1 Tue 15 Ezr. 8-9 / 1 Pet. 2 Wed 16 Ezr. 10; Neh. 1-2 / 1 Pet. 3-4 Thu 17 Neh. 3-4 / 1 Pet. 5 Fri 18 Neh. 5-6 / 2 Pet. 1 Sat 19 Neh. 7-8 / 2 Pet. 2 Sun 20 Neh. 9-10 / 2 Pet. 3 Mon 21 Neh. 11-12 / 1 Jn. 1 Tue 22 Neh. 13; Est. 1 / 1 Jn. 2 Wed 23 Est. 2-4 / 1 Jn. 3-4 Thu 24 Est. 5-6 / 1 Jn. 5 Fri 25 Est. 7-8 / 2 Jn. Sat 26 Est. 9-10 / 3 Jn. Sun 27 Job 1-2 / Jude Mon 28 Job 3-4 / Rev. 1 Tue 29 Job 5-6 / Rev. 2 Wed 30 Job 7-9 / Rev. 3 Thu 31 Job 10-11 / Rev. 4 “Read Through the Bible in a Year Plan” written by Marilyn Hickey, and used by permission. ********************************** ***Nothing to Fear concludes**** You can’t talk fear and be in faith at the same time. When you’re walking in faith for protection, you don’t go around saying, “I’m afraid of a terrorist attack. I’m afraid I’m going to die young. I’m afraid I’m going to get cancer....” You say what you want to come to pass. You say things like, “God will deliver me from every danger. He is my Refuge and my Fortress. No evil will befall me and no plague or calamity will come near my family.” If you accidentally slip and let unbelieving words come out your mouth, you rebuke them. You call them back and say, “I render those words helpless. They’re not what I believe. I believe my family and I are surrounded by God’s armor. We’re safe, in Jesus’ Name!” Personally, I make such declarations of faith every day. Each morning when I pray, I speak the circle of God’s BLESSING and protection around myself and Ken, our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. I’d encourage you to do the same because there’s a lot of evil in the world. Crazy people are out there on the loose killing, stealing and destroying. It’s dangerous if you’re not armored up in God! So start your day off by praying faith-filled words like those in the 91st Psalm. Grab Your Faith Gun and Shoot! When you abide in the secret place of the Most High and continually speak words of faith about His protection, the third element listed in Psalm 91 will fall into place: “You shall not be afraid” (verse 5, "AMP"). Of anything. Why is it important for you not to be afraid? Because faith and fear do not work together. You either have one or the other. If you allow fear into your life, it will open the door to the devil the same way faith opens the door to God. It will rob you of your supernatural security. So make up your mind not to give fear any place in your life. Determine to stomp out any trace of it before it can get a foothold in your mouth or in your heart. This may sound funny, but personally, I treat fear the same way I treat the pesky armadillos that try to sneak into the yard outside the cabin Ken and I have in Arkansas. Those armadillos are little devils! They try to tear up my gardens and scatter my beautiful flowers and shrubs all over the ground. So I’m at war with them. If I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I hear one outside digging and scratching, I don’t just lie there and listen. I get out of bed and tiptoe to the door to see what’s going on. Once I’ve verified that it’s an armadillo, I wake up Ken. “Get your gun!” I’ll say. Ken doesn’t care about armadillos—or flowers and shrubs either, for that matter—but he does care about me, so he’ll get his gun and go out to the porch in his pajamas with me trailing after him in my nightgown. We look like Granny and Jed Clampett out there, but we get the job done. We get rid of the armadillos. You can do the same thing where fear is concerned. The next time it raises its ugly head in your life, treat fear like the spiritual varmint it is. Instead of just sitting there while it digs and scratches around in your faith garden, get aggressive and go after it. Load up your spiritual gun with the Word of God. Look up scriptures about divine protection and go over them every day until you can shoot down anything from the swine flu to the bubonic plague to biological warfare. Get Psalm 91 down in your heart until you know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that no matter what happens in this crazy world, you’re completely safe. If you do those things, there’s no harm that can touch you. You’ll be surrounded by God’s impenetrable circle of supernatural protection. You will truly have nothing to fear. V JULY '14 : 30

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