Open Word

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 11:18-21

Verse 18. Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Verse 19. Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Verse 20. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates, Verse 21. so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

PSALM

Psalm 93

The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.

The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.

SECOND READING

Mark 16:19-20

Verse 19. After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. Verse 20. And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.