I am meditating on two different things that I see in today's Bible Reading Plan. Psalm 135:1-3 says this:
1 PRAISE THE Lord! (Hallelujah!) Praise the name of the Lord; praise Him, O you servants of the Lord! 2 You who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God, 3 Praise the Lord! For the Lord is good; sing praises to His name, for He is gracious and lovely!
Do you know WHO is standing in the house of the Lord in this New Covenant that we, as born again believers, live in? Look at 1 Corinthians 6:19-20:
19 Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, 20 You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body. AMP
So WHO stands in the house of God? YOU do, because you ARE the house of God! So PRAISE HIM! All day long, as often as you think of Him, give Him praise! It's not hard to do and doesn't take a long time, but it will totally change your life to spend every day in that frame of mind! AMEN! The next thing I am meditating on is found in Psalm 135:10-13:
10 Who smote nations many and great and slew mighty kings-- 11 Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan. 12 [The Lord] gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to Israel His people. 13 Your name, O Lord, endures forever, Your fame, O Lord, throughout all ages.
Other nations and people once occupied the land that God gave to Israel. THIS is how God dealt with them! Why? Because they rejected God (Who had created them!) and the people He had chosen! The Israelites initially had asked to pass peacefully through their land, but they said NO! How did God respond? Verses 10-11 above tell what happened to those nations and kings that defied God. Verse 12 tells us that God took the land from them and gave it to Israel! This was almost a millennium before Islam was created by a man who decided to make a new religion that would also be a political entity and a cultural entity! They have NO historical claim to the nation and land of Israel! Don't be fooled by the lies simply because a majority of the world and the media are ignorant of the Truth! Stand with Israel and GOD will continue to see to YOUR blessing! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Praise Him":
Shalom in Him!
