Those constantly seeking to be stronger in God, will be blessed by God in all that they do.

Ps 150:6  Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! Hallelujah! 

Ps 150:1  Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies; 

Ps 150:2  Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness; 

Ps150:3   Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings; 

Ps 150:4  Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute; 

Ps 150:5  Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin. 

Ps 150:6  Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! Hallelujah! 

2 Chronicles 26:5 

"keep seeking God and staying humble and always giving glory to God"

He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.

 (About Uzziah who was made king at age 16 years and reigned in Jerusalem for 52 years.)

Here in this text we have a very important lesson: Those constantly seeking to be stronger in God, will be blessed by God in all that they do.

When all goes well for you most of the time it is called prospering. Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. Self and our ego can take over. That is what happened to king Uzziah, he considered he was equal to God. His pride took over. He transgressed against the LORD his God by entering the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

The priest Azariah, and 80 other priests stopped the King and told him to leave the sanctuary, it was only the priests who were descended from Aaron who were allowed to burn incense at the altar (Numbers 16:40). Instead of admitting he was wrong, King Uzziah got very angry with the priests, and while he standing there leprosy came upon his forehead in front of all the priests, and they pushed him out. The Lord had punished him for his sin.

The consequence was that King Uzziah spent the rest of his days as a leper. The lessons for us is that we should finish as we started, keep seeking God and staying humble and always giving glory to God.

Prayer: Thank you our God and Father for showing us that we must keep seeking and not give up, that your will be done and your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Take Heart Believer with (OUR GOD) and His Promises to You!

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psalm 42:11) Gracious Father, thank You for being my ever-present help in my time of need. You lift my countenance and fill my heart with everlasting delight and tranquility. Your greatness is unsearchable! Your love so unfathomable! May Your Name be lifted on high and praised forevermore!

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endures for ever. (Psalm 119:160) Never doubt, O people of the Lord, the veracity of His word for it bears His own mark and will ever reveal His plan for your redemption. Every assurance is granted you in His word and can be relied upon without fail! Rejoice in His abounding grace and unceasing truth! He is the way. He is the truth. He is your life. And He is your very soul's blood! Rejoice in Him! Sing, "Hallelujah!" and praise His name forever!

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Corinthians 3:18) From the moment we placed our faith in Christ, He began to transform us into His loving and gracious nature! What a joy it is to be one of His children! We are transformed from glory to glory into His marvelous image.

 Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. (Psalm 121:4)

Take heart O believer in the Lord your God who never slumbers and never rests!  Always will He hear you and always does His eye watch over your steps. Naught will take Him by surprise and nothing occurs outside His knowing. He knows intimately the desires of your heart and the difficulties of your life. Trust Him to seek the best for you and praise His name for His goodness!  MORE PROMISES

Should not be unequally yoked.

12th November Back to the Bible daily by disciple John

Deut 22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

What would happen if two animals of very different size were put to work with a plough, I can only imagine that because they are so different it would be impossible to plough a straight furrow. If I as a Christian asked a non-committed Christian to join me in Christian work it would not succeed as the uncommitted will always be saying and doing the wrong thing.

If a Holy Spirit filled church Pastor had a organist who was unsaved then the worship would not glorify God and the Church could fail. If an evangelist goes out to reap a harvest where the sowing was done by an unsaved person then the harvest will fail. If a strong Spirit filled Christian marries a unsaved person knowing that the scripture says in 2Corinthians 6:14 that we should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, then that marriage can flounder.

This is a spiritual truth that we must grasp because it applies just as much today as it did 2000 years ago. Many Christians have started business partnerships with unbelievers and regretted that mistake over and over. Man might be able to fool man, but man can never fool God. Gal 6:7-8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap destruction; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Deuteronomy 22:10

An ox and an ass - Because the one was a clean beast, the other unclean whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things. Wesley says about Deut 22:10.


Odd mixtures are here forbidden, Deu_22:9, Deu_22:10. Much of this we met with before, Lev_19:19. There appears not any thing at all of moral evil in these things, and therefore we now make no conscience of sowing wheat and rye together, ploughing with horses and oxen together, and of wearing linsey-woolsey garments; but hereby is forbidden either, 1. A conformity to some idolatrous customs of the heathen. Or, 2. That which is contrary to the plainness and purity of an Israelite. They must not gratify their own vanity and curiosity by putting those things together which the Creator in infinite wisdom had made asunder: they must not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, nor mingle themselves with the unclean, as an ox with an ass. Nor must their profession and appearance in the world be motley, or party-coloured, but all of a piece, all of a kind.
Henry.

Prayer: Thank you Heavenly father for reminding us again of how you want your children to behave in this world. May your will be done your kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Satisfying an Eternal Thirst - With Living Waters

John 4:1-54 (See Page Christ in Samaria)

Contents: Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The indwelling Spirit. The nobleman’s son healed.
Characters: Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Pharisees, Jacob, Joseph, woman of Samaria, her husband, nobleman, his son.
Conclusion: Jesus Christ is the gift of God, the richest token of God’s love, the source and fountain of those living waters, the graces of the Holy Spirit which satisfy the thirsting soul and make a life overflowing with goodness. Those who come face to face with their own helplessness and sin and give their hearts to Him will be the recipients of these living waters.
Key Word: Living water, Joh_4:10.
Strong Verses: Joh_4:10, Joh_4:14, Joh_4:23, Joh_4:24.
Striking Facts: Joh_4:29. The divine knowledge of Jesus proves His omniscience. Jesus knows the thoughts, words and actions of all the children of men, and by the power of His Words is still revealing to men the secret sins of their hearts.

John 4:1-14

 Satisfying an Eternal Thirst

Joh_4:1-14

Our Lord had no wish to precipitate the conflict with the Pharisee party, until He had finished His ministry to the people. He was the last and greatest of the prophets, as well as the world’s Redeemer. He therefore withdrew from the metropolis. Here is another must, Joh_4:4. There were three in the previous chapter and there are two in this. It was not necessary for Jesus to go through Samaria except for the purpose of mercy to one soul. Jacob’s well is still visible, at the entrance of the green valley up which Sychar lay. Thus, that is, as a tired man would sit. It was noon. The time when women usually drew water was in the evening, but there were special reasons why this woman came by herself. The love of God overleaps narrow restrictions of sex, and sect, and nationality. Two conditions, Joh_4:10, precede our reception of God’s best gifts: we must know, and we must ask.
The living water is not a stagnant pond or well, but leaps up from a hidden spring. The woman keeps referring to the well, Jesus to the spring in the well. That alone can satisfy. Not the word, but the spirit in the word. Not the rite, but the grace it symbolizes. Joh_4:13 might serve as the inscription on all places of worldly amusement. Ponder that word become, Joh_4:14. You first drink for your own need, then you help to meet the need of others.

HE IS THE ALL IN ALL OF OUR SALVATION

Romans 6:21-23
The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. Shame came into the world with sin, and is still the certain effect of it. The end of sin is death. Though the way may seem pleasant and inviting, yet it will be bitterness in the latter end. From this condemnation the believer is set at liberty, when made free from sin. If the fruit is unto holiness, if there is an active principle of true and growing grace, the end will be everlasting life; a very happy end! Though the way is up-hill, though it is narrow, thorny, and beset, yet everlasting life at the end of it is sure. The gift of God is eternal life. And this gift is through Jesus Christ our Lord. Christ purchased it, prepared it, prepares us for it, preserves us to it; he is the All in all in our salvation.

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(2 Peter 3:18)
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.  Amen!

The Passover Lamb and its Sprinkled Blood(He was in His prime, when He laid down His life, for us who have chosen to believe)

Exodus 12:1-14

 The Passover Lamb and its Sprinkled Blood 

Exodus_12:1-14

Henceforth, for Israel, there was to be a new beginning of the year. We should date our birthdays not from the cradle, but from the Cross. The Paschal Lamb was an evident foreshadowing of Christ. See 1Co_5:7.
 (1). He was without blemish. Searched by friend and foe, no fault was found in Him.
(2). He was in His prime, when He laid down His life.
(3). Set apart at the opening of His ministry, it took three years to consummate His purpose.
(4). His blood-that phrase being equivalent to His sacrificial death-speaks of the satisfaction of the just claims of inviolable law, where His flesh is “meat indeed.”
(5). Roasting with fire, unleavened bread and bitter herbs denote the intensity of His sufferings, and the chastened spirit with which we draw nigh.
And does not the pilgrim’s attitude bespeak the attitude of the Church, which, at any moment, may be summoned to go forth at the trumpet sounding? 1Co_15:52.

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God: this is your spiritual act of worship." Romans 12:1


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FOR MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS

                                                                               
Exodus_12:1-14 The Passover Lamb who was without blemish!

“For my strength is made perfect in weakness.”
(2Co_12:9)
A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God’s work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God’s warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, “I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory,” defeat is not far distant. God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength. He who reckons on victory thus has reckoned wrongly, for “it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” They who go forth to fight, boasting of their prowess, shall return with their gay banners trailed in the dust, and their armor stained with disgrace. Those who serve God must serve Him in His own way, and in His strength, or he will never accept their service. That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth he casts away; he will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by grace, and ripened by the sun of divine love. God will empty out all that thou hast before he will put his own into thee; he will first clean out thy granaries before he will fill them with the finest of the wheat. The river of God is full of water; but not one drop of it flows from earthly springs. God will have no strength used in his battles but the strength which he himself imparts. Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give thee victory. Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
“When I am weak then am I strong,
Grace is my shield and Christ my song.”


“In thy light shall we see light.”
 (Psa_36:9)
No lips can tell the love of Christ to the heart till Jesus himself shall speak within. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power; till our Imanuel reveals himself within, the soul sees him not. If you would see the sun, would you gather together the common means of illumination, and seek in that way to behold the orb of day? No, the wise man knows that the sun must reveal itself, and only by its own blaze can that mighty lamp be seen. It is so with Christ. “Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona:” said he to Peter, “for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee.” Purify flesh and blood by any educational process you may select, elevate mental faculties to the highest degree of intellectual power, yet none of these can reveal Christ. The Spirit of God must come with power, and overshadow the man with his wings, and then in that mystic holy of hollies the Lord Jesus must display himself to the sanctified eye, as he doth not unto the purblind sons of men. Christ must be his own mirror. The great mass of this blear-eyed world can see nothing of the ineffable glories of Imanuel. He stands before them without form or comeliness, a root out of a dry ground, rejected by the vain and despised by the proud. Only where the Spirit has touched the eye with eye-salve, quickened the heart with divine life, and educated the soul to a heavenly taste, only there is he understood. “To you that believe he is precious”; to you he is the chief corner-stone, the Rock of your salvation, your all in all; but to others he is “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence.” Happy are those to whom our Lord manifests himself, for his promise to such is that he will make his abode with them. O Jesus, our Lord, our heart is open, come in, and go out no more for ever. Show thyself to us now! Favour us with a glimpse of thine all-conquering charms.

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