God said, let the land produce vegetation, seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it.

Genesis 1.11.

Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

Our reading titled God's gracious abundance was written by Matt Lucas and read by

Wes Ward. Genesis chapter 1 verses 1 through 13. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Now, the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep,

and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, let there be light,

and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light

day, and the darkness he called night, and there was evening, and there was morning, the first day.

And God said, let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water. So, God made the vault and separated the water

under the vault from the water above it, and it was so. God called the vault sky, and there was

evening, and there was morning, the second day. And God said, let the water under the sky be gathered to one place,

and let dry ground appear. And it was so. God called the dry ground land, and the gathered

waters he called seas, and God saw that it was good. Then God said,

Let the land produce vegetation,

seed-bearing plants and trees on the land

that bear fruit with seed in it,

according to their various kinds.

And it was so.

The land produced vegetation,

plants bearing seed according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.

And God saw that it was good.

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