You shall walk after The Lord God your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

Deuteronomy 13:4

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Thursday 22 October · Words of the Messiah

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 15:12

The Most Merciful One

One verse each day, the same for everyone, from the Gospel, the Psalms, the Recitation and the Torah in turn.

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From the Torah

תּוֹרָה

  • Love him with all of it

    You shall love The Lord God your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

    Deuteronomy 6:5

  • There is no one else

    Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that The Lord God himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

    Deuteronomy 4:39

  • Walk before me

    When Abram was ninety-nine years old, The Lord God appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

    Genesis 17:1

  • Seek him and you will find him

    But from there you shall seek The Lord God your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

    Deuteronomy 4:29

  • A merciful God

    For The Lord God your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

    Deuteronomy 4:31

Religion is for the Lord God Almighty alone.

From the Psalms

תְּהִלִּים

  • Every nation will come

    All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name. For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

    Psalms 86:9-10

  • He is near

    The Lord God is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

    Psalms 145:18

  • Rest

    My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress— I will never be greatly shaken.

    Psalms 62:1-2

  • Thirsty for him

    God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

    Psalms 63:1

  • Show me your ways

    Show me your ways, The Lord God. Teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

    Psalms 25:4-5

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There is no compulsion in the religion.

From the Gospel

εὐαγγέλιον

  • The first of all

    Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ …

    Mark 12:29-30

  • Serve him only

    Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

    Matthew 4:10

  • Only one is good

    He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

    Matthew 19:17

  • Ask, and it is given

    “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

    Matthew 7:7-8

  • The pure in heart

    Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

    Matthew 5:8

One Creator, many names

The Creator of the Heavens and the Earth has many names in many languages. He has made more languages than we could ever study or know. Let none of them stand between us and coming together to worship Him, by His grace.

  • YahwehHebrew
  • The “Father”English
  • AllahArabic
  • JahHebrew
  • JehovahLatinised Hebrew
  • DiosSpanish
  • The Lord God AlmightyEnglish
  • The Most Merciful OneEnglish
  • The Most High OneEnglish
  • ElohimHebrew
  • TheosGreek
  • KhudaPersian and Urdu
  • MunguSwahili
  • GottGerman
  • DieuFrench
  • DeusLatin and Portuguese
  • TuhanMalay and Indonesian
  • OlodumareYoruba
  • NgaiKikuyu

Why these names belong together

From the Recitation

ٱلْقُرْآن

  • Uphold the Torah and the Gospel

    Say, "O People of the Scripture, you are on nothing until you uphold the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to you from your Lord." …

    Al-Maaida 5:68

  • The Opening

    In the name of The God, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful. Praise is to The God, Lord of the worlds - The Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful, Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.…

    Al-Faatiha 1:1-5

  • We make no distinction between them

    Say, "We have believed in The God and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Descendants, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and to the prophets from their Lord.…

    Aal-i-Imraan 3:84

  • What he orders

    Indeed, The God orders justice and good conduct and giving to relatives and forbids immorality and bad conduct and oppression. He admonishes you that perhaps you will be reminded.

    An-Nahl 16:90

  • Call upon me

    And your Lord says, "Call upon Me; I will respond to you." Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell contemptible.

    Ghafir 40:60

  • Your God is one God

    And your god is one God. There is no deity except Him, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.

    Al-Baqara 2:163

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