Psalm 134:1:
1 BEHOLD, BLESS (affectionately and gratefully praise) the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, [singers] who stand by night in the house of the LORD.
If you would ask one of the priests or Levites of the Temple when the worship service ended, they would say, "Never!" David had set it up so that temple choirs would be praising the LORD both day and night (1 Chronicles 9:33; 23:30)! This doesn't take place in any pagan temple. I guess their so-called "gods" need to rest, but OUR GO; the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible neither slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:3-4), so He SHOULD be receiving praise continually! Think about it. When you go to sleep in your home, someone on the other side of the world is just waking up and praising Him! GLORY!
John 11 begins with Mary and Martha sending for Jesus because their brother, Lazarus was ill. They wanted Him to come right away because they had faith the if Jesus were there, Lazarus would recover! Jesus did NOT go right away! He wanted to not only teach Mary and Martha more about how to operate in faith, but He wanted to show His disciples, too! Some people are under the impression that the Apostles were some kind of spiritual giants who just absorbed the teaching of Jesus and did them. NOT SO! There were many times when Jesus would say, "How long must I be with you?" Verse 4 is very revealing:
4 When Jesus received the message, He said, This sickness is not to end in death, but [on the contrary] it is to honor God and to promote His glory, that the Son of God may be glorified through (by) it.
And He was! Jesus went, raised Lazarus from the dead, taught them about faith and the operation of it, and conquered the last stronghold of fear - the fear of death! AMEN!
In Ezekiel 36 the Lord has this to say in verses 23-24:
23 And I will vindicate the holiness of My great Name and separate it for its holy purpose from all that defiles it -- My Name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them -- and the nations will know, understand, and realize that I Am the LORD [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service],when I shall be set apart by you and My holiness vindicated in you before their eyes and yours. 24 For I will take you from among the nations and gather you our of all countries and bring you into your own land.
The fulfillment of that in our present day began in 1948 and continues! He is continually bringing His own people back from all the lands they have been dispersed to! Hallelujah! Then in Ezekiel 37:4 & 7-10:
4 Again He said to me, Prophesy to these bones and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the Word of the LORD. 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a [thundering] noise and behold, a shaking and trembling and a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And I looked and behold there were sinews upon [the bones] and flesh came upon them and skin covered them over, but there was no breath or spirit in them. 9 Then said He to me, prophesy to the breath and spirit, son of man, and say to the breath and spirit, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath and spirit, and breathe upon these slain that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath and spirit came into [the bones], and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great host.
How could this happen? Hebrews 4:12:
For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of the joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
SPEAK THE WORD into any and every situation you are facing today! The Word WORKS! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
