Daily Team Bible Reading and Commentary Thoughts for August 2025
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We will continue on with our Bible Reading and Commentary Thoughts in Various Themes.
Hope you will join me with Reading and commentating with your Thoughts from your Daily Reading of the Scriptures!
August 1, 2025 Theme: Finding The Right Motivation!
Bible Reading
2 Corinthians 9:14-15
2 Corinthians 9:8
Commentary Thoughts
Grace
In 2 Corinthians 9:8 we discover the root of the biblical motivation for kingdom stewardship.
The root rests in God’s grace.
We read, “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed.”
Read that verse again. It’s one of my favorites because that verse contains all you need to know to fully live out God’s calling on your life and to experience His goodness.
Friend, God does not want you to be manipulated into serving Him or to be motivated by selfish gain. God wants you to be a wise steward of all He has given to you because of a heartfelt response to His grace.
Grace can be defined as God’s inexhaustible supply of goodness that He does for you.
It involves those things you cannot do for yourself.
Grace comes to you as unmerited favor.
It’s something you can never earn, would never be able to repay, and can never run out of.
Living your life as a true kingdom steward means living your life as the hands and feet of Jesus.
This is one of God’s means for accessing and experiencing more of His grace.
You will unleash your fullest potential when you apply this principle to all that you do with your time, talents and treasures in His name.
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August 2, 2025
Bible Reading
2 Corinthians 9:10
Commentary Thoughts
Seed
If you really want to understand how grace operates in relation to stewarding your life’s resources, you must think agriculturally. You must think like a farmer.
Second Corinthians 9:10 sets this up for us, “Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.”
Within this verse lies the quintessential understanding of how to access grace. Grace is built into the seed itself.
When the farmer plants a seed of corn, a stalk forms and grows to bear ears of corn itself later on. All of this came from the seed.
In the new corn that has grown are new seeds for more corn.
In this way, using the seed enables the farmer to gain access to even more seeds.
The way this translates into our understanding of accessing God’s grace is that God has placed within grace the seed of grace itself. It’s built in.
Since grace is built into the seed, the way you gain access to greater grace is through the sowing of a seed of grace.
When you plant a pear seed, you get a pear tree. When you plant an apple seed, you get an apple tree. You will never plant a watermelon seed and grow squash.
This is true simply because God established replication to occur after each seed’s own kind.
Whatever it is that you plant is what you will get
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August 2, 2025
Bible Reading
2 Corinthians 9:10
Commentary Thoughts
Seed
If you really want to understand how grace operates in relation to stewarding your life’s resources, you must think agriculturally. You must think like a farmer.
Second Corinthians 9:10 sets this up for us, “Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.”
Within this verse lies the quintessential understanding of how to access grace. Grace is built into the seed itself.
When the farmer plants a seed of corn, a stalk forms and grows to bear ears of corn itself later on. All of this came from the seed.
In the new corn that has grown are new seeds for more corn.
In this way, using the seed enables the farmer to gain access to even more seeds.
The way this translates into our understanding of accessing God’s grace is that God has placed within grace the seed of grace itself. It’s built in.
Since grace is built into the seed, the way you gain access to greater grace is through the sowing of a seed of grace.
When you plant a pear seed, you get a pear tree. When you plant an apple seed, you get an apple tree. You will never plant a watermelon seed and grow squash.
This is true simply because God established replication to occur after each seed’s own kind.
Whatever it is that you plant is what you will get
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Sunday August 3, 2025
Bible Reading
Luke 6:38
Commentary Thoughts
Giving
What serves as a principle for creation is broadened into a principle for life in Luke 6:38. Jesus said, “Give, and it will be given to you.” By this principle, the thing you give is also the thing you will receive. This is critical to understanding how to fully live as a kingdom steward. If you have a need, make sure you sow a seed in the life of someone else in the same area as your own personal need. Don’t just ask God to meet your need without making sure you plant the seed.
Based on this principle, you can get very specific with God. If you are facing a financial need, look around you and see how you can help someone else financially, even if it’s with a minimal amount. Do you have an emotional need for comfort? Then see how you can comfort someone else. In this passage we discover a powerful tool for accessing the graces of God on a greater, more tangible level. This is when your need is actually in the seed.
The problem today is people want God to manufacture a miracle when they’re unwilling to give what they have to anyone else around them, which usually means they’re not exercising any faith at all, or their motivation has no connection to the glory of God and the advancement of His kingdom. But when God sees faith through our actions and not just our words, He responds.
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Monday August 4, 2025
Bible Reading
Romans 12:12
Psalm 37:7
Commentary Thoughts
Isaiah 40:31 tells us that “those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength.”
Waiting is a common theme throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.
Sarah had to wait for a baby.
Noah waited for the flood.
Joseph spent years waiting in prison.
Jesus waited thirty years for His ministry to begin.
Martha and Mary waited for resurrection.
And the disciples had to wait for the Holy Spirit.
Even as I write these words, you and I eagerly await the return of Christ.
Waiting can be difficult. I sometimes say, “make me work but please do not make me wait.”
But waiting, as described in the Bible, is a different process than what we think.
The Hebrew word for “wait” is quavah,which means to plait, like the intertwining of hair or a rope.
Waiting on the Lord is not a passive thing. It means to intertwine our lives with Him.
Every circumstance, every decision, every facet of our life becomes wrapped so tightly together with the Lord that we are one.
You have to press in tight, walking so close to God that every breath is prayer and praise, sunrise to sunset, all through the night, weaving Jesus into every piece and portion of your life.
That is the kind of waiting that brings new strength.
Why is waiting so hard for us? How is waiting related to trust?
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Tuesday August 5, 2025
Bible Reading
Isaiah 40:31
Psalm 25:5
Commentary Thoughts
Here’s what Isaiah 40:31 says about the ones who “wait upon the Lord”:
1. “THEY WILL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS LIKE EAGLES.” When a mama eagle kicks her baby out of the nest, she’s trying to teach it to fly. This rarely works the first time. The eaglet flails and flaps and falls until the mama eagle swoops down to catch her baby and bring it back to the nest. One way God gives us new strength is by diving down into our situation and lifting us out of it.
2. “THEY WILL RUN AND NOT GET TIRED.” Sometimes God doesn’t swoop from the sky to lift us out of trouble. Instead, He gives us a second wind to run through it. God says that if we focus on Him, even though we’re running, He will give us a second wind so we can go through this pain and beyond the problem we face.
3. “THEY WILL WALK AND NOT BECOME WEARY.” If you can no longer run, start walking. Limp if you have to. Crawl even. Just keep moving forward. When life wears you down, don’t give up. You can keep pressing on because a strength greater than your own is there to help you keep going.
Sometimes God will fix our problems, but sometimes He gives us the strength and grace to get through them.
What have you experienced when you sincerely waited on God?
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