Shalom,
The subtitle for Psalm 100 says: A Psalm of thanksgiving and for the thank offering. Here is the entire Psalm:
1 MAKE A joyful noise to the LORD, all you lands! 2 Serve the LORD with gladness! Come before His presence with singing 3 Know (perceive, recognize, and understand with approval) that the LORD is God! It is he Who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His]! We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. 4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into his courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise his Name! 5 For the LORD is good; His mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting, His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations.
Here is one of my favorite songs from this Psalm done by Lamb:
Luke 12 is filled with great things we could look at! But that is true of all of God's Word! Today we will look at verses 29-32:
29 And you, do not seek [by meditating and reasoning to inquire into] what you are to eat and what you are to drink; nor be of anxious (troubled) mind [unsettled, excited, worried, and in suspense]; 30 For all the pagan world is [greedily] seeking these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Only aim at and strive for and seek His kingdom, and all these things shall be supplied to you also. 32 Do not be seized with alarm and struck with fear, little flock, for it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom!
Don't let the situations going on all over the world get you into a panic mode over your own life! Remember that nothing is ever as bad as it seems AND we are Ambassadors sent from Heaven to earth to represent Jesus to the world (2 Corinthians 5:20)! Our source of supply is God. If Jesus could feed 5,000+ with 5 loaves and 2 fish, WE can do the same in His Name! Let's step up and into the authority we have been given in Him and show the world that Jesus Lives! AMEN! Ok, I can't resist using THIS one! Hillsong's Tell The World:
In Deuteronomy 7-8 Moses continues to remind the Israelites of the commands and promises of God, how He provided for them and what He expected of them. In the first verses of chapter 7 He warns them about making any covenant with the evil nations that He had given into their hands. Because they did not always obey this, they have had problems with the nations of the world ever since! BUT, His promise to, and Covenant with, Abraham will never be broken! There will ALWAYS be a nation of Israel, no matter what the ungodly, heathen islamic nations say! God AND Israel WILL prevail! Read the end of the Book! AMEN! He also reminds them of God's blessings over them and warns them this in Deuteronomy 8:11-18:
11 Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His precepts, and His statutes which I command you today, 12 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them, 13 And when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all you have is multiplied, 14 Then your [minds and] hearts be lifted up and you forget the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, 15 Who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, but Who brought you forth water out of the flinty rock, 16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. 17 And beware lest you say in your [mind and] heart, My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth. 18 But you shall [earnestly] remember the LORD your God, for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Don't ever forget that everything good in your life comes from HIM (James 1:17)! Give HIM the credit! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
