The Bible Reading Plan for today goes right along with our Spoken Word Church Adult Bible Study teaching! We looked at Psalm 150, which is all about praising and worshiping the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible! Psalm 117 is also all about praising Him!
1 O PRAISE the Lord, all you nations! Praise Him, all you people! 2 For His mercy and loving-kindness are great toward us, and the truth and faithfulness of the Lord endure forever. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
He IS worthy of ALL praise, worship, adoration and thanksgiving, simply because of WHO He IS! When we add what He has DONE for us, there should be no end to our grateful and thankful praise to Him! Every day should be filled with it! If you have not been doing so, make the necessary adjustments in your life and begin! HE is worthy and YOU will be blessed beyond measure! AMEN! I also liked this from Joshua 5:2-7:
2 t that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make knives of flint and circumcise the [new generation of] Israelites as before. 3So Joshua made knives of flint and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. 4 And this is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they came out of Egypt. 5 Though all the people who came out were circumcised, yet all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way after Israel came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. 6 For the Israelites walked forty years in the wilderness till all who were men of war who came out of Egypt perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the Lord; to them the Lord swore that He would not let them see the land which the Lord swore to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 7 So it was their uncircumcised children whom He raised up in their stead whom Joshua circumcised, because the rite had not been performed on the way.
The older generation who had come out of Egypt, and had not believed God, had all died away except Joshua and Caleb, because they HAD believed the promise of God! This new generation were circumcised as an outward sign of their renewed commitment to the God of the Covenant! He began again with them! When Jesus rose from the dead, a NEW Covenant went into affect for all those who would believe and receive Jesus as Lord and personal Savior. The Word of God tells us that WE have an even better Covenant, based on better promises, than they had! This new covenant fulfilled the Old and gives us the ability to walk as Jesus walked on the earth because the Spirit of the Living God lives IN us! AMEN! Soon and every soon Jesus will appear in the sky to take the Church and then begins the final 7 years of Jewish history where the God of the Bible will again work with and through them specifically! We are living in the MOST exciting of times! Are you READY for this? I believe you are! Here is Hillsong Young and Free again with "Wake" because that is what we need to be: AWAKE!!!
Shalom in Him!
