THE BIBLE IN A YEAR (with Alicia Purdy)

HOW CAN YOU ENDURE UNTIL THE END? On the Day 243 Bible in a Year Reading Plan, hardships continue, but the light of God in Christ cannot be diminished within those who keep their eyes on Him and deny the feelings of the flesh! 🔥 DAY 243 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 34:1-36:33 - Elihu’s continued speeches, defending God’s justice, accusing Job of self-righteousness, and urging him to repent and...

TRUTH AND TRUST IN TROUBLED TIMES on the Day 242 Bible in a Year Reading Plan. Stand firm in the fight for faith with truth and trust in the Lord as your firm foundation. God wins every battle He fights! 🔥 DAY 242 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 31:1-33:33 - Job’s declaration of innocence, Elihu’s speeches rebuking Job and his friends, emphasizing God’s justice and sovereignty, and calling for hu...

HARD EARNED WISDOM PROTECTS IN HARD SEASONS on the Day 241 Bible in a Year Reading Plan. If you want to survive the season you are in, God has a plan and WISDOM that comes from Him will guide your steps. 🔥 DAY 241 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 28:1-30:31 - Job’s discourse on the value of wisdom, his past blessings, and current suffering, seeking understanding of God’s ways amid his trials. ✅ 2...

REPENTANCE, RESTORATION & RECONCILIATION on Day 240 of The Bible in a Year reading plan where God’s people show the dividing line between the world’s way and the way of those who follow the Lord – repentance, restoration, and reconciliation with joy and in honor of the Lord’s great sacrifice for all people. 🔥 DAY 240 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 23:1-27 :23 - Job’s search for God’s presenc...

SHARING IN COMFORT AND AFFLICTION on the Day 239 Bible in a Year reading plan as followers of God face life’s trials and tribulations together. How can the faith of another believer strengthen your own? How can you strengthen another? The Kingdom needs your faith in times of testing! 🔥 DAY 239 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 20:1-22 :30 - Zophar’s speech on the fate of the wicked, Job’s response...

I KNOW MY REDEEMER LIVES on the Day 238 Bible in a Year reading plan. Refusing to let go of your faith is only possible when you acknowledge what the REDEEMER has brought you out of with His blood. Hold steadfast, walk in love, and wait on the Lord. He didn’t forget about you. 🔥 DAY 238 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 16:1-19 :29 - Job’s lament over his friends’ accusations, his suffering, and hi...

JUSTICE, JUSTIFICATION & JUDGEMENT on the Day 237 Bible in a Year reading plan where the God of Justice reigns supreme over all transforming death into life through His Son Jesus, the Redeemer of all that was lost and the Righteous Judge of humankind. 🔥 DAY 237 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 12:1-15: 35 - Job’s speeches questioning God’s justice, asserting his innocence, and challenging his...

A GOSPEL OF GRACE on the Day 236 Bible in a Year reading plan. There will always be reasons to shake your fist at God when life is hard, but if you want to experience the sustaining power of His grace, don’t turn your back to Him – turn your face to Him! 🔥 DAY 236 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 8:1-11: 20 - Bildad and Zophar’s speeches, accusing Job of hidden sin, urging repentance, while Job ma...

SUFFERING & SOVEREIGNTY on the Day 235 Bible in a Year reading plan. Everyone can praise the Lord when life is good, but when life is hard, where do you find your starting point of praise? How can your HOPE in the Lord anchor your struggling soul? 🔥 DAY 235 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 4:1-7 :21 - Eliphaz’s speech accusing Job of sin, Job’s reply expressing anguish, seeking understanding o...

THE LORD GIVETH AND THE LORD TAKETH AWAY on the Day 234 Bible in a Year reading plan. Is the name of the Lord as worthy on your best day as He is on your worst day? Growing in faith means seeing your life through the eyes of the spirit, not the flesh. 🔥 DAY 234 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Job 1:1-3 :26 - Job’s righteousness, Satan’s challenge, Job’s severe trials, and his lament, questioning his...

THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE on the Day 233 Bible in a Year Reading Plan. Victory over the enemy, unity among the body of Christ, the heart’s desire fulfilled, and avoiding downfall through humility and self-control, but the greatest of these is LOVE. 🔥 DAY 233 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Esther 8:1-10:3 - Esther and Mordecai secure an edict to protect the Jews, leading to their victory over ene...

A PLAN TO REDEEM AND SAVE on the Day 232 Bible in a Year Reading plan. God’s people live under a perpetual threat on every side, and always have because the enemy of God seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. The Kingdom of God must stand together to survive. 🔥 DAY 232 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Esther 4:1-7 :10 - Mordecai and Esther’s plea to save the Jews, Esther’s bravery before the king, leading...

FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS on the Day 231 Bible in a Year reading plan. God has strategically placed you in the world at this point in time for a specific part of His plan. He knew that the world would need you FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS. How will you move ahead into what He has planned? 🔥 DAY 231 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Esther 1:1-3: 15 - Vashti’s dismissal, Esther’s rise as queen, Mordecai’s loya...

PURITY, PRAYER & NEW COVENANT PRIESTS are the goals of those who love the Lord and walk according to HIS purpose with praise and thanksgiving. Submission to God’s divine authority is what sets believers apart from those who suffer from the idolatry of self. 🔥 DAY 230 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Nehemiah 12: 27-13: 31 - Dedication of Jerusalem’s wall with joy, reforms in worship and conduct, a...

THE RIGHTEOUS CRY OUT! On the Day 229 Bible in a Year reading plan, a restoration of righteousness brings relationship and the people of God experience revival in heart, mind, spirit, and soul as their actions finally reflect God’s heart. 🔥 DAY 229 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Nehemiah 11:1-12: 26 - Distribution of the population in Jerusalem and surrounding areas, listing leaders, priests, and Le...

VERCOMING TEMPTATION & COVENANT RENEWAL on the Day 228 Bible in a Year reading plan where God’s people walk through a season of restoration through the acknowledgement of their sin even as they remain vigilant in their faith through praise. 🔥 DAY 228 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Nehemiah 9: 22-10: 39 - Israel’s historical confession, acknowledging God’s faithfulness despite their sins, leads t...

THE JOY OF THE LORD IS YOUR STRENGTH on the Day 227 Bible in a Year Reading plan. A celebration of God’s goodness and mercy is a daily part of life for God’s people- even when things are difficult. Praise is a source of spiritual strength and power in God’s presence! 🔥 DAY 227 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Nehemiah 7:73-9: 21 - The people assemble, hearing and understanding the law; they celebrate...

HOW DO YOU AVOID BEING A STUMBLINGBLOCK? On the Day 226 Bible in a Year Reading plan, God’s people walk in freedom and faithful relationship, but many stumble on the liberties apart from the law. Where should the line be drawn? 🔥 DAY 226 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Nehemiah 5: 14-7:73 - Nehemiah’s unselfish leadership, finishing the wall amidst opposition, registering the people, and appointing o...

OPPOSITION OR OPPORTUNITY? On the Day 225 Bible in a Year Reading Plan, it is clear that opposition will always be part of the opportunities God has for His people, because of the plan of the enemy to steal, kill, and destroy. How do believers reframe the opportunities of opposition? 🔥 DAY 225 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Nehemiah 3: 15-5: 13 - Rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls continues despite opposi...

REBUILDING THE FALLEN WALLS IN FAITHFULNESS on the Day 224 Bible in a Year Reading Plan. The Lord sets His people free, but that doesn’t mean the work is done. Rebuilding and restoration are part of your lifelong journey of faith in the Lord, but you’re not alone! 🔥 DAY 224 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Nehemiah 1:1-3: 14 - Nehemiah’s prayer and journey to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls; he motivat...

CONFESSION AND CONVICTION AMONG GOD’S PEOPLE in the Day 223 Bible in a Year Reading Plan. There is a hard line between sin and sanctification, but if the people of God are not convinced or convicted – why would anyone else be? 🔥 DAY 223 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Ezra 10:1-44 - Ezra leads confession and repentance for intermarriage sins, resulting in a covenant to separate from foreign wives, re...

PRAYING FOR PROTECTION FROM PEOPLE & PROBLEMS on the Day 222 Bible in a Year Reading plan. How do believers guard against the battles on the outside if they’re losing the battles within? 🔥 DAY 222 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Ezra 8: 21-9: 15 - Ezra leads fasting and prayer for protection, distributes temple offerings, and laments intermarriage with pagans, seeking God’s mercy and guidance. ✅...

A JOURNEY OF FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP & FAITH AMID FEAR on the Day 221 Bible in a Year Reading plan where God turns the test into a testimony and the mess into a message for those who choose to put their trust in Him! 🔥 DAY 221 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Ezra 7:1-8: 20 - Ezra’s genealogy, his journey to Jerusalem with God’s favor, and his assembly of leaders, highlighting his devotion to teachin...

SERVING THE LORD WITH GLADNESS AMID BATTLE on the Day 220 Bible in a Year Reading plan where serving the Lord and continuing the work He has called you to can only be completed with His divine help as the Great King Over the Flood. 🔥 DAY 220 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Ezra 4: 24-6: 22 - Temple work resumes despite opposition; Darius supports the rebuilding, leading to its completion and the cele...

OPPOSITION VERSUS OPPORTUNITY on the Day 219 Bible in a Year reading plan where a great work of God begins and the enemy comes to destroy it while it is vulnerable. Can the people of God withstand the enemy or will they turn on each other? 🔥 DAY 219 BIBLE READING BREAKDOWN: ✅ Ezra 3:1-4: 23 - Rebuilding the altar and temple foundations amid opposition, celebrating God’s faithfulness, and encount...