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Day 81, 22 Mar 2021
Deuteronomy 32-34 ; Psalm 91
DEUTERONOMY 32
DEUTERONOMY 32
1 (Dt 4:26; Isa 1:2) Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 (Ps 72:6; Isa 55:10-11) My teaching will drop like the rain,
my sayings will distill as the dew,
as the droplets on the grass,
and as the showers on the herb.
3 (Jer 10:6; Dt 3:24) For I will proclaim the name of the Lord:
Ascribe greatness to our God!
4 (Dt 32:18; Ps 92:15) He is the Rock; His work is perfect;
for all His ways are just.
He is a God of faithfulness and without injustice;
righteous and upright is He.
5 (Dt 31:29; Isa 1:4) They have acted corruptly to Him;
they are not His children, but blemished;
they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 (Isa 63:16; Ps 74:2; Dt 32:15) Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your father, who has bought you?
Has He not made you, and established you?
7 (Ps 44:1; Ex 13:14) Remember the days of old,
consider the years of previous generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
your elders, and they will tell you:
8 (Ac 17:26) When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when He separated the sons of man,Or Adam.
He set the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 (Jer 10:16; 1Sa 10:1) For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
10 (Ps 17:8; Zec 2:8) He found him in a desert land
and in the howling waste of a wilderness;
He led him about, He instructed him,
He protected him like the pupil of His eye.
11 (Ex 19:4) Like an eagle stirs up her nest,
that flutters over her young,
He spread out his wings and took him;
He lifted him on His pinions;
12 (Ps 78:52-53) the Lord alone guided him,
and there was no foreign god with him.
13 (Job 29:6; Isa 58:14) He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
and he ate of the produce of the fields;
He made him suck honey out of the rock
and oil out of the flinty rock,
14 (Ge 49:11; Ps 81:16) butter from the herd,
and milk from the flock,
along with the fat of lambs,
and rams of the breed from Bashan,
and goats,
with the best of the kernels of wheat;
you drank the pure blood of the grape.
15 (Dt 31:20; 32:4; Ps 89:26) But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
you grew fat, you grew thick;
you are covered with fat.
Then he forsook God who made him,
and devalued the Rock of his salvation.
16 (Ps 78:58; 1Co 10:22) They made Him jealous with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 (Jdg 5:8; Dt 28:64) They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
to gods whom they knew not,
to new gods that recently came along,
whom your fathers did not fear.
18 (Isa 17:10; Dt 32:4; Ps 106:21) You have forgotten the Rock who begot you;
you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who gave you birth.
19 (Ps 106:40; Jdg 2:14) When the Lord saw it, He despised them,
because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.
20 (Dt 32:5) He said: I will hide My face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a very perverse generation,
children in whom there is no loyalty.
21 (1Ki 16:13; 16:26) They have made Me jealous with that which is not God;
they have provoked Me to anger with their empty things.
And I will make them jealous of those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 (La 4:11; Jer 15:14) For a fire has been inflamed by My anger,
and it will burn to the lowest part of Sheol,Or the lowest depths of the earth or underworld.
and shall consume the earth and its produce,
and ignite the foundations of the mountains.
23 (Eze 5:16; Ps 7:12-13) I will heap misfortunes on them;
I will use My arrows on them.
24 (Lev 26:22; Eze 5:17) They will be starved by famine,
and consumed by plague and bitter destruction;
I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them,
with the poison of crawling creatures in the dust.
25 (Eze 7:15; La 1:20) The sword outside and terror within will destroy
both the young man and the virgin,
the infant along with the man of gray hair.
26 (Dt 28:64) I said, "I want to cut them into pieces,
I will cause the memory of them to disappear from among men,"
27 (Ps 140:8) however, I feared the wrath of the enemy,
that their adversaries would misunderstand
and say, "Our hand is victorious,
and the Lord has not done all this."
28 (Dt 32:6; Isa 27:11) For they are a nation devoid of counsel;
there is no understanding in them.
29 (Dt 5:29; Ps 81:13) Would that they were wise,
so that they understood this,
so that they would comprehend their future!
30 (Lev 26:8; Ps 44:12) How should one chase a thousand,
and two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
31 (Ex 14:25; 1Sa 2:2) For their rock is not as our Rock;
even our enemies themselves concede this.
32 (Dt 29:18; Isa 1:10) For their vine is from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
their clusters are bitter.
33 (Ps 58:4) Their wine is the poison of dragons
and the deadly venom of cobras.
34 (Job 14:17; Hos 13:12) Is not this laid up in store with Me
and sealed up among My treasures?
35 (Ro 12:19; Heb 10:30) Vengeance is Mine, and recompense;
their foot will slip in due time;
for the day of their calamity is at hand,
and the things to come hasten upon them.
36 (Ps 135:14; Jdg 2:18) For the Lord will judge His people,
and relent in regard to His servants,
when He sees that their power is gone
and there is no one left, whether restrained or free.
37 (Jdg 10:14; Jer 2:28) He will say: Where are their gods,
their rock in whom they trusted,
38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up and help you
and be your protection.
39 (1Sa 2:6; Isa 45:5; 41:4) See now that I, even I, am He,
and there is no god besides Me;
I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
there is no one who can deliver out of My hand.
40 (Ge 14:22) For I lift up My hand to heaven,
and say: As I live forever,
41 (Isa 66:16; Ps 7:12) if I sharpen My flashing sword
and My hand takes hold on judgment,
I will render vengeance on My enemies
and will repay those who hate Me.
42 (Dt 32:23; Jer 46:10) I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
and My sword shall devour flesh,
with the blood of the slain and of the captives,
from the heads of the leaders of the enemies.
43 (Rev 19:2; Ps 85:1) Rejoice, O you nations, with His people;
for He will avenge the blood of His servants
and will render vengeance on His adversaries
and will be merciful to His land and people.
44 (Nu 13:8; 13:16) Moses came and spoke all the words of this song
in the hearing of the people, he, with Joshua, the son of Nun.
45 When Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel,
46 (Eze 40:4; Dt 11:18) he said to them, "Set your hearts on all the words
which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children
to be careful to observe, all the words of this law.
47 (Lev 18:5) For it is no idle word for you, because it is your life,
and by this word you will prolong your days in the land which
you cross over the Jordan to possess."
Moses to Die on Mount Nebo
48 The Lord spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
49 (Nu 27:12) "Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, to Mount Nebo,
which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and look at the land of
Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel for a possession.
50 (Ge 25:8; Nu 33:38) Die on the mount where you go up,
and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron, your brother,
died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,
51 (Nu 27:14) because you trespassed against Me
among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh,
in the Wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy
in the midst of the children of Israel.
52 (Dt 34:1-4) Nevertheless, you will see the land before you,
but you may not go there, to the land which I am giving
to the children of Israel."
DEUTERONOMY 33
Moses Blesses Israel
Ge 49:1-28
1 (Jos 14:6) Now this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God,
blessed the children of Israel before his death.
2 (Hab 3:3; Ac 7:53) He said:
The Lord came from Sinai and rose up from Seir to them;
He shone forth from Mount Paran,
and He came with ten thousands of holy ones;
from His right hand went a fiery lawOr flashing lightning. for them.
3 (Lk 10:39; Hos 11:1) Surely, He loved the people;
all His holy ones are in Your hand,
and they sit down at Your feet;
everyone receives Your words.
4 (Ps 119:111; Jn 1:17) Moses decreed to us a law,
the inheritance of the assembly of Jacob.
5 (Dt 32:15) He was king over Jeshurun,
when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
6 (Ge 49:3-4) Let Reuben live, and not die,
and let not his men be few.
7 (Ge 49:8-12) This is the blessing to Judah. He said:
Listen, O Lord, to the voice of Judah,
and bring him to his people;
may his hands contend for them,
and may You help him against his enemies.
8 (Ex 17:7; 28:30) Of Levi he said:
Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with Your godly one,
whom You tested at Massah,
and with whom You contended at the waters of Meribah,
9 who said to his father and to his mother,
"I have not seen him,"
and he did not acknowledge his brothers
or know his own children,
for they have kept Your word
and guarded Your covenant.
10 (Lev 10:11; Ps 51:19) They will teach Jacob Your judgments
and Israel Your law.
They will put incense before You
and the whole burnt offerings on your altar.
11 (2Sa 24:23; Eze 20:40-41) Bless, O Lord, his substance,
and accept the work of his hands;
run through the loins of them that rise against him
and of them that hate him,
so that they rise never again.
12 Of Benjamin he said:
The beloved of the Lord
will dwell in safety by Him,
and the Lord will protect him all day long;
he will dwell between His shoulders.
13 (Ge 49:22-26) Of Joseph he said:
May his land be blessed of the Lord,
from the harvest of the heavens,
by the dew,
and by the deep crouching beneath,
14 by the precious fruits brought forth by the sun,
and by the choice things put forth by the moon,
15 (Hab 3:6; Ge 49:26) by the finest things of the ancient mountains,
and by the choice things of the everlasting hills,
16 (Ex 3:2-4; Ps 24:1) by the best things of the earth and its fullness,
and by the goodwill of Him who dwelt in the bush.
May the blessing rest on the head of Joseph,
on top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.
17 (Nu 23:22; 1Ki 22:11; Ps 44:5) His glory is like the firstborn of his bull,
and his horns are like the horns of a wild ox;
with them he will push the peoples together to the ends of the earth;
they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
18 (Ge 49:13-15) Of Zebulun he said:
Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going outside,
and Issachar in your tents.
19 (Ps 4:5; Isa 2:3) They will call the peoples to the mountain;
there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness,
for they will draw out the abundance of the seas
and the treasures hid in the sand.
20 (Ge 49:19) Of Gad he said:
Blessed be he who enlarges Gad;
he dwells as a lion
and tears an arm and the crown of a head.
21 (Jos 1:14) He provided the first part for himself,
because there, in a portion of the ruler, he was seated.
He came with the heads of the people.
He executed the justice of the Lord,
and His ordinances with Israel.
22 (Jos 19:47; Jdg 18:27) Of Dan he said:
Dan is a lion’s whelp;
he will leap forth from Bashan.
23 (Ge 49:21; Jos 19:32-39) Of Naphtali he said:
O Naphtali, satisfied with favor
and full with the blessing of the Lord,
possess the west and the south.
24 (Ge 49:20; Job 29:6) Of Asher he said:
May Asher be blessed with children;
may he be acceptable to his brothers,
and may he dip his foot in oil.A metaphor depicting prosperity.
25 Your sandals will be iron and brass;
according to your days, so shall be your strength.
26 (Ex 15:11; Ps 104:3) There is none like the God of Jeshurun,
who rides through the heavens to help you,
and in His majesty through the skies.
27 (Ge 49:24; Ps 90:1-2) The eternal God is your refuge,
and underneath you are the everlasting arms;
He will drive out the enemy before you,
and will say, “Destroy them.â€
28 (Nu 23:9; Ge 27:28) Israel dwells in safety;
the fountain of Jacob will be secluded
in a land of grain and new wine;
its heavens will rain down dew.
29 (2Sa 7:23; Ps 115:9-11) Blessed are you, O Israel!
Who is like you,
a people saved by the Lord,
the shield of your help,
who is the sword of your majesty!
Your enemies will cringe before you,
and you will tread upon their high places.
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.
DEUTERONOMY 34
The Death of Moses
1 (Dt 32:49; Nu 27:12) Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo,
to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. Then the Lord showed him all
the land-from Gilead to Dan,
2 (Dt 11:24) and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh,
and all the land of Judah, to the Mediterranean Sea,
3 (Jdg 1:16; 3:13) and the Negev and the plain of the valley of Jericho,
the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
4 (Ge 12:7; 28:13) The Lord said to him, "This is the land which I swore
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying,
'I will give it to your descendants.' I have caused you to see it with
your eyes, but you will not cross over there."
5 (Dt 32:50; Jos 1:1-2) So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there
in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.
6 (Jude 1:9) He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab,
opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows of his burial place to this day.
7 (Ge 27:1; Dt 31:2) Moses was 120 years old when he died.
His eye was not dim, nor was his vitality diminished.
8 (Ge 50:3; 50:10) The children of Israel wept for Moses
in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping
and mourning for Moses were ended.
9 (Isa 11:2; Da 6:3) Now Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit
of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. And the children
of Israel - listened to him and did as the Lord commanded Moses.
10 (Ex 33:11) Since then there has not arisen a prophet in Israel
like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
11 (Dt 4:34; 7:19) in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him
to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, to all his servants,
and to all his land,
12 and by all that mighty power and by all the great terror which Moses
displayed in the sight of all Israel.
2) Our Daily Bread for 22 Mar 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/03/22/sweeter-than-honey-2
entitled Sweeter than Honey
Ps 119:97-105
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97 Oh, how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
98 Your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies,
for they are continually with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for Your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the elders,
because I keep Your precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
that I might keep Your word.
102 I have not departed from Your judgments,
for You have taught me.
103 How sweet are Your words to the taste of my mouth!
Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through Your precepts I receive understanding;
therefore I hate every false way.
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105 Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.
On Chicago Day in October 1893, the city's theaters shut down because
the owners figured everyone would be attending the World's Fair.
Over seven hundred thousand people went, but Dwight Moody (1837-1899)
wanted to fill a music hall at the other end of Chicago with preaching
and teaching. His friend R. A. Torrey (1856-1928) was skeptical that Moody
could draw a crowd on the same day as the fair. But by God's grace, he did.
As Torrey later concluded, the crowds came because Moody knew
"the one Book that this old world most longs to know-the Bible."
Torrey longed for others to love the Bible as Moody did,
reading it regularly with dedication and passion.
God through His Spirit brought people back to Himself
at the end of the nineteenth century in Chicago,
and He continues to speak today. We can echo the psalmist's love
for God and His Scriptures as he exclaims, "How sweet are your words
to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" (Psalm 119:103).
For the psalmist, God's messages of grace and truth
acted as a light for his path, a lamp for his feet (v. 105).
How can you grow more in love with the Savior and His message?
As we immerse ourselves in Scripture, God will increase our devotion
to Him and guide us, shining His light along the paths we walk.
By: Amy Boucher Pye
Reflect & Pray
In what ways does your life change when you read the Bible regularly?
How could you ensure you don't lose this practice
in the busyness of your daily life?
Gracious God, You’ve given me the gift of Scripture.
Help me to read it and digest it, that I might serve You faithfully.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 2 - Due Season
Gal 6:9
9 And let us not grow weary in doing good,
for in due season we shall reap, if we do not give up.
Jackie's preschool class took on an exciting project: they were going to grow
flowers from seeds, Each child took the ssed, planted it carefully in the
bedding soil, watered, and waited. But Jackie couldn't wait. Every day
for a week he ran to the window box, looked for his plants, poked, prodded,
unplanted the seeds and then planted them again. "It's no use,"
he pouted after the first week. "Nothin's gonna grow in there."
We live in an instant society - microwave dinners, quick fixes, easy answers.
We are conditioned by our environment to expect - even to demand -
immediate response, and when we have to wait,
we become impatient and irritable.
Paul's exhortation to the Galatians, "Let us not become weary in doing good,"
is as appropriate for twentieth-century believers as it was for the new church
at Galatia. We lose motivation when we don't see results, and weariness sets in.
If our work does not seem to be producing as we hope, we want to abandon it
and move on to a new project.
But God says, "You will reap a harvest if you don't give up." We give up too
soon in our prayers for a loved one's salvation. We abandon hope too readily
when ew fon't see spiritual growth in our own lives, when our investment in
another's spiritual maturity seems to have no return. The Lord says,
"The harvest is coming; be patient; trust me."
In due season the harvest comes; when it's the right time. When the seed has
had time to germinate, when the roots are string enough, when the conditions
are right, the reaping time will come. But we must be willing to wait for
the due season, the moment of ripeness, when our labor brings its return.
Application
a) Have I ever felt that my spiritual labors have produced no harvest at all?
b) What does it mean to my own spiritual growth that there is a "due season"
for reaping the harvest?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Hebrews 7:8
8 In the one case mortal men receive tithes,
but in the other he of whom it is witnessed
that he is alive receives them.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are Facing Pain and Suffering
2 Cor 12:7-10
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance
of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan,
to torment me, lest I be exalted above measure.
8 I asked the Lord three times that this thing might depart from me.
9 But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made
perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will boast in my weaknesses,
that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 So I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in hardships,
in persecutions, and in distresses for Christ’s sake.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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
22 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 be a strong witness and minister
Pray to the Lord to be a regular reader of The Word of God.
Pray to the Lord to trust His timing
Pray to the Lord to be bountiful in His Will.
Pray to be strong in the Lord.
Pray for Muslims in Saskatchewan to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord that the educational system will be Godly.
Pray to the Lord that to know the Holy Spirit.
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 82, 21 Mar 2021
Joshua 1-4
JOSHUA 1
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."
Joshua Takes Command
10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
11 (Jos 3:2; Dt 9:1) "Pass through the midst of the camp
and command the people, 'Prepare food, for in three days you
will cross the Jordan to go to take possession of the land
that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.'"
12 To the Reubenites, the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh,
Joshua said,
13 (Nu 32:20-28) "Remember the word that Moses the servant of the Lord
commanded you: 'The Lord your God has given you a place for rest
and will give this land.'
14 Your wives, your children, and your livestock may live in the land
that Moses gave you on the east side of the Jordan. But you must cross
over with your brothers fully armed, your mighty men of valor, and help them,
15 until the Lord has given your brothers rest, as He has given you, and they
also have possessed the land that the Lord your God is giving to them.
Then you may return to your own land and possess what Moses the servant
of the Lord gave you on the east side of the Jordan where the sun rises."
16 They answered Joshua, "All that you command us we will do,
and wherever you send us we will go.
17 (Jos 1:5) Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, we will obey you.
May the Lord your God be with you, as He was with Moses!
18 (Jos 1:6-7; 1:9) Whoever rebels against your command
and disobeys your words, in all that you command him,
shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous."
[Remember 40 years in the desert and Joshua and one other spy was loyal]
JOSHUA 2
Rahab and the Spies
1 (Heb 11:31; Jas 2:25; Nu 25:1) Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men out
from Shittim to spy, saying, "Go see the land, especially Jericho."
So they went, and they came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab.
They spent the night there.
2 The king of Jericho was told, "Israelite men came here tonight to spy
out the land."
3 So the king of Jericho sent orders to Rahab, "Bring out the men who
came to you, who have entered your house, for they came to spy out
the whole land."
4 (2Sa 17:19-20) Now the woman had taken the two men and had hidden
them. She said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they
were from.
5 The men went out when it was time to shut the gate at dark.
I do not know where the men went. Chase after them quickly,
for you can overtake them."
6 (2Sa 17:19) Yet she had brought them up to the roof. She hid them
in the stalks of flax that she had spread out on the roof.
7 (Jdg 3:28) So the men chased after them on the road to the Jordan
as far as the fords. They shut the gate as soon as the pursuers went
out after them.
8 Before the spies went to sleep, Rahab went up to them on the roof.
9 (Ex 23:27; Dt 2:25) She said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given
you the land, for dread from you has fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants
of the land melt in terror before you.
10 (Nu 21:21-35) For we heard how the Lord dried up the waters of the
Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon
and Og, the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of
the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed.
11 (Dt 4:39; Jos 5:1) Our hearts melted when we heard these things,
and no man had any breath in him because of you, for the Lord your God
is God in heaven above and on earth below.
12 (Jos 2:18) "So now, since I have acted faithfully toward you,
please swear to me by the Lord that you will also act faithfully
toward my father’s house. Please give me a firm pledge
13 that you will spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters,
and all whom they own, and that you will deliver our lives from death."
14 (Ge 24:49; Jdg 1:24-25) The men said to her, "Our lives for yours;
if you do not report us, then when the Lord gives us the land,
we will act faithfully and kindly with you."
15 (Ac 9:25; 2Co 11:33) Then Rahab lowered them by a rope
through the window, for her home was set into the wall where she lived.
16 She said to them, "Go to the hill country so that the pursuers do not
find you. Hide there three days until the pursuers return.
After that, you can go on your way."
17 The men said to her, "We will be free from this oath that you have
made us swear,
18 (Jos 6:23) unless, when we come into the land, you tie this red cord
to the window through which you let us down. You must bring your
father, your mother, your brothers, and all who belong
to your father's household into your home.
19 Anyone who comes out of the doors of your house into the street
is responsible for his own blood, and we will be innocent.
Yet for anyone who stays with you inside the house,
we are responsible for his blood if someone should lay a hand on him.
20 But if you tell about this business of ours, then we will be released
from the oath that you have made us swear."
21 She said, "Let it be so, according to your words."
Then she sent them off, and they departed.
Then she tied the red cord in the window.
22 They went and came to the hill country. They stayed there three days,
until the pursuers returned. The pursuers had sought them all along
the way but had not found them.
23 So the two men returned. They descended from the hill country.
They crossed the river, came to Joshua son of Nun,
and told him all that they had discovered.
24 (Ex 23:31) They said to Joshua, "The Lord has surely given
the whole land into our hands! Indeed, all the inhabitants of the land
melt in terror before us."
[Even in Pagan Jericho, they feared the Lord]
JOSHUA 3
Israel Crossing the Jordan
1 (Jos 2:1) In the morning Joshua got up early; then he and all the children
of Israel set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan.
They stayed there before crossing over.
2 (Jos 1:10-11) After three days the officers went through the camp.
3 (Dt 31:9; Nu 10:33) They commanded the people, "When you see the ark
of the covenant of the Lord your God and the Levite priests carrying it,
then you shall set out from where you are and go behind it.
4 (Ex 19:12) There must be a distance of two thousand cubits
{About 3,000 feet, or 900 meters.} between you and it.
Do not draw closer to it, in order that you may know the way you should go.
For you have not passed this way before."
5 (Jos 7:13; Lev 20:7) Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves,
for tomorrow the Lord will perform wondrous deeds among you."
6 Joshua said to the priests,
"Pick up the ark of the covenant, and proceed ahead of the people."
So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went in front of the people.
7 (Jos 4:14; 1:5) The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to honor you
in the sight of all Israel, so that they may know that just as I was
with Moses, so I will be with you.
8 (Jos 3:3; 3:17) You shall command the priests who carry
the ark of the covenant, 'When you come to the bank of the Jordan,
stand still in the river.'"
9 So Joshua said to the children of Israel,
"Draw near and hear the words of the Lord your God."
10 (Ex 33:2; Dt 5:26) And Joshua said, "By this you will know that the living
God is among you, and that He will thoroughly drive out the Canaanites,
the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites,
and the Jebusites from before you.
11 (Zec 6:5; Jos 3:13) See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of
all the earth is passing before you into the Jordan.
12 (Jos 4:2) Now select twelve men from the tribes of Israel,
one man per tribe.
13 (Ex 15:8; Ps 78:13) When the soles of the feet of the priests
who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth,
touch the water of the Jordan, the water of the Jordan
that flows from upstream will be cut off and pile up."
14 (Ac 7:44-45) When the people set out from their tents
to cross over the Jordan, the priests were carrying
the ark of the covenant before the people.
15 (1Ch 12:15; Jos 4:18) When the carriers of the ark came to the Jordan,
the feet of the priests carrying the ark dipped into the edge of the water.
(Now the Jordan overflows its banks all the days of the harvest.)
16 (Ge 14:3; Jos 3:13) Then the water that flows down from upstream
stood still and rose up in a heap very far away at Adam,
the city beside Zarethan. The water that flows down toward
the Sea of Arabah (the Dead Sea) stopped and was cut off.
The people crossed over opposite Jericho.
17 (Ex 14:29; 14:22) The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord
stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, and all Israel
crossed over on dry ground until the entire people completed crossing
over the Jordan.
[One memorial and a reminder of the Red Sea]
JOSHUA 4
Twelve Memorial Stones
1 (Dt 27:2; Jos 3:17_ When the entire people had completed crossing
over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,
2 (Jos 3:12) "Take twelve men from among the people, one man per tribe.
3 (Jos 4:19-20; 3:13) Command them: 'Pick up twelve stones from
the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests
are standing; bring them over with you, and set them in the place
you will camp tonight.'"
4 So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from among
the children of Israel, one man per tribe.
5 Then Joshua said to them, "Cross over before the ark of the Lord your God
into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you lift up a stone upon
your shoulder, one for each of the tribes of the children of Israel,
6 (Ex 13:14; Jos 4:21) so that this will be a sign among you.
When your children ask, 'What do these stones mean to you?'
7 (Ex 12:14; Nu 16:40) you will answer them that the waters of the Jordan
were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.
These stones will be a memorial for the children of Israel continually."
8 Then the children of Israel did as Joshua commanded
and picked up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan,
one for each of the tribes of the children of Israel,
as the Lord had spoken to Joshua.
They crossed over with them to the settlement and set them there.
9 Joshua also set twelve stones inthe middle of the Jordan
at the place where the feet of the priests who carried
the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are there to this day.
10 The priests who were carrying the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan
until everything was completed that the Lord had commanded Joshua
to say to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua.
The people quickly crossed over.
11 When all the people had finished crossing over, the ark of the Lord
and the priests crossed over in the presence of the people.
12 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed
over in battle formation in front of the children of Israel, according
to what Moses had said to them.
13 About 40000 battle-ready men crossed over before the Lord
for battle on the plains of Jericho.
14 (Jos 3:7) On that day, the Lord honored Joshua in the sight of all Israel.
They feared him as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life.
15 The Lord spoke to Joshua,
16 "Command the priests carrying the ark of the testimony:
'Come up out of the Jordan!'"
17 So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan!"
18 (Jos 3:15) Then when the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant
of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan and the soles of the priests'
feet touched the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place
and overflowed all its banks as before.
19 (Jos 5:9) Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day
of the first month, and they camped at Gilgal,
on the eastern border of Jericho.
20 (Jos 4:3; 4:8) Joshua set up in Gilgal those twelve stones that they took
from the Jordan.
21 (Jos 4:6) He said to the children of Israel, "When your children someday
ask their parents, 'What do these stones mean?'
22 (Jos 3:17) then you shall explain to your children,
'Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground!'
23 (Ex 14:21) For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan
before you until you crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea
when He dried it up before us until we crossed over,
24 (Ex 14:31; Ps 89:13) so that all the peoples of the earth might know
the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty,
and you would fear the Lord your God always."
[Memorials stones ask the Isrealites entered the Promised Land]
2) Our Daily Bread for 23 Mar 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/03/23/the-reason-to-rest
entitled The Reason to Rest
Eccles 2:17-26
17 (Ecc 2:11) And I began to hate life for the labor that was done
under the sun was contemptible to me, for all of this was vanity
and chasing the wind.
18 (Ps 39:6; 49:10) And I despised all the toil in which I labored
under the sun, which I will give up to the man who comes after me.
19 And who knows if this man will be wise or a fool? Yet he will gain
power over every labor that I have toiled and my use of wisdom
under the sun. Also this is vanity.
20 So I turned to give my heart up to despair concerning all
the toil of my labors under the sun.
21 For there is a man who labors with wisdom, knowledge,
and skill; yet to a man who did not labor for this, he leaves it
as his inheritance. This also is vanity and a great distress.
22 (Ecc 1:3; 3:9) For what becomes of a man with all his labor
and with the striving in his heart that he toils under the sun?
23 (Job 5:7; 14:1) For all his days are sorrowful,
and his work is a vexation; even at night his heart
finds no rest. Also this is fleeting.
24 (Ecc 3:12-13; 3:22) There is nothing better for a man than
to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his labor.
This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.
25 For who can even eat or have enjoyment more so than I?
(Some Heb. and Gk. texts,) apart from Him.
26 (Pr 13:22; Job 27:16-17) For to a man who is pleasing before Him,
God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner He gives
the work of gathering and collecting to give him who is pleasing
before God. Also this is vanity and chasing the wind.
If you want to live longer, take a vacation! Forty years after a study
of middle-aged, male executives who each had a risk of heart disease,
researchers in Helsinki, Finland, followed up with their study participants.
The scientists discovered something they hadn’t been looking for in their
original findings: the death rate was lower among those who had taken time
off for vacations.
Work is a necessary part of life-a part God appointed to us even before
our relationship with Him was fractured in Genesis 3. Solomon wrote
of the seeming meaninglessness of work experienced by those not working
for God's honor—recognizing its "anxious striving" and "grief and pain"
(Ecclesiastes 2:22-23). Even when they’re not actively working, he says their
"minds do not rest" because they're thinking about what still needs
to be done (v. 23).
We too might at times feel like we're "chasing after the wind" (v. 17)
and grow frustrated by our inability to "finish" our work. But when
we remember that God is part of our labor-our purpose-we can both
work hard and take time to rest. We can trust Him to be our Provider,
for He's the giver of all things. Solomon acknowledges that
"without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?" (v. 25).
Perhaps by reminding ourselves of that truth, we can work diligently
for Him (Colossians 3:23) and also allow ourselves times of rest.
By: Kirsten Holmberg
Reflect & Pray
How can you invite God into your labors? How might you allow
Him to be your satisfaction even when your work isn't "finished"?
God, You bring meaning and purpose to all my labors.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 3 - All I need
Phil 4:19
19 But my God shall supply your every need according
to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
"But Mom, I really need these!" The strident voice of a teenage girl
rose above the hum of voices in the department store. The item in question
was a pair of $80 blue Jeans, faded, bleached, and torn in the right knee.
Style . Fashion. Self-Image. The girl may not have needed the jeans to
enhance her wardrobe, but she obviously felt she needed then to
enhance her acceptability anomg her peers.
Phillippains 4:19 promises that God "will meet all your needs according
to his glorious riches in Christ." But just what needs does this promise
cover? My need for a bigger house? A better job? An $80 pair of Calvin Kleins?
Certainly God knows and cares about the physical, superficial need of our
lives, and he provides what we need to sustain life. But God's priority
goes much deeper than the kind of radial tires we buy or the brand name on
our back pockets. God is interested in eternal values, in spiritual needs, and
he knows what we need in our lives to draw us closer to him.
"Out of his glorious riches in Christ Jesus," God will enrich us spiritually.
The application of Phil 4:19 involves trusting God to know and care about our
real needs, the deep needs of our souls, and allowing him the freedom to
order our circumstances so that those needs are met. When we are bold
enough to pray, "Lord, do whatever is necessary to make me more like
Jesus Christ," our Father delights to answer that prayer and supply our needs.
Application
a) What is the difference between my "Needs" and my "wants"?
b) What spiritual needs can I identify in my life?
c) How can this verse help me keep my own priorities
in line with God's value system?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
2 Cor 9:8,11
8 God is able to make all grace abound toward you,
so that you, always having enough of everything,
may abound to every good work.
11 So you will be enriched in everything to all bountifulness,
which makes us give thanks to God.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are Facing Pain and Suffering
Ps 9:9-12
9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed,
a refuge in times of trouble.
10 Those who know Your name will put their trust in You,
for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
11 Sing praises to the Lord who dwells in Zion;
declare His deeds among the people.
12 He who avenges deaths remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the humble.
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
Day 23 of the Month
a) Pray for the genuine conversion and successful rehabilitation of 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 totake the Promised Land wiht His Help.
Pray to the Lord to be part of your work/labour.
Pray to the Lord to be in alignment with his Will as he know your needs.
Pray to the Lord to be bountiful in His Will.
Pray to the Lord for He is Your refuge and Sterngth..
Pray for Muslims in Saskatchewan to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for those who committed crimes
and their rehabiliation will include their hearts being turned to Christ.
Pray to the Lord for the Unity of Beleivers.
Pray to the Lord that to know the Holy Spirit.
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.
Pray to the Lord for the Unity of Beleivers.
Pray to the Lord that to know the Holy Spirit.
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 83, 24 Mar 2021
Joshua 5-8
JOSHUA 5
1 (Nu 13:29; Jos 2:9-11) When all the kings of the Amorites
west of the Jordan and of the Canaanites by the sea to the east
heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before
the children of Israel while they crossed over, their hearts melted,
and there was no longer any breath in them because of the children of Israel.
Circumcision and Passover at Gilgal
2 (Ex 4:25) At that time the Lord said to Joshua, "Make flint knives
and circumcise the children of Israel a second time."
3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the children of Israel
at the Hill of the Foreskins called Gibeath Haaraloth.
4 (Nu 26:64-65; Dt 2:16) Now this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them:
All the males who came out of Egypt who were men of fighting age had died
in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt.
5 All of the people who had come out were circumcised, but all the people born
in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt were not circumcised.
6 (Dt 2:7; 2:14) The children of Israel had traveled forty years
in the wilderness until all the people, the men of fighting age
who came out of Egypt, died, because they did not obey the Lord.
The Lord had sworn not to let them see the land that He had sworn
to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
7 (Nu 14:31; Dt 1:39) Yet He raised up their descendants in their place.
These men Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised.
They had not been circumcised along the way.
8 (Ge 34:25) So when the entire people was completely circumcised,
they stayed where they were in the camp until they healed.
9 (Ge 34:14; Jos 4:19) The Lord said to Joshua,
"Today I have rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from upon you."
So the name of that place is called Gilgal even to this day.
10 The children of Israel camped in Gilgal and kept the Passover
on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.
11 (Lev 23:14) The day after the Passover, they ate of the produce
of the land, unleavened bread, and roasted grain.
12 (Ex 16:35) The manna stopped the day after they ate
from the produce of the land, and the children of Israel no longer had manna.
That year they ate what the land of Canaan yielded.
The Fall of Jericho
13 (Ge 18:2; Nu 22:23) Now when Joshua was by Jericho, he looked up
and saw a man standing in front of him. In His hand was His drawn sword.
Joshua went to Him and said, "Are You for us or for our enemies?"
14 (Ge 17:3) He said, "Neither, for I am the commander of the army
of the Lord. Now I have come." Then Joshua fell with his face to the ground
and worshipped. Then he said, "What does my Lord wish to say to His servant?"
15 (Ex 3:5) The commander of the army of the Lord said to Joshua,
"Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place
where you are standing is holy." So Joshua did this.
JOSHUA 6
1 Now Jericho was tightly secured before the children of Israel.
There was no one leaving or entering.
2 (Dt 7:24; Jos 2:9) The Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have given Jericho,
its king, and mighty men of valor into your hand.
3 All the men of fighting age shall march around the city.
Circle the city once. Do this for six days.
4 Seven priests shall carry seven ram's horn trumpets before the ark.
On the seventh day, march around the city seven times,
with the priests blowing the trumpets.
5 (Jos 6:20; 1Sa 4:5) When they blow a long blast on the ram's horn
and when you hear the trumpet sound, all the people shall shout a loud
battle cry. The walls of the city will fall down, and the people will go up,
every man straight ahead."
6 So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them,
"Take up the ark of the covenant. Seven priests bearing seven ram's
horn trumpets shall be in front of the ark of the Lord."
7 (Jos 4:13) He said to the people, "Advance and march around the city.
Let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord."
8 So when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing
seven ram's horn trumpets before the Lord advanced and blew their
trumpets. The ark of the covenant of the Lord went after them.
9 (Jos 6:13; Nu 10:25) The armed men went before the priests
blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard went after the ark
while the trumpets were blowing.
10 Now Joshua had commanded the people, "Do not shout a battle cry,
and do not let your voices be heard. Do not let a word
come out of your mouths until the time I say to you, 'Shout the battle cry!'
Then shout."
11 So he had the ark of the Lord circle the city once. Then they came
into the camp and spent the night there.
12 Then Joshua got up early in the morning,
and the priests picked up the ark of the Lord.
13 Seven priests bearing seven ram's horn trumpets before the ark of the Lord
moved on, blowing their trumpets continually. The armed men went before them,
and the rear guard went after the ark of the Lord
while the trumpets were blowing.
14 The second day they circled the city once, and they returned to the camp.
They did this for six days.
15 Then on the seventh day they got up early as dawn was breaking
and circled the city in this way seven times. Only on that day did they circle
the city seven times.
16 On the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets
and Joshua said to the people,
"Shout the battle cry, for the Lord has given you the city!
17 (Dt 20:17) The city and all that is in it are dedicated to the Lord
for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute may live,
she, and all who are with her in her house,
for she hid the messengers we sent.
18 (Jos 7:1; 7:11-12) As for you, keep yourselves from
that which is dedicated for destruction, lest you be destroyed.
If you take from that which is dedicated for destruction, you will set
the Israelite camp for destruction and bring trouble upon it.
19 (1Ch 26:20) All the silver, gold, and bronze and iron articles
are set apart for the Lord. They will go into the treasury of the Lord."
20 (Heb 11:30; Jos 6:5) So the people shouted, and they blew the trumpets.
When the people heard the trumpet sound, they shouted a loud battle cry,
and the wall fell down. So the people went up into the city,
one man after the other, and they captured it.
21 They destroyed all that was in the city: man and woman, young
and old, and oxen, sheep, and donkey with the edge of the sword.
22 (Heb 11:31) Yet to the two men who had spied out the land,
Joshua said, "Enter the prostitute's house, and bring out the woman
and everyone who belongs to her, as you swore to her."
23 So the young men who had been spies entered and brought out Rahab,
her father, her mother, her brothers, everyone who belonged to her,
and her whole extended family. They brought them out
and placed them outside of the camp of Israel.
24 They burned the city and everything in it with fire. Only the silver,
the gold, the bronze and iron articles they gave to the treasury
of the house of the Lord.
25 (Heb 11:31; Mt 1:5) Yet Rahab the prostitute, her father's family,
and everyone who belonged to her, Joshua let live. They live among
Israel to this day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent
to spy on Jericho.
26 (1Ki 16:34) At that time Joshua made them swear, "Cursed before the Lord
will be the man who arises and rebuilds this city of Jericho.
He will establish it
at the cost of his firstborn
and erect its gates
at the cost of his youngest child."
27 (Jos 1:5; 9:1) So the Lord was with Joshua, and he became famous
throughout the land.
[The Lord delivers]
JOSHUA 7
Achan's Sin
1 (Jos 22:20; 6:17-18) Yet the children of Israel violated their obligations
with regard to the things dedicated for destruction. Achan, son of Karmi,
son of Zimri, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah took from the things
dedicated for destruction, and the anger of the Lord burned
against the children of Israel.
2 (Jos 18:12; 1Sa 13:5) Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (which is near
Beth Aven, east of Bethel) and said to them, "Go up and spy on the land."
So the men went up and spied on Ai.
3 Then they returned to Joshua and said to him,
All the people need not go up. Let about two or three thousand men go up
and strike Ai. Since they are so few, all the people need
not weary themselves."
4 (Lev 26:17; Dt 28:25) So about three thousand men went up from
among the people there, but they fled from before the men of Ai.
5 (Jos 2:11; Lev 26:36) The men of Ai struck down 36 men
and pursued them from the gate to Shebarim. They struck them down
on the mountainside, and the hearts of the people melted like water.
6 (Ge 37:29; 37:34) Then Joshua ripped his clothes. He and the Israelite
elders fell on their faces to the ground in front of the ark of the Lord
until evening and threw dirt upon their heads.
7 (2Ki 3:10) Joshua said, "O Lord God, why did You bring this people
across the Jordan to give us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us?
If only we had been content to dwell on the other side of the Jordan!
8 O my Lord, what should I say now that Israel has fled before its enemies?
9 (Ex 32:12; Ps 83:4) The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land may
hear, turn on us, and cut off our name from the earth.
What will You do for Your great name?"
10 Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?
11 (Jos 6:17-19; Ac 5:1-2) Israel has sinned, and they have broken
My covenant that I commanded them. They took from the things
dedicated for destruction. They have stolen, acted deceitfully,
and put them among their own possessions.
12 (Nu 14:45; Jos 6:18) Therefore the children of Israel cannot stand
before their enemies. They turn their backs to their enemies
because they have become dedicated for destruction.
I will not be with you anymore if you do not destroy the things
dedicated for destruction in your midst.
13 (Jos 3:5) "Get up! Consecrate the people and say,
'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus says the Lord,
the God of Israel: "Things dedicated for destruction are in your midst,
O Israel. You are not able to stand before your enemies
until you remove the things dedicated for destruction from your midst."
14 (Pr 16:33) " 'In the morning you will be brought forward by tribes,
and the tribe that the Lord selects by lot shall come forward by clans.
The clan that the Lord selects by lot shall come forward by households,
and the household that the Lord selects by lot shall come forward
man by man.
15 (Ge 34:7; Jdg 20:6) And he who is taken with the things dedicated
for destruction shall be burned with fire, he and all who belong to him,
for he broke the covenant of the Lord
and has done a disgraceful action in Israel.' "
16 So Joshua got up early in the morning and brought forward Israel
by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.
17 (Nu 26:20) He brought forward the clans of Judah, and the clan
of the Zerahites was selected. He brought forward the clan of the Zerahites
man by man, and Zimri was selected.
18 (Nu 32:23; Ac 5:1-10) He brought forward the household of Zimri
man by man, and Achan son of Karmi, son of Zimri, son of Zerah,
from the tribe of Judah, was selected.
19 (1Sa 6:5; Jer 13:16; Jn 9:24) Then Joshua said to Achan,
"O my son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and give Him praise!
Tell me what you have done! Do not hold back anything from me."
20 Achan answered Joshua and said, "Indeed, I sinned against the Lord,
the God of Israel. This is what I did:
21 (Dt 7:25) When I saw among the plundered goods a beautiful robe
from Babylon, two hundred shekels of silver,
[About 5 pounds, or 2.3 kilograms].
and a gold bar weighing fifty shekels, [About 1 1/4 pounds, or 575 grams.]
I coveted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground in my tent.
The silver is underneath them."
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent.
There it all was hidden in the ground with the silver underneath.
23 They took it from the tent and brought it to Joshua
and all the children of Israel. They spread it out before the Lord.
24 (Jos 15:7; 7:26) Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan
son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons, his daughters,
his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all he had,
and brought them up to the Valley of Achor.
25 (Jos 6:18; Lev 20:2) Then Joshua said, "Why have you brought trouble
on us? The Lord will trouble you today!" So all Israel stoned him.
They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
26 (Dt 13:17; Isa 65:10) Then they erected over him a large pile of stones,
which is still there today. So the Lord turned from His burning anger.
Therefore the name of the place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.
{The sin of the Community is costly}
JOSHUA 8
Ai Destroyed
1 (Jos 1:9; 6:2) Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid or dismayed.
Take all the fighting men with you. Arise, and go up to Ai. See, I have given
the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land into your hand.
2 (Dt 20:14; Jos 6:21) Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho
and its king, except you may plunder its spoils and its livestock.
Now set an ambush for the city behind it."
3 So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. Joshua chose
30000 men, mighty men of valor, and sent them out at night.
4 (Jdg 20:29) He commanded them, "You shall ambush the city from behind.
Do not go very far from the city. All of you be ready.
5 (Jos 7:5) I and all the people who are with me will approach the city.
When they come out to engage us as before, we will flee from them.
6 They will come after us until we have lured them away from the city,
for they will think, 'They are fleeing from us as before!'
So we will flee from them.
7Then you shall rise up for the ambush and take possession of the city.
The Lord your God will give it into your hands.
8 (2Sa 13:28) When you have seized the city, set it on fire.
Act according to the word of the Lord. See, I have commanded you."
9 So Joshua sent them out. They went to the place of ambush
and took up a position between Bethel and Ai, westward of Ai,
and Joshua spent the night among the people.
10 Joshua got up early in the morning and mustered the people.
He and the elders of Israel went up before the people to Ai.
11 All the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near to the city.
They camped north of Ai, and there was a valley between them and Ai.
12 He took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between
Bethel and Ai, westward of the city.
13 So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north
of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, and Joshua spent
that night in the midst of the valley.
14 When the king of Ai saw this, the men of the city hurriedly got up
early and went out to engage Israel in battle at the assembly point
near the Arabah. Yet he did not know that there was an ambush
for him behind the city.
15 (Jos 18:12) So Joshua and all Israel allowed themselves to be
beaten before them, and they fled in the direction of the wilderness.
16 (Jdg 20:31) All the people who were in Ai were assembled to pursue
them, so they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
17 Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel.
They left the city wide open, and they pursued Israel.
18 (Jos 8:26) The Lord said to Joshua, "Point toward Ai with the sword
that is in your hand, for I will give it into your hand." So Joshua pointed
toward the city with the sword in his hand.
19 When his hand pointed, the men in ambush got up quickly from
their place and ran. They came into the city, captured it, and quickly
set the city on fire.
20 The men of Ai turned around and looked, and there from the city
came smoke rising to the sky! They could not flee in any direction,
and the people who had fled into the wilderness had turned back
toward their pursuers.
21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured
the city and that smoke rose from it,
they turned and struck down the men of Ai.
22 (Dt 7:2) Then the men in the city came out to engage them in battle,
so they were now in the middle, with Israel on each side.
Israel struck them down until neither survivors nor escapees were left.
23 (1Sa 15:8) They took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
24 When Israel completed killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open
wilderness where they had pursued them, and when all of them had
finally fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai
and struck it with the edge of the sword.
25 All who had fallen that day, men and women, numbered 12000,
all the people of Ai.
26 (Ex 17:11-12; Jos 8:18) Joshua did not draw back his hand
with the stretched-out sword until he destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 (Jos 8:2) Israel plundered only the Âlivestock and the spoil of that city
for themselves, according to the word of the Lord
that He had commanded Joshua.
28 (Dt 13:16) Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever,
a desolation to this day.
29 (Dt 21:22-23; Jos 7:26) The king of Ai hanged on a tree until evening.
At sunset, Joshua commanded that the people take down the body
from the tree and throw it down at the city gate.
They erected a large heap of stones over it that remains to this day.
The Covenant Renewal at Mount Ebal
30 Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebal,
31 as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel.
As is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, it was
"an altar of uncut stones not shaped by iron tools."
They sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord on it, as well as peace offerings.
32 (Dt 27:2-3; 27:8) There in the presence of the children of Israel he wrote
a copy of the Law of Moses on the stones.
33 (Dt 11:29; 31:12) All Israel, resident alien and native alike, with
its elders, officials, and judges, were standing on either side of the ark
in front of the Levite priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
half in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal,
as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded from the beginning,
in order to bless the people of Israel.
34 (Ne 8:2-3; 13:1) After this, Joshua read out all the words of the law,
both blessing and curse, according to all that is written in the
Book of the Law.
35 (Dt 31:12) There was not a word from all that Moses had commanded
that Joshua did not read out before the whole assembly of Israel,
with the women, the children, and the resident aliens who were among them.
2) Our Daily Bread for 24 Mar 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/03/24/something-much-bigger
entitled Something Much Bigger
1 Cor 3:5-9
5 (2Co 6:4; 1Co 3:10) Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos,
but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?
6 (Ac 18:4-11; 1Co 9:1) I have planted, Apollos watered,
but God gave the increase.
7 (Gal 6:3) So then neither is he who plants nor he who waters anything,
but God who gives the increase.
8 (Ps 62:12; Mt 16:27) Now he who plants and he who waters are one,
and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 (2Co 6:1; Eph 2:20-22) For we are laborers together with God:
You are God’s vineyard; you are God’s building.
More than two hundred volunteers assisted October Books,
a bookstore in Southampton, England, move its inventory to an address
down the street. Helpers lined the sidewalk and passed books down a
"“human conveyor belt." Having witnessed the volunteers in action,
a store employee said, "It was . . . a really moving experience to see people
[helping]. . . . They wanted to be part of something bigger."
We can also be part of something much bigger than ourselves. God uses us
to reach the world with the message of His love. Because someone shared
the message with us, we can turn to another person and pass it on.
Paul compared this-the building of God's kingdom-to growing a garden.
Some of us plant seeds while some of us water the seeds.
We are, as Paul said,
"For we are laborers together with God" (1 Corinthians 3:9).
Each job is important, yet all are done in the power of God's Spirit.
By His Spirit, God enables people to thrive spiritually when they
hear that He loves them and sent His Son to die in their place
so that they can be free from their sin (John 3:16).
God does much of His work on earth through "volunteers" like you and me.
Although we're part of a community that's much bigger than any
contribution we may make, we can help it grow by working together to share
His love with the world.
By: Jennifer Benson Schuldt
Reflect & Pray
Do you see yourself as a part of God's plan or as someone
who works alone in your service for Him?
How does this affect the way in which you serve Him and others?
Dear God, thank You for including me in Your plan to tell everyone
about Your love. Help me to represent You well with my words and actions.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 4 - Giving and Receiving
Luke 6:38
38 "Give, and it will be given to you: Good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over will men give unto you.
For with the measure you use, it will be measured unto you."
"Just give the Lord", the voice on the radio declared. "Give, and he will
give back to you, a hundredfold." The preacher went on to explain how
an old woman on social security had sent her last $10 to support his
ministry, and the next day she got an anonymous money order for
a $1000 . "The Lord will be faithful to his Word," the preacher
concluded. "You give, and you'll receive."
The Lord is, of course, faithful to his Word. But many well-meaning Christians
have interpreted Luke 6:38 as a "paymant in kind" bargain with God:
if I give God my dollar, he's obliged to return it to me with interest.
This "seed-sowing" fallacy, where $20 supposedly becomes $2000 by
an act of divine, multiplication, has caused much
disappointment and frustration.
The "giving and receiving" principle is a valid one; the Lord does, indeed say
"Give, and it will be given to you," but he does not specify what the "return"
will be. The verse appears in the context of forgiveness, of not judging; the
principle is not investment, in any material sense, but generosity.
As we give, as ew are compassionate with others, we take on the
character of the Lord himself. He is generous and giving, and he gives
to us as we give ourselves in love to others.
Application
a) Have I ever "given" to God ot to others as a bribe, to get something
in return?
b) What is God's concept of giving, as demonstrated
in the gift of Jeus Christ?
c) How can this verse help me to give more selflessly?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Ecclesiates 11:1
1 (Pr 19:17; Mt 10:42; Heb 6:10) Cast your bread upon the waters,
for you will find it after many days
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are Facing Pain and Suffering
Romans 8:31-39
The Love of God
31 (Ps 118:6; Ro 4:1) What then shall we say to these things?
If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 (Jn 3:16; Ro 4:25) He who did not spare His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all, how shall
He not with Him also freely give us all things?
33 (Rev 12:10–11; Isa 50:8–9) Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?
It is God who justifies.
34 (Heb 7:25; Mk 16:19; Ro 8:1) Who is he who condemns?
It is Christ who died, yes, who is risen, who is also
at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35 (1Co 4:11) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 (Ps 44:22; 1Co 15:30)As it is written:
"For Your sake we are killed all day long;
we are counted as sheep for the slaughter." (Ps 44:22.)
37 (1Co 15:57; Gal 2:20) No, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through Him who loved us.
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.
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
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
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to take the Promised Land in obedience.
Pray to the Lord to be part of The Body in worship and ministry.
Pray to the Lord on my giving.
Pray to the Lord to cast my 'bread upon the waters'.
Pray to the Lord to do good no matter the circumstances..
Pray for Muslims in Saskatchewan to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord for the gospel to reach all.
Pray to the Lord that to know the Holy Spirit.
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 84, 25 Mar 2021
Joshua 9 - 11
JOSHUA 9
The Gibeonite Deception
1 (Nu 34:6; Ex 3:17) When all the kings west of the Jordan
in the hill country, in the low country, and along all the coast
of the Mediterranean Sea toward Lebanon-the Hittite, the Amorite,
the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite kings
-heard this,
2 they gathered together as one to wage war against Joshua and Israel.
3 (Jos 10:2; 9:17) But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua
had done to Jericho and Ai,
4 they acted craftily, and took old sacks on their donkeys,
and old wineskins, torn and mended,
5 old and patched sandals on their feet, and old garments on themselves.
All the bread of their provision was dry and crumbly.
6 (Jos 5:10) They went to Joshua at the Gilgal settlement and said to him
and the children of Israel, "We have come from a distant land.
Now make a pact with us."
7 (Jos 11:19; Jdg 2:2_ Then the children of Israel said to these Hivites,
"Perhaps you live among us, so how could we make a pact with you?"
8 (Dt 20:11; 2Ki 10:5) Yet they said to Joshua, "We are your slaves."
Joshua said to them, "Who are you, and where do you come from?"
9 (Dt 20:15; Jos 9:24) They said to him, "We, your slaves, have come
from a very distant land because of the name of the Lord your God,
for we heard news of Him and all He did in Egypt
10 (Nu 21:24-35; Dt 1:4) and all that He did to the two Amorite kings
on the other side of the Jordan, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan
in Ashtaroth.
11 (Est 8:17; Jos 9:8) So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country
said to us, 'Take food provisions for the journey and go to meet them.
Say to them, "We are your slaves. So now, make a pact with us." '
12 This bread of ours was hot as we took it from our homes on the day
we left to come to you, but now, see, it is dry and crumbly.
13 These wineskins that we filled were new, but see, they are ripped open.
These clothes and sandals wore out due to the very long journey."
14 (Nu 27:21) So the men examined some of the food provisions,
but they did not ask the Lord about it.
15 (2Sa 21:2; Jos 11:19) Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant
with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore
an oath to them.
16 Three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that
they were neighbors to them and lived among them.
17 (Jos 18:25-28; 1Sa 7:1) So the children of Israel set out
and came to their cities on the third day. Their cities were Gibeon,
Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.
18 (Ps 15:4) Now the children of Israel did not attack them,
for the leaders of the congregation had sworn an oath to them by the Lord,
the God of Israel, so the congregation murmured against the leaders.
19 Yet all the leaders said to the whole congregation,
"We swore to them by the Lord God of Israel, so now we may not harm them.
20 This is what we will do to them. We will let them live so that wrath
will not come upon us due to the oath that we swore to them."
21 (Dt 29:11; Jos 9:23) The leaders of the congregation also said to them,
"Let them live!" So they became woodcutters and water carriers
for the whole congregation, as the leaders told them.
22 (Jos 9:6; 9:16) Joshua met them and said,
"Why did you trick us, saying, 'We are very distant from you,'
but you are living in our midst?
23 (Jos 9:21; 9:27) Therefore now you are cursed, and you will
always be slaves, cutting wood and carrying water for the house of my God."
24 (Dt 7:1-2) They answered Joshua, "It was told to your slaves that the Lord
your God commanded Moses His servant to give you all the land
and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you.
So we were very afraid for our lives, and we did this thing.
25 (Ge 16:6) Now here we are, in your hands.
Do to us whatever is good and right in your eyes."
26 Thus he did to them, and delivered them from the hand
of the children of Israel; and they did not kill them.
27 (Dt 12:5) That day he made them woodcutters and water carriers
for the congregation and the altar of the Lord, even to this day,
at the place He would choose.
[Make your decisions in prayer being taking action]
JOSHUA 10
The Sun Stands Still
1 (Jos 6:21) Now when King Adoni-Zedek of Jerusalem heard that Joshua
captured Ai and destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to
Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace
with Israel and were among them,
2 (Ex 15:14-16; Dt 11:25) he and his people were very afraid. Gibeon
was a large city, like one of the royal cities. It was larger than Ai,
and all its men were warriors.
3 (2Ch 11:9; Mic 1:13) So King Adoni-Zedek of Jerusalem sent this message
to King Hoham of Hebron, King Piram of Jarmuth, King Japhia of Lachish,
and King Debir of Eglon:
4 (Jos 9:15; 10:1) "Come and help me! Let us attack Gibeon, for it has made
peace with Joshua and all the children of Israel."
5 So the five kings of the Amorites-the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth,
Lachish, and Eglon-and all their armies gathered, advanced, and camped
against Gibeon. Then they waged war against it.
6 (Jos 5:10; 9:6) The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the Gilgal
settlement: "Do not abandon your slaves. Come up to us quickly. Save us!
Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country have gathered
against us."
7 (Jos 8:1) So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with
him, and all the mighty men of valor.
8 (Dt 3:2; Jos 11:6) The Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them,
for I have given them into your hand. Not a single man can stand before you."
9 Then Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal.
10 (Jos 16:3; 16:5) The Lord panicked them before Israel. They struck them
with overwhelming force at Gibeon, then Israel pursued them on the road
that rises to Beth Horon and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
11 (Isa 28:2; Ps 18:12-14) As they fled from Israel on the downslope
from Beth Horon, the Lord hurled large hailstones down upon them from the sky
as far as Azekah. They died, and in fact more died from the hailstones
than the children of Israel killed with the sword.
12 (Hab 3:11; Jdg 12:12) On the day the Lord gave over the Amorites
to the children of Israel, Joshua spoke to the Lord
and said in full view of Israel:
"Sun, stand still over Gibeon;
and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon."
13 (2Sa 1:18; Isa 38:8) So the sun stood still,
and the moon stood in place
until the people brought vengeance on their enemies.
Is this not written in the book of Jashar?
The sun stood still in the middle of the sky and did not set
for about a full day.
14 (Jos 10:42; Dt 1:30) There has not been a day like this either
before or after it, when the Lord obeyed a man,
for the Lord waged war for Israel.
15 (Jos 10:43) Then Joshua, and all Israel with him,
returned to the settlement at Gilgal.
The Execution of Five Amorite Kings
16 Yet these five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
17 Joshua was told, "The five kings have been found hiding themselves
in the cave at Makkedah."
18 So Joshua said, "Roll large stones over the mouth of the cave,
and station men to stand guard over it.
19 As for you, do not stop pursuing your enemies, but attack them
from behind. Do not let them go back to their cities, for the Lord
your God has given them into your hand."
20 (Jos 8:24) When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished
striking them with overwhelming force until they were completely
defeated, the survivors escaped from them and went back
to their fortified cities.
21 (Ex 11:7) Then all the people returned safely to Joshua at the Makkedah
settlement, and no one spoke against any of the children of Israel.
22 Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out to me those
five kings from the cave."
23 They did this, and they brought out those five kings from the cave:
the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
24 (Mal 4:3; Ps 110:1) When they brought out those five kings to Joshua,
he called out to all the men of Israel and the army commanders,
"Come here and place your feet on the necks of these kings."
So they came near and placed their feet on their necks.
25 (Dt 7:19; 31:6-8) Then Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed.
Be strong and courageous! For this is what the Lord will do to
all your enemies against whom you fight."
26 (Jos 8:29) After that, Joshua struck them down, killed them,
and hung them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until evening.
27 (Jos 8:29) At sundown Joshua commanded men to take them down from
the trees and throw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves.
Over the mouth of the cave he placed large stones, which remain to this day.
Southern Cities Conquered
28 (Jos 6:21) Joshua took Makkedah that day and struck it and its king
with the edge of the sword. He destroyed it and all life within it.
He did not leave any survivors. He did to the king of Makkedah
just as he did to the king of Jericho.
29 (Jos 21:13; 15:42) Then Joshua passed from Makkedah to Libnah
with all of Israel, and they fought against Libnah.
30 The Lord gave Libnah and its king into the hand of Israel,
and they struck all who lived in it with the edge of the sword.
There were no survivors left. They did to its king what they had done
to the king of Jericho.
31 (Jos 10:3) Then Joshua passed from Libnah to Lachish with all of Israel,
camped against it, and waged war against it.
32 The Lord gave Lachish into the hand of Israel. They captured it on the
second day and struck all who lived in it with the edge of the sword,
just as they had done to Libnah.
33( Jos 16:10; Jdg 1:29) King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish,
but Joshua attacked him and his people
until he did not have a single survivor left.
34 (Jos 10:3) From Lachish, Joshua and all of Israel passed to Eglon.
They camped against it and waged war against it.
35 They captured it that day and struck it with the edge of the sword.
All who lived in it were destroyed that day,
just as Israel had done to Lachish.
36 (Jdg 1:10; Jos 15:13) Then Joshua and all of Israel went up from Eglon
to Hebron and waged war against it.
37 They captured it and struck its king, and all who lived in it,
and its surrounding towns with the edge of the sword.
No survivor was left. Just as they had done to Eglon, they destroyed it
and all who lived in it.
38 (Jos 15:15) Then Joshua and all of Israel turned to Debir and waged war
against it.
39 They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding towns and struck
them with the edge of the sword. They destroyed all who lived in them,
and no survivor was left. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir
and its king as they had done to Libnah and its king.
40 So Joshua attacked the whole land: the hill country, the Negev,
the lowlands, the mountain slopes, and all their kings. No survivor was left.
He destroyed all who breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.
41 (Jos 11:16; 15:51) Joshua attacked the land from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza
and the land of Goshen as far as Gibeon.
42 (Jos 10:14) Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign
because the Lord God of Israel waged war for Israel.
4 (3Jos 10:15) Then Joshua and all of Israel returned to the settlement at Gilgal.
JOSHUA 11
Northern Kings Defeated
1 (Jos 11:10; Jdg 4:2) When King Jabin of Hazor heard these things,
he sent word to King Jobab of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Akshaph,
2 (Jos 12:3; Nu 34:11) and the kings of the northern hill country,
the Arabah south of Kinnereth, the low country, and the heights of Dor
in the west,
3 (Jdg 3:3; Ge 31:49) to the Canaanites in the east and in the west,
the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites in the hill country,
and the Hivites at Mount Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
4 (Jdg 7:12; 1Sa 13:5) So these kings went out with all their armies,
people as numerous as grains of sand on the seashore,
with a large number of horses and chariots.
5 These kings all met and camped together at the waters of Merom
in order to wage war against Israel.
6 (Jos 10:8; 2Sa 8:4) The Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them,
for about this time tomorrow I will make them dead before Israel.
Hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."
7 ( Jos 10:9) So Joshua and all his fighting forces came upon them
by surprise at the waters of Merom and fell upon them.
8 (Jos 13:6; 19:28) The Lord gave them into the hand of Israel.
They struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon,
Misrephoth Maim, and Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them
down until no survivor remained.
9 (Jos 11:6) Joshua did to them as the Lord had said.
He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
10 (Jos 11:1; Jdg 4:2) At that time Joshua turned, captured Hazor,
and struck down its king with the sword. Hazor was formerly
the head of all these kingdoms.
11 (Jos 10:40) They struck all who lived in them with the edge
of the sword, destroying them. No one who breathed was left,
and he burned Hazor with fire.
12 (Dt 7:2; 20:16-17) Joshua captured all these kings and their towns.
He struck with the edge of the sword, destroying them, as Moses
the servant of the Lord had commanded.
13 However, Israel did not burn any of the cities that stood
on mounds except Hazor. Joshua burned it.
14 The children of Israel plundered all the goods and the livestock
of these cities, but they struck all the people with the edge of the sword
until they destroyed them. They did not spare anyone who breathed.
15 (Jos 1:7; Dt 7:2) As the Lord commanded Moses His servant,
so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it.
He did not ignore a word of all that the Lord commanded Moses.
16 (Jos 10:41; 11:21) So Joshua took all that land: the hill country,
the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah,
the hill country of Israel and its lowland.
17 (Dt 7:24; Jos 11:3) From Mount Halak to Seir, and as far as Baal Gad
in the Lebanon Valley under Mount Hermon: All their kings he captured,
struck down, and killed.
18 Joshua engaged all those kings in battle for a long time.
19 There was no city that made peace with the children of Israel
except the Hivites living in Gibeon. They conquered all of them
20 (Ex 4:21; Dt 20:16-17) because the Lord hardened their hearts
to engage Israel in battle. They destroyed them without mercy,
to put them to death, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
21 (Dt 9:2; Nu 13:22-23) At that time Joshua came and wiped out the
Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab,
from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel.
Joshua utterly destroyed them and their cities.
22 (1Sa 17:4; Jos 15:46) No Anakites were left in the land of the children
of Israel, but they did remain in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.
23 (Nu 26:52-55; Jos 14:1-15) So Joshua took the whole land according
to all that the Lord had said to Moses.
Joshua gave it to Israel as an inheritance
according to their allotted portions by their tribes.
Then the land rested from war.
[The Battle belongs to the Lord]
2) Our Daily Bread for 25 Mar 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/03/25/know-his-voice
entitled Know His Voice
John 10:1-10,14
JOHN 10
The Parable of the Shepherd
1 "Truly, truly I say to you, he who does not enter by the door
into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.
2 (Jn 10:14) But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 (Jn 10:4; 10:16) To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice.
He calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out.
4 (Jn 10:16) When he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them.
And the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
5 Yet they will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him.
For they do not know the voice of strangers."
6 Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand
what He was telling them.
Jesus the Good Shepherd
7 (Jn 10:9; 10:1) Then Jesus said to them again, "Truly, truly I say to you,
I am the door of the sheep.
8 (Eze 34:2; Jn 10:1) All who came before Me are thieves and robbers,
but the sheep did not listen to them.
9 (Jn 10:1; 14:6) I am the door. If anyone enters through Me,
he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
10 (Jn 6:33; Heb 7:25) The thief does not come, except to steal
and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life,
and that they may have it more abundantly.
14 (Jn 10:27; Isa 53:11) "I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep
and am known by My own. "
One year for vacation Bible school, Ken's church decided to bring
in live animals to illustrate the Scripture. When he arrived to help,
Ken was asked to bring a sheep inside. He had to practically
drag the wooly animal by a rope into the church gymnasium.
But as the week went on, it became less reluctant to follow him.
By the end of the week, Ken didn't have to hold the rope anymore;
he just called the sheep and it followed, knowing it could trust him.
In the New Testament, Jesus compares Himself to a shepherd,
stating that His people, the sheep, will follow Him because
they know His voice (John 10:4). But those same sheep will run
from a stranger or thief (v. 5). Like sheep, we (God's children)
get to know the voice of our Shepherd through our relationship with Him.
And as we do, we see His character and learn to trust Him.
As we grow to know and love God, we'll be discerning of His voice
and better able to run from the "the thief [who] comes only to steal
and kill and destroy" (v. 10)-from those who try to deceive
and draw us away from Him. Unlike those false teachers,
we can trust the voice of our Shepherd to lead us to safety.
By: Julie Schwab
Reflect & Pray
What's one thing you've learned about God's character through
reading Scripture? How did that impact you? What will help you
to discern God's voice?
Heavenly Father, thank You for being my loving Shepherd.
Help me to recognize and follow Your voice only.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 5 The Way Out
1 Cor 10:13
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.
Becky had experienced some hard knocks in the past few weeks; the stress
was beginning to show, and she wasn't sure she sould handle anything else.
"Why me?" Becky wept, covering her face. "I just can't stnad it any more!
I can't pay my bills; I just lost my job, and now my car broke down
on the highway. How much more of this can I take?"
Some people seem to have more than their share of trouble and temptation.
Within six months, one family faced finanical trouble, cancer, quadruple
bypass surgery, and leukemia; their trials brought them face to face with
anger, bitterness, and despair as well. Other peopel seem to go through
life with relatively minor stresses and few real temptations to sin.
But whether our problems are great or small, they are part of the cpmmon
thread that ties humanity together. All of us face temptation; it is ,
Paul says, "Common to man." But Pauk assures us that
"God ... will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear."
Often what we can bear is more that what we think we can bear. God will use
the troubled times in our lives for our maturity in him, but he promises
as well that he will not let temptation break us. He will provide "a way out,"
"a way of escape".
Sometimes the "way out" is true escape, being removed from what caused the
trouble. At other times, rathewr than being removed from it, we must
withstand the stress, face the temptatino, enure the pain. Whether we escape
or endure, God is faithful to provide what we need; we can trust him
not to give os more than we can bear.
Application
a) Have I ever faced more stress or temptation than I thought I could bear?
b) Under what circumstances has God provided an "escape" for me?
When have I had to walk "through" my difficulties?
c) How can today's verse encourage me when times are tough?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
3 John 2
2 Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be
in good health, even as your soul is well.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Inexhaustible Strength
Is 40:27-31
27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and assert, O Israel,
"My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my justice escapes the notice of my God"?
28 (Ps 147:5; Ge 21:33; Isa 57:15) Have you not known?
Have you not heard,
that the everlasting God, the Lord,
the Creator of the ends of the earth,
does not faint, nor is He weary?
His understanding is inscrutable.
29 (Isa 41:10) He gives power to the faint,
and to those who have no might He increases strength.
30 (Isa 9:17) Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
and the young men shall utterly fall,
31 (2Co 4:16; Ps 103:5; Ex 19:4) but those who wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
and they shall walk and not faint.
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, atheists, secular humanists, ...) .
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
comunity 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 take the Promised Land in obedience
Pray to the Lord to know His voice.
Pray to the Lord for a way out for any difficult situation.
Pray to the Lord to prosper in health.
Pray to the Lord to lean on His Strength.
Pray for Muslims in Saskatchewan to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord that there will be a growing number of people in your city or
comunity trusting in Christ as Saviour and Lord.
Pray to the Lord that those who serve in the justice system will be agents of true
justice for all.
Pray to the Lord that to know the Holy Spirit.
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 86, 27 Mar 2021
Joshua 16 - 18
JOSHUA 16
Allotment for Ephraim and Manasseh
1 (Jos 8:15; 18:12) The allotment of land for the descendants of Joseph
was from the Jordan by Jericho then east into the wilderness,
rising from Jericho to the hill country of Bethel.
2 (Jos 18:13; Ge 28:19) It goes out from Bethel to Luz and passes
to the border of Arkite territory at Ataroth.
3 (Jos 10:33; 18:13) It goes down westward to the territory
of the Japhletites, to the border of lower Beth Horon and Gezer,
and then goes out to the sea.
4 (Jos 17:14) So the descendants of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim,
took their inheritance.
5 (Jos 18:13) The territory of the Ephraimites, according to their clans,
was as follows. The border of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth
Addar as far as upper Beth Horon.
6 (Jos 17:7) The border goes out toward the sea with Mikmethath
on the north. It turns eastward toward Taanath Shiloh and passes it
on the east toward Janoah.
7 (1Ch 7:28) It descends from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah,
touches Jericho, and extends to the Jordan.
8 (Jos 17:8-9) From Tappuah the border goes west to the Kanah Ravine
and out to the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the Ephraimites
according to their clans.
9 The other cities for the Ephraimites were in the middle of the inheritance
of the descendants of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages.
10 (Jdg 1:29; 1Ki 9:16) They did not drive out the Canaanites who lived
in Gezer, so the Canaanites live in the midst of Ephraim until this day
oerforming heavy labor as slaves.
JOSHUA 17
1 (Ge 41:51; Nu 26:29) Then allotment was made to the tribe of Manasseh,
for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Makir the firstborn of Manasseh,
the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan,
because he was a warrior.
2 (Nu 26:29-32; 1Ch 7:18) And allotments were made
to the rest of the tribe of Manasseh, according to their families:
Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida;
these were the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, according
to their families.
3 (Nu 26:33; 27:1) Yet Zelophehad, son of Hepher, son of Gilead,
son of Makir, son of Manasseh had no sons, only daughters.
These were his daughters' names: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirzah.
4 (Jos 14:1) They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun,
and the leaders, saying, "The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance
among our relatives." So Joshua gave them an inheritance among their fathers'
relatives according to the word of the Lord.
5 Therefore Manasseh received ten regions, apart from the lands of Gilead
and Bashan on the east side of the Jordan,
6 because the daughters of Manasseh
received an inheritance among his sons, and the rest of the people of Manasseh
received the land of Gilead.
7 (Jos 21:21) The boundary of Manasseh was from Asher to Mikmethath
east of Shechem, and it runs south toward the inhabitants of En Tappuah.
8 (Jos 16:8) Now Manasseh owned the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah
on the border of Manasseh belonged to the Ephraimites.
9 Then the border descended to the Kanah Ravine, southward to the brook.
These cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh.
The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook,
and it ended at the sea.
10 The land belonging to Ephraim was to the south,
and the land belonging to Manasseh to the north.
The Mediterranean Sea was the boundary of this territory,
which bordered Asher in the north and Issachar in the east.
11 (1Ch 7:29; Jos 12:23) In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was
assigned districts: Beth Shan, Ibleam, Dor, Endor, Taanach,
Megiddo, Naphoth, and their respective villages.
12 (Jdg 1:27-28) Yet the sons of Manasseh could not take possession
of those cities, because the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.
13 (Jos 16:10) But when the children of Israel became strong, they put
the Canaanites to hard labor as slaves,
but they did not actually drive them out.
14 (Ge 48:19; 48:22) The descendants of Joseph said to Joshua,
"Why have you assigned us a single allotment, a single portion?
We are a numerous people, as the Lord has blessed us."
15 (Ge 14:5) Joshua said to them, "If you are a numerous people,
go up to the forests and clear out a place there for yourselves
in the land of the Perizzites and the giants,
since the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you."
16 (Jdg 1:19; 4:3) The descendants of Joseph said,
"The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites
living in the plains have iron chariots, both those
in Beth Shan and the Jezreel Valley."
17 Joshua said to Ephraim and Manasseh, the descendants of Joseph,
"You are a numerous people who have great strength. There will not
be only one allotment for you.
18 The hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest you shall
clear it and own it to its borders. You shall drive out the Canaanites,
even though they have iron chariots and are strong."
JOSHUA 18
Dividing the Rest of the Land
1 (Jos 19:51; 21:2) The whole congregation of the children of Israel
assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there.
The land was subdued before them.
2 Yet seven tribes among the children of Israel remained
who had not yet received their inheritance.
3 (Jdg 18:9) So Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you
delay going in to possess the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers,
has given you?
4 Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out;
and they will rise and go throughout the land, and describe it
according to their inheritance, and they will come back to me.
5 They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah will stay in their
territory in the south, and the house of Joseph will stay in their
territory in the north.
6 (Jos 14:2; 18:10) So describe the land in seven portions and return to me.
Then I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.
7 (Jos 13:33; Nu 18:20) Yet there is no portion for the Levites among you,
for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh have acquired their inheritance
on the east side of the Jordan,
which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them."
8 So the men got up and left. Joshua commanded those who were
leaving to survey the land, saying, "Go and walk back and forth
throughout the land. Write a description of it, then return to me.
Here in Shiloh I will cast lots for you before the Lord."
9 The men went and passed through the land. In a book they wrote
a description of it by cities in seven portions, and they came back to Joshua
at the Shiloh settlement.
10 (Jos 18:6) Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord.
There Joshua apportioned the land for the children of Israel
according to their divisions.
The Allotment for Benjamin
11 The lot of the tribe of Benjamin, according to their clans, came up.
The territory allotted to it fell between Judah and Joseph.
12 (Jos 16:1; 7:2) Their northern border goes from the Jordan up
the northern slope of Jericho. It runs westward into the hill country
and extends to the wilderness of Beth Aven.
13 (Ge 28:19; Jos 16:2-3) The border passes from there southward
toward Luz, to the slope of Luz (that is, Bethel), and descends to Ataroth
Addar on the hill south of lower Beth Horon.
14 (Jos 15:9) On the western side, the border turns south from the hill
that lies to the south near Beth Horon, and it extends to Kiriath Baal
(that is, Kiriath Jearim), a city belonging to Judah.
This is the western border.
15 (Jos 15:9) The southern border starts from Kiriath Jearim
and goes out westward to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
16 (2Ki 23:10; Jos 15:7-8) The border then descends to the foot
of the mountain that lies by the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is
at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. It descends from
the Hinnom Valley to the slope of the Jebusites, then down to En Rogel.
17 (Jos 15:6) The border runs north and goes out to En Shemesh and Geliloth,
which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim,
and descends to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
18 (Jos 15:6) It passes toward the slope north of the Beth Arabah
and descends to the Arabah.
19 (Ge 14:3; Jos 15:2) The border passes north of the slope of Beth Hoglah,
and it runs out to the northern tip of the Dead Sea at the southern
end of the Jordan. This is the southern border.
20 The Jordan forms the eastern boundary.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin,
according to their clans, by its boundaries all around.
21 (Jos 18:12) The cities belonging to the tribe of Benjamin,
according to their clans, were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
24 (Ezr 2:26) Kephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba: twelve cities
with their villages.
25 (Jos 9:17) Also there were Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
26 Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,
27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
28 (Jos 15:8; 2Sa 21:14) Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city
(that is, Jerusalem),
Gibeah, and Kiriath: fourteen cities with their villages.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin
according to their clans.
2) Our Daily Bread for 27 Mar 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/03/27/hosting-royalty
entitled Hosting Royalty
Galatians 3:26-29
26 (Gal 4:5-6) You are all sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 (Ro 13:14; Ac 2:38) For as many of you as have been baptized
into Christ have put on Christ.
28 (Col 3:11; Gal 5:6) There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither slave nor free, and there is neither male
nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 (Ro 8:17; 9:7-8) If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed,
and heirs according to the promise.
After meeting the Queen of the United Kingdom at a ball in Scotland,
Sylvia and her husband received a message that the royal family would
like to visit them for tea. Sylvia started cleaning and prepping,
nervous about hosting the royal guests. Before they were due to arrive,
she went outside to pick some flowers for the table, her heart racing.
Then she sensed God reminding her that He's the King of kings
and that He's with her every day. Immediately she felt peaceful
and thought, "After all, it's only the Queen!"
Sylvia is right. As the apostle Paul noted, God is the "King of kings
and Lord of lords" (1 Timothy 6:15) and those who follow Him are
"children of God" (Galatians 3:26). When we belong to Christ,
we're heirs of Abraham (v. 29). We no longer are bound by division
-such as that of race, social class, or gender-for we're
"all one in Christ Jesus" (v. 28). We're children of the King.
Although Sylvia and her husband had a marvelous meal
with the Queen, I don't anticipate receiving an invitation
from the monarch anytime soon. But I love the reminder
that the highest King of all is with me every moment.
And that those who believe in Jesus wholeheartedly (v. 27)
can live in unity, knowing they're God's children.
How could holding onto this truth shape the way we live today?
By: Amy Boucher Pye
Reflect & Pray
What does it mean to you to be an heir of Abraham?
How could you invite others to become part of the family?
King of kings and Lord of lords, You are mighty and glorious.
Thank You for stooping down to love me and for welcoming me as Your child.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 7 Support System
Deut 33:27
27 (Ge 49:24; Ps 90:1–2) The eternal God is your refuge,
and underneath you are the everlasting arms;
He will drive out the enemy before you,
and will say, “Destroy them.â€
Misty was only 4 when her parents divorced. Her dad moved away,
and the following summer she went with her grandparents to visit him
in his new apartment. In the swimming pool one afternoon, Grandpa stood
Misty on the side of the pool, held out his arm, and called, "Jump1"
But Misty, normally a little fish, suddenly seemed afraid of the water,
and stood trembling on the sidewalk shaking her head.
"Jump, Misty - I'll catch you!"
"Are you sure, Grandpa?"
"Of course I'm sure! Jump!"
But Misty wouldn't jump. Finally Grandpa, a bit irritated, said, "Misty, do
you thinkI Won't catch you? Do you think I'll just walk away?"
The tears spilled over, and Misty sobbed. "Daddy did!"
Human support systems often fail us. We disappoint those we love, and
are disappointed by them. People simply aren't there for us
when we need them most.
But God promises that with him things are different. He's always there,
always listening, always caring, always ready to support us.
"Underneath his everlasting arms".
Sometimes those arms reach out clothed in flesh, in the warm embrace
of a loved one. Sometimes they support us through the Word, sometimes through
the quiet peace that comes in prayer. Sometimes we are not aware of them
at all, but they still hold us up, suppoting, surrounding, loving.
Underneath us are the everlasting arms.
Application
a) Have I ever felt abandoned by someone I loved and depended upon?
b) How have I experienced the faithfulness of God's "Everlasting arms"?
c) Now can this verse help me in times when I feel my supports have given way?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
1 Cor 13:3
3 If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned,
and have not love, it profits me nothing.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Inexhaustible Strength
Ps 18:30-34
30 As for God, His way has integrity;
the word of the Lord is proven;
He is a shield
to all those who take refuge in Him.
31 For who is God except the Lord?
Or who is a rock besides our God?
32 It is God who clothes me with strength,
and gives my way integrity.
33 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
and causes me to stand on my high places.
34 He trains my hands for war,
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
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, atheists, secular humanists, ...) .
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.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to listen to His will in your life
Pray to the Lord to understand why you are part of His Royal family.
Pray to the Lord to feel suuported by Him.
Pray to the Lord to be a loving person.
Pray to the Lord to be your Shield.
Pray for Muslims in Saskatchewan to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray that God's Spirit will melt the pride that causes many to
hold to wrong opinions of Christ and His Salvation.
Pray that the Lord will awaken a desire in the hearts of those who
are lost to seek Him and to seek The Truth.
Pray to the Lord that to know the Holy Spirit.
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 80, 21 Mar 2021
Top At calvarycommunity.ca we discuss the forgiveness
of Joseph towards his brothers at the Death of Jacob/Israel.
He was very forgiving as he said What you did for Evil
God did for good - no recrimination.
Deuteronomy 30-31
DEUTERONOMY 30
The Promise of Restoration
1 (Dt 30:15; 30:19) When all these things happen to you, the blessing
and the curse, which I have set before you, and you remember them among
all the nations, where the Lord your God has driven you,
2 (Ne 1:9; Joel 2:12-13) then you must return to the Lord your God and obey
His voice according to all that I am commanding you today, you
and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul.
3 (Ps 147:2; Jer 29:14) Then the Lord your God will overturn your captivity
and have compassion on you and will return and gather you
from all the nations, where the Lord your God has scattered you.
4 (Ne 1:9; Dt 28:64) If any of you are driven out to the outmost parts
of heaven, from there will the Lord your God gather you,
and from there He will get you.
5 The Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers
possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply
you more than your fathers.
6 (Dt 10:16; Jer 32:39; Dt 6:5) The Lord your God will circumcise
your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
7 The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on them
who hate you, who persecuted you. 8You will return and obey the voice
of the Lord, and obey all His commandments which I am commanding you today.
9 (Jer 32:41; Dt 28:63) The Lord your God will make you prosper in every work
of your hand, in the offspring of your body, and in the offspring
of your livestock, and in the produce of your land, for good.
For the Lord will once again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced
over your fathers, 10if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, by keeping
His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law,
and if you return to the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul.
The Choice of Life or Death
11 (Isa 45:19) This commandment which I am commanding you
today is not hidden from you, nor is it far off.
12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will go up for us to heaven
and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and do it?"
13 It is not beyond the sea, so that you should say,
"Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us,
so that we may hear it and do it?"
14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth,
and in your heart, so that you may do it.
15 (Dt 11:26; 30:19) See, today I have set before you life and prosperity,
and death and disaster.
16 (Dt 30:6) What I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God,
to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes
and His judgments, so that you may live and multiply. Then the Lord
your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.
17 But if your heart turns away, so that you do not obey,
but are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them,
18 then I declare to you today that you will surely perish
and that you will not prolong your days in the land which
you are crossing the Jordan to go in and possess.
19 (Dt 4:26; 30:1) I call heaven and earth to witnesses against you
this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse.
Therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
20 (Dt 10:20; Ps 27:1) that you may love the Lord your God, that you may
obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life
and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land
that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
to give them.
DEUTERONOMY 31
Joshua to Succeed Moses
1 Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
2 (Dt 34:7; Nu 27:17; 1Ki 3:7) He said to them,
"I am 120 old today. I can no longer come and go.
Also, the Lord has said to me, 'You may not cross over the Jordan.'
3 (Dt 9:3; 3:28) The Lord your God will cross over before you.
He will destroy these nations before you, you will possess them,
and Joshua will cross over before you, just as the Lord has said.
4 (Dt 2:33) The Lord will do to them as He did to Sihon and to Og,
the kings of the AmoÂrites, and to their land, which He destroyed.
5 (Dt 7:2) The Lord will give them up before you, so that you may
do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.
6 (Jos 10:25; 1Ch 22:13) Be strong and of a good courage. Fear not,
nor be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, it is He who goes with you.
He will not fail you, nor forsake you."
7 (Dt 3:28; 1:38; 31:6) Moses called to Joshua, and said to him
in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage,
for you must go with this people to the land which the Lord
has sworn to their fathers to give them,
and you will enable them to inherit it.
8 (Ex 33:14; Dt 31:6) The Lord, He goes before you. He will be with you.
He will not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear, nor be dismayed."
9 (Nu 4:15; Jos 3:3) Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests,
the sons of Levi who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
and to all the elders of Israel.
10 (Dt 15:1-2) Moses commanded them, saying,
"At the end of every seven years, at the time
of the year of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Tabernacles,
11 (2Ki 23:2; Jos 8:34-35) when all Israel has come to appear before
the Lord your God in the place which He will choose, you must read
this law before all Israel in their hearing.
12 (Dt 4:10) Gather the people together, men, women, children,
and your foreigner who is within your towns, so that they may hear
and learn and fear the Lord your God,
and observe to do all the words of this law.
13 (Dt 11:2) Their children, who have not known it, may hear
and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the
land which you cross the Jordan to possess."
Prediction of Israel's Rebellion
14 (Nu 27:13; Dt 31:23) The Lord said to Moses, "Indeed, your days draw
near when you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves
in the tent of meeting, so that I may commission him."
So Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
15 The Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud,
and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the tent.
16 (Jdg 2:12; 10:6) The Lord said to Moses, "You are about to lie down
with your fathers, and this people will rise up and begin to prostitute
themselves after the gods of the foreigners of the land,
where they are going to be among them, and will forsake Me
and break My covenant which I have made with them.
17 (Nu 14:42; Jdg 6:13) Then My anger will burn against them on that day,
and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them,
and they will be devoured, and many disasters
and troubles will befall them, so that they will say in that day,
'Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is not among us?'
18 And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evil things which
they shall have done, in that they turned to other gods.
19 (Dt 6:7; 31:21-22) "Now therefore write yourself this song
and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it on their mouths,
so that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.
20 (Ne 9:25-26; Dt 6:10-12) For when I have brought them into the land
which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey,
and they have eaten, and filled themselves, and become fat,
then they will turn to other gods, and serve them,
and provoke Me, and break My covenant.
21 (Hos 5:3; Jn 2:24-25) Then when many disasters and troubles have fallen
on them, this song will testify against them as a witness, for it must not be
forgotten from the mouths of their descendants. For I know their intention
which they are developing even now,
before I have brought them into the land which I promised."
22 (Dt 31:19) Therefore, ÂMoses wrote this song the same day, and taught
it to the children of Israel.
23 (Dt 31:7-8; 31:14) He gave Joshua, the son of Nun, an exhortation,
and said, "Be strong and of a good courage,
for you will bring the children of Israel into the land
which I swore to them, and I will be with you."
24 (Dt 31:9) When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book,
until they were completed,
25 then Moses commanded the Levites,
who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,
26 (Dt 31:19) "Take this Book of the Law, and put it inside the ark of the
covenant of the Lord your God, so that it may be there for a witness
against you.
27 (Dt 9:24; 32:20) For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck.
Even now, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious
against the Lord. How much more after my death?
28 (Dt 4:26; 32:1) Gather to me all the elders of your tribes,
and your officers, so that I may speak these words in their hearing
and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
29 (Jdg 2:19; Ge 49:1) For I know that after my death you will utterly
corrupt yourselves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded
you, and disaster will befall you in the latter days,
because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger
through the work of your hands."
The Song of Moses
30 Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished,
in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel:
2) Our Daily Bread for 21 Mar 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/03/21/god-at-work
entitled God At Work
Matthew 27:50-54
50 (Jn 19:30; Mk 15:37) And Jesus, when He had cried out again
with a loud voice, released His spirit.
51 (Mk 15:38; Ex 26:31–37 )At that moment the curtain of the temple
was torn in two, from the top to the bottom. And the ground shook,
and the rocks split apart.
52 (1Co 15:20; 1Th 4:14) The graves also were opened,
and many bodies of the saints who had died were raised,
53 (Mt 4:5) and coming out of the graves after His resurrection,
they went into the Holy City and appeared to many.
54 (Mt 27:36; 27:43) When the centurion and those with him,
keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place,
they feared greatly and said, "Truly He was the Son of God!"
"God is crying" Those were the word whispered by Bill Haley's 10-year-old
daughter as she stood in the rain with a group of multiethnic believers
in Jesus. They had come to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to seek God
and make sense of the legacy of racial discord in America. As they stood
on the grounds where former slaves were buried, they joined hands
in prayer. Then suddenly the wind began to blow, and it started to rain.
As the leader called out for racial healing, the rain began to fall
even harder. Those gethered believed that God was at work to bring
reconciliation and forgiveness.
Abd so it was at Calvary - God was at work. After the crucifed Jesus breathed
his last, "the ground shook, and the rocks split apart.
The graves also were opened, " (Matthew 27:51-52) . Though some had denied
who Jesus was, a centurion assigned to guard Him had come to a
different conclusion: "When the centurion and those with him,
keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place,
they feared greatly and said, 'Truly He was the Son of God!'"(v 54).
In the death of Jesus, God was at work providing forgiveness of sin for
all who believe in Him, "God was in Christ reconciling
the world to Himself, not counting their sins against them,
" (2 Cor 5:19) And what better way to demonstrate that we'vw been forgiven
by God than to extend forgiveness to each other. - Arthur Jackson
In what ways have you shared the forgiveness you've received fron God with
others, even those who are differnt from you? If you haven't received
forgiveness from God through the death of Jesus, what's keeping you
from doing so today?
Father , thank You for loving the world so much that you sent Jesus
so I can be forgiven. Help me to demonstrate forgiveness toward others
by the way I live.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 1 Hard Bargain
Mark 11:24
24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray,
believe that you will receive them, and you will have them.
"I've been praying." Jennifer declared confidently. " I told God I'd give him
a tithe of that $5000000 when I win the sweepstakes."
Her friend Cindi laughed. "Well, then, you don't have a chance. I told him
I'd give him half!"
Can we, as in Mark 11:24 seems to imply , pray for anything, absolutely
anything, and expect that the Lord will come through? Can we pray with
assurance for new cars, mink coats, or trips to the Caribbean? The verse
seems to be a troublesome one, especially when we try it and our prayers
aren't answered in the way we expected.
But seen in context, Mark 11:24 gives us a much broader picture of the
kind of prayer Jesus meant. The verse appears in the framework of
Jesus' ministry - cleansing the temple, correcting the Pharisees,
commanding forgiveness, discussing his authority. The condition for
the fulfillment of Mark 11:24, if Jesus' actions arew any indication,
is fulfilling the will and purpose of God.
Such a condition for powerful prayers involves much more than attaching
am "If it be Thy will" cluase onton the end of our prayers. We eed to know
God's will and walk in it, seeking his kingdom first, and drawing close to
him. Then , as our hearts are right with him, what we ask in prayer
is likely to be congruent with the mind and purposes of Chirst. We are
less likely to pray selfishly, and more likely to sahre God's priorities,
as we get to know him. And as we deepen in our knowledge of him,
as his will becomes our will, his promise for answered prayer takes
on new dimensions.
Application
a) What is the connection betweeen know God's will and praying effectively?
b) What changes need to take place in my life so that I might pray with greater power?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Malachi 3:10-12
10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in
My house, and test Me now in this, says the Lord of Hosts, if I will not
open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing,
that there will not be room enough to receive it.
11 I will rebuke the devourer
for your sakes, so that it will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
and the vines in your field will not fail to bear fruit,
says the Lord of Hosts.
12 Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be
a delightful land, says the Lord of Hosts.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are Worried Over Money
Matt 6:19-21
Treasures in Heaven
Lk 12:33–34
19 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth
and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up
for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroy
and where thieves do not break in nor steal, 21 for where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also.
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
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 for forgiveness and reconciliation.
Pray to the Lord to search His Blessings of Submission.
Pray to the Lord that your prayers are effective
Pray to the Lord to test your giving as in Malachi 3 and to store treasure
in Heaven.
Pray for Muslims in Saskatchewan to receive Christ as Saviour .
Pray to the Lord that the educational system will be Godly.
Pray to the Lord that law enforcement will be effective.
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.