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This plan follows the Sunday liturgy:     reading + psalm + reading + gospel                  From  www.simplebible.info        Previous Bible Plans 

O Holy Spirit, please guide me as I read these passages for today.                     
May these passages give me hope, strength, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for my daily life             Chinese text

A selection process was begun to find a woman to replace Vashti as queen.

Esther was a beautiful Jewish orphan girl who had been brought up by her cousin Mordecai.

After the long selection process was finished,
Esther was chosen to be queen.
No one in the palace knew she was Jewish.

Dear God,  please bless all kings and queens

O God, hear my cry,
you who are my refuge and help.

In you alone is my soul at rest. 
My help comes from you.

Take refuge in God, everyone in trouble.
Trust him at all times.

O God, you are my God, for you I long.
My body and soul thirst for you
like a dry, weary land without water.

Your love is better than life,
my lips will speak your praise.

On my bed I remember you.
On you I muse through the night.

You are the Creator of the world.
You care for the earth, you give it water.

To you our praise is due,
wherever we are on earth.

Lord, my soul clings to you. Your right hand holds me fast

Are you rich and powerful? Then start weeping for the  miseries that are coming your way

Your wealth is rotting, your clothes are being eaten by moths.
And your body also will soon be corroding in a burning fire

You cheated your workers. You lived a life of luxury 
without any care for people who were suffering

You condemned and killed the innocent

Jesus, give uncaring rich and powerful people a change of heart

Jesus again went up to Jerusalem for a Jewish festival.
In a building near the Sheep Gate, he saw many sick people

One paralyzed man had been ill for 38 years.  Jesus said to him 
"Do you want to be well again?
Get up, pick up your bed and walk".

The man was healed at once. He picked up his bed and walked away.
After a while Jesus met him in the Temple and said to him "Now that you are well, do not sin any more"

Jesus, if my sickness is due to some sin, please forgive me and heal me