CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.30.10

Isaiah 60-62:5
Philippians 1:27-2:18

212 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

John - it is GOD who works... and what is He doing? For us to accomplish His will and to DO His good pleasure!

Psalm 72:1-20
Proverbs 24:11-12

2411 Deliver those who are drawn toward death,
And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.

John - There are people who are stumbling toward destruction, these people need someone to help hold them back, God can use His people to protect the lives of those that are ignorant of His truth.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.29.10

Isaiah 57:15-59:21
Philippians 1:1-26

16 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

John - being confident... once we are confident we can be steadfast in what we are doing. Confidence is the key that opens you to rest.

Psalm 71:1-24
Proverbs 24:9-10

24 10 If you faint in the day of adversity,
Your strength is small.

John - The day of adversity is different in circumstance for each of us, but it is the same in function... Like Abraham who when He could see no way.. Believed...

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.28.10

Isaiah 54-57:14
Ephesians 6:1-24

610 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

John - BE STRONG... not DO strong... BE it is a choice and we have the power within us! Christ in you the hope of GLORY!

Psalm 70:1-5
Proverbs 24:8

248 He who plots to do evil
Will be called a schemer.

John - schemer (fraudulent) the people who PLOT to do evil.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.27.10

Isaiah 51-53:12
Ephesians 5:1-33

515 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

John - walking circumspectly - (careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences) this is the way we SHOULD walk..

Psalm 69:19-36
Proverbs 24:7

7 Wisdom is too lofty for a fool;
He does not open his mouth in the gate.

John - Wisdom is to high to achieve for a fool, but he soon realizes if he keeps his mouth shut it benefits him.

CCI Opelika One Year Bible Reading

9.26.10

Isaiah 48:12-50:11
Ephesians 4:17-32

4 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

John - Let no corrupt (of poor quality, bad, unfit for use, worthless) word come out of your mouth! Only say things that build up the hearer!

Proverbs 24:5-6

24 6 For by wise counsel you will wage your own war, And in a multitude of counselors there is safety.

John - Find counselors who the Lord has put into your life... AND LISTEN to them!

CCI Opelika One Year Bible Reading

9.25.10

Isaiah 45:11-48:11
Ephesians 4:1-16

414 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ


John - Children - in the faith are defined by someone tossed to and fro and carried about... chasing every “fad” of religion and self fulfillment without the basic principles of the cross and death to the self-life.

Psalm 68:19-35
Proverbs 24:3-4

243 Through wisdom a house is built,
And by understanding it is established;
4 By knowledge the rooms are filled
With all precious and pleasant riches.

John - wisdom - (shrewdness); understanding - (intelligence); established - ( to arrange); knowledge - (discernment)

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.24.10

Isaiah 43:14-45:10
Ephesians 3:1-21

39 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; 10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,

John - Mysteries are hidden in GOD, that He desires to reveal through the church, to PRINCIPALITIES and POWERS in heavenly places. God uses us to show His mysteries in the heavenly!

Psalm 68:1-18
Proverbs 24:1-2

241 Do not be envious of evil men,
Nor desire to be with them;
2 For their heart devises violence,
And their lips talk of troublemaking.

John - Do not... its a choice whether or not to ENVY evil men, and if you desire to spend time with them.... WE should NOT DO IT!

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.23.10

Isaiah 41:17-43:13
Ephesians 2:1-22

210 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

John - WE are CREATED for GOOD works! God prepared them for us to walk in them!

Psalm 67:1-7

671 God be merciful to us and bless us,
And cause His face to shine upon us, Selah

John - Like Moses who wanted to see Gods glory, when we get close to God we SHINE, people can see the glow of God in our lives.

Proverbs 23:29-35

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.22.10

Isaiah 39-41:16
Ephesians 1:1-23

111 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.

John - Him who WORKS ALL things according to the counsel of His will... God makes all of life, seen and unseen, work toward what HE desires to accomplish to bring glory to HIMSELF!

Psalm 66:1-20
Proverbs 23:25-28

23 26 My son, give me your heart,
And let your eyes observe my ways.

John - We give our heart to what we CHOOSE, what we observe on a regular basis becomes more and more a part of our ways!

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.21.10

Isaiah 37-38:22
Galatians 6:1-18

69 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

John - Let us not grow weary... it is up to us, weary is a choice... but focus on the fact in GOD’s timing we shall reap if we do not quit!

Psalm 65:1-13
Proverbs 23:24

2324 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.

John - When a child honors God the father... is blessed.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.20.10

Isaiah 33:10-36:22
Galatians 5:13-26

513 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

John - Through love... serve.. for all the law is fulfilled in one word! LOVE!

Psalm 64:1-10
Proverbs 23:23

2323 Buy the truth, and do not sell it,
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

John - Buy - (establish, acquire...) the truth also wisdom, instruction and understanding.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.19.10

Isaiah 30:12-33:9
Galatians 5:1-12

51 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

John - Stand fast, hold your ground, make the choice to not be entangled in bondage, as we were before we knew Christ.

Psalm 63:1-11
Proverbs 23:22

2322 Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

John - Listen to your father... what wise council!

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.18.10

Isaiah 28:14-30:11
Galatians 3:23-4:31

4 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

John - Not just that we KNOW God but that we are KNOWN by GOD!

Psalm 62:1-12
Proverbs 23:19-21

CCI Opelika One Year Bible Reading

9.17.10

Isaiah 25-28:13

26 3 You will keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.

John - God keeps a man who’s mind is stayed (fixed, pointed, always considering) God in every circumstance.

Galatians 3:10-22

314 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

John - Abraham’s blessing is to come on the GENTILES... How... BY FAITH, that is what Abraham did to receive, that is what we must do to receive..

Psalm 61:1-8
Proverbs 23:17-18

2317 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be zealous for the fear of the LORD all the day; 18 For surely there is a hereafter,
And your hope will not be cut off.

John - Do not let... it is a choice to ENVY!

CCI Opelika One Year Bible Reading

9.16.10

Isaiah 22-24:23
Galatians 2:17-3:9

32 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

John - We received by the hearing of FAITH! Hearing... is very powerful...

Psalm 60:1-12
Proverbs 23:15-16

2315 My son, if your heart is wise,
My heart will rejoice—indeed, I myself;
16 Yes, my inmost being will rejoice
When your lips speak right things.

John - Lord to control what we say makes you REJOICE... Only by your grace is taming the tongue possible!

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.15.10

Isaiah 19-21:17
Galatians 2:1-16

216 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

John - Inside of everyone is a desire to work to be justified, but God in His loving kindness said it was by FAITH and that alone are we made whole!

Psalm 59:1-17
Proverbs 23:13-14

2313 Do not withhold correction from a child,
For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

John - This scripture is clear do not withhold correction..... God loving us, He will operate the same way.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.14.10

Isaiah 15-18:7
Galatians 1:1-24

111 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

John - When you get a revelation from Jesus you do not need man to tell you it is right... YOU KNOW IT... and you would have to violate your conscience to do otherwise.

Psalm 58:1-11
Proverbs 23:12

2312 Apply your heart to instruction,
And your ears to words of knowledge.

John - We have a choice just like Thomas to believe or NOT believe... and what we believe in or apply our heart to receive makes all the difference.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.13.10

Isaiah 12-14:32
2 Corinthians 13:1-14

133 since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you. 4 For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.

John - Do not be surprised when people do not believe you....Notice even Paul had people asking for proof that Christ was speaking in him, admitting they were weak in HIM but will living in Gods power toward others.

Psalm 57:1-11
Proverbs 23:9-11

239 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

John - If you speak wise (Gods) word, when fools hear it they will despise (hate, disagree) with them!

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.12.10

Isaiah 10-11:16
2 Corinthians 12:11-21

1219 Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ. But we do all things, beloved, for your edification.

John - Leadership is for edification (building up) of the church (people) for the work of the ministry (spreading of the good news of Jesus)

Psalm 56:1-13

5613 For You have delivered my soul from death.
Have You not kept my feet from falling,
That I may walk before God
In the light of the living?

John - God YOU keep your children’s feet from falling!

Proverbs 23:6-8

236 Do not eat the bread of a miser,
Nor desire his delicacies;
7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

“ Eat and drink!” he says to you,
But his heart is not with you.

John - miser (evil ethically in the fountain of his being) Because what you are in you MIND and HEART you are in actuality.

CCI One Year Bible Reading 2010

9.11.10

Isaiah 8-9:21
2 Corinthians 12:1-10

1210Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

John - We must continually change how we think of weakness, the point of our not having the strength, then in Him we have the strength!

Psalm 55:1-23
Proverbs 23:4-5

234 Do not overwork to be rich;
Because of your own understanding, cease!
5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

John - Do not overwork (labour to the point of being weary) to be rich (in enriching yourself) be rich in the kingdom of God.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.10.10

Isaiah 6-7:25
2 Corinthians 11:16-33

1126 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness— 28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.

John - Interesting in all the difficult situations Paul has been put in, this list of this He went through that is difficult, the last item “my deep concern for all the churches.” Paul thought about those in Christ he helped raise up daily.

Psalm 54:1-7
Proverbs 23:1-3

231 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
Consider carefully what is before you;
2 And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man given to appetite.
3 Do not desire his delicacies,
For they are deceptive food.

John - “man given to appetite” a man who possesses a desire to sustain his life by feeding with food, drink, ect his soul.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.9.10

Isaiah 3-5:30
2 Corinthians 11:1-15

113 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

John - Eve was deceived with a simple idea, you can be like God, and we also must be aware the enemy will also try to deceive us to follow the same wrong path.

Psalm 53:1-6
Proverbs 22:28-29

22 29 Do you see a man who excels in his work?
He will stand before kings;
He will not stand before unknown men.

John - excels (diligent, apt in business) your gifts God will use and give you influence through

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.8.10

Isaiah 1-2:22
2 Corinthians 10:1-18

212 For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

John - If you use others who use themselves as the measuring stick instead of Christ as your measure you are not being wise.

Psalm 52:1-9
Proverbs 22:26-27

2226 Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge,
One of those who is surety for debts;
27 If you have nothing with which to pay,
Why should he take away your bed from under you?

John - Dont make loans if you have no ability to pay.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.7.10

Song of Solomon 5-8:14
2 Corinthians 9:1-15

96 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

John - This principle is so easily seen in natural if you do not plan many seed in a field, then we know to expect a small harvest. If you plan many see in a field you know to expect a large harvest, so give as you would plant expecting and with purpose.

Psalm 51:1-19
Proverbs 22:24-25

2224 Make no friendship with an angry man,
And with a furious man do not go,
25 Lest you learn his ways
And set a snare for your soul.

John - MAKE NO FRIENDSHIP with an angry man, do not be a close companion with this kind of man. It is easy to learn the ways of those you spend lots of time with.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.6.10

Song of Solomon 1-4:16
2 Corinthians 8:16-24

816 But thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. 17 For he not only accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, he went to you of his own accord.

John - God gets the thanks for putting EARNEST care for a person or people in the heart of a man or woman of God!

Psalm 50:1-23

50 11 I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

John - God knows ALL the birds.. this is where you get a small idea of how amazing God is, He knows EVERY bird, every animal.. every human and even down to the # of hairs on your head!

Proverbs 22:22-23

22 23 For the LORD will plead their cause,
And plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

John - The Lord pleads the cause of the poor, and returns judgement on anyone who mistreats them.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.5.10

Ecclesiastes 10-12:14
2 Corinthians 8:1-15

83 For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, 4 imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

John - According to what they could do (ABILITY) but then beyond... God can give us the ability to do beyond our ability, and into HIS ability!

Psalm 49:1-20

49 16 Do not be afraid when one becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away;
His glory shall not descend after him.
18 Though while he lives he blesses himself
(For men will praise you when you do well for yourself),

John - Men praise success, God praises humility... One is eternal the other is not.

Proverbs 22:20-21

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.4.10

Ecclesiastes 7-9:18

714 In the day of prosperity be joyful,
But in the day of adversity consider:
Surely God has appointed the one as well as the other,
So that man can find out nothing that will come after him.

John - Be joyful when you are experiencing prosperity but when you are experiencing adversity....CONSIDER.... the Lord plan, His goodness, His love for you, and His commitment to bringing about glory through your life!

2 Corinthians 7:8-16

7 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

John - Godly sorrow produces (has the fruit of) repentance... leading to salvation. The worlds sorrow produces death... Two sorrows, two difference results!

Psalm 48:1-14
Proverbs 22:17-19

2217 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, And apply your heart to my knowledge;
18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
19 So that your trust may be in the LORD;
I have instructed you today, even you.

John - It is a pleasant thing if you KEEP wise words in you and fix your lips (WORDS) upon those wise words.

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.3.10

Ecclesiastes 4-6:12

519 As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God. 20 For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life, because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.

John - God keeps him busy ( to be occupied, be busied with
2) to afflict, oppress, humble, be afflicted, be bowed down) .... with the joy of his heart, God has a plan to use our life to bring glory to His name!

2 Corinthians 6:14-7:7

614 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?

John - This is describing the relationship we should have with non-believers... what do light and dark have in common or righteousness and lawlessness..none they are opposites.

Psalm 47:1-9
Proverbs 22:16

2216 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, And he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.

John - Anyone who oppresses (to oppress, wrong, extort) to increase HIS wealth or give to the RICH who do not need it will surely come to poverty (need, lack)

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.2.10

Ecclesiastes 1-3:22

226 For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

John - As Solomon walk through life, God gifted him with wisdom and the Lord used him to write down this wisdom for us, like GOD gives to a man good in His sight and let the sinner gather things to give them to who is good.

2 Corinthians 6:1-13

611 O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. 13 Now in return for the same (I speak as to children), you also be open.

John - We are not restricted by those speaking into our lives, we are restricted by our own affections.

Psalm 46:1-11
Proverbs 22:15

15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

John - Correction not domination, not abuse, not agreeing with... correction (discipline, chastening)

CCI One Year Bible Reading

9.1.10

Job 40-42:17
2 Corinthians 5:11-21

518 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

John - GOD is in Christ reconciling the world, so to us was committed the word of bring one another together.

Psalm 45:1-17
Proverbs 22:14

14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the LORD will fall there.


John - abhorred - to be very angry with, denounce