Hi friends, I'm Annie F Downs. Let's read the Gospels. The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament in the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

These are the stories of Jesus Christ's life on earth, the friendships, the parables, the sacrifices, the meals, the miracles.

So here is how it works. I'll read three chapters to you. You can listen or read along in your own Bible or online, and then I'll pray. And that's it. Today is day 21, and I'll be reading

Luke 16 through 18. And this month, I am reading from the CSB version. Luke 16. Now he said to his disciples, there was a rich man who received an accusation

that his manager was squandering his possessions. So he called the manager in and asked,

What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management because you can no longer be my

manager. Then the manager said to himself,

What will I do since my master is taking the management away for me? I'm not strong enough to dig.

I'm ashamed to beg. I know what I'll do so that when I'm removed from management, people will

welcome me into their homes. So he summoned each of his master's debtors. How much do you owe my master?

He asked the first one. A hundred measures of

oil, he said. Take your invoice, he told him, sit down quickly and write 50. Next, he asked another,

how much do you owe? A hundred measures of wheat, he said. Take your invoice, he told him,

and write 80. The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly,

for the children of this age are more shrewd than the children of light and dealing with their own

people. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of worldly wealth so that when it

fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings. Whoever is faithful and very little is also

faithful in much. And whoever is unrighteous and very little is also faithful in much. And whoever is

unrighteous and very little is also unrighteous and much. So if you have not been faithful with

worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine? And if you have not been faithful with what

belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own? No servant can serve two masters,

since either he will hate one

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