Thursday, November 5, 2020

 Shalom,

We read Psalm 126 in today's Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan and I really like this from The Passion Translation!

A song of the stairway
It was like a dream come true

when you freed us from our bondage and brought us back to Zion!
We laughed and laughed and overflowed with gladness.
We were left shouting for joy and singing your praise.
All the nations saw it and joined in, saying,
“The Lord has done great miracles for them!”
Yes, he did mighty miracles and we are overjoyed!
Now, Lord, do it again! Restore us to our former glory!
May streams of your refreshing flow over us
until our dry hearts are drenched again.
Those who sow their tears as seeds
will reap a harvest with joyful shouts of glee.
They may weep as they go out carrying their seed to sow,

but they will return with joyful laughter and shouting with gladness
as they bring back armloads of blessing and a harvest overflowing!

Verse 2 is my favorite! Laughing for joy and overflowing with gladness is exactly how JESUS wants us to live this life! Why? Because 'the nations' will see and they will want to join in! They will WANT to KNOW our GOD! Then HE will be able to do mighty miracles, drawing even more people to Himself! HALLELUJAH! Then, in today's Bible Reading PLan, we find Nicodemus learning that 'you must be born again' in John 3:3 and THIS great GOOD NEWS in John 3:15-18:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

AMEN! There IS no greater love than THIS! BELIEVE and RECEIVE His great love for yourself, and then share HIM with others! THAT is why we are here! Ambassadors of Heaven to a lost world! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Lord Send Revivial":

Shalom in Him!