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Day 56, 25 Feb 2021
Numbers 5 - 6
NUMBERS 5
The Unclean
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Lev 13:46; 21:1) Command the children of Israel that they put out
of the camp every leper, and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever
is defiled by the dead.
3 (Lev 26:11–12; Dt 23:14) Both male and female you will put out.
You will put them outside the camp, so they do not defile their
camps in the midst of which I dwell.
4 The children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp.
As the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
Restitution for Wrongs
5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
6 Tell the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits
any sin against another, acting unfaithfully against the Lord,
that person is guilty,
7 (Lev 5:5; 26:40; Jos 7:19) and shall confess his sin which
he has committed, and he will repay his offense with its principal,
and add to it one-fifth, and give it to him who was wronged.
8 (Lev 6:6-7; 7:7) But if the man has no relative to repay the offense to,
let the offense be repaid to the Lord, even to the priest, beside the ram
of the atonement, whereby an atonement will be made for him.
9 (Ex 29:28; Lev 6:17-18) Every offering of all the holy things
of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, will be his.
10 Every man's holy things will be his. Whatever any man gives the priest,
it will be his.
The Test for Adultery
11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12 (Nu 5:19–20) Speak to the children of Israel and say to them:
If any man's wife goes astray, and acts treacherously against him,
13 (Lev 18:20; 20:10) and a man lies with her carnally,
and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband,
and it is concealed though she has defiled herself,
and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act,
14 (Pr 6:34; SS 8:6) and if the spirit of jealousy comes on him,
and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit
of jealousy comes on him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not
defiled herself,
15 (Eze 29:16; Lev 5:11) then the man shall bring his wife to the priest
and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah
(Likely about 3 1/2 pounds, or 1.6 kilograms.) of barley flour.
He shall pour no oil on it nor put frankincense on it,
for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance,
bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16 The priest will bring her near, and set her before the Lord.
17 And the priest will take holy water in an earthen vessel,
and the priest will take some of the dust that is on the floor
of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
18 And the priest will set the woman before the Lord,
and uncover the woman's head, and put the memorial offering in her hands,
which is the grain offering of jealousy, and the priest will have in his
hand the bitter water that causes the curse.
19 And the priest will charge her by an oath, and say to the woman,
"If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to
impurity with another instead of your husband,
be free from this bitter water that causes the curse.
20 But if you have gone astray to another instead of your husband,
and if you are defiled, and a man besides your husband has lain with you"-
21 (Jos 6:26; 1Sa 14:24) then the priest will charge the woman with
an oath of cursing, and the priest will say to the woman,
"The Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people,
when the Lord makes your thigh rot and your belly swell.
22 (Ps 109:18; Dt 27:15-26) And this water that causes
the curse will go into your bowels,
to make your belly swell and your thigh rot."
And the woman will say, "Amen, amen."
23 The priest will write these curses in a book,
and he will wash them out with the bitter water.
24 And he will cause the woman to drink the bitter water
that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse
will enter into her and become bitter.
25 (Lev 8:27) Then the priest will take the grain offering
of jealousy out of the woman's hand and will wave the offering
before the Lord and offer it on the altar.
26 (Lev 2:2; 2:9) And the priest will take a handful of the offering,
the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward will
cause the woman to drink the water.
27 (Jer 29:18; 42:18) When he has made her to drink the water,
then it will be that, if she is defiled and has acted treacherously
against her husband, the water that causes the curse will enter into her,
and become bitter, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will rot,
and the woman will be a curse among her people.
28 If the woman is not defiled, but is clean,
then she will be free and will conceive offspring.
29 (Nu 5:19; 5:12) This is the law of jealousies,
when a wife goes astray to another instead of her husband,
and is defiled,
30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on him,
and he is jealous over his wife,
and will set the woman before the Lord,
and the priest will perform on her all this law.
31 Then the man will be guiltless from iniquity,
and this woman will bear her iniquity.
NUMBERS 6
The Nazirite Vow
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Jdg 13:5; Am 2:11-12) Speak to the children of Israel and say to them:
When either a man or woman will make a hard vow, the vow of a Nazirite,
to separate themselves to the Lord,
3 (Lk 1:15; Lev 10:9; Jdg 13:14) he will separate himself from wine
and strong drink and will drink no vinegar of wine,
or vinegar of strong drink. Neither shall he drink any juice of grapes,
nor eat fresh or dry grapes.
4 (Nu 6:5) All the days of his separation he will eat nothing
that is made of the grapevine, from the seed to the skin.
5 (1Sa 1:11; Jdg 13:5) All the days of the vow of his separation no razor
will come on his head until the days are fulfilled in which he separates
himself to the Lord. He will be holy and will let the locks
of the hair of his head grow.
6 (Lev 19:28) All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he will
not approach a dead body.
7 (Nu 9:6; Lev 21:1-2) He will not defile himself for his father
or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister if they die
because the separation of his God is on his head.
8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.
9 (Nu 6:18; Lev 14:9) If any man dies very suddenly beside him,
and he has defiled his consecrated head, then he will shave his
head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day will he shave it.
10 (Lev 15:14; 15:29) On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves
or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.
11 And the priest will offer one as a sin offering and the other
as a burnt offering and make an atonement for him,
since he sinned because of the dead,
and will sanctify his head that same day.
12 (Lev 5:6) He will consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation
and bring a male lamb in its first year as a guilt offering.
But the previous days will be lost because his separation was defiled.
13 (Ac 21:26) This is the law of the Nazirite.
When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he will be brought
to the door of the tent of meeting.
14 (Lev 3:6; 4:32) And he will offer his offering to the Lord,
one male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering,
one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering,
one ram without blemish as a peace offering,
15 (Ex 29:2; Lev 2:4) a basket of unleavened bread,
loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil,
and their grain offering with their drink offerings.
16 The priest will bring them before the Lord and
will offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.
17 And he will offer the ram as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord
with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest will offer also his grain
offering and his drink offering.
18 (Ac 21:24; Nu 6:9) The Nazirite will shave his consecrated head
at the door of the tent of meeting, and will take the hair from
his consecrated head and put it in the fire which is
under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
19 (Lev 7:30; 1Sa 2:15) The priest will take the cooked shoulder of the ram,
and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer and will
put them on the hands of the Nazirite,
after he has shaved his consecrated hair.
20 (Ecc 9:7; Ex 29:27-28) And the priest will wave them as a wave offering
before the Lord. This is holy for the priest, with the breast waved
and the shoulder offered. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
21 This is the law of the Nazirite who has vowed to the Lord,
his offering for his separation, besides whatever else his hand
is able to provide. According to the vow which he spoke,
so he must do, according to the law of his separation.
The Priestly Blessing
22 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
23 (1Ch 23:13; Dt 21:5) Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying,
This is how you will bless the children of Israel, saying to them,
24 (Ps 121:4–7; 134:3) The Lord bless you
and keep you;
25 (Ps 31:16; 80:7) the Lord make His face to shine upon you,
and be gracious unto you;
26 (Ps 4:6; 29:11) the Lord lift His countenance upon you,
and give you peace.
27 (2Ch 7:14; Dt 28:10) They will put My name upon the children
of Israel, and I will bless them.
(Take the Lord seriously. His Blessings are plentiful
and his punishment is merciless.)
Our Daily Bread for 25 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/25/to-be-human
entitled To Be Human
Matthew 23:37–24:2
The Lament Over Jerusalem
Lk 13:34–35
37(Ru 2:12; Mt 5:12) "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets
and stone those who are sent to you, how often I would have gathered
your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,
but you would not!
38 (Jer 22:5) Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39 (Ps 118:26; Mt 21:9) For I tell you,
you shall not see Me again until you say,
'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.'Ps 118:26."
MATTHEW 24
The Destruction of the Temple Foretold
Mk 13:1–2; Lk 21:5–6
1 Jesus departed from the temple and was leaving when His disciples
came to show Him the temple buildings.
2 (Lk 19:44) Jesus answered them, "Do you not see all these things?
Truly I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another
that shall not be thrown down."
"Mr. Singerman, why are you crying?" asked twelve-year-old
Albert as he watched the master craftsman construct a wooden box.
"I cry," he said, "because my father cried, and because my grandfather cried."
The woodworker's answer to his young apprentice provides a tender moment
in an episode of Little House on the Prairie. "Tears,"
explained Mr. Singerman, "come with the making of a coffin."
"Some men don't cry because they fear it is a sign of weakness," he said.
"I was taught that a man is a man because he can cry."
Emotion must have welled up in the eyes of Jesus as He compared His concern
for Jerusalem to the care of a mother hen for her chicks (Matthew 23:37).
His disciples were often confused by what they saw in His eyes or heard
in His stories. His idea of what it meant to be strong was different.
It happened again as they walked with Him from the temple.
Calling His attention to the massive stone walls and magnificent
decor of their place of worship (24:1),
the disciples noted the strength of human accomplishment.
Jesus saw a temple that would be leveled in AD 70.
Christ shows us that healthy people know when to cry and why.
He cried because His Father cares and His Spirit groans for children
who couldn't yet see what breaks His heart.
By: Mart DeHaan
Reflect & Pray
In what situations in your life might you be avoiding grief?
How can your faith in a Savior who cries (John 11:35)
help you express your grief in a healthy way?
Father, please replace any cold illusions of strength
I cling to with a growing understanding of the cares
and concerns that break Your heart for children like me.
3) From The Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Association
Words in Season - Scripture Memory Tools
Week 3 - Saved Now and Forever - Day 5 - God Loved, So He Gave
John 3:16-17
16 (Ro 5:8; 1Jn 4:9–10; Jn 1:18) "For God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
17 (1Jn 4:14; Lk 19:10) For God did not send His Son into
the world to condemn the world, but that the world
through Him might be saved."
Often called "the gospel in a nutshell", John 3:16 is so familiar,
even the unchurched, that it has all but lost its impact for us.
WE cite it by rote, as if it had no more meaning than a SSN (SIN),
and think that we understand the truth becuase we know the words.
Why did God send Jesus, his only Son, into the world to die?
Because he loved the people he created. God had no reason,
humanly speaking, to love mankind. Throughout history, from
the Garden of Eden forward, people had deliberately turned
against God and tried his patience. Even the nation God chose
for himself, Israel rebelled againt the Lord and turned to other gods.
And we, as individuals, have rebelled against him too. WE have tried
to control our own lives; we have denied his reality; or
acknowledged his existence and then systematically ignored him.
We have become our own gods.
Yet Christ, in love, took upon himself the rejection, the humiliation,
the pain we were responsible for. We deserved to be condemned to die,
but he died for us instead. "God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world," John 3:17 says, "but to save the world through him."
Often, even after we have committed our lives to Christ, we mistakenly
suppose that God's primary purpose is to condemn us - to catch us in sin
and punish us. But God says that his purpose is to love us and to save us
from sin and ourselves. He loved, and so he gave; he still loves us,
and he still continues to give.
Application
a) What sin in my life put Jesus on the cross?
b) How do I know that my sins has been forgiven?
c) How can these verses help me when I face condemnation and guilt?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Gen 26:12-14
12 (Ge 26:3; 24:1) Then Isaac sowed in that land
and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; the Lord blessed him.
13 The man became rich and continued to prosper until he became very wealthy.
14 (Ge 37:11; Ecc 4:4) For he had possessions of flocks and herds
and a great number of servants so that the Philistines envied him.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Unfailing Love
Ps 36:5-9
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens,
and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) Your righteousness is like the great mountains,
Your judgments like the great deep;
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) How excellent is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore mankind
seeks refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) They will drink their fill from the abundance of Your house,
and You will cause them to drink from the river of Your pleasures.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) For with You is the fountain of life;
in Your light we see light.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
Day 25 of the Month
a) Pray that there will be a growing number of people in your city or
community trusting in Christ as Saviour and Lord.
(Acts 2: 41,47b
41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized,
and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
47 ... And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
)
b) Pray that those who serve in the justice system will be agents of true
justice for all.
( Prov 11:1
1 A false balance is abomination to the Lord,
but a just weight is His delight.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to see how to stay pure in His Site.
Pray to the Lord to ask how express grief/crying.
Pray to the Lord to recall HIs Love on the Cross.
Pray to the Lord to seek how to be a blessing in His humility.
Pray to the Lord to seek His Love.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray for the gospel of Christ to be recieved in your community in Canada.
Pray for Justice System based on God's word.
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
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Day 56, 25 Feb 2021
NUMBERS 7
Offerings at the Tabernacle's Dedication
1 (Lev 8:10-11) And it was on the day that Moses had fully set up
the tabernacle and anointed it and sanctified it and all its instruments,
both the altar and all its vessels, and anointed them, and sanctified them,
2 (Nu 1:4-16; 2Ch 35:8) that the leaders of Israel, heads of their
fathers' houses, who were the leaders of the tribes, and were over
them who were counted, made an offering.
3 And they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons,
and twelve oxen, a wagon for two of the leaders, and for each one an ox.
And they brought them before the tabernacle.
4 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
5 Accept these things from them, that they may be used in the service
of the tent of meeting. Give them to the Levites, to each man according
to his service.
6 Moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.
7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon,
according to their service.
8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari,
according to their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron
the priest.
9 (Nu 3:31; 2Sa 6:13) But to the sons of Kohath he gave none because
the service of the sanctuary belonging to them was that they should
carry on their shoulders.
10 (2Ch 7:9; Dt 20:5) The leaders brought their dedication offerings
when the altar was anointed, and offered their offerings before the
altar.
11 The Lord said to Moses: They will offer their offering, each leader
on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
12 He that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon
the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.
13 (Ex 30:13; 25:29) And his offering was one silver charger,
the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels,
(About 3 1/4 pounds, or 1.5 kilograms; and throughout this chapter.)
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
(About 1 3/4 pounds, or 800 grams; and throughout this chapter.)
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour
mixed with oil as a grain offering;
14 one spoon of ten shekels
(About 4 ounces, or 115 grams; and throughout this chapter.)
of gold, full of incense;
15 one young bull, one ram,
and one male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering;
16 (Lev 4:23) one goat kid as a sin offering;
17 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
18 (Nu 1:8) On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar,
leader of Issachar, presented an offering.
19 He offered as his offering one silver charger,
the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil as a grain offering;
20 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
21 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year as
a burnt offering;
22 one goat kid as a sin offering;
23 (Lev 7:11-13) and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.
24 (Nu 1:9) On the third day Eliab the son of Helon,
leader of the children of Zebulun, presented an offering.
25 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of which
was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil as a grain offering;
26 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
27 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb in its first year
as a burnt offering;
28 one goat kid as a sin offering;
29 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
30 (Nu 1:5) On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur,
leader of the children of Reuben, presented an offering.
31 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of which was
one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour
mixed with oil as a grain offering;
32 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
33 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb in its first year
as a burnt offering;
34 one goat kid as a sin offering;
35 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
36 (Nu 1:6) On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of ZuriÂshaddai,
leader of the children of Simeon, presented an offering.
37 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of which was
one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil as a grain offering;
38 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
39 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb in its first year,
as a burnt offering:
40 one goat kid as a sin offering;
41 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
42 (Nu 1:14; 2:14) On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel,
leader of the children of Gad, presented an offering.
43 (Lev 2:5; 14:10) And his offering was one silver charger,
the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels,
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
44 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
45 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb in
its first year as a burnt offering;
46 one goat kid as a sin offering;
47 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
48 (Nu 1:10; 2:18) On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud,
leader of the children of Ephraim, presented an offering.
49 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of which was
one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour
mixed with oil as a grain offering;
50 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
51 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb in its first year
as a burnt offering;
52 one goat kid as a sin offering;
53 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
54 (Nu 1:10; 2:20) On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,
leader of the children of Manasseh, presented an offering.
55 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of which
was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil as a grain offering;
56 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
57 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb
in its first year as a burnt offering;
58 one goat kid as a sin offering;
59 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
60 (Nu 1:11; 2:22) On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni,
leader of the children of Benjamin, presented an offering.
61 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of
which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with
oil as a grain offering;
62 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
63 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year as a burnt
offering;
64 one goat kid as a sin offering;
65 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats,
and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Abidan
the son of Gideoni.
66 (Nu 1:12; 2:25) On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,
leader of the children of Dan, presented an offering.
67 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of which was
one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour
mixed with oil as a grain offering;
68 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
69 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year as
a burnt offering;
70 one goat kid as a sin offering;
71 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
72 (Nu 1:13; 2:27) On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Okran,
leader of the children of Asher, presented an offering.
73 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of which
was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil as a grain offering;
74 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
75 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year
as a burnt offering;
76 one goat kid as a sin offering;
77 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Okran.
78 (Nu 1:15; 2:29) On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan,
leader of the children of Naphtali, presented an offering.
79 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight of which was
one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour
mixed with oil as a grain offering;
80 one spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense;
81 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year
as a burnt offering; 82one goat kid as a sin offering;
83 and as a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year.
This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
84 (Nu 7:10) This was the dedication of the altar,
in the day when it was anointed, by the leaders of Israel:
twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold spoons,
85 each silver plate weighing one hundred and thirty shekels,
each bowl seventy. All the silver vessels weighed
two thousand four hundred shekels, (About 60 pounds, or 28 kilograms.)
according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
86 The gold spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels
apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. All the gold of the
spoons was one hundred and twenty shekels. (About 3 pounds, or 1.4 kilograms.)
87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bulls, twelve rams,
twelve male lambs in their first year, with their grain offering,
and twelve goat kids for a sin offering.
88 (Nu 7:1; 7:10) And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings
were 24 bulls, the rams sixty, the goats sixty, the one-year-old lambs sixty.
This was the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.
89 (Ps 80:1; Ex 33:9-11) And then Moses went into the tent of meeting
to speak with Him, and he heard the voice of One speaking to him from
the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony,
from between the two cherubim, and He spoke to him.
(Obedience is better than sacrifice)
Our Daily Bread for 26 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/26/facing-fear
entitled Facingn Fear
Psalm 56:3-11
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) In the day when I am afraid,
I will trust in You.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) In God whose word I praise,
in God I have trusted; I will not fear.
What can mere flesh do to me?
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Every day they twist my words;
all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6(2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) They stir up strife, they lurk,
they watch my steps,
when they wait for my life.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) Should there be deliverance for them
on account of wickedness?
In Your anger cast down the peoples, O God.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) You take account of my wandering;
put my tears in Your bottle;
are they not in Your book?
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) In the day I cry to You,
then my enemies will turn back;
this I know, that God is for me.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) In God whose word I praise,
in the Lord whose word I praise,
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) in God I trust, I will not fear;
what can a man do to me?
Warren moved to a small town to pastor a church.
After his ministry had some initial success, one of the locals
turned on him. Concocting a story accusing Warren of horrendous
acts, the man took the story to the local newspaper and even
printed his accusations on pamphlets to distribute to local
residents by mail. Warren and his wife started praying hard.
If the lie was believed, their lives would be upended.
King David once experienced something similar. He faced an attack
of slander by an enemy. "All day long they twist my words," he said,
"all their schemes are for my ruin" (Psalm 56:5). This sustained assault
left him fearful and tearful (v.
. But in the midst of the battle,
he prayed this powerful prayer: "When I am afraid, I put my trust in
you. . . . What can mere mortals do to me?" (vv. 3-4).
David’s prayer can be a model for us today. When I am afraid-in times
of fear or accusation, we turn to God. I put my trust in you-we place
our battle in God's powerful hands. What can mere mortals do to
me?—facing the situation with Him, we remember how limited the
powers against us really are.
The newspaper ignored the story about Warren. For some reason, the pamphlets
were never distributed. What battle do you fear today? Talk to God.
He's willing to fight it with you.
By: Sheridan Voysey
Reflect & Pray
What real fears do you face? How can David's prayer help you deal with them?
Loving God, I'm afraid—and so today I put my trust in You. What can mere
mortals do to me when You're fighting for me? Thank You for the coming victory.
For help in choosing hope instead of fear,
read https://www.DiscoverySeries.org/Q0733 .
Week 3 - Saved Now and forever Day 6 - Eternal Life, Beginning now
John 10:28 - I give them eternal life. They shall never perish,
nor shall anyone snatch them from My hand.
In C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, one of the Spirits in heaven, identifying
himself as George MacDonald, makes some startling statements on the nature of
eternal life. Depending upon the individual's choice for or against Christ,
MacDonald says, everything in life takes on the character of haven or hell.
"At the end of ALL THINGS, when the sun rises here (in heaven) and the twilight
turns to blackness down there, the Blessed will say, 'We have never lived
anywhere except in Heaven,' and the Lost, 'We were always in Hell.'
And both will speak truly" - From the Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis.
Lewis was not trying to make a theological case, but to demonstrate
a principle: eterenal life begins now.
The choices that we make for or against obedience to God, the life we live,
the patterns we establish, all move us in one direction of the other.
And when we have decided to choose obedience to God (the forsakeness of sin),
when we give ourselves fully into his hands, he is able to take the worst of
circumstances and redeem them for our good, use them to mature us in his image.
Again Jesus says in John 10:28
"I give them eternal life. They shall never perish,
nor shall anyone snatch them from My hand. "
In Christ is a very secure place to be. No experience is lost, no pain is
wasted. Everything in our lives is redeemed by God for our benefit.
Application
a) How have I experienced the truth that "eternal life begins now"?
b) How can this verse help me put life in perspective during times
of stress and anxiety?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Genesis 30:43
The man became exceedingly prosperous and had many sheep
and female servants and male servants and camels and donkeys.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are anxious
Phil 4:4-7
4 (Php 3:1; Ro 12:12 Rejoice in the Lord always.
Again I will say, rejoice!
5 (Jas 5:8-9) Let everyone come to know your gentleness.
The Lord is at hand.
6 (Eph 6:18; Mt 6:25-33) Be anxious for nothing, but in everything,
by prayer and supplication with gratitude, make your requests known
to God.
7 (Jn 14:27; Col 3:15; Isa 26:3) And the peace of God, which surpasses
all understanding, will protect your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
Day 26 of the Month
a) Pray that Christians in the marketplace will demonstrate exemplary
work ethics and shine as witnesses of Christ (Matt 5:16
16 Let your light so shine before men that they may
see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
)
b) Pray for the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut
I) Pray for the leaders of Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut,
that God's Spirit would influence
then to act justly,
serve with integrity
and honour high moral standards. ( 1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3 (1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses
beaming forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use
the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to see how to stay pure in His Obedience.
Pray to the Lord on how to react correctly to fear.
Pray to the Lord for in crease in blessings.
Pray to the Lord to seek calmness in Jesus Christ.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray for business leadres to seek his will.
Pray for Justice System based on God's word.
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
Day 58, 27 Feb 2021
NUMBERS 8 - 10
NUMBERS 8
The Seven Lamps
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Ex 25:37) Speak to Aaron and say to him: When you set up the lamps,
the seven lamps will give light before the lampstand.
3 Aaron did so. He lit the lamps before the lampstand,
as the Lord commanded Moses.
4 (Ex 25:9; 25:18) And this was the work of the lampstand:
hammered gold, to its shaft, to its flowers was beaten work.
According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses,
so he made the lampstand.
Consecrating the Levites
5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them.
7 (Lev 8:6; Nu 19:13) Thus you will do to them to cleanse them: Splash
purifying water on them, and let them shave their whole body, and let
them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
8 (Lev 2:1) Then let them take a young bull with its grain offering,
also fine flour mixed with oil, and you will take another young bull
as a sin offering.
9 (Ex 40:12; Lev 8:3) You will bring the Levites
before the tent of meeting. And you will gather the whole assembly
of the children of Israel together.
10 (Lev 1:4; Ac 6:6) And you will bring the Levites before the Lord.
And the children of Israel will put their hands on the Levites.
11 (Lev 7:30) And Aaron will offer the Levites before the Lord as a
wave offering of the children of Israel, that they may do the service
of the Lord.
12 (Ex 29:10; Lev 1:4) The Levites will lay their hands on the heads
of the bulls, and you will offer one as a sin offering and the other
as a burnt offering to the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites.
13 (Nu 8:11; 8:21) You will set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons,
and offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.
14 (Nu 3:45) Thus will you separate the Levites
from among the children of Israel, and the Levites will be Mine.
15 (Nu 8:11; 8:13) And afterwards the Levites will go in to do
the service of the tent of meeting, and you will cleanse them
and offer them as a wave offering.
16 (Nu 3:12; 3:45) For they are completely set aside for Me
by the children of Israel. Instead of all who open the womb,
instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel,
I have taken them for Myself.
17 (Ex 13:2; Lk 2:23) For all the firstborn of the children of Israel
are Mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck every firstborn
in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.
18 I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn
of the children of Israel.
19 (Nu 1:53; 16:46) I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron
and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to serve
the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting
and to make an atonement for the children of Israel, so there
will be no plague among the children of Israel when the children
of Israel approach the sanctuary.
20 Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of
Israel did to the Levites; according to all that the Lord commanded
Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
21 (Nu 8:7; 8:11-13) The Levites cleansed themselves from sin,
and they washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as a wave
offering before the Lord, and Aaron made an atonement
for them to cleanse them.
22 And after that the Levites went in to do their service
in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons.
As the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
23 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
24 (Nu 4:3; 1Ch 23:3) This is what belongs to the Levites:
From twenty-five years old and older they will go in to do their
duty concerning the service of the tent of meeting.
25 And from the age of fifty years they will cease doing their duty
concerning its service and will serve no more.
26 (Nu 1:53) But they will minister with their brothers
in the tent of meeting, to attend to their needs, but will not do the work.
Thus you will do to the Levites concerning their duties.
NUMBERS 9
The Passover at Sinai
1 (Nu 1:1; Ex 40:2) And the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai,
in the first month of the second year after they came out
of the land of Egypt, saying:
2 (Lev 23:5; Dt 16:1-2) Let the children of Israel also keep the Passover
at its appointed time.
3 (Ex 12:6-11) On the fourteenth day of this month, at
you will keep it at its appointed time. According to all
its rites and according to all its ceremonies, you will keep it.
4 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.
5 (Jos 5:10) They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month
at evening in the Wilderness of Sinai. According to all that
the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
6 (Ex 18:15; Nu 27:2) There were men who were unclean by
the dead body of a man, so they could not keep the Passover on that day,
and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
7 And those men said to him, "We are defiled by the dead body of a man.
Why are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord
at its appointed time among the children of Israel?"
8 (Nu 27:5; Ps 85:8) And Moses said to them, "Stand still, and I will hear
what the Lord will command concerning you."
9 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
10 Speak to the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or
of your posterity is unclean because of a dead body, or is far off
on a journey, he will still keep the Passover to the Lord.
11 (2Ch 30:2–15) The fourteenth day of the second month at evening
they will keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12 (Ex 12:10; 12:46; 12:43) They will leave none of it until the morning,
nor break any of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover
they will keep it.
13 (Ge 17:14; Ex 12:15) But the man who is ceremonially clean,
and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover,
even the same person will be cut off from his people.
Because he did not bring the offering of the Lord at its appointed time,
that man will bear his sin.
14 (Ex 12:48-49; Lev 24:22) If a stranger will sojourn among you
and will keep the Passover to the Lord, according to the ordinance
of the Passover, and according to the manner of it, so he will do.
You will have one ordinance both for the resident alien
and for the natural born citizen of the land.
The Cloud and the Fire
15 (Ex 13:21; 40:34) And on the day that the tabernacle was erected,
the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony,
and at evening there was over the tabernacle the appearance of fire
until the morning.
16 (Ne 9:12) So it was always. The cloud covered it by day,
and the appearance of fire by night.
17 (Ex 40:36–38; Jn 10:9) When the cloud was lifted up from
over the tabernacle, then after it the children of Israel journeyed,
and in the place where the cloud settled,
there the children of Israel camped.
18 (1Co 10:1) At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel
journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they camped. As long as
the cloud dwelt over the tabernacle they camped.
19 When the cloud remained many days over the tabernacle,
then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord and did not journey.
20 When the cloud remained a few days over the tabernacle,
according to the commandment of the Lord they dwelt in their tents,
and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.
21 When the cloud dwelt from evening until morning
and the cloud was lifted up in the morning,
then they journeyed. Whether it was by day or by night
that the cloud was lifted up, they journeyed.
22 (Ex 40:36–37) Whether it was two days, or a month,
or a long time that the cloud dwelt over the tabernacle,
the children of Israel dwelt in their tents and did not journey.
But when it was lifted up they journeyed.
23 (Nu 9:19) At the command of the Lord they camped,
and at the command of the Lord they journeyed.
They kept the charge of the Lord at the command
of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
NUMBERS 10
The Silver Trumpets
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Isa 1:13; Ps 81:3) Make for yourself two silver trumpets.
Of a hammered work you will make them, and you will use them
for summoning of the assembly and directing the breaking up of the camps.
3 (Jer 4:5) When they blow both of them, all the assembly will assemble
themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting.
4 (Ex 18:21; Nu 7:2) If they blow only one, then the leaders,
who are heads of the thousands of Israel, will gather themselves to you.
5 (Nu 2:3–9; 10:14) When you blow an alarm, then the camps that lie
on the east will set out.
6 (Nu 2:10–16; 10:18) When you blow an alarm the second time,
then the camps that lie on the south will set out.
They will blow an alarm for their setting out.
7 (Joel 2:1) But when the assembly is to be gathered together,
you will blow, but you will not sound an alarm.
8 (Nu 31:6; 1Ch 15:24) The sons of Aaron, the priests,
will blow the trumpets, and they will be to you as an ordinance
forever throughout your generations.
9 (Ge 8:1; Jdg 2:18) And if you go to war in your land against
the enemy that oppresses you, then you will blow an alarm with
the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God,
and you will be saved from your enemies.
10 (Ps 81:3; Lev 23:24) Also in the day of your gladness,
and at your appointed days, and in the beginnings of your months,
you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over
the sacrifices of your peace offerings that they may be a memorial
for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.
The Departure From Sinai
11 And it was on the twentieth day of the second month,
in the second year, that the cloud was lifted up from
over the tabernacle of the testimony.
12 (Ge 21:21; Nu 12:16) The children of Israel set out
from the Wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud dwelt
in the Wilderness of Paran.
13 And they set out for the first time at the command of the
Lord by the hand of Moses.
14 (Nu 2:3-9; 1:7) And the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah
set out first by their armies, and over his armies was Nahshon the
son of Amminadab.
15 Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel
the son of Zuar.
16 Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab
the son of Helon.
17 (Nu 1:51; 7:6-8) The tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon
and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.
18 (Nu 2:10-16; 1:5) The standard of the camp of Reuben set out
by their armies, and over his armies was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
19 (Nu 1:6) Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Simeon
was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
20 (Nu 1:14; 2:14) Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Gad
was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
21 (Nu 10:17; 4:4-16) The Kohathites set out, carrying the sanctuary,
and they set up the tabernacle before they came.
22 (Nu 2:18-24; 1:10) The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim
set out by their armies, and over his armies was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
23 Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel
the son of Pedahzur.
24 (Nu 1:11) Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
25 (Jos 6:9; Nu 1:12) Then the standard of the camp of the children of Dan
set out, which was the rear guard of all the camps by their armies,
and over his armies was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
26 (Nu 1:13) Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Asher
was Pagiel the son of Okran.
27 (Nu 1:15) Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Naphtali
was Ahira the son of Enan.
28 (Nu 2:34) This was the order of march
of the children of Israel, company by company, when they set out.
29 (Ge 12:7; Ex 2:18; 3:1) Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite,
Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out to the place of which the Lord said,
'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you
because the Lord has spoken good concerning Israel."
30 Hobab said to him, "I will not go. But I will depart to my own land,
and to my kindred."
31 (Job 29:15) So Moses said, "Please do not leave us, because you know
where to camp in the wilderness, and you may be our eyes.
32 (Jdg 1:16; 4:11) Moreover, if you go with us, then it will be that
whatever good the Lord will do for us, we will likewise do for you."
33 (Dt 1:33; Ex 3:1) They set out three days from the mountain of the Lord,
and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them
the three days' journey, to find a resting place for them.
34And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day
when they set out from of the camp.
35 (Ps 68:1–2) And it was, when the ark set out, that Moses said,
"Rise up, O Lord,
and let Your enemies be scattered,
and let them that hate You flee before You."
36 (Dt 1:10) And when it rested, he said,
"Return, O Lord,
to the multitude of thousands of Israel."
(Celebrate in the protection of the Lord)
Our Daily Bread for 27 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/27/no-longer-i
entitled No Longer Yourself
Galatians 2:14–21
14 (Gal 2:5; Ac 10:28) But when I saw that they were not straightforward
about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all,
"If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew,
why do you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"
[Some interpreters hold that the quotation extends
into the following paragraph.]
Jews, Like Gentiles, Are Saved by Faith
15 (Eph 2:3) We are Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
16 (Ps 143:2; Php 3:9) yet we know that a man is not justified
by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ.
Even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be
justified by faith in Christ, rather than by the works of the law.
For by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
17 (Gal 2:15) If, while we seek to be justified by Christ,
we ourselves also are found to be sinners, is Christ therefore
the minister of sin? God forbid!
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed,
I make myself a transgressor.
19 (Ro 7:4; 6:2) For through the law I am dead to the law,
that I might live for God.
20 (Ro 8:37; Gal 1:4) I have been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith
in the Son of God,Or by the faith of the Son of God.
who loved me and gave Himself for me.
21 (Gal 3:21; Heb 7:11) I do not nullify the grace of God.
For if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ died in vain.
In the summer of 1859, Monsieur Charles Blondin became the first
person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope-something he would
go on to do hundreds of times. Once he did it with his manager
Harry Colcord on his back. Blondin gave Colcord these instructions:
"Look up, Harry . . . you are no longer Colcord, you are Blondin. . . .
If I sway, sway with me. Do not attempt to do any balancing yourself.
If you do, we will both go to our death."
Paul, in essence, said to the Galatian believers: You can't walk
the line of living a life that is pleasing to God apart from faith
in Christ. But here's the good news-you don't have to!
No amount of attempting to earn our way to God will ever cut it.
So are we passive in our salvation? No! Our invitation is to cling
to Christ. Clinging to Jesus means putting to death an old,
independent way of living; it’s as if we ourselves have died.
Yet, we go on living. But "the life [we] now live in the body,
[we] live by faith in the Son of God, who loved [us]
and gave himself for [us]" (Galatians 2:20).
Where are we trying to walk the tightrope today? God hasn't called us
to walk out on the rope to Him; He's called us to cling to Him
and walk this life with Him.
By: Glenn Packiam
Reflect & Pray
How can you stop trying to please God on your own?
Where do you need to cling to Jesus today, trusting His righteousness?
Dear Jesus, thank You for doing for me what I could never do for myself.
I turn away from trying to please You on my own. I'm so glad I don't need
to earn Your love.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 3 - Saved Now and forever Day 7 - The Great Exchange
2 Cor 5:21 - God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us,
that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
People were talking ; the gossip lines were busy day and night.
Andrea, a Bible study leader and pillar of the church, had been
accused of indiscretion with a married man, another member
of the congregation. The rumours were proven untrue,
but that hardly mattered anymore. The damage was done.
"It's just not far," Andrea said. " It was all so unnecessary.
And now, even though I've done nothing wrong, my relationship
with that church will never be the same again."
We all know what pain is caused by undeserved accusation,
rejection, and misunderstanding. Sometimes, when the smoke clears,
irreparable damage has been done, even when no sin has occurred.
We can understand the torment that comes when we've sinned,
but when we've done nothing wrong, the injustice seem unbearable.
Jesus knew what it was to suffer unjustly. He had never sinned at all,
yet he 'became sin' for us. He gave himself in an outrageous exchange:
he took our sin and gave us his righteousness.
Living in this exchange does not mean, of course, that we will be exempt
from pain, that we will never again suffer unjustly or be subject
to rejection. But in Christ, we are declared righteous before God,
just as Jesus himself is righteous. And as we submit
to the Holy Spirit's work in us, we become righteous ,
obeying him and growing in grace. Christ endured rejection
for us so that we might live in him.
Application
1. Have I ever suffered unjustly or been rejected by someone without cause?
2. How can this verse, coupled with my own expereience give me a greater
depth of appreciation of what Christ suffered for me?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Genesis 39:2-3 : 2 (Ge 21:22; 26:24) The Lord was with Joseph,
so that he became a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master,
the Egyptian.
3 (Ps 1:3; Ge 21:22) His master saw that the Lord was with him
and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are anxious
Romans 8:28-30
28 (Gal 1:15; Ge 50:20) We know that all things work together
for good to those who love God,
to those who are called according to His purpose.
29 (Ro 11:2; 1Co 15:49; Eph 1:11) For those whom He foreknew,
He predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son,
so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30 (1Co 6:11; Heb 9:15) And those whom He predestined, He also called;
and those whom He called, He also justified; and those whom He justified,
He also glorified.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
Day 27 of the Month
a) Pray that God's Spirit will melt the pride that causes many to
hold to wrong opinions of Christ and His Salvation.
(
2 Cor 10:4-5
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,
5 casting down imaginations and every high thing
that exalts itself against the knowledge of God,
bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
)
b) Pray that the Lord will awaken a desire in the hearts of those who
are lost to seek Him and to seek The Truth.
Day 28 of the Month
a) Pray for new Canadians, that they will have opportunity to hear
and respond to the Gospel and place their faith in Jesus Christ.
(
John 5:24
24 (Jn 3:18; 1Jn 3:14; Jn 3:36) "Truly, truly I say to you, whoever
hears My word and believes in Him who sent
Me has eternal life and shall not come into condemnation,
but has passed from death into life."
)
b) Pray for God's kingdom to come in the life of someone you
know today . (
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 “Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to see how to celebrate in His protection.
Pray to the Lord on how to please him.
Pray to the Lord to seek wisdom when being accused unjustly.
Pray to the Lord to seek diligence in the work you do.
Pray to the Lord on how to seek acceptance.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray for those seeking the truth and for the correct interpretation
of the Lord.
Pray for someone to receive the Gospel today.
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
Posted by DSY on
Day 59, 28 Feb 2021
Today at https://www.calvarycommunty.ca we spoke about giving up
in the context of Joseph. REcall Joseph was spending a long time
in jail after the cupbearer was restored. Do you feel
too many things are taking a long time?
NUMBERS 11 - 13
NUMBERS 11
Complaints in the Desert
1 (Lev 10:2; Nu 16:35) Now when the people complained openly before the Lord,
the Lord heard, and His anger burned. Then the fire of the Lord burned among
them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
2 (Nu 21:7; 16:45-48) And the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed
to the Lord, and the fire was quenched.
3 (Dt 9:22) He called the name of the place Taberah
because the fire of the Lord burned among them.
4 (Ex 12:38; 1Co 10:6) The mixed multitude that was among them lusted,
and the children of Israel wept again and said,
"Who will give us meat to eat?
5 (Ex 16:3) We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for free,
the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.
6 (Nu 21:5) But now our life is dried up. There is nothing at all except
this manna before our eyes."
7 (Ex 16:31; Ge 2:12) The manna was as coriander seed,
and it looked like bdellium.
8 (Ex 16:16-18; 16:31) The people went about and gathered it,
and ground it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in pots,
and made cakes of it, and the taste of
it was like the taste of cakes baked in oil.
9 (Ex 16:13-14) When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it.
10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in
the opening of his tent, and the anger of the Lord burned greatly.
Moses was also displeased.
11 (Dt 1:12) Moses said to the Lord, "Why have You hurt Your servant?
And why have I not found favor in Your eyes, that You lay the burden
of all this people on me?
12 (Ex 13:5; Isa 49:23) Have I conceived all this people? Have I given
them birth, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a
nurse bears the nursing child,' to the land which You swore to their fathers?
13 (Mt 15:33; Mk 8:4) Where am I to get meat to give to all these people?
For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'
14 (Ex 18:18) I am not able to bear all these people alone,
because the burden is too heavy for me.
15 (1Ki 19:4; Jnh 4:3) If You do this to me, please kill me at once,
if I have found favor in Your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."
The Seventy Elders
16 (Ex 24:1; 24:9) Then the Lord said to Moses, "Gather to Me seventy men
of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people,
and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting,
that they may take a stand there with you.
17 (Nu 11:25; 1Sa 10:6) And I will come down, and I will speak with you there,
and I will take of the Spirit which is on you and will put it on them,
and they will bear the burden of the people with you, and you will not bear
it by yourself.
18 (Ex 19:10; Nu 11:1) "And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves
for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing
of the Lord, saying, 'Who will give us meat to eat?
For it was better for us in Egypt.'
Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat.
19 You shall eat, not one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days,
or twenty days,
20 (Ps 106:15; Nu 21:5) but a whole month, until it comes out
at your nostrils, and it will be nauseating to you because
you rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before Him,
saying, 'Why did we come out of Egypt?' "
21 (Ex 12:37; 38:26) And Moses said, "The people I am with number
600000 foot soldiers, and You have said,
'I will give them meat that they may eat a whole month.'
22 (Mt 15:33) Will the flocks and the herds be slaughtered for them,
to satisfy them? Or will all the fish of the sea be gathered together
for them, to satisfy them?"
23 (Isa 50:2; 59:1) And the Lord said to Moses,
"Is the hand of the Lord shortened? Now you will see
if My word will happen to you or not."
24 (Nu 11:16) Moses went out, and he spoke to the people the words
of the Lord and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people
and set them around the tabernacle.
25 (Nu 11:17; 12:5; 1Sa 10:10) And the Lord came down in a cloud,
and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him,
and gave it to the seventy elders, and when the Spirit rested on them,
they prophesied, but did not do it again.
26 (1Sa 20:26; Jer 36:5) But two men remained in the camp.
The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other, Medad.
And the Spirit rested on them. They were among those listed,
but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.
27 And a young man ran and told Moses and said,
"Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp."
28 Then Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth,
answered and said, "My lord Moses, forbid them."
29 (1Co 14:5) Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake?
Oh, that all the people of the Lord were prophets,
and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!"
30 And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
The Lord Sends Quail
31 (Ex 16:13; Ps 105:40) Now a wind from the Lord started up,
and it swept quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp,
about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side,
around the camp, and about two cubits (About 3 feet, or 90 centimeters.
above the ground.)
32 (Eze 45:11; Ex 16:36) And the people stayed up all that day, all night,
and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least
gathered ten homers. (Likely about 1 3/4 tons, or 1.6 metric tons.)
And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
33 (Ps 78:30-31; Nu 16:49) While the meat was between their teeth,
before it was chewed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people,
and the Lord struck the people with a very great slaughter.
34 (Dt 9:22) And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah
because there they buried the people who had the craving.
35 (Nu 33:17; 12:16) The people journeyed from Kibroth Hattaavah
to Hazeroth, and they camped at Hazeroth.
(Why whine to your Saviour? Trust in him to provide your needs.)
NUMBERS 12
Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses
1 (Ex 2:21) And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because
of the Cushite woman whom he married, for he had married a Cushite woman.
2 (Nu 11:1; 16:3) They said, "Has the Lord spoken only by Moses?
Has He not spoken also by us?" And the Lord heard it.
3 (Mt 11:29) (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men
on the face of the earth.)
4 And the Lord spoke at once to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam,
"Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting." And those three came out.
5 (Nu 11:25; Ex 34:5) The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood
in the opening of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam,
and they both came forward.
6 (Ge 46:2; 1Ki 3:5) He said, "Hear now My word.
If there is a prophet among you,
I the Lord will make Myself known to him in a vision,
and I will speak to him in a dream.
7 (Ps 105:26) Not so with My servant Moses;
he is entrusted with all My house.
8 (Dt 34:10; Ex 24:10–11) Face to face I speak with him clearly,
and not in riddles,
and the likeness of the Lord will he behold.
Then why were you not afraid
to speak against My servant, against Moses?"
9 And the anger of the Lord burned against them, and He set out.
10 (Dt 24:9; 2Ki 5:27) When the cloud went away from over the tabernacle,
Miriam became leprous as snow, and Aaron turned toward Miriam
and saw that she was leprous.
11 (2Sa 19:19; 24:10) Aaron said to Moses, "Alas, my lord, do not lay the
sin on us, which we have done foolishly, and which we have sinned.
12 Do not let her be as dead, who when he goes out of his mother's womb
half his flesh is eaten."
13 And Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, "O God, heal her, I pray!"
14 (Dt 25:9; Job 30:10) But the Lord said to Moses,
"If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days?
Let her be shut out of the camp seven days,
and afterward she may be received again."
15 Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days,
and the people did not set out until Miriam was brought in again.
16 (Nu 11:35; 10:12) Afterward the people set out from Hazeroth
and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
(Never anger the Lord foolishly)
NUMBERS 13
Spying in Canaan
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 (Nu 32:8; Dt 1:22-25) "Send men that they may explore the land of Canaan,
which I am giving to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers
you will send a man, each one a chief among them."
3 (Nu 12:16; 32:8) And Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according
to the Lord. All those men were heads of the children of Israel.
4 These were their names:
of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zakkur;
5 of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;
6 (Nu 14:6; 13:30) of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
7 of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;
8 (Ex 24:13; Nu 11:28) of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;
9 of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;
10 of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;
11 of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh,
Gaddi the son of Susi;
12 of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;
13 of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;
14 of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;
15 of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Maki.
16 (Nu 13:8) These are the names of the men whom Moses
sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
17 (Ge 12:9; Jdg 1:9) Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan
and said to them, "Go up to this southland, and go up into the mountain.
18 And see what the land is, and the people that dwell in it,
whether they are strong or weak, few or many;
19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad,
and what cities are that they dwell in, whether in tents,
or in fortifications;
20 (Dt 31:23; Ne 9:25) and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean,
whether there is wood in it or not. And you be courageous and bring
some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the time
of the first ripe grapes.
21 (Nu 20:1; 33:36) So they went up and explored the land
from the Wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo Hamath.
22 (Ps 78:12; 78:43) They went up by the Negev and came to Hebron
where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were
(now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt).
23 (Nu 32:9; 13:24) And they came to the Valley of Eshkol,
and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes,
and they carried it on a pole between two of them,
and they brought some of the pomegranates and of the figs.
24The place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster
of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from there.
25 They returned from exploring the land after forty days.
The Spies' Report
26 (Nu 32:8; 20:1) And they returned and came to Moses and to Aaron
and to all the assembly of the children of Israel,
to the Wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought back word to them
and to the entire assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.
27 (Ex 3:8; 3:17) They reported to him and said, "We came to the land
where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey,
and this is the fruit of it.
28 (Dt 1:28; 9:1-2) However, the people are strong that dwell in the land,
and the cities are fortified and very great, and also we saw the children
of Anak there.
29 (Nu 14:43) The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negev,
and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell
in the mountains, and the Canaanites dwell by the sea
and by the edge of the Jordan."
30 (Nu 14:24) Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said,
"Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are able to overcome it."
31 (Dt 1:28; Jos 14:8) But the men that went up with him said,
"We are not able to go up against the people
because they are stronger than we."
32 (Nu 14:36-37; Am 2:9) They gave the children of Israel
a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying,
"The land through which we have gone as spies is a land
that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom
we saw in it are men of great stature.
33 (Ge 6:4; Dt 1:28) And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak,
which come from the giants, and in our eyes we were like grasshoppers,
and so we were in their eyes."
(Why give such a faithless report when you in the Lord's hands?)
Our Daily Bread for 28 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/28/new-every-morning
entitled New Every Morning
Lamentations 3:19-26
19 (La 3:5; 3:15) Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the gall.
20 (Ps 42:5-6; 42:11) Surely my soul remembers
and is humbled within me.
21 (Ps 130:7) But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
22 (Mal 3:6; Ps 78:38) It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed;
His compassions do not fail.
23 (Zep 3:5; Ps 36:5) They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.
24 (Ps 16:5; 73:26) "The Lord is my portion," says my soul,
"therefore I will hope in Him."
25 (Isa 25:9; 30:18) The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
to the soul who seeks Him.
26 (Ps 37:7; 130:5) It is good that a man should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
My brother Paul grew up battling severe epilepsy, and when he entered
his teenage years it became even worse. Nighttime was excruciating
for him and my parents, as he'd experience continuous seizures
for often more than six hours at a time. Doctors couldn't find
a treatment that would alleviate the symptoms while also keeping
him conscious for at least part of the day.
My parents cried out in prayer: "God, oh God, help us!"
Although their emotions were battered and their bodies exhausted,
Paul and my parents received enough strength from God for each new day.
In addition, my parents found comfort in the words of the Bible,
including the book of Lamentations. Here Jeremiah voiced his grief
over the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians,
remembering "the bitterness and the gall" (3:19).
Yet Jeremiah didn't lose hope. He called to mind the mercies of God,
that His compassions "are new every morning" (v. 23). So too did my parents.
Whatever you're facing, know that God is faithful every morning. He renews
our strength day by day and gives us hope. And sometimes, as with my family,
He brings relief. After several years, a new medication became available that
stopped Paul's continuous nighttime seizures, giving my family restorative
sleep and hope for the future.
When our souls are downcast within us (v. 20),
may we call to mind the promises of God that His mercies are new every morning.
By: Amy Boucher Pye
Reflect & Pray
How has God sustained you through the trials you’ve faced?
How could you support someone who’s enduring a challenging time?
God, Your love will never leave me. When I feel spent and without hope,
remind me of Your mercies and compassion.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 4 - The Blessings of Grace Day 1 - The Joy of Confessing Christ
Romans 10:9-10 9 (Lk 12:8; Php 2:11)that if you confess with your mouth
Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved,
10 for with the heart one believes unto righteousness,
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation
Teena, a college freshman, has just committed her life to Christ,
but she was apprehensive about telling anyone - until Bill appeared
on the scene. He plunked his coffee cup down on the table and smiled.
"I heard something exciting happened to you yesterday, Teena"
"Yeah", Teena paused and looked around, as if seeking an escape route.
"I , uh, well, I did it"
"Did what?"
"Well, I, ah, gave my life to God."
"That's wonderful!" Bill exclaimed.
He was still talking with Teena and encouraging he in her decision
when Maria walked by.
"Maria!" Bill called. "Teena wants to tell you something!"
Teena gasped , open-mouthed, then stammered,
" I - I committed my life to Christ."
Maria , similarly enthuasiatic, encouraged Teena in her commitment,
and within half an hour Teena was stopping her friends to tell them,
"Guess what? I've become a Christian! I belng to Jesus now!"
Teena had already surrendered her heart to Christ.
But when she confessed her decision aloud to others,
the truth of that transformation was confirmed by her.
Many of us have been raised to believe that 'faith is a private matter',
not to be discussed in polite company. Yet Paul makes clear the connection
between heart commitment and verbal confession. Just as my love for family
and friends deepens as I tell them I love them, so a person's love
for Christ is confirmed and stabilised by speaking of that commitment to others.
Application
a) Have I been reluctant to tell others of my faith in Christ? Why?
b) What happens within me when I do tell others of my love for the Lord?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Exodus 3:7-8
7 (Ps 106:44; Ex 2:23-25)The Lord said,
"I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt
and have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters,
for I know their sorrows.
8 (Ge 50:24; 15:18-21; Ex 13:5) Therefore, I have come down
to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,
and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land,
to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of
the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites."
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are lonely
PSALMS 23
A Psalm of David.
1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside still waters.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) He restores my soul;
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for His name's sake.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Even though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff,
they comfort me.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup runs over.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) Surely goodness and mercy shall followme
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
Day 29 of the Month
a) Pray that God will enlighten those in medicine and health care
to acknowledge the sanctity of life and server with true
integrity and compassion (
Ps 139:13-16
13 You brought my inner parts into being;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise you, for You made me with fear and wonder;
marvelous are Your works,
and You know me completely.
15 My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
and intricately put together in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw me unformed,
yet in Your book
all my days were written,
before any of them came into being.
)
b) Pray that the Church in Canada will remember the poor
and compassionately respond to their plight (
Gal 2:10
10 (Ac 24:17) Only they requested that we should remember the poor,
which I also was eager to do.
)
Day 30 of the Month
a) Pray for God's will to be done wher you live and throughout
Canadian society, as it is in Heaven
( Matt 6:9-13
9 “Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
)
b) Pray that in kindness God will lead many to repentance in your city
or community, and across our nation. (
Rom 2:4
4 (Ex 34:6; Isa 30:18) Do you despise the riches of His goodness,
tolerance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God
leads you to repentance?
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord while you are waiting.
Pray to the Lord to seek his will in leadership.
Pray to the Lord to seek his string promises.
Pray to the Lord to seek his new daily blessings.
Pray to the Lord to seek wisdom to announce yourself as a follower.
Pray to the Lord to seek him while feeling overburdened.
Pray to the Lord to seek him in the middle of fear and loneliness.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray for those in the medical field.
Pray for the plight of the poor.
Pray to seek the Lord and his righteousness in his community.
Pray to the Lord to be a witness of kindness.
Posted by DSY on
Day 60, 1 Mar 2021
Today at https://www.calvarycommunty.ca we spoke about giving up
in the context of Joseph. REcall Joseph was spending a long time
in jail after the cupbearer was restored. Do you feel
too many things are taking a long time?
NUMBERS 14-15; Ps 90
NUMBERS 14
Israel Refuses to Enter Canaan
1 And the whole assembly lifted up their voices and cried,
and the people wept that night.
2 (Ex 15:24; 17:3) All the children of Israel grumbled against Moses
and against Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them,
"O that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or that we had died
in this wilderness!
3 And why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword,
that our wives and our children should become prey?
Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?"
4 (Dt 17:16; Ac 7:39) And they said one to another,
"Let us select a leader, and let us return to Egypt."
5 (Nu 16:4; 16:22) Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces
before all the congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.
6 (Nu 13:6; 13:8) Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
from the ones who explored the land, tore their clothes.
7 (Nu 13:27; Dt 1:25) And they spoke to all the assembly
of the children of Israel, saying, "The land which we passed through
to explore it is a very, very good land.
8 (Dt 10:15; Nu 13:27) If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us
into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.
9 (Dt 7:18; 9:23–24) Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people
of the land because they are bread for us. Their defense is gone from them,
and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them."
10 (Ex 17:4; Lev 9:23) But all the assembly said, "Stone them with stones."
And the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting
before all the children of Israel.
11 (Ps 106:24; 78:22) The Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people
disgrace Me? And how long will they not believe Me, in spite of all the signs
which I have done among them?
12 (Ex 32:10) I will strike them
with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make from you
a nation greater and mightier than they."
Moses Intercedes for the People
13 (Ps 106:23; Dt 32:27) Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will
hear of it, for by Your power You brought this people up from among them,
14 (Ex 15:14; Ge 32:30) and they will say to the inhabitants of this land
that they heard that You, Lord, are among this people, that You, Lord,
are seen face to face, and Your cloud stands over them,
and in the pillar of cloud You go before them by day
and by a pillar of fire at night.
15 Now if You kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have
heard the fame of You will speak, saying,
16 (Dt 9:28; Jos 7:9) 'The Lord was not able to bring this people
into the land which He swore to them,
so He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'
17 "So now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great,
just as You have spoken, saying,
18 (Ex 20:5; 34:6–7; Ps 145:8) 'The Lord is slow to anger
and abounding in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression;
but He will by no means clear the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third
and fourth generation.'
19 (Ex 34:9; Ps 78:38) Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray,
according to the greatness of Your grace, just as You have pardoned
this people, from Egypt even until now."
20 The Lord said, "I have forgiven according to your word.
21 (Hab 2:14; Dt 32:40) But truly as I live, all the earth will be
filled with the glory of the Lord.
22 (Ge 31:7; Ex 17:2) Because all those men seeing My glory
and My signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness,
and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,
23 (Nu 32:11; 26:64) surely they will not see the land which I swore
to their fathers, nor will any of them who disgraced Me see it.
24 (Nu 14:6–9; 26:65) But My servant Caleb, because he had a different
spirit with him and followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land
where he went, and his seed will possess it.
25 (Nu 13:29; Dt 1:40) Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites
lived in the valley. Tomorrow you will turn, and you will
set out for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea."
Death of Rebels Predicted
26 The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
27 (Ex 16:12) How long will this evil assembly be murmuring against Me?
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur
against Me.
28 (Nu 14:21; 14:23) Say to them, "As I live," says the Lord,
"just as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you.
29 (Nu 1:45; Heb 3:17) In this wilderness your corpses will fall,
and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number,
from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,
30 (Ge 14:22; Nu 14:38) you will not go into the land
which I swore by My hand to cause you to dwell in it,
except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 (Ps 106:24; Dt 1:39) But your children, whom you said would be a prey,
I will bring them in and they will know the land, which you rejected.
32 (1Co 10:5; Nu 14:29) But as for you,
your corpses will fall in this wilderness.
33 (Nu 32:13; Dt 2:14) Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness
forty years, and they will suffer for your fornications, until
your corpses are in the wilderness.
34 (Nu 13:25; Eze 4:6) According to the number of the days in which
you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day you will
bear your iniquity, forty years, and you will know My displeasure."
35 (Nu 23:19) I the Lord have spoken. I will surely do this to all
this evil assembly gathered against Me. In this wilderness they will
be finished, and there they will die.
36 The men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned
and made all the assembly murmur against him by bringing up
an evil report about the land,
37 (1Co 10:10; Nu 16:49) the men who brought an evil report
about the land, died by the pestilence before the Lord.
38 (Nu 26:65) But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
from the men that went to explore the land, lived.
Defeat in Battle
39 (Ex 33:4) Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel,
and the people mourned greatly.
40 (Dt 1:41) They rose up early in the morning, and they went up to the top
of the mountain, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place which the
Lord has promised, for we have sinned."
41 (2Ch 24:20) Moses said, "Why do you now transgress the commandment
of the Lord? This will not prosper.
42 (Dt 1:42) Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you; do not let
yourselves be defeated by your enemies.
43 (Nu 13:29; 14:25) For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there
before you, and you will fall by the sword because you are turned
from the Lord, and the Lord will not be with you."
44 (Dt 1:43) But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain.
But the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses did not depart
from the midst of the camp.
45 (Nu 21:3; Dt 1:44) Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites
who dwelt on that mountain went down and defeated them,
pursuing them as far as Hormah.
(Rewards for whining and disbelieving)
NUMBERS 15
Laws of Grain and Drink Offerings
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Lev 23:10; Nu 15:18) Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:
When you come into the land of your dwelling, which I am giving to you,
3 (Ex 29:18; Ge 8:21; Nu 28:27) when you make an offering by fire
to the Lord, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow,
or as a freewill offering, or in your appointed feasts,
to make a pleasing aroma to the Lord, of the herd or of the flock,
4 (Ex 29:40; Lev 23:13) then he who brings his offering to the Lord
will bring a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah
(About 1,500 feet, or 450 meters.)
of flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin
(About 1 quart, or 1 liter; and in v. 5.) of oil.
5 (Nu 28:7; 28:14) One-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering
you will prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for each lamb.
6 Or for a ram, you will make a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah
(Likely about 7 pounds, or 3.2 kilograms.) of flour mixed
with one-third of a hin (About 1 1/3 quarts, or 1.3 liters; and in v. 7.)
of oil. 7 As a drink offering you will offer one-third of a hin of wine,
as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
8 (Lev 3:1) When you prepare a bull as a burnt offering, or as a sacrifice
in performing a vow, or as a peace offering to the Lord,
9 (Lev 6:14; 14:10) then shall be brought with the bull
a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah
(Likely about 11 pounds, or 5 kilograms.)
of flour mixed with one-half a hin
(About 2 quarts, or 1.9 liters; and in v. 10.)
of oil.
10 You will bring as a drink offering one-half a hin of wine,
as a fire offering, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
11 (Thus it will be done for one herd animal, or for one ram,
or for a flock animal, whether from the sheep or from the goats.
12 According to the number that you will make,
so you will do for every one according to their number.
13 Every native Israelite will do these things in this manner,
in offering a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
14 (A foreigner who lives with you, or who resides among you
throughout your generations, and would present a fire offering,
a pleasing aroma to the Lord, shall do as you do.
15 (Nu 9:14; 15:29) One ordinance will be for you of the assembly
and for the foreigner who lives with you, an ordinance forever
throughout your generations. As you are, so will the foreigner
be before the Lord.
16 One law and one justice will be for you
and for the foreigner who lives with you.
17The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
18 (Nu 15:2) Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:
When you come into the land where I bring you,
19 (Jos 5:11-12) then it will be, when you eat of the bread of the land
you will offer up an offering to the Lord.
20 (Lev 2:14; Ex 23:19) From the first of your dough you will offer
a cake as an offering. As you make the offering of the threshing floor,
so will you offer it.
21 Of the first of your dough you will give to the Lord an offering
throughout your generations.
Laws About Unintentional Sins
22 (Lev 4:2) If you have erred and not observed all these commandments
which the Lord has spoken to Moses,
23 even all that the Lord has commanded you by the hand of Moses,
from the day that the Lord commanded Moses
and onward through your generations,
24 (Lev 4:23; Nu 28:15) then it will be, if it is committed by ignorance
without the knowledge of the assembly, that all the assembly will offer
one young bull as a burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord,
with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule,
and one kid of the goats as a sin offering.
25 (Lev 4:20; Ro 3:25) The priest will make atonement for all the assembly
of the children of Israel, and it will be forgiven them
because it is ignorance, and they will bring their offering,
a sacrifice made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord,
for their ignorance.
26 And it will be forgiven all the assembly of the children of Israel
and the foreigner who lives among them,
because all the people were in ignorance.
27 (Lev 4:27-28) If a person sins unintentionally, then he will bring
a year-old female goat as a sin offering.
28 (Lev 4:35) The priest will make an atonement for the person who sins
unintentionally, when he sins by ignorance before the Lord, to make
an atonement for him; and it will be forgiven him.
29 (Nu 15:15) You shall have one law for the person who acts through
ignorance, for the natural-born citizen among the children of Israel
and foreigner who lives in your midst.
Laws About Intentional Sins
30 (Dt 1:43; Ps 19:13) But the person who acts by a high hand,
the natural-born citizen or the foreigner, the same reviles the Lord,
and that person will be cut off from among his people.
31 (2Sa 12:9; Pr 13:13) Because he has despised the word of the Lord
and has broken His commandment, that person will be totally cut off.
His iniquity will be on him.
The Sabbath-Breaker Executed
32 (Ex 35:2-3) While the children of Israel were in the wilderness,
they found a man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath day.
33 The ones who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses
and Aaron and to all the assembly.
34 (Lev 24:12) They put him in confinement because it was not declared
what should be done to him.
35 (Ex 31:14–15; Ac 7:58) The Lord said to Moses, "The man will surely die.
All the assembly will stone him with stones outside the camp."
36 All the assembly brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones,
and he died as the Lord commanded Moses.
Tassels on Garments
37 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
38 (Dt 22:12; Mt 23:5) Speak to the children of Israel,
and tell them to make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments
throughout the generations to come, and they will put a ribbon of blue on the
corners of their garments.
39 (Ps 73:27; Eze 6:9) And it will be for you a tassel, and you will see it,
and you will remember all the commandments of the Lord, and you will do them,
and you will not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.
40 (Lev 11:44-45; Ro 12:1) So shall you remember and do all My commandments,
and be holy to your God.
41 (Lev 22:33) I am the Lord your God who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.
PSALMS 90
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Before the mountains were brought forth,
or You had formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) You return man to the dust
and say, "Return, you children of men."
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) For a thousand years in Your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a night watch in the night time.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) You carry them away as with a flood;
they are as a dream, like renewed grass in the morning:
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) In the morning it flourishes and grows up;
in the evening it fades and withers.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) For we are consumed by Your anger,
and by Your wrath we are terrified.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) You have set our iniquities before You,
even our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) For all our days pass away in your wrath;
we end our years with a groan.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) The years of our life are seventy,
and if by reason of strength eighty;
yet their length is toil and sorrow,
for they soon end, and we fly away.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Who knows the power of Your anger?
Or Your wrath according to Your fear?
12 So teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord, how long?
Have mercy on Your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the early morning with Your mercy,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days that You have afflicted us,
and the years that we have seen evil.
16 Let Your work be displayed to Your servants
and Your glory to their children.
17 Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands among us;
yes, establish the work of our hands.
Our Daily Bread for 1 Mar 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/03/01/never-give-up-3
entitled Never Give Up
Joshua 1:1–9
The Lord Commissions Joshua
1 (Ex 24:13; Dt 1:38) Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord,
the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses:
2"Moses My servant is dead, so now get up and cross over the Jordan—you
and all this people—to the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.
3 (Dt 11:24; Jos 14:9) I have given you every place that the sole of your
foot shall tread, as I said to Moses.
4 (Ex 23:31) From the wilderness and this Lebanon, as far as the great river,
the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Mediterranean
Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.
5 (Dt 7:24; 31:6-8) No man will be able to stand against
you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, I will be with you.
I will not abandon you. I will not leave you.
6 (Jos 1:7; 1:9) "Be strong and courageous, for you shall provide the land
that I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance for this people.
7 (Dt 5:32; 28:14) Be strong and very courageous, in order to act carefully
in accordance with all the law that My servant Moses commanded you.
Do not turn aside from it to the right or the left,
so that you may succeed wherever you go.
8 (Ps 19:14; 119:15) This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth.
Meditate on it day and night so that you may act carefully according to all
that is written in it. For then you will make your way successful,
and you will be wise.
9 (Ge 28:15; Dt 31:7-8) Have not I commanded you? Be strong and courageous.
Do not be afraid or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever
you go."
"Time went by. War came in." That's how Bishop Semi Nigo of the Keliko
people of South Sudan described delays in his church's long struggle
to get the Bible in their own language. Not one word, in fact, had ever
been printed in the Keliko language. Decades earlier, Bishop Nigo's
grandfather had courageously started a Bible translation project,
but war and unrest kept halting the effort. Yet, despite repeated
attacks on their refugee camps in northern Uganda and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, the bishop and fellow believers kept the project alive.
Their persistence paid off. After nearly three decades,
the New Testament Bible in Keliko was delivered to the refugees in a rousing
celebration. "The motivation of the Keliko is beyond words,"
said one project consultant.
The commitment of the Keliko reflects the perseverance God asked of Joshua.
As God told him, "Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate
on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.
Then you will be prosperous and successful" (Joshua 1:8).
With equal persistence, the Keliko pursued the translation of Scripture.
Now, "when you see them in the camps, they are smiling," said one translator.
Hearing and understanding the Bible "gives them hope."
Like the Keliko people, may we never give up seeking the power
and wisdom of Scripture.
By: Patricia Raybon
Reflect & Pray
What will help you persist in reading Scripture?
How could another person help you better understand it?
Loving God, stir up in me a greater hunger to seek, study, and know the Bible,
never giving up my quest to understand Your wisdom.
To learn more about how to study the Bible,
visit https://www.ChristianUniversity.org/SF106 .
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 4 - The Blessings of Grace Day 2 - Alienation and Reconciliation
Col 1:21-22
21 (Eph 2:12) And you, who were formerly alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled
22 (Ro 7:4; Eph 5:27) in the body of His flesh through death,
to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in His sight,
Some 50 years ago, Orson Welles's radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds
threw the nation into panic; people on the East Coast ran for their lives,
expecting at any moment to be destroyed by alien invaders from outer space.
Today, of course, we are more sophisticated about such matters.
Television and movies have educated us about alien life forms.
Star Wars and Star Trek have taught us that their appearance can be much
different than ours. Sometimes they are unable to exist in our atmosphere
with artificial life-support systems; their physical makeup is often
incompatible with our environment.
God says that we, apart from Christ, are as incompatible with his kingdom
as the 'aliens' of movies are with Earth's environment.
We are at war with God, a true "war of the worlds" that staggers
the imagination.
Yet God has 'reconciled' us to his world. He has made us fit,
made us able to exist in his kingdom. He has made us part of
his world through Christ's death and resurrection.
Now, through Christ, we are 'holy' and 'without blemish' in God's sight.
And that transformation, ironically, make us 'alien' in the world around us.
No longer do we fit in a world of selfishness and greed, a world where Self
is god and everyone does what is right in his own heart.
We belong, instead, in the kingdom of God's righteousness.
Application
a) In what ways am I an 'alien' in this world?
b) How have I been an 'alien' to God's kingdom?
c) How can today's verses help me deal with my sense of 'not fitting'?
4) Prosperity verses from Kenneth Copeland
Deut 8:18
18 But you must remember the Lord your God,
for it is He who gives you the ability to get wealth,
so that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers,
as it is today.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are lonely
PSALMS 25:15-21
15 My eyes are ever toward the Lord,
for He will lead my feet from the net.
16 Turn to me, and be gracious to me,
for I am isolated and afflicted.
17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
bring me out of my distresses.
18 Look on my pain and misery,
and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider my enemies, for they are many,
and they hate me with violent hatred.
20 Watch over my life, and deliver me!
Let me not suffer shame,
for I seek refuge in You.
21 Truth and integrity will preserve me
while I wait for You.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Saskatchewan
Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400
est Muslim Population 17279
CNMM Networks: Saskatoon
Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past
5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have
focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts
of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres
of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a
Christian school.
Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up
in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young
women whowere wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.
Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
1st Day of the month
- Pray for an outpouring of God's Holy Spirit on Canada
Joel 2:28 And it will be that, afterwards,
I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream
dreams, and your young men will see visions.
Acts 2:17 "In the last days it shall be," says God, "
that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream
dreams.
- Pray that the heart of our Prime Minister
would be directed to do that which pleases God
Prov 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water;
He turns it to any place He will.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord while you are in doubt.
Pray to the Lord to seek his will in leadership.
Pray to the Lord to seek his persisence in what you do.
Pray to the Lord to seek his reconcilation in an alien sinful world.
Pray to the Lord to seek blessings for true wealth.
Pray to the Lord to seek him in the middle of fear and loneliness.
Pray for Muslims in Saskatchewan to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for all elected people to accept
the gift of Salvation from Jesus.
Repent of and turn away from your sins
Remember eternity starts now -
Pray for the direction you take to the Ever lasting loving God.
Posted by DSY on
Day 61, 2 Mar 2021
NUMBERS 16-17
NUMBERS 16
Opposition to Moses and Aaron
1 (Jude 1:11; Ex 6:21) Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath,
the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab,
and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men,
2 (Nu 26:9) and they rose up before Moses and men of the children of Israel,
two hundred and fifty chiefs of the assembly, famous in the assembly,
well-known men.
3 (Ps 106:16; Ex 19:6) They assembled against Moses and against Aaron,
and said to them, "You take too much upon yourselves, seeing
all the congregation are holy, every one of them,
and the Lord is among them. So why do you exalt yourselves
above the assembly of the Lord?"
4 (Nu 14:5; 20:6) And when Moses heard it, he fell on his face,
5 (Lev 10:3; Nu 17:5) and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying,
"In the morning the Lord will show who is His and who is holy, and He will
bring him to come near to Him. Whom He has chosen He will bring near to Him.
6 (Lev 10:1) Do this: Take censers, Korah and all his company;
7 (Nu 16:3) put fire in them, and put incense in them before the Lord
tomorrow, and it will be that the man whom the Lord chooses, he will be holy.
You take too much upon yourselves, sons of Levi."
8 Moses said to Korah, "Listen, please, sons of Levi.
9 (Dt 10:8; Isa 7:13) Does it seem a small thing to you that the God of Israel
has separated you from the assembly of Israel to bring you near to Himself
to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand
before the assembly to minister to them?
10 And He has brought you near to Him, and all your brothers,
the sons of Levi, with you, and you also seek the priesthood?
11 (Ex 16:7–8; 1Co 3:5) Therefore both you and all your company are gathered
together against the Lord, and who is Aaron that you murmur against him?"
12 And Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, who said,
"We will not come
13 (Ac 7:35; Ex 2:14) Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out
of a land that flows with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness
because you make yourself a prince over us?
14 (Lev 20:24) Moreover you have not brought us into a land that flows
with milk and honey nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards.
Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up."
15 (Ge 4:4–5; 2Co 7:2) Moses was very angry and said to the Lord,
"Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from
them, nor have I hurt one of them."
16 (1Sa 12:3; 12:7) Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company
be before the Lord, you and them and Aaron, tomorrow.
17 Let each man take his censer and put incense in it,
and each of you bring his censer before the Lord,
two hundred and fifty censers. Also you and Aaron shall each bring his censer."
18 Every man took his censer and put fire in it, and laid incense on it,
and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.
19 (Nu 14:10; 16:42) Korah gathered all the assembly against them to the door
of the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the assembly.
20 The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
21 (Ex 32:10; Nu 16:45) Separate yourselves from among this assembly,
that I may consume them in a moment.
22 (Nu 27:16; Ge 18:23-25) They fell on their faces and said,
"O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin
and You will be angry with all the assembly?"
23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
24 Speak to the assembly, saying: Get up from around
the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
25 Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram,
and the elders of Israel followed him.
26 (Isa 52:11; 2Co 6:17) He spoke to the assembly, saying,
"Depart now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch
nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away for all their sins."
27 So they got up from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram,
on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood
in the opening of their tents, and their wives, and their sons,
and their children.
28 (Ex 3:12; Jer 23:16) Moses said, "By this you will know that
the Lord has sent me to do all these works, because I have not
done them of my own mind.
29 (1Ki 22:28) If these men die the common death of all men,
or if they are visited after the visitation of all men,
then the Lord has not sent me.
30 (Ps 55:15; Nu 16:33) But if the Lord makes a new thing,
and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them with all that
belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit,
then you will know that these men have despised the Lord."
31 (Nu 27:3; Dt 11:6) So it was, when he finished speaking
all these words, that the ground that was under them split open.
32 (Nu 26:11; 1Ch 6:22) And the earth opened its mouth
and swallowed them, and their houses, and all the men
that belonged to Korah, and all their goods.
33 (Jude 1:11) And they and all that belonged to them went down
alive into the pit, and the earth closed on them, and they perished
from among the assembly.
34 All Israel that was around them fled at their cry because they said,
"The earth will swallow us also."
35 (Lev 10:2; Nu 26:10) A fire went out from the Lord and consumed
the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
36 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
37 Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers
out of the blaze, for they are holy. Then scatter the fire far and wide.
38 (Nu 26:10; Pr 20:2) As for the censers of these men who have sinned
at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered plates
as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord
and they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were
burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar,
40 (Nu 3:10) to be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no outsider,
who is not of the descendants of Aaron, shall approach to offer incense
before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company,
as the Lord has said to him through Moses.
The People Complain
41 (Nu 14:2) But the next day all the assembly of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying,
"You have killed the people of the Lord."
42 (Nu 16:19; Lev 9:23) When the assembly was gathered
against Moses and Aaron, they looked toward the tent of meeting.
The cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
43 Moses and Aaron went before the tent of meeting.
44 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
45 (Nu 16:24; 16:21–22) "Get up from among this assembly,
that I may destroy them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
46 (Lev 10:6; Nu 8:19) Moses said to Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire
in it from off the altar, and put in incense, and go quickly to the assembly,
and make an atonement for them, because wrath has gone out from the Lord.
The plague has begun."
47 Aaron took it as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the assembly,
where the plague had begun among the people. He put in incense
and made an atonement for the
48 (2Sa 24:25) He stood between the dead and the living,
and the plague was stopped.
49 (Nu 25:9) Now those who died in the plague were 14700,
besides those that died concerning the thing of Korah.
50 Aaron returned to Moses, to the door of the tent of meeting,
and the plague was stopped.
(Why rebel againt the Saviour and creator?)
NUMBERS 17
The Budding of Aaron’s Rod
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Speak to the children of Israel, and take from them a rod,
a rod for the house of their fathers, from all their leaders
according to the house of their fathers, twelve rods.
Write each man's name on his rod.
3 You will write the name of Aaron on the rod of Levi,
because one rod will be for each father's house.
4 You will lay them in the tent of meeting before the testimony,
where I will meet with you.
5 (Nu 16:5; 16:11) It will be that the rod of the man
whom I choose will bud.
Thus I will rid myself of the complaints of the children of Israel,
that they have been making against you.
6 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and each one of their leaders
gave him a rod, one for each leader, according to their fathers' houses,
even twelve rods, and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
7 (Ex 38:21; Ac 7:44) Moses laid the rods before the Lord
in the tent of witness.
8 (Eze 17:24) When Moses went into the tent of witness the next day,
the rod of Aaron, for the house of Levi, had sprouted.
It brought forth buds, produced blossoms, and yielded almonds.
9 Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord to
all the children of Israel, and they looked, and each man took his rod.
10 (Nu 16:38; Heb 9:4) The Lord said to Moses, "Return the rod of Aaron
before the testimony, to be kept for a warning to rebels,
that you may put an end to their complaints before Me,
or else they will die."
11 Moses did so. As the Lord commanded him, so he did.
12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we expire,
we perish, we all perish.
13 Anyone approaching the tabernacle of the Lord will die.
Are we all to perish?"
(Oh ye of little faith)
Our Daily Bread for 2 Mar 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/03/02/safe-and-still
entitled Safe and Still
Ps 91
PSALMS 91
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God in whom I trust."
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the hunter
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) He shall cover you with His feathers,
and under His wings you shall find protection;
His faithfulness shall be your shield and wall.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
nor of the arrow that flies by day;
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) nor of the pestilence that pursues in darkness,
nor of the destruction that strikes at noonday.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) A thousand may fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,
but it shall not come near you.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) Only with your eyes shall you behold
and see the reward of the wicked.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,
even the Most High, your dwelling,
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) there shall be no evil befall you,
neither shall any plague come near your tent;
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) for He shall give His angels charge over you
to guard you in all your ways.
12 They shall bear you up in their hands,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder;
the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
14 Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
and I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him My salvation.
As a full-of-energy preschooler, my son Xavier avoided afternoon quiet time.
Being still often resulted in an unwanted, though much-needed, nap.
So, he'd wiggle in his seat, slide off the sofa, scoot across the hardwood floor,
and even roll across the room to evade the quiet. "Mom, I'm hungry . . .
I'm thirsty . . . I have to go to the bathroom . . . I want a hug."
Understanding the benefits of stillness, I'd help Xavier settle down
by inviting him to snuggle. Leaning into my side, he'd give in to sleep.
Early in my spiritual life, I mirrored my son's desire to remain active.
Busyness made me feel accepted, important, and in control, while noise
distracted me from fretting over my shortcomings and trials.
Surrendering to rest only affirmed my frail humanity.
So I avoided stillness and silence,
doubting God could handle things without my help.
But He's our refuge, no matter how many troubles
or uncertainties surround us. The path ahead may seem long,
scary, or overwhelming, but His love envelops us.
He hears us, answers us, and stays with us . . .
now and forever into eternity (Psalm 91).
We can embrace the quiet and lean into God's unfailing love
and constant presence. We can be still and rest in Him because
we're safe under the shelter of His unchanging faithfulness (v. 4).
By: Xochitl Dixon
Reflect & Pray
In what ways have you seen God's protection in your life?
How can you face difficulties knowing that God has you under His wings?
Heavenly Father, thank You for providing a safe haven of unfailing love.
To learn more about growing spiritually in your walk with God,
visit https://www.ChristianUniversity.org/SF104.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 4 - The Blessings of Grace Day 3 - From Darkness to Light
Col 1:13-14
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has transferred us
into the kingdom of His dear Son,
14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
Most of us have no real concept of darkness. We live in a world illuminated
not only by sun, moon and start, bit by streetlights and electric lamps and,
when the power goes off, flashlights and candles. We resist the darkness
For the sighted, being in absolute darkness is a frightening experience.
The dark blots out everything; we can see nothing, not even our own bodies,
and we may become disoriented. The dark seems to press in upon us,
with an almost physical weight that oppresses.
Spiritual darkness is like that. Spiritual darkness,
the absence of light in Christ, is oppressive, weighing us down,
distorting our perceptions of realty.
We cannot judge clearly, for we cannot see at all.
Yet God breaks into our darkness, bringing his light - Jesus Christ,
The Light of the World. When the awareness of Christ invades our lives,
our eyes are opened and we can see for the first time. We see our sin,
God's grace, and the Way he has provided for escape from the dark.
And as we continue to walk in his light, we see even more - the need
for changes in our lives, and God's power to work those changes.
Discernment and wisdom come through his light,
and we understand spiritual truths we could never see before.
Paul says that God has 'rescued' us from darkness and brought us
into the light. We cannot, on our own, accomplish this rescue,
but god through Christ's sacrifice brings it about in us.
He is the light who illuminates our darkness.
Application
a) Many different kinds of spiritual darkness invade our lives
and keep us blind to the truth - sin, lack of understanding,
resistance to the Holy Spirit. What kinds of spiritual darkness
have I experienced?
b) What changes took place in me when I first 'came into the light'?
c) What spiritual truths can I see now that I could not see
when I lived in darkness?
4) Prosperity verses from Kenneth Copeland
Deut 28:11
11 (Dt 28:4; 30:9) The Lord will make you overflow in prosperity,
in the offspring of your body, in the offspring of your livestock,
and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore
to your fathers to give you.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are lonely
1 John 4:16b-18
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
17 (1Jn 2:5; 2:28) In this way God's love is perfected in us,
so that we may have boldness on the Day of Judgment, because as He is,
so are we in this world.
18 (Ro 8:15; 2Ti 1:7) There is no fear in love,
but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
Whoever fears is not perfect in love.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Saskatchewan
Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400
est Muslim Population 17279
CNMM Networks: Saskatoon
Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past
5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have
focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts
of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres
of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a
Christian school.
Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up
in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young
women whowere wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.
Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
2nd Day of the Month
a) Pray for the Church to make the Gospel accessible to all Canadians
(
Rom 10:14-15 -
14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?
And how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
who bring good news of good things!"
)
b) Pray that Christian Leaders would seek God's heart for vision,
wisdom and direction. (Jer 33:3 - Call to Me, and I will answer you,
and show you great and mighty things which you do not know. )
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord while you feel rebellious.
Pray to the Lord to seek his will in leadership.
Pray to the Lord to seek his protection and unfailing Love.
Pray to the Lord to seek his light in the spiritual darkness.
Pray to the Lord to seek blessings for true yielding of the land.
Pray to the Lord to seek him in the middle of fear and loneliness.
Pray for Muslims in Saskatchewan to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for the Gospel to be made available throughout the land.
Pray for our pastors and spiritual leaders.
Repent of and turn away from your sins
Remember eternity starts now -
Pray for the direction you take to the Ever lasting loving God.
Posted by DSY on
Day 73, 14 Mar 2021
Today at https://www.calvarycommunity.ca/ we referenced JOspeh in Genesis 41
about where the wealth went during the 7 years of storage
Deuteronomy 8 - 10
DEUTERONOMY 8
Remember the Lord Your God
1 (Dt 4:1; 5:32–6:3) You must carefully keep all the commandments
that I am commanding you today, so that you may live, and multiply,
and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers.
2 (Am 2:10; Ex 15:25) You must remember that the Lord your God led
you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you,
and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would
keep His commandments or not.
3 (Mt 4:4; Lk 4:4; Ex 16:2-3) He humbled you and let you suffer hunger,
and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know,
that He might make you know that man does not live by bread alone;
but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
4 (Dt 29:5; Ne 9:21) Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did
your feet swell these forty years.
5 (2Sa 7:14; Pr 3:12) You must also consider in your heart that,
as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
6 (Dt 5:33) Therefore you must keep the commandments of the Lord your God,
to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7For the Lord your God is bringing you
into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that
flow out of valleys and hills,
8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates,
a land of olive oil and honey,
9 a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, in which you
will not lack anything, a land whose stones are iron, and
out of whose hills you may dig copper.
10 (Ps 103:2; Dt 6:11-12) When you have eaten and are full,
then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land
which He has given you.
11 Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping
His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I am
commanding you today.
12 (Pr 30:9; Dt 28:47) Otherwise, when you have eaten
and are full and have built and occupied good houses,
13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply,
and your silver and your gold multiply,
and all that you have multiplies,
14 (Ps 106:21; Dt 8:11) then your heart will become proud and you will
forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of slavery,
15 (Nu 20:11; 21:6) who led you through that great and terrible wilderness,
where there were fiery serpents and scorpions and drought,
where there was no water, who brought forth for you water
out of the rock of flint,
16 (Ex 16:15; Dt 8:3) who fed you in the wilderness with manna,
which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you
and that He might prove you, to do good for you in the end.
17 (Dt 9:4) Otherwise, you may say in your heart,
"My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth."
18 (Pr 10:22; Hos 2:8) But you must remember the Lord your God,
for it is He who gives you the ability to get wealth,
so that He may establish His covenant which He swore
to your fathers, as it is today.
19 (Dt 4:26) If you ever forget the Lord your God
and go after other gods and serve them and worship them,
then I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
20 (Da 9:11-12) Just like the nations which the Lord will
destroy before you, so shall you perish because you would
not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
DEUTERONOMY 9
Not Because of Righteousness
1 (Dt 4:38; 1:28) Hear, O Israel! You are to cross over the Jordan today,
to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities
fortified up to heaven,
2 (Nu 13:22) a great and tall people, the children of the Anakites,
whom you know and of whom you have heard it said,
"Who can stand before the children of Anak?"
3 (Dt 4:24; Jos 3:11) Understand therefore today that the Lord your God
is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He shall destroy
them and shall bring them down before you, so that you drive them out
and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has spoken to you.
4 (Dt 8:17; 12:31) Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God
has driven them out before you,
"On account of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess
this land," but it is because of the wickedness of these nations
the Lord is driving them out before you.
5 (Titus 3:5; Ge 12:7) It is not because of your righteousness
or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land,
but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God
drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which
the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 (Dt 9:13; 10:16) Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God
is not giving you this good land to possess on account of your
righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.
The Golden Calf
7 (Ex 14:11; 16:2) Remember, and do not forget how you provoked
the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that
you departed out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place,
you have been rebellious against the Lord.
8 Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord
was angry enough with you to destroy you.
9 (Ex 34:28; 24:18; 24:12) When I went up into the mountain to receive
the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made
with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
I did not eat bread or drink water.
10 (Ex 31:18; Dt 10:4) The Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone,
written with the finger of God, and on them was written all the words
which the Lord spoke to you at the mountain out of the midst of the fire
on the day of the assembly.
11 (Dt 9:9) At the end of forty days and forty nights,
the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 (Ex 32:7-8; Jdg 2:17) Then the Lord said to me,
"Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought
out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They are quickly turned aside
from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molded image
for themselves.â€"
13 (Dt 9:6; 10:16) Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying,
"I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stubborn people.
14 (Dt 29:20; Ps 9:5) Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them
and blot out their name from under heaven,
and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."
15 (Ex 19:18; Dt 4:11) So I returned and came down from the mount,
and the mount burned with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant
were in my two hands.
16 (Ex 32:19) I looked, and indeed, you had sinned against the Lord
your God and had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly
turned aside out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.
17 I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands
and broke them before your eyes.
18 (Ex 34:28; Dt 9:9) I fell down before the Lord, as at the first,
forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water
because of all your sins which you committed, doing what was wicked
in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.
19 (Dt 10:10; Ex 32:14) For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure
with which the Lord was wrathful against you to destroy you.
But the Lord listened to me at that time also.
20 The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him,
so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
21 (Ex 32:20) I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it
with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small until it was as small
as dust. Then I threw the dust into the brook that descended down from
the mountain.
22 (Ex 17:7; Nu 11:34) Also at Taberah and at Massah
and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.
23 (Ps 106:24-25) Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea,
saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you,"
then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God,
and you did not believe Him or listen to His voice.
24 (Dt 31:27) You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day
I knew you.
25 (Dt 9:18) So I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights;
I fell down because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
26 (Ex 32:11-13) I prayed therefore to the Lord, and said,
"O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance,
which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought
out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness
or their sin.
28 (Nu 14:16) Otherwise, the land from which You brought us may say,
'Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which
He promised them and because He hated them, He has brought them out
to slay them in the wilderness.'
29 (Dt 4:20; Ne 1:10) Yet they are Your people, Your inheritance,
whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm."
DEUTERONOMY 10
The Second Pair of Tablets
1 (Ex 34:1-2) At that time the Lord said to me, "Cut out for yourself
two tablets of stone like the first and come up to Me onto the mountain
and make an ark of wood for yourself.
2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets
which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark."
3 (Ex 34:4; 25:5) So I made an ark of acacia wood and cut out two tablets
of stone just like the first and went up onto the mountain
with the two tablets in my hand.
4 (Dt 9:10; Ex 34:28; Dt 18:16) He wrote on the tablets
just like the first writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord spoke
to you at the mountain out of the midst of the fire
on the day of the assembly, and the Lord gave them to me.
5 (Ex 34:29; 40:20) I turned around and came down from the mountain
and put the tablets in the ark which I had made,
and there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.
6 (Nu 33:38) (The children of Israel set out from Beeroth
of the sons of Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried,
and his son Eleazar ministered in the priest's office in his place.
7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah,
a land of rivers of waters.
8 (Dt 18:5; 21:5) At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi
to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord
to minister to Him, and to bless in His name, to this day.
9 (Dt 18:1-2; Eze 44:28) Therefore, Levi has no portion or inheritance
with his brothers. The Lord is his inheritance,
just as the Lord your God promised him.)
10 (Ex 34:28; Dt 9:18-19) As for me, I stayed on the mountain
like the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the Lord
listened to me at that time also. The Lord was not willing to destroy you.
11 (Ex 32:34; 33:1) The Lord said to me, "Arise, take your journey before
the people, so that they may go in and possess the land which I swore
to give to their fathers."
The Essence of the Law
12 (Dt 6:5; Mic 6:8) Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you,
but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him,
and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13 (Dt 6:24) to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which
I am commanding you today for your good?
14(1Ki 8:27; Ex 19:5) Indeed, heaven and the highest heavens belong
to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it.
15 (Dt 4:37) The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them;
and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all people,
as it is today.
16 (Dt 9:6; Jer 4:4) Therefore, circumcise your heart,
and do not be stubborn anymore.
17 (Jos 22:22; Da 2:47) For the Lord your God is the God of gods
and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the fearsome God
who is unbiased and takes no bribe.
18 (Ps 68:5; 146:9) He executes the judgment of the orphan
and the widow and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
19 (Ex 22:21; Lev 19:33-34) Therefore, love the foreigner,
for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
20 (Dt 13:4; 6:13; 11:22) You must fear the Lord your God.
You must serve Him and cling to Him, and swear by His name.
21 (Jer 17:14; Ps 106:21-22) He is your praise, and He is your God,
who has done for you these great and fearsome things which your eyes
have seen.
22 (Ge 15:5; 46:27) Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy people,
and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
2) Our Daily Bread for 13 Mar 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/03/14/storms-of-fear
entitled Storms of Fear
Mark 4:35-41
The Calming of a Storm
Mt 8:23–27; Lk 8:22–25
35 (Mt 8:18; Lk 8:22) That same day, when the evening came, He said to them,
"Let us go cross to the other side."
36 (Mk 3:9; 4:1) When they had sent the crowd away, they took Him in the boat
just as He was. There were also other little boats with Him.
37 A great wind storm arose, and the waves splashed into the boat,
so that it was now filling the boat.
38 He was in the stern asleep on a pillow.
They woke Him and said, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?"
39 (Job 38:11; Ps 89:9) He rose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,
"Peace, be still!" Then the wind ceased and there was a great calm.
40 (Mt 14:31; Lk 8:25) He said to them,
"Why are you so fearful? How is that you have no faith?"
41 They feared greatly and said to one another,
"What kind of Man is He, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"
In a TV commercial I saw recently, a woman casually asks someone
in a group watching TV, "What are you searching for, Mark?"
"A version of myself that doesn’t make decisions based on fear,"
he responds soberly—not realizing that she was just asking
what he liked to watch on TV!
Whoa, I thought. I wasn’t expecting a TV commercial to hit me
so profoundly! But I related to poor Mark: I too feel embarrassed
by the way fear sometimes seems to direct my life.
Jesus’ disciples also experienced the profound power of fear.
Once, as they headed across the Sea of Galilee (Mark 4:35),
"a furious squall came up" (v. 37). Terror gripped them,
and they suggested that Jesus (who'd been sleeping!)
might not care about them:
"Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?" (v. 38).
Fear distorted the disciples' vision, blinding them
to Jesus' good intentions for them. After He rebuked
the wind and waves (v. 39), Christ confronted the disciples
with two penetrating questions:
"Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?" (v. 40).
Storms rage in our lives as well, don’t they?
But Jesus' questions can help us put our fears in perspective.
His first question invites us to name our fears.
The second invites us to entrust those distorted feelings
to Him—asking Him for eyes to see how He guides us even through
life's most raging storms.
By: Adam R. Holz
Reflect & Pray
What storms are you facing right now?
How can you entrust your fears and emotions
to Jesus when the winds blow and the waters rise?
Loving Savior, thank You that You're always present in the storm.
As I move through life’s scary moments, help me each day to talk
to You and entrust You with my fears.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 6 Showing Grace to Others - Day 1 - Forgiving as God Forgave
Col 3:13
13 Bear with one another and
forgive one another. If anyone
has a quarrel against anyone,
even as Christ forgave you,
so you must do.
"No!" Brett slammed his hand against the desk to punctuate his point.
"My wife's infidelity is completely unforgivable. She just wants to make things
look good, to have me condone her new relationship.
I won't do it. I won't forgive her."
Brett was a man in pain, and his perspective on forgiving
his wife is understandable. But unfortunately, many of us are
the victims of "unforgiveable" offenses; many of us, as well,
are the perpetrators of such offenses, and we desperately need
to be forgiven.
Brett ultimately came to understand that forgiving and "unforgivable"
hurt is not based on the worthiness of the recipient of forgiveness,
but on the worthiness of Christ himself. The Bible teaches that we are bound
to forgiveness for one simple reason:
because God has forgiven us in Jesus Christ.
"Forgive as the Lord forgave", Paul commands in Col 3:13 . How did Christ
forgive? Freely, completely, without basing his forgiveness on our merit. He
forgave us unilaterally, offering forgiveness before we asked,
before we were aware of our sin and the pain it caused him,
before we came to him in repentance.
Forgiveness does more that release the perpetrator for the bondage of
his wrongdoing. It releases the victim as well. Forgiveness frees
the forgiver from the bondage of anger and bitterness that keeps him distant
from the love of God. We can forgive the most "unforgivable" of offenses
against us when we focus our attention
not on the offender,
but on Christ, who forgave us.
Application
a) Have I ever harboured unforgiveness toward another person?
What was the result in my spiritual/emotional life?
b) Is there someone in my life who has hurt me, who I need to forgive?
HOw can this verse help me extend the forgiveness to that person?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Proverbs 28:13
13 He who covers his sins will not prosper,
but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are Angry of Vengeful
Prov 15:1
1 A soft answer turns away wrath,
but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 25:28
28 He who has no rule over his own spirit
is like a city that is broken down and without walls.4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Ps 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that brings forth its fruit in its season;
its leaf will not wither,
and whatever he does will prosper.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are Angry of Vengeful
James 1:19-25
Hearing and Doing the Word
19 Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, and slow to anger, 20 for the anger of man does not work
the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining
wickedness and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able
to save your souls.
22 Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
viewing his natural face in a mirror. 24 He views himself, and goes his way,
and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But whoever looks into
the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it,
and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work,
this man will be blessed in his deeds.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Saskatchewan
Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400
est Muslim Population 17279
CNMM Networks: Saskatoon
Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past
5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have
focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts
of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres
of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a
Christian school.
Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up
in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young
women whowere wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.
Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
14th Day of the Month
a) Pray for God's kingdom to come
in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,
and in our nation ( Matt 6:10)
b) Pray for those who server with
denominations and Christian organisations
in Canada - that God will bless their ministry
and anoint them for effective service.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and remember what to do with treasure.
Pray to the Lord and remember his mercy.
Pray to the Lord to carry you through the storms of Life.
Pray to the Lord to seek forgiveness in your life.
Pray to the Lord to lay a good foundation in your life.
Pray to the Lord to be not have any anger in you and to remember Him.
Pray for Muslims in Saskatchewan to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray your country and church to come close to Christ.
Repent of and turn away from your sins
and Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness
Remember eternity starts now -
Pray for the direction you take to the Ever lasting loving God.
Posted by DSY on
Day 55, 24 Feb 2021
Numbers 3 - 4
NUMBERS 3
The Sons of Aaron
1 (Ex 6:20) These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses
in the day that the Lord spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
2 (Ex 6:23; Nu 26:60) These are the names of the sons of Aaron:
Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3 (Ex 28:41; Lev 8:1–9) These are the names of the sons of Aaron,
the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.
4 (Lev 10:1–2; Nu 26:61) Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when
they brought strange fire before the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai,
and they had no children, and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered
as priests in the sight of Aaron their father.
Duties of the Levites
5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest,
and they will minister to him.
7 (Nu 1:50; 8:11)nThey will keep his directives, and serve the whole
congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
8 They will keep all the instruments of the tent of meeting,
and attend to the needs of the children of Israel,
to do the service of the tabernacle.
9 (Nu 8:19) You will give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons.
They are wholly given to him from the children of Israel.
10 (Nu 1:51; 3:38) You will appoint Aaron and his sons,
and they will attend to their priesthood,
and the foreigner that approaches will be put to death.
11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12 (Nu 3:41; 8:16) I Myself have taken the Levites from among
the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that open
the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore the Levites will be Mine
13 (Ex 13:2; 13:12) because all the firstborn are Mine, for on the day
that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set apart to Me
all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They will be Mine.
I am the Lord.
A Census of the Levites
14 The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying:
15 (Nu 26:62) Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers,
by their families. You will number every male from a month old and older.
16 Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
17 (Ge 46:11; Ex 6:16–19) These were the sons of Levi by their names:
Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
18 (1Ch 6:17) These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families:
Libni and Shimei;
19 (Ex 6:18; 1Ch 6:18) the sons of Kohath by their families:
Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel;
20 (Ex 6:19; 1Ch 6:19) the sons of Merari by their families:
Mahli and Mushi.
These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
21 From Gershon was the family of the Libnites
and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.
22 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males,
from a month old and older, those who were numbered of them were 7500.
23 (Nu 1:53) The families of the Gershonites were to camp
behind the west side of the tabernacle.
24 The chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites was Eliasaph
the son of Lael.
25 (Ex 25:9) The charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting
included the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the hanging
for the door of the tent of meeting,
26 (Ex 35:18) the hangings of the court, the curtain for the opening
of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar,
and its cords-all the service pertaining to these.
27 (1Ch 26:23) Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites,
and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites,
and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the Kohathites.
28 The number of all the males, from a month old and older, were 8600,
keeping the guard of the sanctuary.
29 (Nu 1:53) The families of the sons of Kohath
were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle.
30 The chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites
was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
31 Their duty included the ark, and the table, and the lampstand,
and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary they minister with,
and the hanging, and all its service.
32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the leaders
of the Levites and to have the oversight of those who kept the guard
of the sanctuary.
33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites.
These are the families of Merari. 34Those who were numbered of them,
according to the number of all the males from a month old and older,
were 6200.
35 (Nu 1:53; 2:25) The chief of the house of the father of the families
of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail.
These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
36 (Ex 26:32; 26:37) Under the oversight and guard of the sons of Merari
were the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the sockets,
all their accessories, all the service pertaining to these,
37 and the pillars of the court all around, with their sockets,
and pins, and cords.
38 (Nu 1:53; 3:10) But those who were to camp before the tabernacle
toward the east, even before the tent of meeting on the east side,
were Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the guard
of the sanctuary for the guard of the children of Israel,
and the foreigner who approached was to be put to death.
39 (Nu 26:62) All who were numbered of the Levites,
which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the Lord,
throughout their families, all the males from a month old and older,
were twenty-two thousand.
The Redemption of the Firstborn
40 (Nu 3:15) The Lord said to Moses: Number all the firstborn of the males
of the children of Israel from a month old and older
and take the number of their names.
41 (Nu 3:12; 3:45) You will take the Levites for Me (I am the Lord)
instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel,
and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn
among the livestock of the children of Israel.
42 Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him,
all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
43 All the firstborn males, by the number of names,
from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them,
were 22273.
44 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
45 (Nu 3:12) Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children
of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock,
and the Levites will be Mine. I am the Lord.
46 (Ex 13:13) For those who are to be redeemed of the 273 of the firstborn
of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites,
47 (Ex 30:13; Lev 27:6) you will take five shekels
(About 2 ounces, or 58 grams.) apiece by the poll;
according to the shekel of the sanctuary you will
take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs).
48 And you will give the money, by which the number of them is to be redeemed,
to Aaron and to his sons.
49 Moses took the redemption money of those who were over
and above those who were redeemed by the Levites.
50 (Nu 3:46–47) Of the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money,
1356 shekels, (About 35 pounds, or 16 kilograms.)
after the shekel of the sanctuary.
51 (Nu 3:48) And Moses gave the money of those who were redeemed to Aaron
and to his sons, according to the word of the Lord,
as the Lord commanded Moses.
NUMBERS 4
Duties of the Kohathites
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi,
after their families, by the house of their fathers,
3 (Nu 4:23) from thirty years old and older, even to fifty years old,
all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
4 (Nu 4:19) This will be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent
of meeting, concerning the holiest things.
5 (Mt 27:51; Heb 9:3) And when the camp sets out, Aaron will come,
and his sons, and they will take down the covering curtain,
and cover the ark of the testimony with it,
6 (Ex 25:13-15) and will put on it the covering of porpoise skins,
and will spread over it a cloth completely of blue, and will put in its poles.
7 (Lev 24:5–8) Upon the table of showbread they will spread a cloth of blue,
and put the dishes on it, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover
it, and the showbread will be on it.
8 And they will spread on them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with
a covering of porpoise skins, and will put in its poles.
9 (Ex 25:31–39) They will take a cloth of blue, and cover the lampstand
of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuff dishes,
and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
10 And they will put it and all its vessels within
a covering of porpoise skins and will put it on a carrying pole.
11 Upon the golden altar they will spread a cloth of blue,
and cover it with a covering of porpoise skins, and will put in its poles.
12 (1Ch 9:29) And they will take all the instruments of ministry,
with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue,
and cover them with a covering of porpoise skins, and will put
them on a carrying pole.
13 And they will take away the ashes from the altar
and spread a purple cloth on it.
14 They shall put on it all the instruments with which they minister there,
the censers, the flesh hooks, the shovels, the basins, all the utensils
of the altar. And they will spread on it a covering of porpoise skins
and insert its poles.
15 (2Sa 6:6–7; Nu 7:9) When Aaron and his sons have finished covering
the sanctuary, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, as the camp
is to set out, after that, the sons of Kohath will come to carry it.
But they will not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things
are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.
16 (Ex 25:6; Lev 24:2) To the office of Eleazar, Aaron the priest's son,
pertains the oil for the light, and the sweet incense,
and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil,
and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it,
in the sanctuary, and in the instruments thereof.
17 The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
18 Do not cut the tribe of the families of the Kohathites
from among the Levites.
19 But do this to them, that they may live and not die, when they approach
the most holy things. Aaron and his sons will go in, and appoint each one
to his service and to his burden.
20 (Ex 19:21; 1Sa 6:19) But they will not go in to see when the holy things
are covered, lest they die.
Duties of the Gershonites
21 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses
of their fathers, by their families.
23 (Nu 4:3) From thirty years old and older to fifty years old
you will number them, all that enter in to perform the service,
to do the work in the tent of meeting.
24This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve,
and to work.
25 (Ex 26:14; Nu 3:25–26) And they will carry the curtains
of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering,
and the covering of the porpoise skins that is on it,
and the hanging for the door of the tent of meeting,
26 and the hangings of the courtyard,
and the hanging for the opening of the gate of the courtyard,
which is by the tabernacle and by the altar all around,
and their cords, and all the instruments of their service,
and all that is made for them. So they will serve.
27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons will be all
the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens,
and in all their service. And you shall assign to them all their tasks as their duty.
28 (Nu 4:33) This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon
in the tent of meeting. And their charge will be under the hand of Ithamar
the son of Aaron the priest.
Duties of the Merarites
29 As for the sons of Merari, you will number them by their families,
by the house of their fathers.
30 (Nu 4:3; 4:23) From thirty years old and older, even to fifty years old,
you will number them, everyone who enters into the service, to do the work
of the tent of meeting.
31 (Nu 3:36–37) This is the charge of their burden, according to all their
service in the tent of meeting. The boards of the tabernacle, and its bars
thereof, and its pillars, and its sockets,
32 (Ex 38:21) and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets,
and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all
their service, and by name you will list the instruments of the charge of
their burden.
33 (Nu 4:28) This is the service of the families of the sons of
according to all their service, in the tent of meeting,
under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Census of the Levites
34 Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered
the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by the house of
their fathers,
35 (Nu 4:23; 1Ch 23:24) from thirty years old and older to fifty years old,
everyone who entered into the service, for the work in the tent of meeting.
36 And those who were numbered by their families were 2750.
37 These were the ones listed of the families of the Kohathites,
all who might do service in the tent of meeting, which Moses and Aaron
numbered according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
38 Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families,
and by the house of their fathers,
39 from thirty years old and older to fifty years old, everyone who entered
into the service, for the work in the tent of meeting,
40 even those who were numbered of them, throughout their families,
by the house of their fathers, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.
41 These were the ones listed by the families of the sons of Gershon,
of all who might do service in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron
numbered according to the commandment of the Lord.
42 Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari,
throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,
43 from thirty years old and older to fifty years old, everyone who entered
into the service, for the work in the tent of meeting,
44 even those who were numbered by their families, were 3200.
45 These were the ones listed of the families of the sons of Merari,
whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word
of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
46 All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron,
and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families, and by the
house of their fathers,
47 (Nu 4:3) from thirty years old and older to fifty years old,
everyone who came to do the service of the ministry, and the service
of the work in the tent of meeting,
48 (Nu 3:39) even those who were numbered were 8580.
49 (Nu 4:15; 4:21) According to the commandment of the Lord
they were numbered by the hand of Moses,
each according to his service, and according to his burden.
Thus they were numbered by him, as the Lord commanded Moses.
(THat is a large priesthood. Remember Christians belong
to a huge priesthood)
2) Our Daily Bread for 24 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/24/never-alone-7
entitled Never Alone
Ecclesiastes 4:8–12
8 (Pr 27:20; Ecc 1:8) There is a man who is alone,
neither having son or brother,
and there is not an end to all his toil,
and his eyes are not satisfied with riches to say,
"For whom do I labor
and cause my life to lack good things?"
Also this is vanity
and a burdensome task.
9 Two are better than one,
because there is a good reward for their labor together.
10 For if they fall,
then one will help up his companion.
But woe to him who is alone when he falls
and has no one to help him up.
11 Also if two lie down together, then they will keep warm;
but how can one keep warm by himself?
12 And if someone might overpower another by himself,
two together can withstand him.
A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
"It can be an affliction more harrowing than homelessness,
hunger or disease," wrote Maggie Fergusson in The Economist's 1843 magazine.
Her subject? Loneliness. Fergusson chronicled
the increasing rates of loneliness, irrespective of one's social or economic
status, using heart-wrenching examples of what it feels like to be lonely.
The hurt of feeling alone isn't new to our day.
Indeed, the pain of isolation echoes off the pages
of the ancient book of Ecclesiastes. Often attributed to King Solomon,
the book captures the sorrow of those who seem to lack any meaningful
relationships (4:7–8). The speaker lamented that it's possible to acquire
significant wealth and yet experience no value from it because there's
no one to share it with.
But the speaker also recognized the beauty of companionship,
writing that friends help you accomplish more than you could
achieve on your own (v. 9); companions help in times of need (v. 10);
partners bring comfort (v. 11); and friends can provide protection
in difficult situations (v. 12).
Loneliness is a significant struggle-God created us to offer
and receive the benefits of friendship and community. If you're
feeling alone, pray that God would help you form meaningful
connections with others. In the meantime, find encouragement in
the reality that the believer is never truly alone because Jesus'
Spirit is always with us (Matthew 28:20).
By: Lisa M. Samra
Reflect & Pray
How might you reach out to someone who's lonely? How have you
experienced the blessing of God's Spirit with you when you've felt alone?
Heavenly Father, when I feel lonely, give me courage to reach
out to others with an offer of friendship.
3) From The Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Association
Words in Season - Scripture Memory Tools
Week 3 - Saved Nowand Forver - Day 4 - Daddy!
Romans 8:15
'For you have not received the spirit of slavery again to fear. But you have
received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba, Father." '
"I've always been a Daddy's girl," Sandi said proudly, and her relationship
with her father proved it. Shewas never spoiled, but even as a grown woman,
Sandi maintained a closeness with her father, sharing intimately with him the
important issues of her life. And just her use of the name "Daddy" indicated
that he was, indded a warm, approachable, attectionate man.
Many people are not so fortunate. Some fathers are stern and harsh;
others absent or uncaring, some even abusive. Few have the king of father
who presents a picture of the loving fatherhood of God.
But whatever our concept of fatherhood, God makes clear that he is everything
we always wanted our fathers to be - loving, forgiving, approachable,
totally accepting of us as we are, encouraging us to become all he has
created us to be.
In Romans 8, Paul calls God our "Abba Father". The Aramaic word for Father,
Abba, is an intimate term that might well be translated, Daddy.
God is our "Daddy," our "Abba" - not a distant, stern patriarch ready
to strike us down at the first sign of transgression, but a gentle,
loving Father who longs for us to climb into his lapand let him comfort us.
When we commit ourselves to Christ, Paul indicates, we do not receive a
"spirit of bondage to fear" bu a "spirit of adoption." We are not called
to respond to God out of fear, but out of love and reverence.
We can relax and enjoy his presence, for we are his children,
and he is our loving Daddy.
Application
a) What concept of fatherhood do I have from my own experience with my father?
How does that correspond to Paul's description of God as "Daddy"?
b) How can this verse help change my perception of what it means to have
God as my Father?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Gen 17:5-7
5 (Ne 9:7; Ge 17:15) No longer will your name be called Abram,
but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you the father
of a multitude of nations.
6 (Ge 35:11; 17:16) I will make you exceedingly fruitful;
and I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.
7 (Ge 26:24; 28:13; Heb 11:16) I will establish My covenant between Me
and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations
for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Unfailing Love
Ps 63:1-5
PSALMS 63
A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.
1 O God, You are my God;
early will I seek You;
my soul thirsts for You,
my flesh faints for You,
in a dry and thirsty land
with no water.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) I have seen You in the sanctuary,
to see Your power and Your glory.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
my lips will praise You.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Thus will I bless You while I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) My soul will be satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
and my mouth will praise You with joyful lips.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
Day 24 of the Month
a) Pray that the Lord will open a door for the message for the Gospel
at every level of Canadian Society. (
Col 4:3
3 while praying also for us, that God would open to
us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of Christ,
for which I am also in chains,
)
b) Pray for the Province of Saskatchewan
I) Pray for the leaders of Saskatchewan,
that God's Spirit would influence
then to act justly,
serve with integrity
and honour high moral standards. ( 1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses
beaming forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use
the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
hood
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to see how to be part of his Pries.
Pray to the Lord to ask how to be not lonely in his presence.
Pray to the Lord to seek his wisdom about Fatherhood.
Pray to the Lord to seek how to be a blesing.
Pray to the Lord to give him praise every day.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray for the gospel of Christ to be received by everyone in Canada.
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
Posted by DSY on
Day 54, 23 Feb 2021
Numbers 1 - 2
NUMBERS 1
Israel's First Census
1 (Ex 19:1; 40:17) And the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai
in the tent of meeting on the first day of the second month in the second
year after they went out from the land of Egypt, saying:
2 (Ex 30:12; 38:26) Take the sum of all the congregation of the children
of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the
number of their names, every male by their polls,
3 (Ex 30:14; Nu 14:29) from twenty years old and upward, all who are able
to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron will number them by their armies.
4 (Nu 1:16; Ex 18:25) With you there will be a man of every tribe, each
one the head of his father’s house.
5 (Nu 7:30) These are the names of the men who will stand with you:
of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;
6 (Nu 7:36) of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of ZuriÂshaddai;
7 (Lk 3:32) of Judah, Nahshon the son of AmminÂadab;
8 (Nu 7:18) of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
9 (Nu 7:24) of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
10Nu 7:48; 7:54of the children of Joseph:
of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud;
of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
11 (Nu 7:60) of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;
12 (Nu 7:66) of Dan, Ahiezer the son of AmmishadÂdai;
13 (Nu 7:72) of Asher, Pagiel the son of Okran;
14 (Nu 2:14; 7:42) of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
15 (Nu 7:78) of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.
16 (Ex 18:21; 18:25) These were the renowned of the congregation,
leaders of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
17 Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned by name,
18 (Ezr 2:59; Heb 7:3) and they assembled all the congregation
on the first day of the second month, and they declared their
pedigrees according to their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
by their polls.
19 As the Lord commanded Moses,
so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.
20 (Nu 26:5-7; 2:10-11) The children of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male
from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war,
21 (Nu 26:7) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben,
were 46500.
22 (Nu 26:12-14) Of the children of Simeon,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
those who were numbered of them, according to the number of the names,
by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war,
23 (Nu 26:14) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon,
were 59300.
24 (Nu 26:15-18) Of the children of Gad,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war,
25 (Nu 26:18) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad,
were 45650 .
26 (Ge 29:35; Nu 26:19-22) Of the children of Judah,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war,
27 (Nu 26:22; 2Sa 24:9) those who were numbered of them,
even of the tribe of Judah, were 74600.
28 Of the children of Issachar,
by their generations, after their families,
by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names,
from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war,
29 (Nu 26:25) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar,
were 54400.
30 (Nu 26:26-27) Of the children of Zebulun,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward
all who were able to go out to war,
31 (Nu 26:27) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun,
were 57400.
32 (Nu 26:35–37; Dt 33:17) Of the children of Joseph,
namely, of the children of Ephraim,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war, 33Nu 26:37those who were numbered of them,
even of the tribe of Ephraim, were 40500 .
34 Of the children of Manasseh,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war,
35 (Nu 26:34) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh,
were 32200 .
36 (Ge 49:27) Of the children of Benjamin,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war,
37 (Nu 26:41) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin,
were 35400 .
38 (Ge 46:23) Of the children of Dan,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war,
39 (Nu 26:43) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan,
were 62700 .
40 Of the children of Asher,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war,
41 (Nu 26:47) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher,
were 41500 .
42 Of the children of Naphtali,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war,
43 (Nu 26:50) those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali,
were 53400 .
44 (Nu 26:64) These are those who were numbered,
which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the leaders of Israel,
being twelve men. Each one was for the house of his fathers.
45 So were all those who were numbered of the children of Israel,
by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward,
all who were able to go out to war in Israel.
46 (Ex 12:37; 38:26) Even all they who were numbered
were 603550 .
47 (Nu 2:33; 3:1–4:49) But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers
were not numbered among them.
48 For the Lord had spoken to Moses, saying:
49 (Nu 26:62) Only you will not number the tribe of Levi,
nor take the census of them among the children of Israel,
50 (Ex 38:21; 31:18; Nu 4:15) but you will appoint the Levites over the tent
of the testimony, and over all its vessels,
and over all things that belong to it. They will carry the tabernacle,
and all its vessels, and they will minister to it,
and will camp around the tabernacle.
51 (Nu 3:38; 3:10) When the tabernacle sets out, the Levites will take it down,
and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites will set it up,
and the foreigner that approaches will be put to death.
52 (Nu 2:2; 2:34) The children of Israel will pitch their tents,
every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard,
throughout their armies.
53 (Nu 16:46; Lev 10:6) But the Levites will camp around the tabernacle
of the testimony, so there will be no wrath on the congregation
of the children of Israel. And the Levites will keep the charge
of the tabernacle of the testimony.
54 Thus the children of Israel did according
to all that the Lord commanded Moses.
NUMBERS 2
Tribes and Leaders by Armies
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
2Every man of the children of Israel will camp by his own standard,
with the ensign of his father's house.
Facing the tent of meeting they will camp.
3 (Ru 4:20; 1Ch 2:10) On the east side toward the rising of the sun
the standard of the camp of Judah will camp throughout their armies,
and Nahshon the son of Amminadab will be captain of the children of Judah.
4 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 74600 .
5 (Nu 1:8; 7:18) Those who camp next to him will be the tribe of Issachar,
and Nethanel the son of Zuar will be captain of the children of Issachar.
6 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 54400 .
7 (Nu 1:9) Then comes the tribe of Zebulun, and Eliab the son of Helon
will be captain of the children of Zebulun.
8 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 57400.
9 (Nu 10:14) All who were numbered throughout the armies
in the camp of Judah were one hundred and 86400. They will march out first.
10 (Nu 1:5) On the south side will be the standard of the camp of Reuben
according to their armies, and the captain of the children of Reuben
will be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
11 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 46500 .
12 (Nu 1:6) Those who camp by him will be the tribe of Simeon,
and the captain of the children of Simeon will be Shelumiel
the son of Zurishaddai.
13 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 59300 .
14 (Nu 1:14; 7:42) Then comes the tribe of Gad,
and the captain of the sons of Gad will be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
15 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 45650.
16 (Nu 10:18) All who were numbered in the camp of Reuben
were 151450, throughout their armies.
And they will set out in the second rank.
17 (Nu 10:21; 10:17) Then the tent of meeting will set out
with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camp.
As they camp, so they will set out, every man in his place by their standards.
18 (Nu 1:10; 10:22) On the west side will be the standard
of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies,
and the captain of the sons of Ephraim will be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
19 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 40500.
20 (Nu 1:10) By him will be the tribe of Manasseh,
and the captain of the children of Manasseh will be
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
21 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 32200.
22 (Nu 1:11) Then comes the tribe of Benjamin, and the captain
of the sons of Benjamin will be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
23 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 35400.
24 (Nu 10:22) All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were 108100,
throughout their armies. And they will go out in the third rank.
25 (Nu 1:12) The standard of the camp of Dan will be on the north side
by their armies, and the captain of the children of Dan will be Ahiezer
the son of Ammishaddai.
26His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 62700.
27 (Nu 1:13) Those who camp by him will be the tribe of Asher,
and the captain of the children of Asher will be Pagiel the son of Okran.
28 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 41500.
29 (Nu 1:15) Then the tribe of Naphtali,
and the captain of the children of Naphtali will be Ahira the son of Enan.
30 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were 53400 .
31 (Nu 10:25) All they who were numbered in the camp of Dan were 157600.
They will set out in the back with their standards.
32 (Nu 1:46; Ex 38:26) These are those who were numbered of the children
of Israel by the house of their fathers. All those who were numbered
of the camps throughout their hosts were 603550.
33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel,
as the Lord commanded Moses.
34 (Nu 24:2; 24:5–6) The children of Israel did according to all
that the Lord commanded Moses. So they camped by their standards,
and so they set out, each one after his family,
according to their fathers' houses.
(600000 + a nation, no wonder Egypt felt overran)
2) Our Daily Bread for 23 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/23/turn-on-the-light
entitled Turn on the Light
Matthew 5:14–16
14 (Jn 8:12; Pr 4:18) "You are the light of the world.
A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 (Mk 4:21; Lk 8:16) Neither do men light a candle
and put it under a basket, but on a candlestick.
And it gives light to all who are in the house.
16 (1Pe 2:12; Mt 9:8; Jn 15:8) Let your light so shine
before men that they may see your good works
and glorify your Father who is in heaven."
As my husband and I prepared for a cross-country move,
I wanted to ensure that we kept in touch with our grown sons.
I found a unique gift, friendship lamps connected by wireless
internet, which can be turned on remotely. When I gave the lamps
to my sons, I explained that their lamps will turn on
when I touch my lamp-to provide a shining reminder
of my love and ongoing prayers. No matter how great
the distance between us, a tap on their lamps would trigger
a light in our home too. Though we knew nothing could replace
our more personal moments of connection, we could be encouraged
by knowing we're loved and prayed for every time we turned on those lights.
All God's children have the privilege of being light-sharers powered
by the Holy Spirit. We're designed to live as radiant beacons
of God's everlasting hope and unconditional love. When we're sharing
the gospel and serving others in the name of Jesus, we become brilliant
spotlights and living testimonies. Every good deed, kind smile, gentle
word of encouragement, and heartfelt prayer produces a beaming reminder
of God's faithfulness
and His unconditional and life-transforming love (Matthew 5:14–16).
Wherever God leads us, and however we serve Him, we can be
used by Him to help others shine His light. As God, by His Spirit,
provides the true illumination, we can reflect the light
and love of His presence.
By: Xochitl Dixon
Reflect & Pray
How can you be a light for Christ, intentionally expressing His love
to those in your sphere of influence this week? How can you shine
a light on God's love as you serve people who don’t know Him?
Loving Father, please fuel me with Your perfect truth and love
so I can shine a spotlight on You by loving You and others wherever I go.
3) From The Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Association
Words in Season - Scripture Memory Tools
Week 3 - Saved Nowand Forver - Day 3 - Inseperable From God's Love
Romans 8:38-39
38 (Eph 1:21; 1Pe 3:22) For I am persuaded that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present
nor things to come,
39 (Ro 5:8) neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Separation is a fact of human life. Relationships disintegrate,
children grow up, loved ones die, husbands and wifes divorce,
friends changes and drift apart. We may resist change and separation,
but we must deal with them nevretheless.
Separation sometimes is a natural result odf growth and development;
sometimes it is a violent, cataclysmic shakingof an individual's life.
2 lifelong friends go separate ways to college or into future careers;
a church splits over doctrinal differences; a wife finds out a hidden
secret in her husband's past.
But with God, there is no separation, no death, no breaking of vows,
no growing beyond the relationship. Nothing, says Paul, can separate
us from the love of God. A skeleton in my closet, once revealed, may
cost me the trust of those I thought were my friends. But God knows
all my past, all my sin; he forgives, and it cannot separate me from him.
My present personal struggles may cause trouble in my job and result in
the loss of that income, but God understands what I'm going through,
and even when I'm angry at him, he can take it without drawing away
or striking back. My present problems cannot separate me from the Lord.
And God knows, too, the plan he has established for my future. I cannot
walk away from him, grow beyond my need for him, or outrun him into
tomorrow.
She may separate me from my awareness of God's presence in my life,
but it cannot set me beyond his reach. There is no power that is greater
than God's love, and no place I can go that will separate me
from that love.
Application
a) Have I ever felt separated from the love of God? Under what circumstances?
b) How can today's verse free me from anxiety about the past,
the persent or the future?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Gen 14:22-23
22 (Ex 6:8; Da 12:7) But Abram said to the king of Sodom,
"I have lifted up my hand to the Lord, God Most High,
the Possessor of heaven and earth,
23 (2Ki 5:16; Est 9:15–16) that I will take nothing that is yours,
not a thread or a sandal strap; lest you say, 'I have made Abram rich.'"
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Unfailing Love
Lamen 3:19-24
119 (La 3:5; 3:15) Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the gall.
20 (Ps 42:5-6; 42:11) Surely my soul remembers
and is humbled within me.
21 (Ps 130:7) But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
22 (Mal 3:6; Ps 78:38) It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed;
His compassions do not fail.
23 (Zep 3:5; Ps 36:5) They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.
24 (Ps 16:5; 73:26) "The Lord is my portion," says my soul,
"therefore I will hope in Him."
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
Day 23 of the Month
a) Pray for the genuine conversion and successful rehabilitation os those
who have committed crimes.
b) Pray for spiritual and functional unity in the Body of Christ
across Canada.
(
John 13:34-35
34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another,
even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples,
if you have love for one another."
Rom 12:10
10 Be devoted to one another with brotherly love; prefer one another in honour
Heb 10:24
24 And let us consider how to spur one another to love and to good works.
1 Peter 3:8
8 Finally,
be all of one mind,
be loving toward one another,
be gracious,
and be kind.
1 John 3:23
23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name
of His Son ÂJesus Christ and love one another as He commanded us.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to seek His blessings.
Pray to the Lord to ask how to be like Jesus as a shining light.
Pray to the Lord to seek the power of God not being separated by Him.
Pray to the Lord to seek his richness.
Pray to the Lord to give him every day.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for the moving of the Holy Spirit for genuine conversion.
Pray for the Unity ofthe Body of Christ in Canada.
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
Posted by DSY on
Day 52, 22 Feb 2021
Lev 26 - 27
LEVITICUS 26
Rewards for Obedience
1 (Lev 19:4; Ex 23:24; 20:4–5) You shall not make for yourselves idols;
neither set up a carved image nor a standing stone, nor shall you set up
any sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
2 (Lev 19:30) You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:
I am the Lord.
3 (Dt 28:1–14; 11:13–15) If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments
and do them,
4 (Ps 67:6; 85:12) then I will give you rain in due season,
and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield
their fruit.
5 (Am 9:13; Lev 25:18–19) Your threshing shall last till the grape harvest,
and the grape harvest shall last till the time for sowing, and you shall eat
your bread till you are full and dwell in your land safely.
6 (Isa 35:9; Jer 30:10) I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down
for sleep, and none shall make you afraid; I will remove harmful beasts from
the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 (Dt 32:30; Jos 23:10) Five of you shall chase a hundred,
and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight,
and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 (Ge 17:6–7; Ne 9:23) I will turn toward you and make you fruitful
and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
10 (Lev 25:22) You shall eat the old harvest long stored,
and clear out the old to make way for the new.
11 (Ex 25:8; 29:45) I will set My tabernacle among you,
and I shall not abhor you.
12 (2Co 6:16; Ge 3:8) I will walk among you, and I will be your God,
and you shall be My people.
13 (Eze 34:27; Ex 20:2) I am the Lord your God, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves,
and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
Punishment for Disobedience
14 (Dt 28:15–68; Mal 2:2) But if you will not listen to Me,
and will not do all these commandments,
15 (2Ki 17:15) if you despise My statutes, or if you abhor My judgments,
so that you will not do all My commandments, but you break My covenant,
16 (Job 31:8; 1Sa 2:33) then I will do this to you: I will visit you
with terror, with wasting disease, and with a fever that shall consume
the eyes and cause sorrow of heart, and you shall sow your seed in vain,
for your enemies shall eat it.
17 (Ps 53:5; Lev 17:10) I will set My face against you, and you shall be
slain before your enemies. They that hate you shall reign over you,
and you shall flee when none pursues you.
18 (Lev 26:21; 26:24) If you will not yet listen to Me after all this,
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 (Dt 28:23; Isa 25:11) I will break the pride of your power,
and I will make your heaven as iron and your land as bronze.
20 (Ps 127:1; Isa 49:4) Your strength shall be spent in vain,
for your land shall not yield her increase,
nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21 If you continue to walk contrary to Me and will not listen to Me,
I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
22 (Dt 32:24; Jdg 5:6) I will also send wild beasts among you,
which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock,
and make you few in number. And your roads shall be desolate.
23 (Jer 5:3; 2:30) And if by these things you are not turned to Me,
but walk contrary to Me,
24 (2Sa 22:27; Ps 18:26) then I will also walk contrary to you
and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 (Nu 14:12; Eze 5:17) I will bring a sword upon you that shall
extract vengeance for My covenant. And when you are gathered together
within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall
be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 (Isa 3:1; Mic 6:14) When I have broken the supply of your bread,
ten women shall bake your bread in one oven,
and they shall ration your bread again by weight,
and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 (Lev 26:21; 26:24) If you will not listen to Me for all this,
but walk contrary to Me,
28 (Isa 59:18; 63:3) then I will walk contrary to you also in fury,
and I Myself will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 (La 4:10; Eze 5:10) You shall eat the flesh of your sons
and the flesh of your daughters.
30 (2Ki 23:20; Isa 27:9) I will destroy your high places,
and cut down your images, and cast your funeral offerings
on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I shall abhor you.
31 (Ne 2:3; 2Ki 25:4–10) I will make your cities a waste
and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell
the savor of your fragrant offerings.
32 (Jer 9:11; 18:16) I will bring the land into desolation,
and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it.
33 (Dt 4:27; Eze 20:23) I will scatter you among the nations
and I will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall
be desolate and your cities a waste.
34 (2Ch 36:21) Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths
as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest
because it did not rest during your sabbaths when you lived upon it.
36 (Eze 21:7; Lev 26:17) And on those who are left alive of you
I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
and the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them flee,
and they shall flee as from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37 (Jos 7:12–13; Jdg 2:14) They shall fall one upon one another,
as to escape before the sword,
though no one pursues,
and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You shall perish among the nations,
and the land of your enemies shall consume you.
39 (Eze 4:17; 33:10) And those who are left of you shall rot away
in their iniquity in your enemies' lands, and also because of the
iniquities of their fathers, they shall rot away with them.
40 (1Ki 8:33–36; Pr 28:13) But if they confess their iniquity,
and the iniquity of their fathers, with their treachery that
they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary to Me,
41 (Eze 44:7; Ac 7:51) and that I also have walked contrary to them
and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled,
and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
42 (Ex 2:24; 6:5) then will I remember My covenant with Jacob,
and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham,
and I will remember the land.
43 (Lev 26:15) But the land shall be abandoned by them, and enjoy
its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They shall make amends
for their iniquity, because they despised My
and because they abhorred My statutes.
44 (Ro 11:2; 2Ki 13:23) Yet for all that, when they are in the land of
their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor will I abhor them
to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them,
for I am the Lord their God.
45 (Lev 22:33; 25:38) But for their sake I will remember the covenant
with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight
of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.
46 (Lev 27:34; 25:1) These are the statutes and judgments
and laws that the Lord made between Himself
and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
LEVITICUS 27
Laws About Vows
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Nu 6:2; Dt 23:21–23) Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:
When a man makes a special vow to the Lord based on the equivalent value
(Shorthand for the formula in Lev 5:15.) of persons,
3 (Ex 30:13; Lev 27:25) then the equivalent value of a male
from twenty to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels
(About 11/4 pounds, or 575 grams; and in v. 16.) of silver,
according to the sanctuary shekel. (About 2/5 ounce, or 12 grams;
and in v. 25.)
4 If the person is a female, then the equivalent value shall be
thirty shekels. (About 12 ounces, or 345 grams.)
5 If the person is five to twenty years old, then the equivalent value
shall be twenty shekels (About 8 ounces, or 230 grams.) for a male
and ten shekels (About 4 ounces, or 115 grams; and in v. 7.) for a female.
6 If the person is one month to five years old,
then the equivalent value shall be five shekels
(About 2 ounces, or 58 grams.)
for a male and three shekels (About 1 1/4 ounces, or 35 grams.)
of silver for a female.
7 If the person is sixty years old or older, then the equivalent
value shall be fifteen shekels (About 6 ounces, or 175 grams.)
for a male and ten shekels for a female.
8 (Lev 14:21–22) But if he is too poor to afford the equivalent value,
then he shall present himself before the priest and the priest shall
set his value. According to what the person making the vow can afford,
so the priest shall set his value.
9 And if it be an animal, of which men bring an offering to the Lord,
all that any man gives of such to the Lord shall be holy.
10 He shall not exchange it nor substitute it, good for bad or bad for good.
If he in fact substitutes an animal for another, then both it
and its substitute shall be holy.
11 If it is any sort of unclean animal that is not permitted as an offering
to the Lord, then he shall present the animal before the priest.
12 And the priest shall set its value, whether good or bad;
according to the equivalent value set by the priest, so shall it be.
13 (Lev 27:15; 27:19) But if he plans on redeeming it,
then he shall add one-fifth to the equivalent value.
14 When a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest
shall set its value, whether good or bad, according to the equivalent value
set by the priest, so shall it be established.
15 (Lev 27:13) If he who consecrates the house should redeem it,
then he shall add one-fifth to its equivalent value, and it shall be his.
16 If a man shall consecrate to the Lord some of his land,
then the equivalent value shall be according to the seed
needed to sow it: fifty shekels of silver per homer
(Likely about 300 pounds, or 135 kilograms. of barley seed.
17 If he consecrates his field from the Year of Jubilee,
the equivalent value shall stay fixed,
18 (Lev 25:15–16) but if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee,
then the priest shall calculate for him the price according to the years
that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and the equivalent value
shall be reduced.
19 And if he who consecrated the field plans on redeeming it,
then he shall add one-fifth to the equivalent value,
and it will be established as his.
20 If he does not redeem the field,
but rather sells the field to another man,
it may not be redeemed again.
21 (Eze 44:29; Nu 18:14; Lev 25:10) But when the field is released
in the Jubilee, it shall be holy to the Lord as a devoted field;
it shall become the possession of the priest.
22 (Lev 25:10; 25:25) If a man consecrates to the Lord a field
that he purchased, which is not part of his land property,
23 (Lev 27:18) then the priest shall calculate for him
the amount of the valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee,
and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy thing to the Lord.
24 (Lev 25:28) In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return
to the one from whom it was bought,
to him to whom the property of land belongs.
25 (Ex 30:13; Nu 3:47) All your estimations shall be according to the shekel
of the sanctuary: Twenty gerahs (About 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram.)
shall be one shekel.
26 (Ex 13:2; 13:12–13) A firstborn of animals, which as firstborn belongs
to the Lord, no man may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord's.
27 If it is among the unclean animals, then he shall ransom it
at the equivalent value and shall add one-fifth to it,
but if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold at the equivalent value.
28 (Jos 6:17–19; Ex 22:20) Anything that a man shall devote to the Lord
from all that he has, whether human, animal, or land, shall not be sold
or redeemed. Every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
29 No one devoted of men, who shall be doomed to death,
shall be redeemed; he shall surely be put to death.
30 (Ge 28:22; 14:20) Any tithe of the land, whether seed of the land
or fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord. It is holy to the Lord.
31 If a man plans on redeeming some of his tithe,
he shall add one-fifth to it.
32 (Jer 33:13; Eze 20:37) Any tithe of herd or flock, all that passes
under the counting staff, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord.
33 (Lev 27:10) A person shall not differentiate between good or bad,
nor shall he make a substitute for it, but if he does,
then both it and its substitute shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.
34 (Lev 26:46) These are the commandments that the Lord commanded
Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
2) Our Daily Bread for 22 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/2021/02/22/to-be-like-jesus
entitled Like Jesus
Romans 8:22-30
22 (Jer 12:11; 12:4) We know that the whole creation groans
and travails in pain together until now.
23 (Ro 7:24; 8:19) Not only that, but we also, who have the first fruits
of the Spirit, groan within ourselves while eagerly waiting for adoption
, the redemption of our bodies.
24 (1Th 5:8; Heb 11:1) For we are saved through hope,
but hope that is seen is not hope, f
or why does a man still hope for what he sees?
25 (1Th 1:3) But if we hope for what we do not see,
we wait for it with patience.
26 (Eph 6:18; Mt 20:22; Zec 12:10) Likewise, the Spirit
helps us in our weaknesses, for we do not know what
to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself
intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
27 (Ro 8:34; Rev 2:23) He who searches the hearts
knows what the mind of the Spirit is,
because He intercedes for the saints
according to the will of God.
28 (Gal 1:15; Ge 50:20) We know that all things work together
for good to those who love God,
to those who are called according to His purpose.
29 (Ro 11:2; 1Co 15:49; Eph 1:11) For those whom He foreknew,
He predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son,
so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30 (1Co 6:11; Heb 9:15) And those whom He predestined, He also called;
and those whom He called, He also justified;
and those whom He justified, He also glorified.
As a boy, theologian Bruce Ware was frustrated
that 1 Peter 2:21-23 calls us to be like Jesus.
Ware wrote of his youthful exasperation in his book The Man Christ Jesus.
"Not fair, I determined. Especially when the passage says to follow in the
steps of one 'who did no sin.' This was totally outlandish . . . .
I just couldn't see how God could really mean for us to take it seriously."
I understand why Ware would find such a biblical challenge so daunting!
An old chorus says, "To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus.
My desire, to be like Him." But as Ware rightly noted,
we are incapable of doing that.
Left to ourselves, we could never become like Jesus.
However, we're not left to ourselves.
The Holy Spirit has been given to the child of God,
in part so that Christ can be formed in us (Galatians 4:19).
So it should come as no surprise that in Paul's great chapter
on the Spirit we read, "For those God foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son" (Romans 8:29).
God will see His work completed in us. And He does it through the
Spirit of Jesus living in us.
As we yield to the Spirit's work in us, we truly become more like Jesus.
How comforting to know that's God's great desire for us!
By: Bill Crowder
Reflect & Pray
What attribute of the fruit of the Spirit would you like
to live out to a greater degree? (see Galatians 5:22–23
22 (Eph 5:9; Ro 7:4) But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 (Ac 24:25; 1Ti 1:9) meekness, and self-control;
against such there is no law.
).
What will help you do so?
Father, I long to be more like Your Son but so often fall short in word,
thought, or deed. Forgive me, and help me to yield to the work of
Your Spirit so that Jesus might be formed in me.
For further study, read Free in the Spirit
at https://www.DiscoverySeries.org/Q0307 .
3) From The Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Association
Words in Season - Scripture Memory Tools
Week 3 - Saved Nowand Forver - Day 2 - The Right of Family
John 1:11-12
11 (Jn 3:32) He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him.
12 (Gal 3:26; 1Jn 3:23) Yet to all who received Him, He gave the power
to become sons of God, to those who believed in His name,
"Dad, can I ask you something?" Jimmy leaned across the back of his
father's chair. HIs father lowered the newspaper and reached around,
settling Jimmy on his lap.
"Sure. Son," he answered. "You can ask me anything you want. The answer
might not be Yes, butyou always have the right to ask."
For many who have grown up in homes where the father was absent, or when
present, abusive or silent, the scenario of Jimmy and his father may
seem unrealistic. Often we aren't given the right by our parents to ask
what we want, to communicate openly, to express our needs and desires.
But god clearly indicates that no matter what our human families have been
like, in his family there are no barriers to belonging,
to open communications. When we commit our lives to Christ and submit to his
lordship, we have the right to become the sons and daughters of God.
In Christ, we have the right to approach him, to pray, to seek wisdom,
to ask advice, to make requests, to verbalise our needs and desires. We don't
have to be afraid of sounding stupid or being rejected, because in Christ
we belong to him, and he loves us.
The KJV uses the word "power" in verse 12 - "to then gave he power to become
the sons of God." Power implies ability, that we are equipped by the Spirit
to be children of the King. We have the right and we have the power to become
who God has called us to be - his children.
Application
a) Under what circumstances in my life have I felt that I didn't
have the right to express my wishes or feelings?
b) How do today's verses give me confidence in approaching God?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Gen 13:2,5-6,14-17
2 (Ge 24:35; Ps 112:1–3) Abram was very wealthy in livestock,
in silver and in gold.
5 Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
6 (Ge 36:6–7) But the land was not able to support them
both dwelling together because their possessions were so great.
14 (Ge 28:14; Dt 3:27) After Lot had departed from him,
the Lord said to Abram,
"Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are,
northward and southward and eastward and westward.
15 (Ge 12:7; 2Ch 20:7) All the land that you see I will give to you
and to your descendants forever.
16 (Ge 28:14; Nu 23:10) I will make your descendants like the dust
of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth,
then your descendants could also be numbered.
17 Arise, and walk throughout the land across its length
and its width, for I will give it to you."
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Generous Provision
Ps 145:13b-21
13 Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
14 The Lord upholds all who fall,
and raises up all who are bowed down.
15 The eyes of all wait upon You,
and You give them their food in due season.
16 You open Your hand
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways
and loving in all His works.
18 The Lord is near to all those who call upon Him,
to all who call upon Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;
He also will hear their cry and will save them.
20 The Lord preserves all those who love Him,
but all the wicked He will destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord,
and let all people bless His holy name
forever and ever.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
22nd Day of the Month
a) Pray for the Province of Quebec
I) Pray for the leaders of Quebec,
that God's Spirit would influence
then to act justly,
serve with integrity
and honour high moral standards. ( 1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses
beaming forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use
the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
b) Pray that the influence of the Holy Spirit would dissolve
every argument and pretension exalted against the knowledge
of God.
(
2 Cor 10: 3 - 5
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God
to the pulling down of strongholds, 5 casting down imaginations and every
high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every
thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to seek His obedience and rewards.
Pray to the Lord to ask how to be like Jesus.
Pray to the Lord to seek the power of being a child of God.
Pray to the Lord to seek his blessings.
Pray to the Lord to give Him praise.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord to be in his righteousness .
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
Posted by DSY on
Day 51, 20 Feb 2021
Today at Calvarycommunity.ca we focused on Genesis 39,40
focusing on Joseph's time in jail. Jospeh was falsely accused
yet this will lead to the path of redemption when
the cup-bearer was free. JOseph depsite being falsely accused
did not get biter, but was humble in the site of the Lord.
Lev 24 - 25
LEVITICUS 24
The Tabernacle Lamps
Ex 27:20–21
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Ex 27:20–21) Command the children of Israel that they bring
to you pure olive oil beaten for the lamp, to cause the lamps
to burn continually.
3 Outside the veil of the sanctuary,
in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it continually,
from the evening until the morning before the Lord.
It shall be a perpetual statute in your generations.
4 (Ex 31:8; 39:37) He shall arrange the lamps continually
on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord.
The Bread of the Tabernacle
5 (Ex 25:30; 40:23) You shall take wheat flour and bake twelve cakes.
Two-tenths of an ephah (Likely about 7 pounds, or 3.2 kilograms.)
shall be in each cake.
6 (1Ki 7:48; Ex 25:23–24) You shall set them in two rows, six in a row,
on the pure gold table before the Lord.
7 (Lev 2:2) You shall put pure frankincense on each row,
so that it may be on the bread for a memorial,
a food offering made by fire to the Lord.
8 (Nu 4:7; 2Ch 2:4) Every Sabbath he shall set it in order continually
before the Lord, with the portion taken from the children of Israel
by a perpetual covenant.
9 (Lev 8:31; Mt 12:4; Mk 2:26) It shall be for Aaron and his sons,
and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him
of the food offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.
The Punishment for Blasphemy
10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian,
went out among the children of Israel, and this son of the Israelite woman
and a man of Israel fought together in the camp.
11 (Ex 3:15; 18:22) And the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name
of the Lord and cursed. And they brought him to Moses.
(His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
12 (Ex 18:15–16; Nu 15:34) And they put him in custody,
so that the words of the Lord might be shown to them.
13 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
14 (Dt 17:7; Lev 20:27) Bring outside the camp him who has cursed,
and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head,
and let the entire congregation stone him.
15 (Lev 5:1; Nu 9:13) You shall speak to the children of Israel,
saying: Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
16 (Mt 12:31) Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord,
he shall surely be put to
and the entire congregation shall certainly stone him.
The foreigner as well as the native in the land,
when he blasphemes the name, then he shall be put to death.
17 (Ge 9:5–6; Dt 19:11–12) Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.
18 (Lev 24:21)Whoever kills an animal shall make restitution, animal for animal.
19 (Dt 19:21; Mt 5:38) If anyone causes injury to his neighbor,
as he has done, so shall it be done to him,
20 (Dt 19:21; Mt 5:38) fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth;
as he has caused an injury to another, so shall it be done to him.
21 (Lev 24:17–18) Whoever kills an animal shall make restitution.
And whoever kills a man shall be put to death.
22 (Ex 12:49; Nu 9:14) You shall have one manner of law for the foreigner
as for the native, for I am the Lord your God.
23 So Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought outside
the camp him who had cursed, and stoned him.
And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.
LEVITICUS 25
The Sabbath Year
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying:
2 (Ex 23:10; Lev 26:34–35) Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:
When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath
to the Lord.
3 For six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune
your vineyard and gather in its fruit, 4but in the seventh year there
be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath for the Lord.
You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
5 (2Ki 19:29; Isa 37:30) That which grows by itself from your harvest
you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines,
for it is a year of complete rest for the land.
6 The sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you:
for you, and for your male and female servants, and for your hired servant,
and for your stranger who sojourns with you,
7 and for your livestock, and for the wild animals in your land, shall all
its increase be food.
The Year of Jubilee
Dt 15:1–11; Ex 21:2–11; Dt 15:12–18
8 (Lev 23:15) You shall count seven sabbath weeks of years, seven times
seven years, and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you
forty-nine years.
9 (Lev 23:24; 23:27) Then you shall sound the horn blasts on the tenth day
of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall make
the sound of the horn throughout all your land.
10 (Jer 34:8; Ex 20:2) You shall consecrate the fiftieth year,
and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants.
It shall be a Jubilee to you, and each of you shall return to his possession,
and every person shall return to his family.
11 That fiftieth year will be
a Jubilee for you. You shall neither sow nor reap that which grows by itself,
nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines.
12 (Lev 25:6–7) For it is the Jubilee. It shall be holy to you.
You shall eat the produce of the field.
13 (Lev 25:10) In the Year of Jubilee you shall return to your property.
14 (Lev 19:13; 25:17) If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything
from your neighbor, you shall not oppress one another.
15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall pay your
neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops
he shall sell to you.
16 According to the increase of years you shall increase the price,
and according to the decrease of years you shall diminish the price of it.
For he shall sell to you according to the number of years of crops.
17 (Lev 19:14; 19:32) You shall not therefore oppress one another,
but you shall fear your God. For I am the Lord your God.
18 (Dt 12:10; Jer 23:6) Therefore you shall do My statutes,
and keep My decrees, and do them, and you shall dwell securely in the land.
19 (Lev 26:5; Ps 85:12) The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat
your fill and live securely in it.
20 (Lev 25:4; Lk 12:29) If you shall say, "What shall we eat in the seventh
year, if we shall not sow nor gather in our crop?"
21 (Dt 28:8) then I will command My blessing upon
22 (Lev 26:10; 2Ki 19:29) You shall sow in the eighth year,
and eat yet of old crops until the ninth year until its crops come in for you.
Redemption of Property
23 (1Ch 29:15; Ps 39:12) The land shall not be permanently sold,
for the land is Mine. For you are foreigners and sojourners with
24 In all the land of your possession
you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 (Ru 2:20; 3:9) If your brother becomes poor and has sold
some of his possession, then his nearest redeemer will come
to redeem it, and buy back that which his brother sold.
26 If the man has none to redeem it, but he himself is able to redeem it,
27 then let him count the years since the sale and pay back the balance
to the man to whom he sold it, so that he may return to his property.
28 But if he is not able to restore it to himself,
then that which he sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it
until the Year of Jubilee, and in the Jubilee it shall be released,
and he shall return to his possession.
29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem
it within a year after it is sold, within a full year he may have
the right to buy it back.
30 If it is not redeemed within the time of a full year,
then the house that is in the walled city shall be given
permanently to him who bought it throughout his generations.
It shall not be returned in the Jubilee.
31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them
shall be counted as the fields of the land. They may be redeemed,
and they shall be returned in the Jubilee.
32 For the cities of the Levites, they may redeem at any time
the houses in the cities that they possess.
33 If a Levite purchases back the house that was sold in the city
of his possession, then it shall be returned in the Jubilee.
For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession
among the children of Israel.
34 (Lev 25:23; Ac 4:36–37) But the fields of the land of their
cities may not be sold, for they are their perpetual possession.
Helping the Poor
35 (Dt 15:7–8; Ps 37:26) If your brother becomes poor
and cannot maintain himself with you,
then you shall support him as if he were a foreigner or a sojourner,
so that he may live with you.
36 (Ex 22:25; Dt 23:19–20) Take no usury or interest from him;
but fear your God, so that your brother may live with you.
37 You shall not lend him your money at interest,
nor lend him your food for profit.
38 (Lev 11:45; 22:32–33) I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
The Law About Slavery
39 (Ex 21:2; 1Ki 9:22; Lev 25:46) If your brother who dwells near you
becomes poor and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve
as a bondservant.
40 But as a hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with you.
He shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
41 (Lev 25:28; Ex 21:3) And then he shall depart from you,
both he and his children with him,
and he shall return to his own family
and to the possession of his fathers.
42 (Lev 25:55; Ro 6:22) For they are My servants,
whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.
They shall not be sold as slaves.
43 (Col 4:1; Ex 1:13–14) You shall not rule over him with harshness,
but you shall fear your God.
44 Both your male and female slaves, whom you may have,
they shall be bought from the nations that are around you.
45 Moreover of the foreigners who sojourn among you
and of their families who are with you, who were born in your land,
you may also buy from them, and they may be your possession.
46 You may take them as an inheritance for your children after you,
for their possession. They shall be your slaves forever.
But over your brothers, the children of Israel,
you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
47 If a sojourner or foreigner becomes rich by you,
and your brother who dwells beside him becomes poor
and sells himself to the foreigner or sojourner with you,
or to a member of the stranger's family,
48 (Ne 5:5) then after he is sold he may be redeemed
One of his brothers may redeem him,
49 (Lev 25:26) or either his uncle or his cousin may redeem him,
or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him.
Or if he is able, he may redeem himself.
50 (Isa 16:14; 21:16) He shall calculate with him who bought him
from the year that he was sold to the Year of Jubilee,
and the price of his sale shall be accordi
51 If there are still many years left until the Jubilee,
he shall pay the price proportionately for his redemption
as some of the price that he was bought for.
52 If there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee,
then he shall calculate and pay the price proportionately
for his redemption according to his years of service.
53 As a yearly hired servant he shall be treated,
and the other shall not rule harshly over him in your sight.
54 (Ex 21:2–3) If he is not redeemed in these years,
then he shall go out in the Year of Jubilee,
both he and his children with him.
55 (Lev 25:42) For to Me the children of Israel are servants.
They are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt:
I am the Lord your God.
2) Our Daily Bread for 21 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/21/unimaginable-promises
entitled Unimaginable Promises
2 Peter 1:2–8
2 (Jn 17:3; 1Pe 1:2) Grace and peace be multiplied to you through
the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
The Christian's Call and Election
3 (1Th 2:12; 2Th 2:14) His divine power has given to us all things
that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who
has called us by His own glory and excellence,
4 (Heb 12:10; 1Jn 3:2) by which He has given to us exceedingly great
and precious promises, so that through these things you might become
partakers of the divine nature and escape the corruption that is
in the world through lust.
5 (2Pe 3:18; Php 4:8) For this reason make every effort to add virtue
to your faith; and to your virtue, knowledge;
6 (Ac 24:25; 2Pe 1:3) and to your knowledge, self-control;
and to your self-control, patient endurance;
and to your patient endurance, godliness;
7 (Ro 12:10; 1Co 13:1–8) and to your godliness, brotherly kindness;
and to your brotherly kindness, love.
8 (Jn 15:2; Col 3:16) For if these things reside in you and abound,
they ensure that you will neither be useless nor unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In our moments of greatest failure, it can be easy to believe it's
too late for us, that we've lost our chance at a life of
and worth. That's how Elias, a former inmate at a maximum-security
prison in New York, described feeling as a prisoner. "I had broken . . .
promises, the promise of my own future, the promise of what I could be."
It was Bard College's "Prison Initiative" college degree program that
began to transform Elias' life. While in the program, he participated
on a debate team, which in 2015 debated a team from Harvard—and won.
For Elias, being "part of the team . . . [was] a way of proving that
these promises weren't completely lost."
A similar transformation happens in our hearts when we begin
to understand that the good news of God's love in Jesus is
good news for us too. It's not too late,
we begin to realize with wonder. God still has a future for me.
And it's a future that can neither be earned nor forfeited,
dependent only on God's extravagant grace and power (2 Peter 1:2-3).
A future where we're set free from the despair in the world
and in our hearts into one filled with His "glory and goodness" (v. 3).
A future secure in Christ's unimaginable promises (v. 4);
and a future transformed into
the "freedom and glory of the children of God" (Romans 8:21).
By: Monica La Rose
Reflect & Pray
Why can it be difficult for us to accept "unearned" grace and love?
How does it touch your heart to consider that in God's eyes
you have a future filled with unimaginable beauty?
Jesus, some days all I can see is the ways
I've disappointed myself and others, the ways I've broken
the future I've dreamed of.
Help me to see the unchanging beauty of the future I find in You.
3) From The Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Association
Words in Season - Scripture Memory Tools
Week 3 - Saved Nowand Forver - Day 1 - Bought Back
Eph 1:7
7 (Ro 3:24; Ac 2:38; 20:28) In Him we have redemption through His blood
and the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace
In the opening scenes of The Glenn Miller Story, Glenn Miller, then a
struggling musician trying to find an audience for his music, enters
a pawn shop. He has hocked his trombone for rent money, and has come
to redeem it. Paying the pawn broker the money, he buys back his own
instrument and leaves the shop, indicating that he will probably
be back again.
In Eph 1:7. Paul says that in Christ "we have redemption through
His blood and the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of His grace."
We belonged to God from the beginning; he made us and stamped
his image upon us. But through sin we were lost, pawned to the
world's system and the Enemy of our souls.
But God redeemed us; he "bought us back" with the most valuable
currency in the universe - the blood of his own Son, Jesus Christ.
He did not resent the bargain, or question whether we were worth
such a price. He freely gave Jesus in trade to ransom the souls
of the people he created and loved.
Sometimes in Christian circles we get so caught up in religious
jargon that we forget what redemption really means. Gog did not have
to "get us out of hock." He was not compelled to buy us back when we
had sold ourselves to sin. But because of his love, and with no
deserving on our part, he chose to pay an enormous price to set us free.
We are redeemed, bought back, by the One who owned us in the first place.
Application
a) In what ways have I been "in hock" to sin in my life?
b) What does it mean, in pratical terms, that God "redeemed" me from that sin?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Ps 35:27
27 May those who favor my righteous cause
shout for joy and be glad;
may they say continually, "The Lord be magnified,
who delights in the peace of His servant."
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Generous Provision
Matthew 6:24-34
God and Money
24 (Lk 16:13; 16:11; 16:9) "No one can serve two masters.
For either he will hate the one and love the other,
or else he will hold to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and money."
Care and Anxiety
Lk 12:22–34
25 (Mt 6:31; 6:34; Php 4:6) "Therefore, I say to you,
take no thought about your life, what you will eat,
or what you will drink, nor about your body,
what you will put on. Is not life more than
and the body than clothing?
26 (Job 38:41; Ps 147:9) Look at the birds of the air,
for they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns.
Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
27 Who among you by taking thought can add a cubit
(A cubit is about half a meter.) to his stature?
28 (Mt 6:25; 6:31) "Why take thought about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow:
They neither work, nor do they spin.
29 (1Ki 10:4–7; 2Ch 9:4–6) Yet I say to you that even Solomon
in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
30 (Mt 8:26; 14:31) Therefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field,
which today is here and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 (1Pe 5:7) Therefore, take no thought, saying, 'What shall we eat?'
or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
32 (Mt 6:8; Lk 12:30) (For the Gentiles seek after all these things.)
For your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
33 (1Ti 4:8; 1Ki 3:11-13) But seek first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you.
34 (Mt 6:25) Therefore, take no thought about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will take thought about the things of itself.
Sufficient to the day is the trouble thereof.
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
21st Day of the Month
a) Pray for the leaders our educational system, that they would
have wisdom and make god honouring decisions
(
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make
supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life
in all godliness and honesty,
)
b) Pray that those whoserve in law enforcement will have the resources
they need and the vigilance their work requires.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to seek humilty and never bitternet.
Pray to the Lord to ask how to his grace in times of trouble.
Pray to the Lord to seek the love to get you out of the Enemy's sneers.
Pray to the Lord to know what a good servant and witness is.
Pray to the Lord to seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for education to be Godly .
Pray to the Lord about our struggle against the Enemy we cannot see,
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
Posted by DSY on
Day 51, 20 Feb 2021
Lev 22 - 23
Leviticus 22
Holy Offerings
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Lev 18:21; Dt 15:19) Speak to Aaron and to his sons that
they should be very respectful with the holy things of the
children of Israel, and that they do not defile My holy name
with those things which the people have consecrated to Me: I am the Lord.
3 (Lev 7:20–21) Say to them: Whoever from your offspring through
your generations approaches the holy things, which the children
of Israel have dedicated to the Lord, while he has uncleanness,
that person shall be cut off from My presence: I am the Lord.
4 (Lev 11:39; 15:2–3) If a man of the offspring of Aaron
is a leper or has a discharge, he shall not eat of the
holy offerings until he is clean. And whoever touches
anything that is unclean by contact with the dead
or a man who had an emission of semen,
5 (Lev 15:7; 11:43–44) or whoever touches
any crawling thing whereby he may be made unclean,
or a man from whom he may receive uncleanness,
whatever uncleanness he has,
6 (Lev 15:5; Heb 10:22) the person who has touched
any such thing shall be unclean until evening,
and shall not eat of the holy things unless
he washes his body with water.
7 (Lev 21:22) When the sun goes down, he shall be clean,
and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his food.
8 (Lev 17:15; Ex 22:31) That which dies of itself
or is torn by animals he shall not eat,
becoming unclean by it: I am the Lord.
9 (Ex 28:43; Nu 18:22) They shall therefore keep My ordinance,
lest they bear sin from it and therefore die if they defile it:
I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
10 (1Sa 21:6; Mt 12:4) There shall be no outsider (Or stranger.)
who eats of a holy thing, whether a foreign guest of the priest
or a hired servant, he shall not eat of a holy offering.
11 (Ge 17:13) But if a priest buys a person with his money,
the person acquired shall eat of it, and he that is born
in his house shall eat of his food.
12 If the priest's daughter marries an outsider,
she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
13 (Ge 38:11; Lev 10:14) But if the priest's daughter
is a widow or divorced, and has no child and has returned to her
father's house as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food;
but no outsider may eat of it.
14 (Lev 27:13; 27:15) If a man eats the holy thing unwittingly,
then he shall add a fifth of the value to it
and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
15 (Nu 18:32; Lev 19:8) They shall not defile the holy things
of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord,
16 (Lev 22:9) and cause them to suffer
and to bear the iniquity of guilt when they eat their holy things,
for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
Acceptable Offerings
17 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
18 (Lev 1:2; Nu 15:3) Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all
the children of Israel, and say to them: Whoever from the house of Israel
or from the foreigners in Israel who offers his burnt offering
for any vows or freewill offerings that he offers to the Lord,
19 (Lev 1:3; 1:10) then if it is to be accepted for you,
the offering shall be a male without Âblemish, a bull, sheep, or goat.
20 (Dt 17:1; 15:21; Mal 1:8) But whatever has a blemish you shall not
offer, for it shall not be acceptable for you.
21 (Nu 15:3; 15:8) Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings
to the Lord to fulfill his vow or a freewill offering,
whether from the herd or flock, to be accepted it shall be perfect,
with no blemish on it.
22 (Lev 22:20; 1:9) Blind, or disabled, or maimed, or having
an ulcer or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer these to the Lord,
nor make a food offering by fire on the altar to the Lord.
23 (Lev 21:18) A herd animal or a flock animal that has a limb
that is too long or short you may offer for a freewill offering,
but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
24 (Lev 22:20) You shall not offer to the Lord an animal
that is bruised or crushed or torn or cut;
nor shall you make any offering of them in your land.
25 (Lev 21:6; 21:8) Nor from a foreigner shall you
offer an animal as the food of your God, because a blemish is in them
from their mutilation. They shall not be accepted for you.
26 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
27 (Ex 22:30; Lev 12:2–3; 19:23–24) When an ox, or a sheep, or a goat
is born, then it shall be seven days with its mother,
and from the eighth day and thereafter it shall be accepted
for a food offering made by fire to the Lord.
28 (Dt 22:6–7; Ex 23:19) But you shall not slaughter on the same day
an ox or a sheep and her young.
29 (Ps 107:22; 116:17) When you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving
to the Lord, offer it so that it may be accepted.
30 On the same day it shall be eaten. You shall leave none of it
until the next day: I am the Lord.
31 (Dt 4:40; Lev 19:37) Therefore you shall keep My commandments
and do them: I am the Lord.
32 (Lev 18:21; 10:3) You shall not defile My holy name,
but I will be sanctified among the children of Israel:
I am the Lord who sanctifies you,
33 (Lev 11:45; Ex 6:7) who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to be your God: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 23
The Appointed Feasts
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Lev 23:4; 23:37) Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:
Concerning the feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, these are My appointed feasts.
The Sabbath
3 (Lev 19:3; Ex 23:12) For six days work shall be done,
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation.
You shall do no work. It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
Ex 12:14–20; Nu 28:16–25; Dt 16:1–8
4 (Lev 23:2; Ex 23:14) These are the appointed feasts of the Lord,
holy convocations which you shall proclaim in their appointed times.
5 (Dt 16:1–8; Jos 5:10) On the fourteenth day of the first month
at evening is the Lord's Passover.
6 (Ex 12:15–16; 34:18) On the fifteenth day of the same month
is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord.
For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
7 (Lev 23:8) On the first day you shall have a holy convocation.
You shall do no regular work.
8 But you shall offer a food offering made by fire to the Lord
for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation.
You shall do no regular work.
Offering the First Fruits
9 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
10 (Ex 23:19; 34:26; Nu 28:26) Speak to the children of Israel,
and say to them: When you have come into the land that I am giving
to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf bundle
of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
11 (Ex 29:24) And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord
so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath
the priest shall wave it.
12 (Lev 1:10) You shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf
a year-old male lamb without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord.
13 (Lev 2:14–16) The grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah
(Likely about 7 pounds, or 3.2 kilograms; and in v. 17.)
of wheat flour mixed with oil, a food offering made by fire
to the Lord for a pleasing aroma; its drink offering shall
be of wine, a fourth of a hin. (About 1 quart, or 1 liter.)
14 (Ex 34:26) You shall eat neither bread nor grain, parched or fresh,
until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God.
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout
your generations in all your dwellings.
The Feast of Weeks
Nu 28:26–31; Dt 16:9–12
15 (Ex 34:22; Lev 23:10–11) You shall count seven full weeks
from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought
the sheaf bundle of the wave offering.
16 (Ac 2:1; Nu 28:26) You shall count fifty days to the day after
the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord.
17 (Lev 23:10; Ex 23:19) You shall bring out of your habitations
two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah.
They shall be of wheat flour, baked with leaven.
They are the first fruits to the Lord.
18 You shall offer with the bread seven lambs
without blemish of the first year, one bull, and two rams.
They shall be for a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering
and their drink offerings, that is, a food offering made by fire,
of a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
19 (Nu 28:30) Then you shall sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering,
and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 (Dt 18:4) The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits
for a wave offering before the Lord with the two lambs. They shall be holy
to the Lord for the priest.
21 (Lev 23:2; 23:4) You shall make a proclamation on the same day and shall
hold a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. It shall be
a perpetual statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 (Lev 19:9–10; Dt 24:19–21) When you reap the harvest of your land,
you shall not reap your field up to the edge, nor shall you gather
any gleaning of your harvest. You shall leave them to the poor
and to the foreigner: I am the Lord your God.
The Feast of Trumpets
Nu 29:1–6
23 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
24 (Lev 25:9; Nu 10:9–10) Speak to the children of Israel, saying:
In the seventh month, on the first day of the month,
you shall have a sabbath, a memorial with the blowing of trumpets,
a holy convocation.
25 (Lev 23:21) You shall do no regular work, and you shall offer
a food offering made by fire to the Lord.
The Day of Atonement
Lev 16:2–34; Nu 29:7–11
26 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
27 (Lev 25:9; Nu 29:7–11) Also on the tenth day of this seventh month
there shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation
to you, and you shall humble yourselves, and offer a food offering
made by fire to the Lord.
28 (Lev 16:34) You shall do no work on that same day,
for it is the Day of Atonement to make atonement
for you before the Lord your God.
29 (Ge 17:14; Lev 23:32)nFor whoever is not humbled
on that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 (Lev 20:3)nAnd whoever does any work in that same day,
that person I will destroy from among his people.
31 You shall do no manner of work. It shall be a perpetual
statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be to you a sabbath of complete rest,
and you shall afflict your souls.
On the ninth day of the month starting at the evening,
from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.
The Feast of Tabernacles
Nu 29:12–39; Dt 16:13–17
33 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
34 (Ezr 3:4; Ne 8:14) Speak to the children of Israel, saying:
The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be
the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord.
35 (Lev 23:7–8; 23:24–25) On the first day shall be a holy convocation.
You shall do no regular work.
36 (Ne 8:18; Jn 7:37) For seven days you shall offer food offerings
made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day it shall be a holy convocation
to you, and you shall offer a food offering made by fire to the Lord.
It is a solemn assembly, and you shall do no regular work.
37 (Lev 23:2; 23:4) These are the appointed feasts of the Lord,
which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer a food offering
made by fire to the Lord, burnt offerings and grain offerings,
sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day,
38 (Nu 29:39) besides the Sabbaths of the Lord, besides your gifts,
besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings
which you give to the Lord,
39 (Ex 23:16; Dt 16:13) On the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep
a feast to the Lord for seven days. On the first day shall be a sabbath,
and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 (Dt 16:14–15) You shall take on the first day the branches of majestic
trees-branches of palm trees, branches of leafy trees,
and willows from a brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God
for seven days.
41 (Nu 29:12) You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days
in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute in your generations.
You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 (Ne 8:14–17) You shall dwell in booths for seven days.
All who are native children of Israel shall dwell in booths,
43 (Dt 31:10–13) that your generations may know that I made the children
of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt:
I am the Lord your God.
44 Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.
2) Our Daily Bread for 20 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/20/strengthened-by-grace
entitled Strengthened by Grace
2 Timothy 2:1–4
A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus
1 (Eph 6:10; 2Ti 1:2) So you, my son, be strong in the grace
that is in Christ Jesus.
2 (1Ti 1:18; 6:12) Share the things that you have heard
from me in the presence of many witnesses with faithful men
who will be able to teach others also.
3 (1Ti 1:18; 2Ti 1:8) Endure hard times as a good soldier
of Jesus Christ.
4 (2Pe 2:20) No soldier on active duty entangles himself
with civilian affairs, that he may please the enlisting officer.
During the American Civil War, the penalty for desertion was execution.
But the Union armies rarely executed deserters
because their commander-in-chief, Abraham Lincoln, pardoned nearly
all of them. This infuriated Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War,
who believed that Lincoln's leniency only enticed would-be deserters.
But Lincoln empathized with soldiers who had lost their nerve
and who had given in to their fear in the heat of battle.
And his empathy endeared him to his soldiers. They loved their
"Father Abraham," and their affection led the soldiers
to want to serve Lincoln all the more.
When Paul calls Timothy to join him in
"suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 2:3),
he calls him to a tough job description.
A soldier is to be completely dedicated, hard-working, and selfless.
He's to serve his commanding officer, Jesus, wholeheartedly.
But in reality, we sometimes fail to be His good soldiers.
We don't always serve Him faithfully.
And so Paul's opening phrase is important:
"be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus" (v. 1).
Our Savior is full of grace. He empathizes with our weaknesses
and forgives our failures (Hebrews 4:15). And just as the Union
soldiers were encouraged by Lincoln's compassion, so believers
are strengthened by the grace of Jesus. We want to serve Him all
the more because we know He loves us.
By: Con Campbell
Reflect & Pray
How can the grace of Christ become a source of strength for you to serve Him?
What does it mean for you to suffer for Jesus?
Dear God, please strengthen me in the grace of Christ
that I may serve Him faithfully.
Week 2 - Saved by Grace - Day 7 - Oh, Freedom!
Rom 8:1-2
Life in the Spirit
1 (1Co 1:30; 2Co 5:17) There is therefore now no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 (1Co 15:45; Ro 6:18; Jn 8:32) For the law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
In the classic movie, I want to live! actress Susan Hayward
plays a woman convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed.
The suspence builds; the execution is delayed as the officials
wait for a word of pardon. Finally, the woman in executed;
the call comes, and the pardon has been granted, but it is too late.
When no pardon is granted, condemnation leads to death. Our sin
marks us as "guilty" before God, and we deserve the wages of sin,
which is death. But in Jesus Chirst, the pardon does come - and
it comes in time. Our sin deserves condemation by God, and yet
he forgives us because Christ paid the penalty for us,
But we face other kinds of condemnation as well - self-condemnation,
that internal accusation that we still, somehow, must pay the price
of our own sin. Others often condemn us as well, offering much less
forgiveness and mercy than God does. And the Enemy of our souls condemns
us, trying to convince us that we don't, after all, have real freedom
from sin.
Yet Pal tells us in Romans 8, "There is therefore now no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus". God has forgiven us freely; he has
granted his pardon. And in light of his forgiveness, how can we live
under the condemnation of others - or even of ourselves?
We are free, Paul says - free from the "law of sin and death,"
free to live in the liberty of the Spirit. The stay of execution
has come: the pardon has been granted. Never again can we tried
for the same crimes: never again must we live under the burden
of condemnation.
Application
a) Have I ever lived under the burden of condemnation from myself
or others? Why?
b) How can Romans 8:1-2 help me live in freedom of such condemnation?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Joshua 1:5
5 (Dt 7:24; 31:6–8) No man will be able to stand against
you all the days of your life.
As I was with Moses, I will be with you.
I will not abandon you. I will not leave you.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Help in Times of Temptation
1 Cor 10:1-13
1 Corinthians 10
Warning Against Idolatry
1 (Ex 14:29; Ps 66:6) I would not want you to be unaware that
all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 (Ex 16:35; Dt 8:3) all ate the same spiritual food;
4 (Ex 17:6; Nu 20:11) and all drank the same spiritual drink,
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them,
and that Rock was Christ.
5 (Heb 3:17; Jude 1:5) But with many of them God was not well pleased,
and they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 (Nu 11:4; 1Co 10:11) Now these things were our examples to the intent
that we should not lust after evil things as they lusted.
7 (Ex 32:19; 32:4) Neither be idolaters as were some of them.
As it is written,
“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to revel.†(Ex 32:6. )
8 (Nu 25:1–9; 1Co 6:18) Neither let us commit sexual immorality as some
of them committed, when twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
9 (Nu 21:5–6; Ex 17:2) Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them
also tempted and were destroyed by serpents.
10 (Ex 12:23; Nu 16:41) Neither murmur, as some of them also murmured
and were destroyed by the destroyer.
11 (Ro 13:11) Now all these things happened to them for examples.
They are written as an admonition to us,
upon whom the end of the ages has come.
12 (Ro 11:20) Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed,
lest he fall.
13 (1Co 1:9; 2Pe 2:9) No temptation has taken you except what is common
to man. God is faithful, and He will not permit you to be tempted above
what you can endure, but will with the temptation also make a way
to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
20th Day of the Month
a) Pray for the children of Canada, thar they would come to know
Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord.
(
Matthew 19:14
14 (Mt 18:3; Lk 18:16–17)
But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me,
and do not forbid them. For to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."
)
b) Pray that Christians will recognise that our struggle is not
against the natural world but against invisible spiritual forces.
(
Eph 6:12
12 (Eph 1:3; 1:21) For our fight is not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces
of evil in the heavenly places.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to seek in righteousness and honour.
Pray to the Lord to ask how to seek mercy for others.
Pray to the Lord to see how are not in condemnation.
Pray to the Lord to know that the Lord will always be with you.
Pray to the Lord for mercy and to keep away from sin.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for children .
Pray to the Lord about our struggle against the Enemy we cannot see,
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
Posted by DSY on
Day 50, 19 Feb 2021
Lev 19 - 21
Leviticus 19
Moral and Ceremonial Laws
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Ex 19:6; Lev 11:44–45) Speak to all the congregation of the
children of Israel, and say to them: You shall be holy, for I
the Lord your God am holy.
3 (Ex 20:12; 20:8; 16:29) Every one of you shall revere
his mother and his father, and you will keep My Sabbaths:
I am the Lord your God.
4 (Lev 26:1; Ex 20:23; 34:17) Do not turn to idols,
nor make for yourselves cast metal gods: I am the Lord your God.
5 (Lev 1:3; 7:16) When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings
to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you might be accepted.
6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the next day,
and if any remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire.
7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, then it is contaminated.
It shall not be accepted.
8 Therefore everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity,
because he has defiled what is holy of the Lord,
and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
9 (Lev 23:22; 23:29) When you reap the harvest of your land,
you shall not reap up to the edge of your field,
nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10 You shall not glean bare your vineyard,
nor shall you gather every fallen grape of your vineyard.
You shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.
11 (Ex 20:15; Eph 4:25) You shall not steal, nor deal falsely,
nor lie to one another.
12 (Ex 20:7; Lev 18:21; 6:3) You shall not swear falsely by My name,
and so defile the name of your God: I am the Lord.
13 (Jas 5:4; Dt 24:14–15) You shall not defraud your neighbor or rob him.
The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you all night
until the morning.
14 (Dt 27:18; Lev 19:32) You shall not curse the deaf,
nor put a stumbling block before the blind,
but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
15 (Dt 1:17; Ex 23:2–3; Dt 16:19) You shall do no unrighteousness
in a court. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor
the person who is great, but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
16 (Ex 23:1; 23:7; Ps 15:3) You shall not go around as a slanderer
among your people, nor shall you stand by while the life of your
neighbor is in danger: I am the Lord.
17 (Lk 17:3; 1Jn 2:9) You shall not hate your brother in your heart.
You shall surely reason honestly with your neighbor,
and not suffer sin because of him.
18 (Ro 12:19; 13:9; Gal 5:14) You shall not take vengeance,
nor bear any grudge against the children of your people,
but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
[The Great commandment]
19 (Dt 22:9–11) You shall keep My statutes.
You shall not let your livestock breed with a different kind.
You shall not sow your field with mixed seed, nor shall your garment
be mixed from two types of fabric.
20 (Dt 22:23–24) Whoever lies with a slave woman who is betrothed
to another man and not yet ransomed or given freedom,
compensation will be made. They shall not be put to death,
because she was not free.
21 He shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance
of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.
22 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt
offering before the Lord for his sin which he has done,
and he will be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.
23 (Lev 12:3; 22:27) When you come into the land
and plant any kind of tree for food,
then you shall count the fruit as forbidden.Or uncircumcised.
Three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
24 (Dt 18:4; Pr 3:9) But in the fourth year all the fruit shall
be holy and an offering of praise to the Lord.
25 And in the fifth year you shall eat of the fruit that it may yield
an increase to you: I am the Lord your God.
26 (Dt 12:23; 2Ki 17:17) You shall not eat anything with the blood in it,
nor shall you practice divination or fortune-telling.
27 (Lev 21:5; Isa 15:2) You shall not round the corners of the hair on your
head, nor shall you mar the edges of your beard.
28 (Dt 14:1; Lev 21:5) You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh
for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.
29 Do not prostitute your daughter and cause her to be defiled,
lest the land fall into whoredom and become full of wickedness.
30 (Lev 19:3; 26:2) You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary:
I am the Lord.
31 (Isa 8:19; Lev 20:27; 1Sa 28:3) Do not turn to spirits through
mediums or necromancers. Do not seek after them to be defiled by them:
I am the Lord your God.
32 (Lev 19:14; La 5:12) You shall rise up before a gray head,
and honor the face of an old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord.
33 (Ex 22:21; 23:9) When a foreigner sojourns with you in your land,
you shall not do him wrong.
34 (Lev 19:18; Dt 10:19) The foreigner who dwells with you shall be
to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself
for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
35 (Dt 25:13; 25:15) You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment
regarding measures in length, weight, or quantity.
36 (Ex 20:2; Pr 11:1) You shall have honest balances, honest weights,
an honest ephah,(A dry measure of about 3/5 of a bushel, or 22 liters.)
and an honest hin:(A liquid measure of about 1 gallon, or 3.8 liters.)
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 (Lev 18:4–5) Therefore you shall observe all My statutes
and all My judgments and do them: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 20
Penalties for Violating the Law
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Lev 18:21; 20:27) Again, you shall say to the children of Israel:
Whoever from the children of Israel or from the foreigners who sojourn
in Israel who gives any of his children to Molek,
he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him.
3 (Lev 18:21; 17:10) I will set My face against that man
and will cut him off from among his people,
because he has given some of his descendants to Molek to defile
My sanctuary and to defile My holy name.
4(Dt 17:2–5) If the people of the land in any way hide their eyes
from the man when he gives of his children to Molek and do not put
him to death,
5 then I will set My face against that man and against his family;
and I will cut them off from their people, both him
and those who follow after him as whores after Molek.
6 (Lev 19:31; 20:27; Isa 8:19) The person who turns to spirits
through mediums and necromancers in order to whore after them,
I will even set My face against that person
and will cut him off from among his people.
7 (Eph 1:4; Lev 11:44) Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy,
for I am the Lord your God.
8 (Ex 31:13; Lev 21:8) You shall keep My statutes, and do them;
I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
9 (Ex 21:17; Dt 27:16; 2Sa 1:16) For anyone who curses his father
or his mother shall be surely put to death.
He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood guilt shall
be upon him.
10 (Ex 20:14; Lev 18:20) If a man commits adultery with another
man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife,
the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
11 (Dt 27:20; 27:23) If a man lies with his father's wife,
he has exposed his father's nakedness.
Both of them shall surely be put to death.
Their blood guilt shall be upon them.
12 (Lev 18:15; 18:23) If a man lies with his daughter-in-law,
both of them shall surely be put to death.
They have committed a perversion. Their blood guilt shall be upon them.
13 (Lev 18:22; Dt 23:17; 1Co 6:9) If a man lies with another man
as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.
They shall surely be put to death. Their blood guilt shall be upon them.
14 (Lev 18:17; Dt 27:23) If a man lies with a woman and also her mother,
it is wickedness. Both he and they shall be burned with fire,
so that there is no wickedness among you.
15 (Lev 18:23; Dt 27:21) If a man lies with an animal,
he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
16 If a woman approaches an animal and lies with it,
you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death.
Their blood guilt shall be upon them.
17 (Lev 18:9; Dt 27:22) If a man lies with his sister,
whether the daughter of his father or mother,
they have exposed each other's nakedness;
it is a wicked thing and they shall be cut off from the sight
of their people. He has exposed his sister's nakedness,
and he shall bear his iniquity.
18 (Lev 15:24; 18:19) If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual
period and exposes her nakedness, her fountain of blood is then exposed.
Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
19 (Lev 18:6) You shall not have relations
with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for this is to expose
the nakedness of one's relative. They shall bear their iniquity.
20 (Lev 18:14) If a man lies with his uncle's wife,
he has exposed his uncle's nakedness.
They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.
21 (Lev 18:16) If a man lies with his brother's wife,
it is impurity. He has exposed his brother's nakedness.
They shall be childless.
22 (Lev 18:25–28) You shall therefore keep all My statutes
and all My decrees and do them, so that the land to where
I am bringing you will not vomit you out.
23 (Lev 18:3; 18:24) You shall not walk in the customs of the nation
that I am driving out before you, for they committed all these things,
and therefore I abhorred them.
24 (Ex 33:16; 3:8) But I have said to you: You shall inherit their land,
and I will give it to you to possess it, a land that
flows with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who has separated you
from other peoples.
25 (Lev 11:1–47; Dt 14:3–21) You shall therefore make distinction
between the clean animal from the unclean,
and the unclean fowl from the clean,
and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal, or by fowl,
or by any manner of living thing that crawls on the ground,
which I have separated from you as unclean.
26 (Lev 19:2; 20:7) You shall be holy unto Me;
for I the Lord am holy and have separated you
from other peoples, that you should be Mine.
27 (Lev 19:31; 20:6) A man or woman who speaks
to spirits as a medium or necromancer shall surely be put to death.
They shall stone them. Their blood guilt shall be upon them.
Leviticus 21
Rules for Priestly Conduct
1 (Eze 44:25; Lev 10:6–7) Then the Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests,
the sons of Aaron, and say to them: None shall make himself unclean
for the dead among his people,
2 but for his closest relatives, that is, for his mother, his father,
his son, his daughter, his brother,
3 and his virgin sister (who is near him because she has not had a husband),
for her he may be made unclean.
4 And he shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people
because of the dead and so defile himself.
5 (Dt 14:1; Eze 44:20; Lev 19:27–28) They shall not make bald areas
on their heads, nor shall they shave off the edges of their beards,
nor make any cuts in their flesh.
6 (Lev 3:11; 18:21) They shall be holy unto their God,
and not profane the name of their God;
for they offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire,
and the food of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.
7 (Lev 21:13–14; Eze 44:22) They shall not take a wife
who is a whore or has been defiled, nor shall they take
a woman divorced from her husband, for he is holy unto his God.
8 (Lev 21:6) You shall sanctify him, for he offers the food
of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the Lord,
who sanctifies you, am holy.
9 (Ge 38:24) The daughter of any priest,
if she defiles herself by being a whore, she also defiles her father.
She shall be burned with fire.
10 (Lev 10:6–7; 16:32) He who is the high priest among his brothers,
on whose head the anointing oil was poured
and who is consecrated to wear the garments,
shall not dishevel his hair, nor tear his clothes;
11 (Nu 19:14; Lev 19:28; 21:1–2) nor shall he approach any dead body,
nor make himself unclean, even for his father or his mother;
12 (Lev 10:7; Ex 29:6–7) nor shall he go out of the sanctuary,
so as not to defile the sanctuary of his God,
for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him:
I am the Lord.
13 (Lev 21:7; Eze 44:22) He shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 (Lev 21:7_ A widow, or a divorced woman, or a defiled woman,
or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take
for a wife a virgin of his own people,
15 so that he does not defile his offspring among his people,
for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.
16 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
17 (Lev 10:3; Nu 16:5) Speak to Aaron, saying:
None of your offspring in their generations
who has any blemish may approach to offer the food of his God.
18 (Lev 22:19–25) For whoever has a blemish, he shall not approach,
whether a blind or lame man, or one who has a physical flaw
on his face or a limb that is too long,
19 or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
20 (Dt 23:1) or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or who has a defect in his eye,
or eczema or scabs, or is a eunuch.
21 (Lev 21:6) No man who has a blemish from the offspring of Aaron
the priest shall come near to offer the food offerings of the Lord
made by fire. He has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer
the bread of his God.
22 (Lev 2:3; 2:10) He shall eat the food of his God,
both of the most holy and of the holy.
23 (Lev 21:12) Only he shall not go in through the veil
or come to the altar, because he has a blemish, so that
he does not defile My sanctuaries, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
24 Moses spoke this to Aaron, and to his sons,
and to all the children of Israel.
2) Our Daily Bread for 19 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/19/were-not-god
entitled We’re Not God
Ezekiel 28:1–10
Ezekiel 28
A Prophecy Against the King of Tyre
1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying:
2 (Eze 28:9; 2Th 2:4; Isa 31:3) Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre,
Thus says the Lord God:
Because your heart is lifted up,
and you have said, “I am a god;
I sit in the seat of gods
in the midst of the seas,â€
yet you are a man, and not God,
though you set your heart as the heart of God.
3 (Da 1:20; 5:11–12) You are wiser than Daniel;
there is no secret that is a match for you.
4 With your wisdom and with your understanding,
you have obtained riches for yourself,
and have obtained gold and silver
into your treasuries;
5 (Ps 62:10; 52:7) by your great wisdom, by your trade,
you have increased your riches,
and your heart is lifted up
because of your riches.
6 (Eze 28:2; Ex 9:17) Therefore thus says the Lord God:
Because you have set your heart
as the heart of God,
7 (Eze 31:12; 30:11) therefore, I will bring strangers upon you,
the most cruel of the nations;
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom,
and defile your brightness.
8 (Eze 27:26–27; 27:34) They shall bring you down to the pit,
and you shall die the death of those who are slain
in the midst of the seas.
9 (Eze 28:2) Will you yet say before him who slays you,
"I am a god,:
although you are a man and not God,
in the hands of those who wound you?
10Eze 31:18; 32:19 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers;
for I have spoken! says the Lord God.
In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis recommended asking ourselves
some questions to find out if we’re proud: "How much do I dislike
it when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me,
. . . or patronize me, or show off?" Lewis saw pride as a vice
of the "utmost evil" and the chief cause of misery in homes
and nations. He called it a "spiritual cancer" that eats up
the very possibility of love, contentment, and even common sense.
Pride has been a problem throughout the ages. Through the prophet
Ezekiel, God warned the leader of the powerful coastal city of Tyre
against his pride. He said the king's pride would result in his downfall:
"Because you think you are . . . as wise as a god, I am going to bring
foreigners against you" (Ezekiel 28:6–7).
Then he would know he wasn't a god, but a mortal (v. 9).
In contrast to pride is humility, which Lewis named
as a virtue we receive through knowing God.
Lewis said that as we get in touch with Him,
we become "delightedly humble," feeling relieved
to be rid of the silly nonsense about our own dignity
that previously made us restless and unhappy.
The more we worship God, the more we'll know Him
and the more we can humble ourselves before Him.
May we be those who love and serve with joy and humility.
By: Amy Boucher Pye
Reflect & Pray
How did you answer Lewis' questions about
whether or not you're proud? Did that surprise you? Why or why not?
Almighty God, help me to revel in my identity as one You created,
knowing You are great and mighty and yet You love me.
Download Forty Days of Praying the Word at https://go.odb.org/40-days .
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 2 - Saved by Grace - Day 5 - Starting Over
2 Cor 5:17
17 (Jn 3:3; Ro 16:7) Therefore, if any man is in Christ,
he is a new creature. Old things have passed away.
Look, all things have become new.
"The trouble with turning over a new leaf," Gordon sighed,
"is that once you've done it twice, you're right back where
you started." Gordon, in his mid-fifties, had his job
"canceled" by a company wanting to cut back on retirement payments.
Out of work, with few prospects, he said wistfully,
"I wish I had the chance to start over again."
Many of us would echo Gordon's sentiments. Whether we have lost a job,
gone through a divorce, moved to another part of the country, or
experienced some lesser crisis, we often long for the chance to
begin again, fresh, without the shadow of past mistakes following us.
God's word offers just such an opportunity. Anyone who is in Christ,
Paul says in 2 Cor 5:17, is a "new creation". For the Christian, the past
is truly past - "all things are become new". In the forgiveness
and restoration of God's grace we can leave the past behind,
with all its mistakes, and enter into new life.
And the promise is not just for the newly saved. Those of us who
have been Christians for years need to hear the truth of 2 Cor 5:17 again,
for we accumulated some "new mistakes" since we came to Christ. Anyone who
is in Christ is a new creation; the freedom of forgiveness, of
"starting over" is available to all who call upon the name of the Lord.
We cannot every really "start over" simply by establishing New Year's
resolutions or turning over a new leaf. Only God gives us that opportunity;
his grace allows us to clear away the rubble of the past and begin again.
Everything becomes new in God's loving forgiveness.
Application
a) What "resolutions" have I made in an attempt to "start over"
in some area of struggle or failure in my life? Did my resolutions work?
b) What does 2 Cor 5:!7 mean for me at this point in my Crhsitian Life?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Mark 4:20-25
20 (Mk 4:8; Jn 15:4–5) "Still others are seed sown on good ground,
those who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit:
thirty, sixty, or a hundred times as much."
A Light Under a Basket
Lk 8:16–18
21 (Mt 5:15; Lk 8:16) He said to them, "Is a candle brought to be put
under a basket or under a bed and not to be set on a candlestick?
22 (Lk 8:17) For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed;
neither is anything kept secret except to be proclaimed.
23 (Mk 4:9; Mt 11:15)If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
24 (Mt 7:2) He said to them, "Take heed what you hear.
The measure you give will be measured for you,
and to you who hear will more be given.
25 (Mt 13:12; Lk 8:18) For to him who has will more be given.
And from him who has not will be taken, even what he has."
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Help in Times of Temptation
Hebrews 4:14-16
Jesus the Great High Priest
14 (Heb 6:20; 1:2–3) Since then we have a great High Priest
who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God,
let us hold firmly to our confession.
15 (2Co 5:21; Jn 8:46) For we do not have a High Priest
who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses,
but One who was in every sense tempted like we are, yet without sin.
16 (Eph 3:12; Php 4:6–7) Let us then come with confidence
to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
19th Day of the Month
a) Pray the the Holy Spirit will influence our governmental leaders
as they make vital decisions that shape Canadian Society
(
1 Tim 2:1-2
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2(Ezr 6:10)for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
)
b) Pray for the province of Prince Edward Island
I) Pray for the leaders of Prince Edward Island,
that God's Spirit would influence
then to act justly,
serve with integrity
and honour high moral standards. ( 1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses
beaming forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use
the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to seek in righteousness and honour.
Pray to the Lord to find any sinful pride in you.
Pray to the Lord someone who can seek for new beginnings.
Pray to the Lord that he is the source of shining humility.
Pray to the Lord for his goodness as Savior.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for those in Goverment .
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
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Day 49, 18 Feb 2021
Lev 16 - 18
LEVITICUS 16
The Day of Atonement
Lev 23:26–32; Nu 29:7–11
1 (Lev 10:1–2) The Lord spoke to Moses after the death
of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near
to the Lord and died.
2 (Ex 30:10; 1Ki 8:10–12) The Lord said to Moses:
Speak to Aaron your brother so that he does not come
at any time into the Holy Place within the veil
before the mercy seat, which is on the ark, so that he will not die,
for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
3 (Lev 4:3; 1:10) Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place
with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
4 (Ex 30:20; 28:39–43)mHe shall put on the holy linen tunic,
and he shall have the linen undergarment on his body,
and shall be girded with a linen sash,
and shall be wearing the linen turban.
These are holy garments. Therefore he shall wash his body in water
and then put them on.
5 (2Ch 29:21; Nu 29:11) He shall take from the congregation
of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering
and one ram for a burnt offering.
6 (Lev 9:7; Heb 9:7) Aaron shall offer his bull for the sin offering,
which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
7 Then he shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord
at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
8 Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats:
one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 Aaron shall bring the goat on which the lot of the Lord falls
and offer him for a sin offering.
10 (1Jn 2:2) But the goat on which the lot falls to be the scapegoat
shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement with it,
that it may be sent away as a scapegoat into the wilderness.
11 (Lev 16:6) Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering,
which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself,
and for his house, and shall kill
the bull of the sin offering for himself.
12 (Lev 10:1; Ex 30:34–38) And he shall take a censer full
of burning coals of fire from the altar before the Lord,
and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small,
and bring it within the veil.
13 (Ex 25:21; 30:1) And he shall put the incense on the fire
before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover
the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die.
14 (Heb 9:25; Lev 4:5–6) And he shall take of the blood of the bull,
and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the eastern side,
and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle from the blood with
his finger seven times.
15 (Heb 9:7; 9:3; 9:12) Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering,
which is for the people, and bring its blood within the veil,
and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull,
and sprinkle it over and in front of the mercy seat.
16 (Ex 29:36–37; Lev 16:18) And he shall make atonement
for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children
of Israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins,
and so he shall do for the tent of meeting that remains
among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
17 (Lk 1:10) There shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goes
in to make atonement in the Holy Place,
until he comes out and has made atonement for himself,
and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
18 (Lev 4:7; Ex 30:10) Then he shall go out to the altar
that is before the Lord and make atonement for it,
and he shall take some of the blood of the bull
and some of the blood of the goat,
and put it on the horns of the altar all around.
19 He shall sprinkle from the blood on it with
his finger seven times, and cleanse it,
and consecrate it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
20 (Lev 16:16; Eze 45:20) When he has made an end of atonement
for the Holy Place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar,
then he shall bring the live goat.
21 (Isa 53:6; 2Co 5:21) And Aaron shall lay both his hands
on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities
of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins,
putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away
by the hand of a designated man into the wilderness.
22 (Isa 53:11–12; Jn 1:29) And the goat shall bear on it all their iniquities
to a desolate land, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.
23 (Eze 42:14; 44:19) Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting,
and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went
into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.
24 (Lev 16:3–5) And he shall wash his body with water in a holy place,
and put on his garments, and come out, and offer his burnt offering,
and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself
and for the people.
25 (Ex 29:13; Lev 4:8–10) The fat of the sin offering he shall burn
on the altar.
26 (Lev 16:10) He who releases the goat as the scapegoat shall wash
his clothes, and bathe his body in water, and afterward come into the camp.
27 (Lev 4:21; 6:30) The bull for the sin offering and the goat
for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement
in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp.
They shall burn in the fire their hides, their flesh, and their refuse.
28 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his body in water,
and afterward he shall come into the camp.
29 (Nu 29:7; Isa 58:3) This shall be a perpetual statute for you so that
in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble
yourselves, and do no work of any kind, whether it is the native
citizen or the stranger who sojourns among you.
30 (Jer 33:8; Ps 51:2) For on that day the priest shall make atonement
for you to cleanse you, so that you may be clean from all your sins
before the Lord.
31 (Lev 23:32) It shall be a sabbath, a solemn rest for you,
and you shall humble yourselves. It is a perpetual statute.
32 (Ex 29:29–30; Lev 16:4) The priest, who is anointed
and consecrated to minister as a priest in the place of his father,
shall make atonement, and shall put on the linen garments,
the holy garments.
33 (Lev 16:16; 16:6) And he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary,
for the tent of meeting, and for the altar, and he shall make atonement
for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
34 (Heb 9:7; 9:25) This shall be a perpetual statute for you to make
atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year.
And Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
LEVITICUS 17
The Law About Eating Blood
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel,
and say to them: This is the thing which the Lord has commanded, saying:
3 If anyone of the house of Israel ritually slaughters an ox, a lamb,
or goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside of the camp,
4 (Ge 17:14) and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting
to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord,
then blood guilt shall be accounted to that man. He has shed blood,
and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
5 This is so that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices
which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them
to the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest,
and offer them for peace offerings to the Lord.
6 (Nu 18:17; Lev 3:2) The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar
of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting,
and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
7 (Ex 34:15; Dt 32:17) They shall no more offer their sacrifices
to goat demons, after whom they have acted like whores.
This shall be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.
8 (Lev 1:2–3) You shall say to them: Any man from the house of Israel,
or from the foreigners who sojourn among you, who offers a burnt offering
or sacrifice,
9 (Lev 17:4) and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting
to offer it to the Lord, even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
10 (Lev 3:17; Ge 9:4) Whoever from the house of Israel,
or from the strangers who sojourn among you, who eats any manner of blood,
I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off
from among his people.
11 (Heb 9:22; Mt 26:28; 1Jn 1:7) For the life of the flesh is in the blood,
and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives;
for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
12 Therefore I said to the children of Israel:
No person among you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who sojourns
among you eat blood.
13 (Dt 12:16; Lev 7:26) Whoever from the children of Israel,
or from the foreigners who sojourn among you, who hunts and catches
any wild animal or fowl that may be eaten, he shall even pour out the blood
and cover it with dirt.
14 (Ge 9:4) For the life of every creature is its blood;
in its blood is its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel:
You shall not eat the blood of any creature,
for the life of every creature is its blood.
Whoever eats it shall be cut off.
15 (Ex 22:31; Lev 22:8) Every person who eats that which died of itself,
or that which was torn by animals, whether he is a native citizen
or a foreigner, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean.
16 (Lev 5:1) But if he does not wash them or bathe his body,
then he shall bear his iniquity.
LEVITICUS 18
Laws on Immoral Relations
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Ex 6:7; Lev 11:44) Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:
I am the Lord your God.
3 (Ex 23:24; Lev 20:23) After the practices of the land of Egypt,
from where you lived, you shall not follow, and after the practices
of the land of Canaan, to where I will bring you, you shall not follow;
nor shall you walk in their ordinances.
4 (Lev 18:2; 18:26) You shall follow My decrees
and keep My ordinances to walk in them: I am the Lord your God.
5 (Eze 20:11; Ro 10:5) You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments,
which if a man does them, then he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
6 (Lev 18:7–19) None of you shall approach any of his near relatives
to have relations: I am the Lord.
7 (Lev 20:11; Eze 22:10) You shall not have relations with your father
or have relations with your mother. She is your mother.
You shall not have relations with her.
8 (Lev 20:11; 1Co 5:1) You shall not have relations with your father's wife,
for this exposes your father's nakedness.
9 (Lev 20:17; Dt 27:22) You shall not have relations with your sister,
whether your father's or mother's daughter,
whether raised in the family or another home.
10 You shall not have relations with your son's daughter
or your daughter's daughter,
for this exposes your own nakedness.
11 You shall not have relations with your father's wife's daughter
who is raised in your father’s family, for she is your sister.
12 (Lev 20:19) You shall not have relations with your father's sister,
for she is your father's relative.
13 You shall not have relations with your mother's sister,
for she is your mother's relative.
14 (Lev 20:20) You shall not expose the nakedness of your father's brother.
You shall not approach his wife for relations; she is your aunt.
15 (Lev 20:12; Ge 38:26) You shall not have relations
with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife
-you shall not have relations with her.
16 (Lev 20:21; Dt 25:5) You shall not have relations
with your brother's wife, for this exposes your brother's nakedness.
17 (Lev 20:14) You shall not have relations with a woman and her daughter,
nor shall you have her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter,
for this exposes the woman's nakedness. They are all near relatives.
It is depravity.
18 And you shall not have a woman as a rival wife,
who is the sister of your other wife,
for this is to expose her nakedness while her sister,
your other wife, is still alive.
[Incest is illegal]
19 (Lev 15:24; 20:18) Also you shall not approach a woman
to have relations as long as she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
[Very unhealthy]
20 (Ex 20:14; Lev 20:10) Moreover, you shall not have relations
with your neighbor's wife to defile yourself with her.
21 (Lev 19:12; 20:2–5; 21:6) You shall not let any of your children
be offered through the fire to Molek,
and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
[Only one creator]
22 (Lev 20:13; 1Co 6:9; 1Ti 1:100 You shall not lie with a man
as one does with a woman. It is an abomination.
[homosexual is not in biblical accordance]
23 (Ex 22:19; Lev 20:15–16) You shall not lie with an animal
to defile yourself, nor shall any woman lie with an animal.
It is a perversion.
[beastility is not in biblical accordance]
24 (Dt 18:12; Lev 18:30) Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways,
for in these practices the nations I am casting out
before you have defiled themselves.
[Notice from the Lord]
25 (Lev 18:28; Jer 2:7) And the land has become defiled;
therefore I have punished its iniquity,
and the land has vomited out her inhabitants.
26 (Lev 18:5) But you shall therefore keep My statutes
and My decrees, and you shall not commit any of these abominations,
either the native citizen or any foreigner who sojourns among you
27 (for the people of the land, who were before you,
committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled),
28 lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it,
as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
29 For whoever shall commit any of these abominations,
those persons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 (Lev 20:23) Therefore you shall keep My ordinances,
that you do not commit any one of these abominable customs
which were committed before you, so that you do not defile
yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.
[Yahweh didctates this in the strongest of terms]
2) Our Daily Bread for 16 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/18/remember-to-sing
entitled Remember to Sing
Ps 147:1-7
PSALMS 147
1 Praise the Lord!
For it is good to sing praises unto our God;
for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) The Lord builds up Jerusalem;
He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) He heals the broken in heart,
and binds up their wounds.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) He counts the number of the stars;
He calls them all by their names.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Great is our Lord and great in power;
His understanding is without measure.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) The Lord lifts up the meek;
He casts the wicked down to the ground.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving;
sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Nancy Gustafson, a retired opera singer, was devastated
when she visited her mother and observed her decline from dementia.
Her mom no longer recognized her and barely spoke. After several
monthly visits, Nancy had an idea. She started singing to her.
Her mother's eyes lit up at the musical sounds, and she began
singing too - for twenty minutes! Then Nancy's mom laughed,
joking they were "The Gustafson Family Singers!"
The dramatic turnaround suggested the power of music,
as some therapists conclude, to evoke lost memories.
Singing "old favorites" has also been shown to boost mood,
reduce falls, lessen visits to the emergency room,
and decrease the need for sedative drugs.
More research is underway on a music-memory link.
Yet, as the Bible reveals, the joy that comes
from singing is a gift from God-and it's real.
"How good it is to sing praises to our God,
how pleasant and fitting to praise him!" (Psalm 147:1).
Throughout the Scriptures, in fact, God's people are urged
to lift their voices in songs of praise to Him.
"Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things" (Isaiah 12:5).
"He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him" (Psalm 40:3).
Our singing inspires us but also those who hear it.
May we all remember: our God is great and worthy of praise.
By: Patricia Raybon
Reflect & Pray
What role does singing play in your life?
How can you make more time for singing songs of praise
with those who are experiencing memory problems?
May I sing praises to You, God.
Thank You for so often unlocking the minds of those
with memory problems through the beauty and power of song.
To dig deeper, read Psalms: Ancient Prayers for Modern People
at https://www.ChristianUniversity.org/OT222.
Download Forty Days of Praying the Word at https://go.odb.org/40-days .
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 2 - Saved by Grace - Day 4 - It is finished!
John 5:24
24 (Jn 3:18; 1Jn 3:14; Jn 3:36) "Truly, truly I say to you,
whoever hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has
eternal life and shall not come into condemnation,
but has passed from death into life."
"PLEASE BE PATIENT - GOD HAS NOT FINISHED WITH ME YET,"
the sweatshirt read. In tihs case, the massage was an ironic one,
for the occupant of the shirt was a snaggle-toothed,
freckle-faced 6 year old!
In one sense, God is not finished with the work he has to do
in each of us. Life in Chirst is an ongoing process of change
and growth as we become more like him. Certainly, the more we see
ourselves, the more we hope he isn't finished with us!
Ywt whatever plans God has for making us into men and women he
created us to be, certain aspects of our life in christ are
finished, finalised. Jesus declared with absolute assurance,
"Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has
eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over
from death to life."
Because we do not have to earn or deserve God's Grace,
because we are not called to prove ourselves worthy
of salvation, we can have immediate and total assurance
of the security of life in Jesus Christ. The one who puts
his trust in the Lord has eternal life; he will not be condemned;
he has corssed over from death to life.
This "crossing over" into life happens in the split second
when we acknowledge pur dependence upon Christ alone. And the
rest of our lives is given over to the development
of his image in us.
God is not finished with us yet. But his work of salvation is
finished - complete, fully dependable, an accomplished fact.
Application
a) Have I ever doubted the "accomplished fact" of may own salvation? Why?
b) How can John 5:24 help me realise that, although I may have a lot
of growing yet to do, my salvation in Jesus Crhist is secure?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Haggai 2:7-9
7 (1Ki 8:11; Isa 60:7) And I will shake all the nations,
and they will come with the wealth of all nations,
and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of Hosts.
8 (Isa 60:17) The silver is mine, and the gold is Mine,
says the Lord of Hosts.
9 (Isa 9:6–7) The glory of this latter house will be greater
than the former, says the Lord of Hosts. And in this place
I will give peace, says the Lord of Hosts.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Help in Times of Temptation
James 1:12-18
Trial and Temptation
12 (Jas 2:5; 1Co 9:25; 2Ti 4:8)Blessed is the man who endures temptation,
for when he is tried, he will receive the crown of life,
which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God,"
for God cannot be tempted with evil; neither does He tempt anyone.
14 But each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
15 (Job 15:35; Ps 7:14) Then, when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin;
and when sin is finished, it brings forth death.
16 (Jas 1:19; 2:5) Do not err, my beloved brothers.
17 (Mal 3:6; Nu 23:19; Jn 3:27) Every good gift and every perfect gift
is from above and comes down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no change or shadow of turning.
18 (1Pe 1:23; Jn 1:13; Rev 14:4) Of His own will He brought us forth with
the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
18th Day of the Month
a) Pray that pastors will experience spiritual, emotional and physical
refreshing for the presence of the Lord
( Jer 31:25
25 For I satiate the weary souls and I replenish every languishing soul.
)
b) Pray that the Lord will protect and deliver our nation from
danger and adversity
( Ps 34:7
7 The angel of the Lord camps around those who fear Him,
and delivers them.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to seek in righteousness.
Pray to the Lord to sing a Song of Gladness.
Pray to the Lord as your complete source of Salvation.
Pray to the Lord that he is the source of greatness.
Pray to the Lord for his goodness.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for the refreshing of those in ministry .
Pray to the Lord for divine protect of your nation
and to expose the evil in your nation.
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.
Posted by DSY on
Day 48, 17 Feb 2021
Lev 14 - 15
LEVITICUS 14
The Law for Cleansing Lepers
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 (Lk 17:14; Nu 6:9) This shall be the law of the leper in the day
of his cleansing: It shall be reported to the priest,
3 (Lev 13:46) and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest
shall examine him and see if the disease is healed in the leprous person.
4 (Nu 19:6; Lev 14:6) Then the priest shall command that two live clean birds
and cedar wood and scarlet fabric and hyssop be brought for him
who is to be cleansed.
5 The priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered
in a clay vessel over running water.
6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood,
the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird
in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
7 (2Ki 5:10; 5:14) Then he shall sprinkle it seven times on him
who is to be cleansed from leprosy, and he shall pronounce him
clean and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
8 (Lev 11:25; Nu 8:7) He that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes,
and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water,
so that he may be clean. After that he shall come into the camp
and shall stay outside of his tent seven days.
9 (Nu 6:9) But it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave
all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows,
all his hair he shall shave off, and he shall wash his clothes.
Also he shall wash his body in water, and he shall be clean.
10 (Lev 2:1; 14:12) On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs
without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish,
and three-tenths of an ephah (Or stranger.) of wheat flour mixed
with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil.
(About 1/3 quart, or 0.3 liter; and in vv. 12, 15, 21, and 24.)
11 The priest who makes him clean shall present the man
who is to be made clean and those things before the Lord
at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
12 (Ex 29:24; Lev 6:6–7) Then the priest shall take one male lamb
and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil,
and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.
13 (Ex 29:11; Lev 1:11) Then he shall slaughter the lamb in the place
where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering in the holy
sanctuary. For as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the guilt offering.
It is most holy.
14 (Ex 29:20; Lev 8:23–24) And the priest shall take some of the blood
of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right
ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand,
and on the big toe of his right foot.
15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm
of his own left hand.
16 Then the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is
in his left hand, and shall sprinkle from the oil with his finger
seven times before the Lord.
17 And some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand the priest
shall put on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed,
and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot,
and on the blood of the guilt offering.
18 (Lev 4:26) And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand
he shall pour upon the head of him who is to be cleansed,
and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord.
19 (Lev 14:12) The priest shall offer the sin offering,
and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed
from his ceremonial uncleanness,
and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering.
20 (Lev 14:10) Then the priest shall offer the burnt offering
and the grain offering on the altar, and the priest shall
make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21 (Lev 12:8; 5:7) But if he is poor and cannot afford so much,
then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved
to make atonement for him, and one-tenth of an ephah
(Likely about 3 1/2 pounds, or 1.6 kilograms.)
of wheat flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil,
22 and two turtledoves or two pigeons, such as he is able to afford.
The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
23 (Lev 14:10–11) He shall bring them on the eighth day
for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance
of the tent of meeting before the Lord.
24 The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering,
along with the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them
for a wave offering before the Lord.
25 Then he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering;
and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering
and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed
and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
26 Next the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm
of his own left hand,
27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger
some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord.
28 Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand
on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed,
and on the thumb of his right hand,
and on the big toe of his right foot on the place of the blood
of the guilt offering.
29 (Lev 14:18) The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand
he shall pour on the head of him who is to be cleansed to make
atonement for him before the Lord.
30 (Lev 14:22) He shall offer one of the turtledoves or the pigeons,
such as he can afford,
31 even such as he is able to get, one for a sin offering
and the other for a burnt offering, along with the grain offering,
and the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed
before the Lord.
32 (Lev 14:10; 14:21)This is the law for a person who has a leprous
sore who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.
The Law About Leprous Houses
33 The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
34 (Ge 17:8; Dt 32:49) When you have come into the land of Canaan,
which I am giving to you for a possession, and I put a leprous disease
in a house of the land of your possession,
35 (Ps 91:10; Zec 5:4) then he who owns the house shall come
and tell the priest, "It seems to me there is some disease in the house."
36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house
before the priest goes into it to examine the disease,
so that all that is in the house is not made unclean.
Afterwards, the priest shall go in to examine the house.
37 He shall examine the disease and see if the disease is in the walls
of the house with greenish or reddish spots, which appear to go deeper
than the wall.
38 Then the priest shall go out to the door of the house and close off
the house seven days.
39 The priest shall return on the seventh day
and shall examine and see if the disease has spread in the walls of the house.
40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which
the disease appears and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped all around, and they shall
pour out the plaster that they scrape off
outside the city into an unclean place.
42 And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones,
and he shall take other plaster and shall plaster the house.
43 If the disease comes again and breaks out in the house after he has taken
away the stones and after he has scraped the house and after it is plastered,
44 (Lev 13:51–52) then the priest shall come and examine and see if the
disease has spread in the house. If the disease has spread in the house,
it is a persistent leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
45He shall break down the house, the stones and the timber,
and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them
out of the city into an unclean place.
46 (Nu 19:21–22) Moreover, he who goes into the house
while it is closed off shall be unclean until the evening.
47 And he who sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes,
and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 If the priest comes in and examines it and sees the disease
has not spread in the house after the house was plastered,
then the priest shall pronounce the house clean,
because the disease is healed.
49 (Lev 14:4) He shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet,
and hyssop to cleanse the house.
50 Then he shall kill one of the birds in a clay vessel over running water.
51 He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet,
and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird,
and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52 Then he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird,
and with the running water, and with the living bird,
and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet.
53 But he shall let the living bird loose outside the city
into the open fields and make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of leprous sore and scale,
55 and for the disease of a garment, or of a house,
56 (Lev 13:2) and for a swelling, or for a scab, or for a spot,
57 (Lev 10:10) to discern when it is unclean and when it is clean.
This is the law of leprosy.
LEVITICUS 15
The Law About Bodily Discharges
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
2 (Lev 22:4; Nu 5:2) Speak to the children of Israel,
and say to them: When any man has a discharge out of his body,
his discharge is unclean.
3 This is the instruction for his uncleanness in his discharge,
whether the discharge from his body flows or his body is
stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
4 Every bed on which the man with the discharge lies shall be unclean,
and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
5 (Lev 11:25; 16:26) Whoever touches the bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
6 And whoever sits on anything where the man sat who has the discharge
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
7 And whoever touches the body of him who has the discharge shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
8 If the man with the discharge spits on someone who is clean,
then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
9 Any saddle on which the man with a discharge rides shall be unclean.
10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean
until the evening, and he who carries any of those things shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
11 Whomever he who has the discharge touches,
and has not rinsed his hands in water,
he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water,
and be unclean until evening.
12 (Lev 6:28; 11:32–33) The earthen vessel that he who has the discharge
touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
13 (Lev 8:33; 14:8) When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his issue,
then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing,
and wash his clothes, and bathe his body in running water, and shall be clean.
14 (Lev 12:8) On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons
and come before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting
and give them to the priest.
15 (Lev 4:26; 14:30–31) And the priest shall offer them,
one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering,
and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge.
16 (Lev 22:4; Dt 23:10–11; Lev 15:5) If any man has a seminal emission,
then he shall wash all his body in water and be unclean until the evening.
17 Every garment and all leather on which there is seminal emission
shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.
18 If a man lies with a woman, and there is an emission of semen,
they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.
19 (Lev 12:2) If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body
is blood, she shall be set apart for seven days; and whoever touches
her shall be unclean until the evening.
20 (Lev 15:4–9) Everything that she lies on in her menstrual impurity
shall be unclean. Also, everything that she sits on shall be unclean.
21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself
in water, and be unclean until the evening.
22 Whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
23 Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits,
when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.
24 (Lev 20:18; 18:19) If any man lies with her,
and her menstrual impurity is on him,
he shall be unclean seven days,
and every bed where he lies shall be unclean.
25 (Mt 9:20; Mk 5:25) If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days,
not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge
beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge
she shall be in uncleanness, as in the days of her impurity.
She shall be unclean.
26 Every bed that she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be
for impurity, and whatever she sits on shall be unclean,
as the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity.
27 Whoever touches those things shall be unclean
and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water
and be unclean until the evening.
28 (Lev 15:13–15) But if she is cleansed of her discharge,
then she shall count to herself seven days,
and after that she shall be clean.
29 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves
or two pigeons and bring them to the priest
at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
30 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering
and the other for a burnt offering,
and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord
for her unclean discharge.
31 (Nu 5:3; 19:13; 19:20) Thus you shall separate
the children of Israel from their uncleanness,
so that they do not die in their uncleanness by defiling
My tabernacle that is among them.
32 This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him
who has a seminal emission and thus becomes unclean,
33 and for her who is sick from her menstruation,
and for him who has a discharge, for anyone male or female,
and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.
(Masterbation is sinful)
2) Our Daily Bread for 16 Feb 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/02/17/desperate-solutions
entitled Desperate Solutions
Isaiah 22:8–13
8 (1Ki 7:2; 10:17) And He shall remove the protection of Judah.
You shall depend in that day
on the weapons of the house of the forest;
9 (2Ki 20:20) you have seen also that the breaches
of the City of David are many;
and you gathered together the waters
of the lower pool.
10 You have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall.
11 (2Ki 25:4) You also made a reservoir between the two walls
for the water of the old pool.
But you have not looked to its Maker,
nor did you respect Him who fashioned it long ago.
12 (Joel 2:17; 1:13) In that day the Lord God of Hosts
called you to weeping and mourning,
and to tear your hair and wear sackcloth.
13 (Isa 56:12; 1Co 15:32; Lk 17:26–29) Yet, there is joy and gladness,
slaying of oxen and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking wine:
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we may die.â€
In the late sixteenth century, William of Orange intentionally flooded
much of his nation's land. The Dutch monarch resorted to such a drastic
measure in an attempt to drive out the invading Spaniards. It didn't work,
and a vast swath of prime farmland was lost to the sea.
"Desperate times call for desperate measures," they say.
In Isaiah's day, Jerusalem turned to desperate measures
when the Assyrian army threatened them.
Creating a water storage system to endure the siege,
the people also tore down houses to shore up the city walls.
Such tactics may have been prudent,
but they neglected the most important step.
"You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool,"
God said, "but you did not look to the One who made it,
or have regard for the One who planned it long ago" (Isaiah 22:11).
We aren't likely to encounter a literal army outside our homes today.
"The batterings always come in commonplace ways
and through commonplace people," said Oswald Chambers.
Yet, such "batterings" are genuine threats.
Thankfully, they also bring with them God's
invitation to turn to Him first for what we need.
When life's irritations and interruptions come,
will we see them as opportunities to turn to God?
Or will we seek our own desperate solutions?
By: Tim Gustafson
Reflect & Pray
What ordinary threats do you face today? What do you need to face them?
Today, loving God, I turn to You first with all of my challenges,
large and small.
Download Forty Days of Praying the Word at https://go.odb.org/40-days .
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 2 - Saved by Grace - Day 4 - Entire Forgiveness
Acts 13:38
38 (Lk 24:47; Ac 2:38) "Therefore, brothers, let it be known
to you that through this Man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,"
At age 17 Mary, a cross-country runner, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
She went on to college, faced with the prospect of gradual physical decline
and, ultimately, life in a wheelchair. "The worst part," Mary admitted "is
not the pain or the inability to do what I once did. The worst part is
the hopelessness, the emotional struggle. There is no cure, no real
treatment - only insurance."
In our fallen world, there are many incurable circumstances we have to endure.
But the guilt of our sin is not one of them. Yet despite the declaration
of the Scripture that Jesus' sacrificial death paid the price for our sins,
many of us carry a load of guilt - as if we ourselves had tp pay the price.
Paul, a man who know the grace of God and the depth of his own sin,
emphasises the source and the completeness of our forgiveness.
Through Jesus - not through my good behaviour, not through my determination to
change, not through my reputation, my family's faith, or my religious duties.
Forgiveness of dins come through Christ alone, a gift we do not deserve,
a gift which places all of us on equal ground at the foot of the cross.
To acknowledge our sin without knowing the source of forgiveness only
results in hopelessness and despair - we see ourselves, yet we are powerless
to change the sin we see. But when we realise that Christ has provided
complete forgiveness of sin, we can face our sin honestly, knowing
the freedom of confession and the restoration of forgiveness.
Application
a) In what ways have I changed myself, to "torn over a new leaf",
to "make myself worthy" of God's love?
b) How can Acts 13:18 help me remember the source of forgiveness?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Luke 7:23
23 (Isa 8:14–15) "And Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.â€
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Guiding Presence
Matthew 28:16-20
The Commissioning of the Disciples
Mk 16:14–18; Lk 24:36–49; Jn 20:19–23; Ac 1:6–8
16 (Mt 28:7; 26:32)Then the eleven disciples went away to Galilee,
to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
17 (Mt 28:9) When they saw Him, they worshipped Him. But some doubted.
18 (Mt 11:27; Ro 14:9) Then Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
"All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
19 (Mk 16:15–16; Ac 1:8) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit,
20 (Mt 18:20; Ac 2:42) teaching them to observe all things
I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always,
even to the end of the age." Amen.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as hihg as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the legrest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in JEsus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discpleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congreations, and euqally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
17th Day of the Month
a) Pray for the safety of those
who live in your community -
safety from conflict an crimes
( Ps 122:7 - 7 "Peace be within your walls
and security within your towers!" )
b) Pray for the province of Ontario
I) Pray for the leaders of Ontario,
that God's Spirit would influence
then to act justly,
serve with integrity
and honour high moral standards. ( 1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses
beaming forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use
the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to seek his in relations.
Pray to the Lord in difficult times.
Pray to the Lord as your only source of Salvation.
Pray to the Lord not be offended in him.
Pray to the Lord that someone becomes a disciple in the Lord today.
Pray for Muslims in Alberta to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for safety in your community .
Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.
Pray to accept Jesus in your life.