Maandag 6 Mei 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 8:26-34)

HY IS SOOS ‘N SKAAP GELEI NA DIE SLAGPLEK:

26. Vir Filippus het ‘n engel van die Here egter gesê: ‘+Gaan Suid met die woestyn-pad, wat van Jerusalem af Gasa toe loop.

27. Filippus het dit gedoen, en hy het die Minister van Finansies van Etiopië teëgekom. Hy was in hierdie hoë pos, by die koningin van Etiopië. Hy het Jerusalem toe gekom om te aanbid,

28. en was nou op pad terug. Hy het op sy wa die boek van die Profeet Jesaja gesit en lees.

29. Toe het die Gees vir Filippus gesê: ‘+Gaan loop langs sy wa.’+

30. Filippus het nader gedraf en gehoor dat die man uit die Profeet Jesaja lees: Hy vra hom toe: “Verstaan u wat u lees?”

31. Die Etiopiër het geantwoord: ‘Hoe kan ek as niemand dit vir my verduidelik nie?’ Hy het Filippus toe mooi gevra om op te klim en by hom te kom sit.

32. Die Skrifdeel waarmee hy besig was, lui: ‘+Hy is gelei soos ‘n Skaap na die slagplek, en soos ‘n Lam stil is by sy skeerder, so het Hy nie sy mond oopgemaak nie.

33. ‘+Hy is verneder, en alle reg is Hom ontsê. Wie kan van Sy nageslag vertel? Want Sy lewe word van die aarde af weggevat.’+

34. Die Etiopiër het toe vir Filippus gevra: ‘Praat die Profeet hier van homself, of van Iemand anders?’

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Monday 6 May 2024.

(Acts 8:26-34)

LIKE A SHEEP HE WAS LED TO THE SLAUGHTER:

26. An angel of the Lord said to Philip: ‘+Rise and go towards the South, to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.This is a desert place.’+

27. And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian , a eunuch, a court official of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship,

28. and was returning, seated in his chariot. He was reading the Prophet Isaiah.

29. And the Spirit said to Philip: ‘+Go over and join his chariot.’+

30. So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the Prophet, and asked him: “Do you understand what you are reading?”

31. And he answered: ‘How can I, unless someone guides me?’ And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32. The passage of Scripture that he was reading, was this: ‘+Like a Sheep He was led to the slaughter, like a Lamb before its shearer is silent, so He opens not His mouth.

33. ‘+In His humiliation justice was denied Him. Who can describe His generation? For His life is taken away from the earth.’+

34. And the eunuck said to Philip: ‘About Whom, I ask you, does the Prophet say this, about himself, or about Someone else?’

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Sondag 5 Mei 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 8:17-25)

“BEKEER JOU VAN JOU BOOSHEID:”

17. Petrus en Johannes het toe hulle hande op hierdie gelowiges gesit, en hulle het die Heilige Gees ontvang.

18. Toe Simon sien dat die mense die Gees ontvang, wanneer die apostels hande op hulle sit, wou hy hierdie mag koop.

19. ‘Gee my ook hierdie mag,’ het hy gesê, ‘sodat elkeen op wie ek my hande sit, die Heilige Gees kan ontvang!’

20. Petrus het hom egter geantwoord: “Mag jou geld saam met jou vernietig word, omdat jy dink dat hierdie Gawe van God gekoop kan word!

21. “Hier is nie plek vir jou nie, want voor God is jou hart nie reg nie.

22. “Bekeer jou van hierdie boosheid van jou, en bid tot die Here, miskien sal Hy jou bose planne vergewe!

23. “Ek kan sien jy is vol bitterheid en deur sonde geboei.”

24. ‘Bid julle tog vir my tot die Here!’ Het Simon uitgeroep, ‘dat hierdie verskriklike dinge nie met my sal gebeur nie!’

25. Nadat Petrus en Johannes kragtig getuienis gelewer, en die Woord van die Here in Samaria verkondig het, het hulle na Jerusalem toe terug gegaan. Op pad het hulle die evangelie ook in baie Samaritaanse dorpies verkondig.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Sunday 5 May 2024.

(Acts 8:17-25)

“REPENT OF YOUR WICKEDNESS:”

17. Then Peter and John laid their hands on the new believers, and they received the Holy Spirit.

18. When Simon saw that the Spirit Was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

19. saying: ‘Give me this Power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit!’

20. But Peter said to him: “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the Gift of God with money!

21. “You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

22. “Repent therefore of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

23. “For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”

24. And Simon answered: ‘Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me!’

25. When Peter and John had testified and spoken the Word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the Gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Saterdag 4 Mei 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 8:9-16)

HULLE WAS NOG NET IN DIE NAAM VAN DIE HERE JESUS GEDOOP:

9. In hierdie stad het ‘n man met die naam Simon al vir jare lank die inwoners met sy toorkunste beïndruk. Hy het daarop aanspraak gemaak dat hy iemand besonders was.

10. Almal, van die geringstes tot die belangrikstes, het na hom verwys as: ‘Die grote, die krag van God.’

11. Hulle het hom baie ernstig opgeneem, juis vanweë sy toorkunste.

12. Nou het die mense egter Filippus se Goeie Nuus oor die Konings-heerskappy van God, en die Naam van Jesus Christus in die geloof aanvaar. Gevolglik is baie manne en vroue gedoop.

13. Selfs Simon het gelowig geword, en is gedoop. Hy het Filippus orals begin vergesel, en hy was verstom oor die wondertekens en groot kragte wat hy sien gebeur het.

14. Toe die apostels in Jerusalem hoor dat die mense in Samaria die boodskap van God aanvaar het, het hulle Petrus en Johannes daarheen afgevaardig.

15. Toe hulle daar aankom, het hulle vir die nuwe gelowiges gebid, dat hulle die Heilige Gees mag ontvang.

16. Want die Heilige Gees het nognie op een van hulle gekom nie, want hulle was net in die Naam van die Here Jesus gedoop.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Saturday 4 May 2024.

(Acts 8:9-16)

THEY HAD ONLY BEEN BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS:

9. But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.

10. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying: ‘This man is the power of God, that is called: great.

11. And they paid attention to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.

12. But when they believed Philip as he preached the Good News, about the Kingdom of God, and the Name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

13. Even Simon himself believed, and after he was baptized, he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.

14. When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent to Peter and John,

15. who came down and prayed for the new believers, that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

16. For He Had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus.

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)