Posted by DSY on
Day 212, 31 July 2021
Isaiah 64-66
Isaiah 64
1 (Mic 1:3-4; Ps 68:8) Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains might shake at Your presence,
2 (Ps 99:1; Jer 5:22) as when the melting fire burns,
as the fire causes the waters to boil,
to make Your name known to Your adversaries,
that the nations may tremble at Your presence!
3 (Ps 66:3; 66:5) When You did awesome things for which we did not look,
You came down; the mountains quaked at Your presence.
4 (Ps 31:19; Isa 25:9) For since the beginning of the world men
have not heard, nor perceived by ear,
neither has the eye seen a God besides You,
who acts for the one who waits for Him.
5 (Ex 20:24) You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness,
those who remember You in Your ways.
Indeed, You were angry, for we had sinned;
in our sins we remained a long time,
and shall we be saved?
6 (Ps 90:5-6; Isa 6:5) But we all are as an unclean thing,
and all our righteousness is as filthy rags;
and we all fade as a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 (Eze 22:30; Hos 7:7) There is no one who calls on Your name,
who stirs up himself to take hold of You;
for You have hidden Your face from us
and have consumed us because of our iniquities.
8 (Isa 63:16; 29:16) But now, O Lord, You are our Father;
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
and we all are the work of Your hand.
9 (Ps 74:1-2; 79:13) Do not be wrathful beyond measure, O Lord,
nor remember iniquity forever;
look upon us, we pray,
we all are Your people.
10 (Isa 1:7) Your holy cities are a wilderness;
Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 (2Ki 25:9; Ps 74:5-7) Our holy and beautiful house where our fathers praised You
is burned up with fire;
and all our precious things are laid waste.
12 (Isa 42:14; Ps 74:10-11) Will You refrain Yourself from these things, O Lord?
Will You hold Your peace and afflict us beyond measure?
Isaiah 65
Judgment and Salvation
1 (Ro 10:20; Hos 1:10) I was sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I was found of those who did not seek Me.
I said, "Here I am, here I am,"
to a nation that did not call on My name.
2 (Ro 10:21; Isa 1:2) I have spread out My hands all day
to a rebellious people
who walk in a way that was not good,
after their own thoughts;
3 (Isa 1:29; Job 1:11) a people who provoke Me continually
to My face, presenting sacrifices in gardens
and burning incense on altars of brick;
4 (Lev 11:7; Isa 66:17) who sit among the graves
and lodge in the monuments;
who eat swine's flesh,
and the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 (Mt 9:11; Lk 7:39) who say, "Stand by yourself; do not come near to me,
for I am holier than you!"
These are smoke in My nose,
a fire that burns all day.
6 (Ps 50:3; Jer 16:18) See, it is written before Me:
I will not keep silent, but I will recompense,
even recompense into their bosom,
7 (Ex 20:5; Isa 57:7) your iniquities and the iniquities
of your fathers together, says the Lord;
because they have burned incense on the mountains
and blasphemed Me on the hills,
therefore, I will measure their former work
into their bosom.
8 Thus says the Lord:
As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and one says, "Do not destroy it
for a blessing is in it,"
so I will do for the sake of My servants
that I may not destroy them all.
9 (Am 9:11-15; Isa 27:6) I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,
and out of Judah an inheritor of My mountains;
and My chosen ones shall inherit it,
and My servants shall dwell there.
10 (Isa 35:2; 33:9) Sharon shall be a fold of flocks,
and the Valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in,
for My people who seek Me.
11 (Isa 1:28; 2:2) But you are those who forsake the Lord,
who forget My holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune,
and who furnish the drink offering for Destiny.
12 (Jer 7:13; 2Ch 36:15-16) I will destine you for the sword,
and you all shall bow down to the slaughter;
because when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not hear
but did evil before My eyes
and chose that in which I did not delight.
13 (Isa 61:7; 66:5)Therefore, thus says the Lord God:
My servants shall eat,
but you shall be hungry;
My servants shall drink,
but you shall be thirsty;
My servants shall rejoice,
but you shall be ashamed;
14 (Mt 8:12; Ps 66:4) My servants shall sing for joy
with a glad heart,
but you shall cry
with a heavy heart
and shall wail with grief of spirit.
15 (Zec 8:13; Isa 62:2) You shall leave your name
for a curse to My chosen ones;
for the Lord God shall slay you,
but My servants shall be called by another name;
16 (Ps 31:5; Isa 19:18) because he who is blessed in the earth
shall bless himself in the God of truth;
and he who swears in the earth
shall swear by the God of truth;
because the former troubles are forgotten
and because they are hidden from My eyes.
The New Creation
172 (Pe 3:13; Isa 66:22; Jer 3:16) For I create
new heavens and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
18 (Ps 98:1-9) But be glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create;
for I create Jerusalem for rejoicing
and her people for joy.
19 (Isa 35:10; 25:8) I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in My people;
and the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her,
nor the voice of crying.
20 (Dt 4:40; Job 5:26) There shall no longer be
an infant who lives only a few days
nor an old man who has not filled out his days.
For the child shall die
a hundred years old,
but the sinner being a hundred years old
shall be accursed.
21 (Am 9:14) They shall build houses and inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
22 (Ps 92:12-14) They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
for as the days of a tree
are the days of My people,
and My chosen ones shall long enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 (Isa 61:9; Dt 28:3-12; Ac 2:39) They shall not labor in vain
nor bring forth children for trouble;
for they are the descendants of the blessed of the Lord
and their offspring with them.
24 (Da 9:20-23; 10:12) Before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 (Isa 65:11; Mic 4:3) The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
and the lion shall eat straw like the bull,
and dust shall be the serpent's food.
They shall not hurt nor destroy
in all My holy mountain,
says the Lord.
Isaiah 66
True Worship
1 (1Ki 8:27; Mt 5:34-35) Thus says the Lord:
Heaven is My throne,
and the earth is My footstool.
Where then is the house that you could build for Me?
And where is the place of My rest?
2 (Isa 57:15; Ps 34:18) For My hand made all those things,
thus all those things have come to be,
says the Lord.
But to this man I will look,
even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and trembles at My word.
3 (Lev 2:2) He who kills a bull
is as if he kills a man;
he who sacrifices a lamb,
as if he breaks a dog’s neck;
he who offers a grain offering,
as if he offers swine’s blood;
he who burns incense,
as if he blesses an idol.
They have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations;
4 (Isa 65:12; 2Ki 21:2; 21:6) I also will choose their punishments
and will bring their fears on them,
because when I called, no one answered;
when I spoke, they did not listen;
but they did evil before My eyes
and chose that in which I did not delight.
The Vindication of Zion
5 (Ps 38:20; Isa 5:19) Hear the word of the Lord,
you who tremble at His word:
Your brothers who hate you,
who cast you out for My name's sake, said,
"Let the Lord be glorified
that we may see your joy."
Yet they shall be ashamed.
6 (Isa 59:18) A voice of noise from the city,
a voice from the temple,
the voice of the Lord
who renders recompense to His enemies.
7 (Isa 54:1) Before she was in labor,
she gave birth;
before her pain came,
she delivered a son.
8 (Isa 64:4) Who has heard such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
Shall a nation be born at once?
For as soon as Zion was in labor,
she brought forth her sons.
9 (Isa 37:3) Shall I bring to the point of birth
and not cause delivery? says the Lord.
Shall I who cause delivery
shut the womb? says your God.
10 (Dt 32:43; Ps 26:8) Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice exceedingly with her,
all you who mourn for her,
11 (Isa 60:16; Joel 3:18) that you may feed and be satisfied
with her consoling breasts,
that you may feed
and be delighted with the abundance of her bosom.
12 (Isa 48:18; 60:16) For thus says the Lord:
I will extend peace to her like a river
and the glory of the nations like a flowing stream.
Then you shall nurse, you shall be carried on her sides,
and dandled on her knees.
13 (Isa 51:3) As one whom his mother comforts,
so I will comfort you;
and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
God's Reign and Final Judgment
14 (Ezr 8:31; 7:9) Then you shall see this, and your heart shall rejoice,
and your bones shall flourish like an herb;
and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward His servants,
and His indignation toward His enemies.
15 (Ps 68:17; Isa 30:33) For the Lord shall come with fire
and with His chariots like a whirlwind,
to render His anger with fury
and His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 (Isa 27:1; Eze 38:21-22) For by fire and by His sword on all flesh,
the Lord shall execute judgment;
and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
17 (Isa 65:3-4) Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves
in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh,
and abominable things, and mice shall be consumed together, says the Lord.
18 (Isa 2:2) For I know their works and their thoughts. The time shall come
to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.
19 (Eze 27:10; Ge 10:2) I will set a sign among them, and send from
them survivors to the nations: to TarÂshish, Pul, and Lud-who draw the bow-to
Tubal, and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame
nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the nations.
20 (Isa 11:9; 43:6) They shall bring all your brothers out of all nations
as an offering to the Lord on horses, and in chariots, and in litters,
and on mules, and on swift beasts to My holy mountain Jerusalem,
says the Lord, as the sons of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel
into the house of the Lord.
21 (Ex 19:6; Isa 61:6) I will also take some of them for priests
and for Levites, says the Lord.
22 (Isa 65:17; Rev 21:1) For as the new heavens and the new earth
which I will make shall remain before Me, says the Lord,
so shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 (Eze 46:1; Ps 86:9) From one New Moon to another, and from
one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,
says the Lord.
24 (Isa 14:11; Da 12:2) And they shall go forth and look on the corpses
of the men who have transgressed against Me. For their worm shall not
die, nor shall their fire be quenched. And they shall be an abhorrence
to all flesh.
2) Our Daily Bread for 31 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/31/lost-treasures
entitled Priceless Lives in Christ
Luke 15:8-10
8 "Or what woman, having ten silver coinsGk. drachmas,
each worth about a day's wage. and losing one, does not light
a candle and sweep the house and search diligently
until she finds it?
9 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors,
saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'
10 (Heb 1:14) Likewise, I tell you, there is joy in the presence
of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."
Tears streamed down my cheeks during a frantic search for my lost
wedding and anniversary rings. After an hour of lifting couch cushions
and scouring every nook and cranny of our home,
Alan said, "I'm sorry. We'll replace them."
"Thanks," I responded. "But their sentimental value surpasses
their material worth. They're irreplaceable." Praying, I continued
hunting for the jewelry. "Please, God. Help me find them."
Later, while reaching into the pocket of a sweater worn earlier
in the week, I found the priceless jewels. "Thank You, Jesus!"
I exclaimed. As my husband and I rejoiced, I slipped on the rings
and recalled the parable of the woman who lost a coin (Luke 15:8-10).
Like the woman who searched for her lost silver coin, I knew the worth
of what had been lost. Neither of us was wrong for wanting to find
our valuables. Jesus simply used that story to emphasize His desire
to save every person He created. One sinner repenting results
in a celebration in heaven.
What a gift it would be to become a person who prays
as passionately for others as we pray for lost treasures to be found.
What a privilege it is to celebrate when someone repents
and surrenders their lives to Christ. If we've placed our trust in Jesus,
we can be thankful we've experienced the joy of being loved
by Someone who never gave up because He thought we were worth finding.
By: Xochitl Dixon
Reflect & Pray
Whose salvation will you commit to praying for today?
Who can you share your testimony with?
Father, thank You for reminding me that every person
You create is a priceless life worth saving.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 7 - The Cost of Widsom
Proverbs 4:4,7
Proverbs 4
4 (Pr 7:2; Eph 6:4) He also taught me and said to me,
"Let your heart retain my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
...
7 (Mt 13:44–46) Wisdom is principal; therefore get wisdom.
And with all your getting, get understanding. "
Establishing priorities is a popular topic of conversation in our
generation. We carry appointment calendars and attend goal-setting
strategy seminars. We let machines answer our telephones so that
we won't miss any important messages, or so that we can screen calls
before we answer them. We order our lives sp that we can "get ahead".
"Getting ahead" in God's kingdom, however, involves other priorities
than the ones we may set for ourselves. "Wisdom is supreme," the
principal thing, says Proverbs 4:7, "Get wisdom. Though it cost
all you have, get understanding."
Wisdom is defined as "an understanding of what is true, right, or lasting."
Biblical wisdom is not merely the accumulation of facts about God and his
teaching, but the application of those truths of life, taking on
the character of God as we mature in the image of Christ.
Such wisdom may, indeed, come at great cost. Jesus calls us to "lay
down our lives" to folow him - perhaps not literally to die, but to die
to self-centered priorities, to allow the Holy Spirit to establish
his value system in us.
"Keep my commandments and you will live," Proverbs 4:4 says. Real life -
rich, fulfilling, significant, abundant life - comes only through union
with God. The success offered by the world, the acclaim of others, material
prosperity and convenience cannot satisfy us once we have tasted
the joy of life with God in Christ.
Application
a) What does "getting wisdom" means to me?
b) What practical changes can I make in my life to help me focus
my attention on the priorities and values of the Lord?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Luke 7:23
23 (Isa 8:14–15) "And Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.â€
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Guiding Presence
Matthew 28:16-20
The Commissioning of the Disciples
Mk 16:14–18; Lk 24:36–49; Jn 20:19–23; Ac 1:6–8
16 (Mt 28:7; 26:32)Then the eleven disciples went away to Galilee,
to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
17 (Mt 28:9) When they saw Him, they worshipped Him. But some doubted.
18 (Mt 11:27; Ro 14:9) Then Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
"All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
19 (Mk 16:15–16; Ac 1:8) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit,
20 (Mt 18:20; Ac 2:42) teaching them to observe all things
I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always,
even to the end of the age." Amen.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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, ...) .
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and seek out His plan for Redemption.
Pray to the Lord "Father, thank You for reminding me that every person
You create is a priceless life worth saving."
Pray to the Lord to seek and get wisdom.
Pray to the Lord to be an offence in His Eyes
Pray to the Lord to go out and make disciples of all nations.
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray for Christian widows in Nepal who suffer severe discimination.
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 211, 30 July 2021
Isaiah 59-63
Isaiah 59
The Consequence of Sin
1 (Nu 11:23; Isa 50:2) Certainly, the hand of the Lord is not
so short that it cannot save,
nor is His ear so dull that it cannot hear.
2 (Isa 50:1; Jer 5:25) But your iniquities have made a separation between
you and your God,
and your sins have hidden His face from you
so that He will not hear.
3 (Isa 1:15; 1:21) For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
your tongue has muttered perverseness.
4 (Job 15:35; Isa 30:12) No one calls for justice,
nor does anyone plead for truth.
They trust in vanity and speak lies;
they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch adders' eggs
and weave the spider's web;
he who eats of their eggs dies,
and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 (Isa 57:12; Jer 6:7) Their webs shall not become garments,
nor shall they cover themselves with their works;
their works are works of iniquity,
and an act of violence is in their hands.
7 (Pr 1:16; 6:17) Their feet run to evil,
and they make haste to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
devastation and destruction are in their paths.
8 (Lk 1:79; Isa 48:22) The way of peace they do not know,
and there is no justice in their ways;
they have made their paths crooked;
whoever walks in them does not know peace.
The Confession of Sin
9 (Isa 5:30) Therefore, justice is far from us,
nor does righteousness overtake us;
we wait for light, but there is darkness,
for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 (Dt 28:29; Job 5:14) We grope along the wall like the blind,
and we grope as if we had no eyes;
we stumble at noonday as in the night;
among those who are vigorous, we are as dead men.
11 (Isa 38:14; Eze 7:16) We all roar like bears
and mourn sadly like doves;
we look for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.
12 (Ezr 9:6; Jer 14:7) For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us.
And as for our iniquities, we know them:
13 (Mk 7:21-22) transgressing, and lying against the Lord,
and departing away from our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 (Hab 1:4 )Justice is turned backward,
and righteousness stands far off;
for truth is fallen in the street,
and equity cannot enter.
15Truth is lacking,
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
The Redeemer of Zion
Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him
that there was no justice.
16 (Ps 98:1; Isa 52:10) He saw that there was no man
and was astonished that there was no intercessor;
therefore, His own arm brought salvation to Him,
and His righteousness sustained Him.
17 (Isa 9:7; Eph 6:14 ) For He put on righteousness as a breastplate
and a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing
and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 (Isa 63:6; Job 34:11) According to their deeds,
accordingly He will repay:
fury to His adversaries,
recompense to His enemies;
to the islands He will make recompense.
19 (Ps 113:3; Isa 49:12) So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west
and His glory from the rising of the sun;
when the enemy shall come in like a flood,
the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
20 (Ro 11:26-27; Eze 18:30-31) The Redeemer shall come to Zion
and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,
says the Lord.
21 (Isa 51:16; Jer 31:31-34) As for Me, this is My covenant with them,
says the Lord: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have
put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth,
nor out of the mouth of your descendants, nor out of the mouth
of your descendants' descendants, says the Lord,
from this time forth and forever.
Isaiah 60
The Glory of Zion
1 (Eph 5:8; 5:14) Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
2 For the darkness shall cover the earth
and deep darkness the peoples;
but the Lord shall rise upon you,
and His glory shall be seen upon you.
3 (Isa 49:23; 45:14; Rev 21:24) The nations shall come to your light
and kings to the brightness of your rising.
4 (Isa 49:18; 49:20-22) Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
They all gather themselves together; they come to you;
your sons shall come from afar,
and your daughters shall be carried at your side.
5 (Isa 61:6; 23:18) Then you shall see and be radiant,
and your heart shall thrill and rejoice
because the abundance of the sea shall be converted to you,
the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
6 (Ps 72:10; Mt 2:11) The multitude of camels shall cover your land,
the young camels of Midian and Ephah;
all those from Sheba shall come;
they shall bring gold and incense
and shall bear good news of the praises of the Lord.
7 (Ge 25:13; Isa 56:7) All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together
to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you;
they shall come up with acceptance on My altar,
and I will glorify My glorious house.
8 Who are these who fly as a cloud
and as the doves to their roosts?
9 (Isa 2:16; 55:5) Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me,
and the ships of Tarshish shall come first,
to bring your sons from afar,
their silver and their gold with them,
to the name of the Lord your God
and to the Holy One of Israel
because He has glorified you.
10 (Isa 49:23; Zec 6:15) The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls,
and their kings shall minister to you;
for in My wrath I struck you,
but in My favor I have had mercy on you.
11 (Isa 60:5; Rev 21:25-26) Therefore, your gates shall be open continually;
they shall not be shut day nor night,
so that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish,
and those nations shall be utterly destroyed.
13 (Isa 35:2; 1Ch 28:2) The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box tree together,
to beautify the place of My sanctuary;
and I will make the place of My feet glorious.
14 (Isa 49:23; Rev 3:9) The sons also of those who afflicted you shall come
bowing before you,
and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down
at the soles of your feet;
and they shall call you, The City of the Lord,
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 (Isa 65:18; Jer 30:17) Whereas you have been forsaken
and hated so that no man went through you,
I will make you an eternal excellency,
a joy of many generations.
16 (Isa 49:23; 66:11-12) You shall also suck the milk of the nations
and suck the breast of kings;
then you shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
and instead of iron I will bring silver;
and instead of wood, bronze;
and instead of stones, iron.
I will also make your officers peace
and your exactors righteousness.
18 (Isa 26:1; 11:9) Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
nor devastation or destruction within your borders;
but you shall call your walls Salvation
and your gates Praise.
19 (Rev 21:23; 22:5) The sun shall no longer be your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you;
but the Lord shall be an everlasting light to you
and your God for your glory.
20 (Isa 35:10; Rev 21:4) Your sun shall no more go down,
nor shall your moon wane;
for the Lord shall be your everlasting light,
and the days of your mourning shall end.
21 (Ps 37:11; 37:22) Then all your people shall be righteous;
they shall inherit the land forever,
the branch of My planting,
the work of My hands,
that I may be glorified.
22 (Hab 2:3) A little one shall become a thousand,
and a small one a strong nation.
I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.
Isaiah 61
The Lord's Favour
1 (Ps 45:7; Isa 42:7) The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me
because the Lord has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor;
He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 (Isa 34:8; 57:18) to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn,
3 (Ps 45:7; 23:5) to preserve those who mourn in Zion,
to give to them beauty
for ashes,
the oil of joy
for mourning,
the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness,
that they might be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord,
that He might be glorified.
4 (Isa 58:12) They shall build the old ruins;
they shall raise up the former desolations,
and they shall repair the waste cities,
the desolations of many generations.
5 (Isa 14:1-2) Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 (Ex 19:6; Isa 66:21) But you shall be named the priests of the Lord;
men shall call you the ministers of our God.
You shall eat the riches of the nations,
and in their glory you shall boast.
7 (Isa 40:2; Zec 9:12) Instead of your shame
you shall have double honor,
and instead of humiliation
they shall rejoice over their portion.
Therefore, in their land they shall possess a double portion;
everlasting joy shall be theirs.
8 (Isa 55:3; Ps 11:7) For I, the Lord, love justice,
I hate robbery in the burnt offering;
and I will faithfully give them their recompense
and make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 (Isa 44:3) Their descendants shall be known among the nations
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them shall acknowledge them
because they are the descendants whom the Lord has blessed.
10 (Rev 21:2; Isa 49:18; 52:1) I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 (Ps 85:11; Isa 60:18) For as the earth brings forth her buds,
and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
to spring forth before all the nations.
Isaiah 62
The Salvation of Zion
1 (Pr 4:18; Isa 62:6-7) For the sake of Zion I will not keep silent,
and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not rest
until her righteousness goes forth as brightness
and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
2 (Isa 62:4; 62:12) The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all kings your glory.
And you shall be called by a new name,
which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
3 (Zec 9:16; 1Th 2:19) You shall also be a crown of glory
in the hand of the Lord
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 (Jer 32:41; Zep 3:17) You shall no more be termed Forsaken,
nor shall your land be termed Desolate;
but you shall be called My Delight Is In Her,
and your land Married;
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.
5 (Isa 65:19) For as a young man marries a virgin,
so your sons shall marry you;
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so your God shall rejoice over you.
6 (Isa 52:8; Ps 74:2) I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem,
who shall never hold their peace day nor night.
You who remind the Lord,
do not keep silent;
7 (Jer 33:9; Zep 3:19-20 ) give Him no rest until He establishes
and makes Jerusalem a glory in the earth.
8 (Dt 28:33; Jer 5:17) The Lord has sworn by His right hand
and by His strong arm:
Surely I will no longer give your grain
as food for your enemies;
and the sons of the foreigners shall not drink your wine
for which you have labored.
9 (Dt 12:12) But those who have gathered it shall eat it
and praise the Lord;
and those who have brought it shall drink it
in the courts of My sanctuary.
10 (Isa 57:14; 49:22) Go through, go through the gates.
Prepare the way of the people;
build up, build up the highway.
Remove the stones;
lift up a standard over the peoples.
11 (Zec 9:9; Mt 21:5; Rev 22:12) The Lord has proclaimed
to the ends of the earth:
Say to the daughter of Zion,
"See, your salvation comes;
see, His reward is with Him,
and His recompense before Him."
12 (Isa 62:4; 35:9) They shall call them The Holy People,
the Redeemed of the Lord;
and you shall be called Sought Out,
a City Not Forsaken.
Isaiah 63
The Revenge of God
1 (Ps 137:7; Isa 34:5-6) "Who is this who comes from Edom
with dyed garments from Bozrah?
This one who is glorious in His apparel,
traveling in the greatness of His strength?"
"It is I who speak in righteousness,
mighty to save."
2 "Why is Your apparel red,
and Your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?"
3 (Mic 7:10) "I have trodden the winepress alone;
and from the peoples there was no one with Me.
For I will tread them in My anger,
and trample them in My fury,
and their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments,
and I will stain all My raiment.
4 (Isa 34:8; 35:4) For the day of vengeance is in My heart,
and My year of redemption has come.
5 (Ps 44:3; 98:1) I looked and there was no one to help,
and I was astonished, and there was no one to uphold;
therefore, My own arm brought salvation to Me;
and My fury upheld Me.
6 (Isa 49:26) I will tread down the peoples in My anger
and make them drunk in My fury,
and I will pour out their lifeblood on the earth."
The Mercy of God Remembered
7 (Ps 51:1; Eph 2:4 ) I will mention the steadfast love of the Lord
and the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us,
and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
which He has bestowed on them
according to His mercy,
and according to the multitude of His kindnesses.
8 (Ex 6:7; Isa 12:2) For He said, "Surely they are My people,
sons who will not lie."
So He became their Savior.
9 (Dt 7:7-8; Ex 33:14) In all their affliction He was afflicted,
and the angel of His presence saved them;
in His love and in His mercy He redeemed them;
and He lifted them and carried them
all the days of old.
10 (Ps 78:40; Ac 7:51) But they rebelled
and grieved His Holy Spirit;
therefore, He turned Himself to be their enemy,
and He fought against them.
11 (Nu 11:17; Ex 14:30) Then His people remembered the days of old,
of Moses, saying:
Where is He who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of His flock?
Where is He who put
His Holy Spirit in their midst,
12 (Ex 15:16; Jos 3:16) who led them with His glorious arm
by the right hand of Moses,
dividing the water before them,
to make Himself an everlasting name,
13 who led them through the deep,
as a horse in the wilderness,
that they should not stumble?
14 (Jos 23:1; Isa 63:12) As the cattle which go down into the valley,
the Spirit of the Lord caused them to rest,
so You led Your people,
to make Yourself a glorious name.
A Prayer of Penitence
15 (Dt 26:15; Ps 80:14) Look down from heaven and see,
from Your holy and glorious habitation.
Where are Your zeal and Your strength?
The stirrings of Your heart and Your mercies toward me are restrained.
16 (Isa 44:6; Dt 32:6) For You are our Father,
though Abraham is ignorant of us
and Israel does not recognize us.
You, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer;
Your name is from everlasting.
17 (Nu 10:36; Ps 90:13) O Lord, why have You made us to err from Your ways
and hardened our heart from fearing You?
Return for Your servants' sake,
the tribes of Your inheritance.
18 (Ps 74:3-7) Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while;
our adversaries have trodden it down.
19 We have become
as those over whom You have never ruled,
as those who were not called by Your name.
2) Our Daily Bread for 30 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/30/overcoming-envy-2
entitled Overcoming Envy
1 Samuel 18:5-9
5 (1Sa 18:14-15; 18:30) David went out wherever Saul sent him,
and he was successful. So Saul set him over the men of war,
and it was pleasing in the sight of all the people
and also in the sight of the servants of Saul.
6 (Ex 15:20; Jdg 11:34) When they came home, as David was returning
from slaying the Philistine, the women came out from all cities of Israel
to meet King Saul, singing and dancing, with tambourines, with joy,
and with musical instruments.
7 (1Sa 21:11; Ex 15:21; 1Sa 29:5) The dancing women sang and said,
"Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his ten thousands."
8 (1Sa 15:28) Saul became very angry, and this saying was displeasing to him.
Therefore he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands,
but to me they have ascribed thousands.
Now what remains for him to have but the kingdom?"
9 So Saul was suspicious of David from that day and forward.
In the film Amadeus, aging composer Antonio Salieri plays some of his music
on the piano for a visiting priest. The embarrassed priest confesses he doesn't
recognize the tunes. "What about this one?" Salieri says, playing an instantly
familiar melody. "I didn't know you wrote that," the priest says. "I didn't,"
Salieri replies. "That was Mozart!" As viewers discover, Mozart's success
had caused deep envy in Salieri
-even leading him to play a part in Mozart's death.
A song lies at the heart of another envy story. After David's victory
over Goliath, the Israelites heartily sing, "Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his tens of thousands" (1 Samuel 18:7). The comparison doesn't
sit well with King Saul. Envious of David's success
and afraid of losing his throne (vv. 8-9),
Saul begins a prolonged pursuit of David, trying to take his life.
Like Salieri with music or Saul with power, we're usually tempted
to envy those with similar but greater gifts than we possess.
And whether it's picking fault with their work or belittling
their success, we too can seek to damage our "rivals."
Saul had been divinely chosen for his task (10:6-7, 24),
a status that should've fostered security in him rather than envy.
Since we each have unique callings too (Ephesians 2:10),
maybe the best way to overcome envy is to quit comparing ourselves.
Let's celebrate each other's successes instead.
By: Sheridan Voysey
Reflect & Pray
Whom are you most tempted to envy? How can you celebrate their success?
Loving God, I thank You for my friends' and colleagues' successes.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 6 - Shielded by the Word
Proverbs 30:5
5 (Ps 12:6; 18:30) Every word of God is pure;
He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
A wife of ten years, betrayed by her husband's infidelity, declares that
she will never trust a man again. A teenage son says of his father, "I
can't depend on him anymore! Dad always talk big and makes promises,
but he never does what he says." A career woman, her reputation
undermined by gossip, leaves the church broken, and never returns.
Human beings are weak, volatile, unfaithful creatures; often we
break our word and hurt others in the process. But the Scripture
clearly assures us that God's Word is not like the word of man.
God always reamins faithful to his Word, always fulfills his promises,
always does what he says he will do.
God's word is pure (or flawless), Proverbs 30:5 says. His Word
is not distorted with mixed motives or flawed by untruth. God's Word
is dependable, able to support and lift us up, able to speak
encouragement to us. His Word is a "shield" a protection for us
against the onslaughts of the Enemy, a place of refuge from the struggle
and confusion of daily life.
We live in a world that recongnises no absolute truth. Morality,
values, relationships, ethics - every decision of life, it seems,
"depends on the situation." But in the midst of the confusion,
God interjects his Word - timeless, pure, trustworthy, reliable.
We can depend upon God's Word. We can turn to him to verify who we are
and the purposes for which we were created. We can find refuge in his truth,
and rest in the knowledge that whatever he says, he will do.
Application
a) In my own experience, how have I found God's Word
to be different from the word of men and women?
b) In what areas of my life do I need the assurance of the validity
and dependability of God's Word?
c) How can today's verse help me trust more fully in God's Word?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Eph 4:28
28 (Ex 20:15; 1Th 4:11–12) Let him who steals steal no more.
Instead, let him labor, working with his hands things which
are good, that he may have something to share with him who is in need.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Guiding Presence
Ps 139:1-12
PSALMS 139
For the Music Director. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, You have searched me
and known me.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) You know when I sit down and when I get up;
You understand my thought from far off.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) You search my path and my lying down
and are aware of all my ways.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) For there is not a word on my tongue,
but behold, O Lord, You know it fully.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) You put Yourself behind and before me,
and keep Your hand on me.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is lofty, and I cannot fathom it.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) Where shall I go from Your spirit,
or where shall I flee from Your presence?
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell at the end of the sea,
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) even there Your hand shall guide me,
and Your right hand shall take hold of me.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) If I say, "Surely the darkness shall coverme,
and the light shall be as night about me,"
12 even the darkness is not dark to You,
but the night shines as the day,
for the darkness is like light to You.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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 30 of the Month
a) Pray for God's will to be done where you live and throughout
Canadian society, as it is in Heaven
( Matt 6:9-13
9 “Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
)
b) Pray that in kindness God will lead many to repentance in your city
or community, and across our nation. (
Rom 2:4
4 (Ex 34:6; Isa 30:18) Do you despise the riches of His goodness,
tolerance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God
leads you to repentance?
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for His many good traits.
Pray to the Lord "Loving God, I thank You for my friends'
and colleagues' successes."
Pray to the Lord to put your trust in Him.
Pray to the Lord and let Him point out someone in need you can share with.
Pray to the Lord to search your heart.
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray for God's will to be done where you live and throughout
Canadian society, as it is in Heaven.
Pray that in kindness God will lead many to repentance in your city
or community, and across our nation.
Pray that the churches in Azerbaijan will be able to safely
acquire government regristration.
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 210, 29 July 2021
Isaiah 54-58
Isaiah 54
The Covenant of Peace
1 (1Sa 2:5; Gal 4:27) Sing, O barren,
you who did not bear a child.
Break forth into singing and cry aloud,
you who did not travail with child.
For more are the children of the desolate
than the children of the married wife,
says the Lord.
2 (Isa 49:19-20; Ex 35:18) Enlarge the place of your tent,
and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations;
spare not,
lengthen your cords,
and strengthen your stakes.
3 (Isa 43:5-6) For you shall spread out to the right hand and to the left,
and your descendants shall inherit the nations
and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 (Jer 31:19) Do not fear, for you shall not be ashamed nor be humiliated;
for you shall not be put to shame,
for you shall forget the shame of your youth
and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
5 (Jer 3:14; Zec 14:9) For your Maker is your husband,
the Lord of Hosts is His name;
and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;
He shall be called the God of the whole earth.
6 (Isa 62:4) For the Lord has called you
as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
and a wife of youth
when you were refused, says your God.
7 (Isa 26:20) For a small moment I have forsaken you,
but with great mercies I will gather you.
8 (Isa 54:5; 55:3)In a little wrath
I hid My face from you for a moment;
but with everlasting kindness
I will have mercy on you,
says the Lord your Redeemer.
9 (Ge 8:21; Isa 12:1) For this is as the waters of Noah to Me;
for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no longer cover the earth,
so I have sworn that I would not be wrathful with you
nor rebuke you.
10 (2Sa 23:5; Ps 46:2) For the mountains may be removed,
and the hills may shake,
but My kindness shall not depart from you,
nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,
says the Lord who has mercy on you.
11 (1Ch 29:2) O afflicted one, tossed with tempest and not comforted,
I will lay your stones with fair colors
and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 I will make your windows of agates,
and your gates of crystal,
and all your borders of precious stones.
13 (Jn 6:45; Isa 48:18) All your sons shall be taught of the Lord,
and great shall be the peace of your sons.
14 (Isa 1:26) In righteousness you shall be established;
you shall be far from oppression,
for you shall not fear,
and from terror,
for it shall not come near you.
15 Indeed they shall surely assail you fiercely, but not from Me.
Whoever assails you shall fall for your sake.
16 See, I have created the smith
that blows the coals in the fire
and who brings forth an instrument for his work;
and I have created the destroyer in order to cause ruin.
17 (Isa 50:8) No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper,
and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment, you shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and their vindication is from Me,
says the Lord.
Isaiah 55
The Invitation to the Waters
1 (SS 5:1; Rev 21:6) Ho! Everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 (Ps 22:26; Hos 8:7) Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good,
and let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3 (Isa 61:8; Ac 13:34) Incline your ear, and come to Me.
Listen, so that your soul may live,
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
even the sure mercies of David.
4 (Jer 30:9; Da 9:25) See, I have given him as a witness to the people,
a leader and commander to the people.
5 (Isa 60:9; Ge 49:10) Surely you shall call a nation that you do not know,
and nations that did not know you shall run to you
because of the Lord your God,
even the Holy One of Israel;
for He has glorified you.
6 (Ps 32:6; Isa 45:19 ) Seek the Lord while He may be found,
call you upon Him while He is near.
7 (Isa 44:22; Pr 28:13) Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
and let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him,
and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways My ways,
says the Lord.
9 (Ps 103:11) For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 (Isa 30:23) For as the rain comes down,
and the snow from heaven,
and do not return there
but water the earth
and make it bring forth and bud
that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 (Isa 45:23; 46:10) so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
it shall not return to Me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
12 (Isa 44:23; Ps 105:43) For you shall go out with joy,
and be led out with peace;
the mountains and the hills
shall break forth into singing before you,
and all the trees of the field
shall clap their hands.
13 (Isa 41:19; 60:13) Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree,
and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree;
and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial,
for an everlasting sign
that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 56
Salvation for the Nations
1 (Ps 85:9; Isa 46:13) Thus says the Lord:
Preserve justice
and do righteousness,
for My salvation is about to come
and My righteousness to be revealed.
2 (Isa 58:13; Ex 31:13-16) Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who takes hold of it,
who keeps from polluting the Sabbath
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
3 Do not let the son of the foreigner
who has joined himself to the Lord
speak, saying,
"The Lord has utterly separated me from His people";
do not let the eunuch say,
"I am only a dry tree."
4 For thus says the Lord:
To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
and choose the things that please Me,
and take hold of My covenant,
5 (Isa 55:13; Jn 1:12) to them I will give in My house and within My walls
a memorial, and a name
better than that of sons and of daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord
to serve Him,
and to love the name of the Lord,
and to be His servants,
to everyone who keeps from polluting the Sabbath
and takes hold of My covenant,
7 (Mt 21:13; Mk 11:17) even them I will bring to My holy mountain
and make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
shall be accepted on My altar;
for My house shall be called
a house of prayer for all people.
8 (Jn 10:16; Isa 60:3-11) The Lord God
who gathers the outcasts of Israel says,
Yet I will gather others to them
besides those who already are gathered to him.
God Accuses the Wicked
9 (Jer 12:9) All you beasts of the field,
all you beasts in the forest, come to devour.
10 (Isa 29:10; Jer 14:13-14) His watchmen are blind;
they all are ignorant;
they all are dumb dogs,
unable to bark;
sleepers lying down,
who love to slumber.
11 (Eze 13:19; Mic 3:11) They are greedy dogs
which can never have enough,
and they are shepherds who cannot understand;
they all turn to their own way,
every one for his gain, from his territory.
12 (Ps 10:6; Isa 5:22) "Come," they say, "let us get wine,
and let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
and tomorrow shall be as today,
only more so."
Isaiah 57
Israel's Futile Idolatry
1 (2Ki 22:20; Ps 12:1) The righteous man perishes,
and no man lays it to heart;
and merciful men are taken away
while no one understands,
for the righteous man is taken away
from the evil to come.
2 (2Ch 16:14; Eze 32:25) He shall enter into peace;
they shall rest in their beds,
each one walking in his uprightness.
3 (Mt 16:4) But draw near to here, you sons of a sorceress,
offspring of an adulterer and prostitute.
4 (Ps 35:21; Isa 1:4) Whom do you mock?
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
offspring of falsehood,
5 (2Ki 16:3-4; Isa 1:29) inflaming yourselves with idols
under every green tree,
slaying the children in the valleys
under the clefts of the rocks?
6 (Jer 3:9; 7:18) Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion;
they are your lot.
Even to them you have poured out a drink offering;
you have offered a grain offering.
Should I relent concerning these things?
7 (Eze 16:16; 23:41) On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed;
even there you went up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the doors and the doorposts
you have set up your memorial;
far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself;
you have enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them;
you have loved their bed,
you have looked on their nakedness.
9 (Eze 23:16) You went to the king with ointment,
and increased your perfumes,
and sent your messengers far off,
and made them go down to Sheol.
10 (Jer 2:25; 18:12) You were wearied by the length of your road;
yet you did not say, "There is no hope."
You have found renewed strength;
therefore, you did not faint.
11 (Ps 50:21; Pr 29:25) Of whom were you afraid or fearful
when you lied
and you did not remember Me,
nor give Me a thought?
Have I not held My peace for a long time
so that you do not fear Me?
12 (Mic 3:2-4) I will declare your righteousness, and your works,
yet they shall not profit you.
13 (Ps 37:9; 37:3) When you cry out,
let your collection of idols deliver you.
But the wind shall carry them all away,
a breath shall take them away.
But he who puts his trust in Me
shall possess the land
and shall inherit My holy mountain.
Healing for the Contrite
14 (Isa 62:10; 40:3) And it shall be said,
"Build up, build up, prepare the way,
take up every stumbling block out of the way of My people."
15 (Ps 34:18; 138:6) For thus says the High and Lofty One
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 (Ps 85:5; Mic 7:18) For I will not contend forever,
nor will I always be angry;
for the spirit would grow faint before Me,
and the souls whom I have made.
17 (Isa 56:11; Jer 6:13) For the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry
and struck him;
I hid My face and was wrathful,
and he went on turning away in the way of his heart.
18 (Jer 3:22) I have seen his ways but will heal him;
I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,
19 (Ac 2:39; Heb 13:15) by creating the fruit of the lips.
Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,
says the Lord, and I will heal him.
20 (Job 18:5-14; Isa 3:11) But the wicked are like the troubled
sea when it cannot rest,
whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 (Isa 48:22) There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.
Isaiah 58
The Chosen Fast
1 Cry aloud, do not hold back;
lift up your voice like a trumpet,
and show My people their transgression
and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 (Isa 29:13; Titus 1:16) Yet they seek Me daily
and delight to know My ways,
as a nation that has done righteousness
and has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for the ordinances of justice;
they take delight in approaching God.
3 (Mal 3:14; Lev 16:29) "Why have we fasted
and You do not see?
Why have we humbled ourselves
and You take no notice?"
Certainly, on the day of your fast you find your desire
and are exacting on all your laborers.
4 (1Ki 21:9-13; Joel 2:13-14) Certainly, you fast for strife and debate
and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You do not fast as you do this day,
to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 (Zec 7:5; Lev 16:29) Is it such a fast that I have chosen,
a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
and to spread out sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast
and an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 (Ne 5:10-12) Is not this the fast that I have chosen:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens,
and to let the oppressed go free,
and break every yoke?
7 (Eze 18:7; Isa 58:10; Eze 18:16) Is it not to divide your bread
with the hungry
and bring the poor who are outcasts into your house?
When you see the naked, to cover him
and not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 (Ex 14:19; Job 11:17) Then your light shall break forth as the morning,
and your healing shall spring forth quickly,
and your righteousness shall go before you;
the glory of the Lord shall be your reward.
9 (Pr 6:13; Ps 12:2) Then you shall call, and the Lord shall answer;
you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am.
If you take away the yoke from your midst,
the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
10 (Job 11:17; Isa 58:7-8) and if you give yourself to the hungry
and satisfy the afflicted soul,
then your light shall rise in obscurity,
and your darkness shall become as the noonday.
11 (SS 4:15; Jer 31:12) And the Lord shall guide you continually,
and satisfy your soul in drought,
and strengthen your bones;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
12 (Isa 61:4; Am 9:11) Those from among you shall rebuild
the old waste places;
you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
and you shall be called, the Repairer of the Breach,
the Restorer of Paths in which to Dwell.
13 (Ps 84:2; 84:10) If because of the Sabbath you turn away your foot
from doing your pleasure on My holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight,
the holy day of the Lord honorable,
and honor it, not doing your own ways,
nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
14 (Dt 32:13; Job 22:26) then you shall delight yourself in the Lord,
and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth,
and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
For the mouth of the Lord has spokenit.
2) Our Daily Bread for 29 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/29/hes-our-peace
entitled Jesus Is Our Peace
Ephesians 2:11–22
One in Christ
11(Col 2:11; 1Co 12:2; Eph 5:8) Therefore remember that formerly you,
the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called the "uncircumcision"
by the so-called "circumcision" in the flesh by human hands,
12 (1Th 4:13; Gal 4:8) were at that time apart from Christ, alienated
from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise,
without hope and without God in the world.
13 (Ac 2:39; Isa 57:19) But now in Christ Jesus you who were formerly
far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 (Gal 3:28; Mic 5:5) For He is our peace, who has made both groups one
and has broken down the barrier of the dividing wall,
15 (Col 2:14; 2:20) by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, that is,
the law of the Âcommandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself
He might make the two into one new man, thus making peace,
16 (Eph 2:15; Col 1:20-22) and that He might reconcile both to God
into one body through the cross, thereby slaying the enmity.
17 (Ps 148:14; Dt 4:7) And He came and preached peace to you who were
far away and peace to those who were near.
18 (1Co 12:13; Eph 3:12) For through Him we both have access
by one Spirit to the Father.
19 (Gal 6:10; Php 3:20) Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers
and foreigners, but are fellow citizens with the saints
and members of the household of God,
20 (Mt 16:18; Isa 28:16; Rev 21:14) having been built upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself
being the chief cornerstone,
21 (1Co 3:16-17) in whom the entire building, tightly framed together,
grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
22 (1Co 3:16) in whom you also are being built together
into a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.
A monk named Telemachus lived a quiet life, but his death at the end
of the fourth century changed the world. Visiting Rome from the East,
Telemachus intervened in the blood sport of the gladiatorial arena.
He jumped over the stadium wall and tried to stop the gladiators
from killing each other. But the outraged crowd stoned the monk to death.
The emperor Honorius, however, was moved by Telemachus' act
and decreed the end of the 500-year practice of gladiator games.
When Paul calls Jesus "our peace," he refers to the end of hostility
between Jews and gentiles (Ephesians 2:14). God's chosen people
Israel were distinct from the nations and enjoyed certain privileges.
For instance, while gentiles were allowed to worship at the Jerusalem
temple, a dividing wall restricted them to the outer court-on punishment
of death. Jews regarded gentiles unclean, and they experienced mutual
hostility. But now, because of Jesus' death and resurrection for all,
both Jew and gentile can worship God freely through faith in Him (vv. 18-22).
There's no dividing wall. There’s no privilege of one group over the other.
Both are equal in their standing before God.
Just as Telemachus brought peace to warriors through his death,
so Jesus makes peace and reconciliation possible for all who believe
in Him through His death and resurrection. So, if Jesus is our peace,
let's not let our differences divide us. He’s made us one by His blood.
By: Con Campbell
Reflect & Pray
How do you reveal you’re at peace with all people?
What issues-such as race, status, or privilege-sometimes get in the way? Why?
Dear God of peace, You’ve made us one in Jesus. Help me to know it and live it.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 5 - Learning by Heart
Ps 119:9,11
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) How shall a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to Your word.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Your word I have hidden in my heart,
that I might not sin against You.
"His heart is not just in it," a gifted musician commented about the
pianist onstage. "He's here at the Orchestra Hall, playing for
thousands of poeple, an his technique is flawless, but something
is missing - his heart is just not in it."
The psalmist , in Psalm 119, draws a similar parallel. We "Keep our
way pure" through obedience of his Word, by ordering our lives according
to the commands of the Scriptures. But outward behaviour is not the only
essential factor in purity of life. The changes in our behaviour need to
come from the heart, from the inside out. Our "technique" for living
the Christian life may be flawless, but our obediance is founded
in heart motivation, something is certainly missing.
"I seek you with all my heart," the psalmist declares in verse 10.
Thus he can say in verse 11, "I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you"
Often we refer to memorisation as "learning by heart" - and indeed
"by heart" is the biblical mandate for assimilating God's truth
into our daily lives. "By rote" or "By Mind" leaves us
intellectually overstuffed, yet spiritually starving.
When we try to apply the Word outwardly to our behaviour,
we end up in a tangle of legalism, a log "do list" by which
we hope to please God. But when we set our hearts toward god first,
then changes in our behaviour grow out of love for God and a deep
desire to serve him. Then we are truly loving and obeying God with
our whole hearts.
Application
a) In what ways have I tried to apply God's word to my behaviour
without having the truth firmly in my heart? What was the result?
b) How can I set my heart toward God and give myself more fully
to his Word?
c) What areas of my life need "purifying"? How can these verses
help me to "make my way pure"?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Gal 3:13-14
13 (Dt 21:23; Gal 4:5 )Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by
being made a curse for us - as it is written,
"Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree" (Dt 21:23.)—
14 (Ac 2:33; Gal 3:2) so that the blessing of Abraham might come
on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise
of the Spirit through faith.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Guiding Presence
Ps 119:105-112
Nun
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
106 I have sworn, and I will perform it,
that I will keep Your righteous judgments.
107 I am greatly afflicted;
revive me, O Lord, according to Your word.
108 Accept the freewill offerings of my praise, O Lord,
and teach me Your judgments.
109 My soul is continually in my hand,
yet I do not forget Your law.
110 The wicked have laid a trap for me,
yet I do not depart from Your precepts.
111 Your testimonies are my inheritance forever,
for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes always,
even unto the end.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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 29 of the Month
a) Pray that God will enlighten those in medicine and health care
to acknowledge the sanctity of life and server with true
integrity and compassion (
Ps 139:13-16
13 You brought my inner parts into being;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise you, for You made me with fear and wonder;
marvelous are Your works,
and You know me completely.
15 My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
and intricately put together in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw me unformed,
yet in Your book
all my days were written,
before any of them came into being.
)
b) Pray that the Church in Canada will remember the poor
and compassionately respond to their plight (
Gal 2:10
10 (Ac 24:17) Only they requested that we should remember the poor,
which I also was eager to do.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and thank him for consistent in a Sinful world.
Pray to the Lord "Dear God of peace, You’ve made us one in Jesus.
Help me to know it and live it."
Pray to the Lord ato hide The Word in your Heart.
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for redeeming us.
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for His Word is lamp
unto our feet and a light upon our lives.
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray that God will enlighten those in medicine and health care
to acknowledge the sanctity of life and server with true
integrity and compassion.
Pray that the Church in Canada will remember the poor
and compassionately respond to their plight .
Pray for Joseph in Oman, who lost all of his worldly possessions
because of his fith in Jesus Christ.
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 209, 28 July 2021
Isaiah 49-53
Isaiah 49
The Servant of the Lord
1 (Jer 1:5; Isa 42:1-4) Listen to me, O coastlands,
and pay attention, you peoples from afar.
The Lord called me from the womb;
from the body of my mother He named me.
2 (Isa 11:4; Rev 1:16) He has made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in the shadow of His hand He has hidden me
and made me a select arrow;
in His quiver He has hidden me.
3 (Isa 44:23; Zec 3:8) He said to me, "You are My servant,
Israel, in whom I will be glorified."
4 (Isa 53:10–12; 65:23 Then I said, "I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity,
yet surely the justice due to me is with the Lord,
and my reward with my God."
5 (Mt 17:5; 28:18) Now says the Lord,
who formed me from the womb to be His servant,
to bring Jacob back to Him,
so that Israel might be gathered to Him
(yet I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God is my strength),
6 (Isa 42:6; Lk 2:32) He says,
"It is a light thing that you should be My servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to restore the preserved ones of Israel;
I will also make you a light to the nations
so that My salvation may reach to the ends of the earth."
7 (Isa 52:15; 53:3) Thus says the Lord,
the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
to the despised one, to the one whom the nation abhors,
to the servant of rulers:
"Kings shall see and arise,
princes also shall worship,
because of the Lord who is faithful
and the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you."
The Restoration of Israel
8 (Isa 42:6; Ps 69:13; 2Co 6:2) Thus says the Lord:
In an acceptable time I have heard you,
and in a day of salvation I have helped you;
and I will preserve you, and give you
as a covenant of the people,
to restore the earth,
to make them inherit the desolate heritages,
9 (Isa 42:7; 61:1) saying to the prisoners, "Go forth,"
to those who are in darkness, "Show yourselves."
They shall feed along the paths,
and their pastures shall be in all desolate heights;
10 (Rev 7:16-17) they shall not hunger nor thirst,
neither shall the heat nor sun strike them;
for He who has mercy on them shall lead them,
even by the springs of water He shall guide them.
11 (Isa 11:16; 62:10) I will make all My mountains a road,
and My highways shall be raised up.
12 (Isa 43:5-6) See, these shall come from afar;
and these will come from the north and from the west,
and these from the land of Sinim.
13 (Isa 44:23; 51:3) Sing, O heavens!
And be joyful, O earth!
And break forth into singing, Omountains!
For the Lord has comforted His people
and will have mercy on His afflicted.
14 (Isa 40:27) But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me."
15 (Isa 44:21) Can a woman forget her nursing child,
and have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget.
16 (SS 8:6; Hag 2:23) See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;
your walls are continually before Me;
17 your builders hurry;
your destroyers and those who devastated you shall depart from you.
18 (Isa 49:12; 54:9) Lift up your eyes and look all around;
all these gather themselves together and come to you.
As I live, says the Lord,
you shall surely put on all of them as ornaments
and bind them on you as a bride does.
19 (Zec 10:10; Ps 56:1-2) For your waste and your desolate places,
and the land of your destruction,
shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.
20 The children whom you shall have,
after you have lost the others,
shall say again in your ears,
"The place is too cramped for me;
make room for me that I may dwell here."
21 Then you shall say in your heart,
"Who bore these for me,
since I have lost my children and am barren,
a captive and a wanderer?
And who has brought these up?
I was left alone;
from where did these come?"
22 Thus says the Lord God:
See, I will lift up My hand to the nations
and set up My standard to the peoples;
and they shall bring your sons in their arms,
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
23 (Isa 60:3; 60:16) kings shall be your foster fathers
and their queens your nursing mothers;
they shall bow down to you with their faces toward the ground
and lick up the dust of your feet.
And you shall know that I am the Lord,
for those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.
24 (Mt 12:29) Can the prey be taken from the mighty
or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
25 (Jer 50:33-34) For thus says the Lord:
Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
and the prey of the tyrant shall be delivered;
for I will contend with him who contends with you,
and I will save your sons.
26 (Isa 9:20; Eze 39:7) I will feed those who oppress you
with their own flesh,
and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine.
And all flesh shall know
that I, the Lord, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 50
The Servant, Hope of Israel
1 (Jer 3:8; Dt 32:30; 2Ki 4:1) Thus says the Lord:
Where is the certificate of divorce
by which I sent your mother away?
Or to which of My creditors
did I sell you?
For your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
2 (Nu 11:23; Jos 3:16) Why, when I came, was there no man?
When I called, was there no one to answer?
Is My hand so short that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Indeed, at My rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink because there is no water,
and die for thirst.
3 (Rev 6:12) I clothe the heavens with blackness,
and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 (Mt 11:28; Ex 4:11-12) The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned,
that I may know how to sustain him who is weary with a word;
He awakens me morning by morning;
He awakens my ear to listen as the learned.
5 (Jn 14:31; Heb 5:8) The Lord God has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious,
nor did I turn back.
6 (Mt 26:67; Mk 15:19; 14:65) I gave my back to those who struck me,
and my cheeks to those who plucked out my beard;
I did not cover my face
from shame and spitting.
7 (Eze 3:8-9; Isa 42:1) For the Lord God will help me;
therefore, I shall not be disgraced;
therefore, I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 (Isa 41:1; Ro 8:32-34) He who vindicates me is near;
who will contend with me?
Let us stand up to each other.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
9 (Job 13:28; Isa 41:10) Certainly the Lord God will help me;
who is he who condemns me?
Indeed they all shall grow old as a garment;
the moth shall eat them up.
10 (Isa 9:2) Who among you fears the Lord,
who obeys the voice of His servant,
who walks in darkness
and has no light?
Let him trust in the name of the Lord,
and rely upon his God.
11 (Isa 8:22; Jn 9:39) But now, all you who kindle a fire,
who encompass yourselves with sparks:
Walk in the light of your fire
and among the sparks that you have ignited.
This you shall have from My hand:
You shall lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 51
The Eternal Salvation of Zion
1 (Isa 51:7; Ps 94:15; Ge 17:15-17) Listen to Me,
you who pursue righteousness,
you who seek the Lord:
Look to the rock from which you were hewn
and to the quarry from which you were dug.
2 (Eze 33:24) Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah who bore you;
for I called him alone,
and blessed him, and multiplied him.
3 (Isa 52:9; Ge 13:10) For the Lord shall comfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the Lord;
joy and gladness shall be found in it,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4 (Isa 2:3; 42:6) Listen to Me, O My people;
and give ear to Me, O My nation:
for a law shall proceed from Me,
and I will set My justice as a light of the peoples.
5 (Isa 46:13; 42:4) My righteousness is near,
My salvation has gone forth,
and My arms shall judge the peoples;
the coastlands shall wait for Me,
and for My arm they shall expectantly wait.
6 (Mt 24:35; Isa 34:4) Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look on the earth beneath.
For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,
and the earth shall grow old like a garment,
and those who dwell in it shall die in like manner;
but My salvation shall be forever,
and My righteousness shall not be abolished.
7 (Ps 37:31; Mt 5:11) Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is My law;
do not fear the reproach of men
nor be afraid of their revilings.
8 (Isa 50:9; 51:6) For the moth shall eat them up like a garment,
and the worm shall eat them like wool;
but My righteousness shall be forever
and My salvation from generation to generation.
9 (Isa 27:1; Ps 74:13-14; Isa 52:1) Awake, awake, put on strength,
O arm of the Lord.
Awake as in the ancient days,
in the generations of old.
Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces
and wounded the dragon?
10 (Ex 14:21-22; 15:13 ) Was it not You who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep,
who made the depths of the sea a pathway
for the ransomed to pass over?
11 (Isa 35:10; Rev 7:17) Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return
and come with singing to Zion,
and everlasting joy shall be upon their head.
They shall obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 (Ps 118:6; Isa 2:22) I, even I, am He who comforts you.
Who are you that you should be afraid of a man who shall die,
and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,
13 (Ps 104:2; Isa 17:10) and forget the Lord your maker
who has stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth?
And have feared continually every day
because of the fury of the oppressor
as he makes ready to destroy?
Yet where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 (Isa 48:20; 52:2) The exile shall soon be freed,
and shall not die in the dungeon,
nor will his bread be lacking.
15 (Jer 31:35) But I am the Lord your God
who divided the sea whose waves roared;
the Lord of Hosts is His name.
16 (Isa 59:21; Dt 18:18) I have put My words in your mouth,
and I have covered you in the shadow of My hand
that I may plant the heavens,
and lay the foundations of the earth,
and say to Zion, "You are My people."
The Wrath of God Ceases
17 (Job 21:20; Isa 52:1) Awake, awake,
stand up, O Jerusalem,
you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord
the cup of His fury;
the cup of reeling
you have drained to the dregs.
18 (Ps 88:18; Isa 49:21) There is no one to guide her
among all the sons she has brought forth;
nor is there anyone to take hold of her hand
of all the sons that she has brought up.
19 (Isa 47:9; Am 7:2) These two things have befallen you;
who shall be mournful for you?
Desolation, and destruction, and famine, and sword—
how shall I comfort you?
20 (La 2:11-12) Your sons have fainted;
they lie at the head of all the streets
as an antelope in a net;
they are full of the fury of the Lord,
the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore please hear this,
you afflicted who are drunk but not with wine.
22 (Isa 51:17; Jer 50:34) Thus says your Lord, the Lord,
and your God who pleads the cause of His people:
See, I have taken out of your hand
the cup of reeling,
even the dregs of the cup of My fury;
you will never drink it again.
23 (Jos 10:24; Zec 12:2) But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
who have said to you,
"Lie down that we may walk over you."
And you have laid your back as the ground
and as the street for those who walk on it.
Isaiah 52
1 (Rev 21:27; Ne 11:1; Isa 51:17) Awake, awake!
Put on your strength, O Zion;
put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city.
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will no longer enter you.
2 (Isa 51:14; 51:23) Shake yourself from the dust;
arise, O captive Jerusalem.
Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
3 (Isa 45:13; Ps 44:12) For thus says the Lord:
You were sold for nothing,
and you shall be redeemed without money.
4 (Ge 46:6) For thus says the Lord God:
My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there;
then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 (Ro 2:24) Now therefore, what do I have here, says the Lord,
seeing that My people have been taken away for nothing?
Those who rule over them make them wail,
says the Lord,
and My name is continually blasphemed
all day long.
6 Therefore, My people shall know My name;
therefore, they shall know in that day
that I am He who does speak:
Here I am.
7 (Isa 40:9; Na 1:15; Ps 93:1) How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
who proclaims peace,
who brings good news of happiness,
who proclaims salvation,
who says to Zion,
"Your God reigns!"
8 (Isa 62:6; 1Co 13:12) Your watchmen lift up their voices;
they sing joyfully together;
for they shall see with their own eyes
when the Lord brings Zion back.
9 (Isa 51:3; 48:20) Break forth into joy, sing together,
you waste places of Jerusalem.
For the Lord has comforted His people;
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 (Isa 51:9; Lk 3:6) The Lord has bared His holy arm
in the eyes of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.
11 (Isa 48:20; 2Co 6:17) Depart, depart, go out from there,
touch no unclean thing;
go out of the midst of her; be clean,
you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 (Ex 12:33; Isa 58:8) For you shall not go out with haste
nor go by flight.
For the Lord will go before you,
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
The Suffering Servant
13 (Isa 42:1; 9:6-7; 53:10-11) See, My servant shall deal prudently;
he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 (Ps 22:15; 22:17) Just as many were astonished at you,
his visage was so marred, more than any man,
and his form more than the sons of men;
15 (Isa 49:7; 49:23) so he shall sprinkle many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths at him;
for that which had not been told them they shall see,
and that which they had not heard they shall consider.
Isaiah 53
1 (Jn 12:38; Isa 51:9) Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 (Isa 52:14; 11:1; Jer 23:5) For he grew up before Him as a tender plant
and as a root out of a dry ground.
He has no form or majesty that we should look upon him
nor appearance that we should desire him.
3 (Isa 49:7; 53:10) He was despised and rejected of men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from him;
he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
4 (Mt 8:17; Jn 19:7) Surely he has borne our grief
and carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 (Ro 4:25; 1Co 15:3) But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities;
the chastisement of our peace was upon him,
and by his stripes we are healed.
6 (Ps 69:4; 1Pe 2:25) All of us like sheep have gone astray;
each of us has turned to his own way,
but the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 (Mk 14:61; Mt 26:63) He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 (Da 9:26; Isa 53:12) By oppression and judgment he was taken away,
and who shall declare his generation?
For he was cut off out of the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was struck.
9 (1Pe 2:22; Mt 27:57-60) His grave was assigned with the wicked,
yet with the rich in his death,
because he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 (Ps 22:30; 69:26) Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; He has put him to grief.
If he made himself as an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days,
and the good pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 (Ro 5:18-19; Isa 42:1) He shall see of the anguish of his soul
and be satisfied.
By his knowledge My righteous servant shall justify the many,
for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 (Mk 15:27; Lk 22:37) Therefore, I will divide him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death,
and he was numbered with the transgressors,
thus he bore the sin of many
and made intercession for the transgressors.
2) Our Daily Bread for 28 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/28/an-unexpected-surprisean-unexpected-surprise
entitled God's Love Is Stronger
Song of songs 8:6-7
6 (Isa 49:16; Jer 22:24) Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its fires of desire are as ardent flames,
a most intense flame.
7 (Pr 6:35) Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
all the wealth of his house,
it would be utterly condemned.
In 2020, Alyssa Mendoza received a surprising email
from her father in the middle of the night. The message had instructions
about what to do for her mother on her parents' twenty-fifth anniversary.
Why was this shocking? Alyssa's father had passed away ten months earlier.
She discovered that he'd written and scheduled the email while he was sick,
knowing he might not be there. He'd also arranged and paid for flowers
to be sent to his wife for upcoming years on her birthday,
future anniversaries, and Valentine's Day.
This story could stand as an example of the kind of love
that's described in detail in Song of Songs.
"Love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave" (8:6).
Comparing graves and death to love seems odd, but they're strong
because they don't give up their captives. However, neither will true love
give up the loved one. The book reaches its peak in verses 6–7,
describing marital love as one so strong that
"many waters cannot quench [it]" (v. 7).
Throughout the Bible, the love of a husband and wife is compared
to God's love (Isaiah 54:5; Ephesians 5:25; Revelation 21:2).
Jesus is the groom and the church is His bride.
God showed His love for us by sending Christ to face death
so we wouldn't have to die for our sins (John 3:16).
Whether we're married or single, we can remember that God's love
is stronger than anything we could imagine.
By: Julie Schwab
Reflect & Pray
How do you feel knowing how much God loves you?
What reminds you of His love for you?
Dear Jesus, thank You for loving me so much!
Remind me of Your love each day and give me glimpses of it.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 4 - Arming for Battle
Joshua 1:8
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.
When God spoke these words to Joshua, the young leader's prospects for
"prosperity" and "success" were far from promising. Upon Moses' death,
Joshua was appointed to lead Israel into the Promised Land, to claim
the territory and establish a nation unde God's rule.
Joshua was afraid, and for good reason. The people were rebellious
and intractable. And "claiming the land" meant battling many strong enemies.
Yet God told Joshua that his strengh would come not in prepaing for battle,
but in preparing for battle, but in preparing himself by meditating
on and applying God's word to his life.
We, too, face difficult battles as we seek to enter the "Promised Land"
of God's peace and presence. But his promise is the same as it was to Joshua:
through obedience to the Word, we can find prosperity and success.
God's promise does not necessarily mean financial prosperity
or material success. These victories may come as well, but God's primary
purpose for his people is spiritual success - the victory and joy of living
in fellowship with him. We can be enriched in the knowledge of God and
find power to overcome the enemies of sin and self. The way may not be easy
- after all, there is no victory without conflict - but God promises
that we will succeed as we look to him.
Application
a) What image do I have a personal "Promised Land" that I long
to enter and claim as my own?
b) What enemies will I need to battle in order to enter that land?
c) How can meditation on the Word of God and obedience to him bring me
prosperity and success?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Deut 28:1-2
Blessings for Obedience
1 (Ex 15:26; Lev 26:3–13) Now it will be, if you will diligently
obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all
His commandments which I am commanding you today,
then the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
2 (Zec 1:6; Dt 28:15) And all these blessings will come on you and overtake
you if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Freeing Forgiveness
Micah 7:18-20
18 (Isa 43:25; Jer 32:41) Who is a God like You,
bearing iniquity and passing over transgression
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not remain angry forever,
because He delights in benevolence.
19 (Isa 38:17; Jer 50:20) He will again have compassion upon us.
He will tread down our iniquities,
and cast all of our sins into the depths of the sea.
20 You will give faithfulness to Jacob
and benevolence to Abraham,
which you swore to our fathers
from the days of old.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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 28 of the Month
a) Pray for new Canadians, that they will have opportunity to hear
and respond to the Gospel and place their faith in Jesus Christ.
(
John 5:24
24 (Jn 3:18; 1Jn 3:14; Jn 3:36) "Truly, truly I say to you, whoever
hears My word and believes in Him who sent
Me has eternal life and shall not come into condemnation,
but has passed from death into life."
)
b) Pray for God's kingdom to come in the life of someone you
know today . (
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 “Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and thank him for being in change.
Pray to the Lord "Dear Jesus, thank You for loving me so much!
Remind me of Your love each day and give me glimpses of it."
Pray to the Lord and ask himti help you win
your way to "The Promised Land".
Pray to the Lord and be obediant to Him.
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for being loving
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray for new Canadians, that they will have opportunity to hear
and respond to the Gospel and place their faith in Jesus Christ.
Pray for God's kingdom to come in the life of someone you
know today .
Pray for those smuggling print and digital Scriptures to believers in Iran.
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 208, 27 July 2021
2 Kings 19 , Psalms 46, 80, 135
2 Kings 19
Hezekiah Consults Isaiah
Isa 37:1-13
1(1Ki 21:27; 2Ki 18:37) When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes,
covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the Lord.
2 (Isa 1:1; 2:1) He sent Eliakim, who was over the household,
Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth,
to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress,
chastisement, and disgrace, for children have come to the mouth
of the womb, but there is no strength to birth them.
4 (2Sa 16:12; Jos 14:12) Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words
of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt
the living God and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard,
and you might lift up a prayer for the remnant that are left."
5 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
6 (2Ki 18:17; 18:35) Isaiah said to them, "Thus shall you say to your master,
'Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard,
with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
7 (2Ki 7:6) I am putting a spirit in him, and he will hear a report
and return to his own land.
Then I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.' "
Sennacherib Defies the Lord
8 (2Ki 18:14; Jos 10:29) Then the Rabshakeh returned and found
the king of Assyria warring against Libnah,
for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
9 (1Sa 23:27) When the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush,
"He has come out to fight against you,"
he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 (2Ki 18:5; 18:29-30) "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying: Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying:
Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands
by annihilating them. Will you be delivered?
12 (Ge 11:31; 2Ki 17:6) Have the gods of the nations delivered them,
the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Harran, Rezeph,
and the sons of Eden who were in Tel Assar?
13 (2Ki 18:34) Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad,
the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?"
Hezekiah's Prayer
Isa 37:14-20
14 (Isa 37:14) Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers
and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord
and spread it before the Lord.
15 (Ex 25:22; 1Ki 18:39 )Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said,
"O Lord, God of Israel, who sits on the cherubim, You alone are God over
all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the sky and the earth.
16 (2Ki 19:4; 2Ch 6:40) Incline, O Lord, Your ear and hear. Open,
O Lord, Your eyes and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib,
which he sent to taunt the living God.
17 "Surely, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have
annihilated the nations and their lands
18 (Ac 17:29; Isa 44:9-20) and have put their gods in the fire,
for they were no gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone;
thus they have been destroyed.
19 (1Ki 8:43; Ps 83:18) So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand,
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You, O Lord, are God alone."
Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall
Isa 37:21-38; 2Ch 32:20-21
20 (2Ki 20:5) Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying,
"Thus says the Lord God of Israel: That which you have prayed to Me
concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 (La 2:13; Job 16:4; Jer 14:17) This is the word that the Lord has spoken
concerning him:
She despises you, she ridicules you-
virgin daughter of Zion.
Behind you, she shakes her head-
daughter of Jerusalem.
22 (Isa 5:24; Ps 71:22) Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised a voice
and lifted your eyes upward?
Against the Holy One of Israel.
23 (2Ki 18:17; Ps 20:7) By your messengers
you have taunted the Lord,
and have said,
'With my many chariots
I have gone up the height of the mountains,
to farthest reaches of Lebanon,
and I will cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest junipers.
I will enter its most remote canopies of night,
its dense forest.
24 I have dug wells
and drunk foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams of Egypt.'
25 (Isa 45:7) "Have you not heard?
Long ago I arranged it,
in ancient times I formed it;
now I bring it to pass,
that you will turn impregnable cities
into desolate heaps of stones.
26 Their inhabitants are powerless;
they are terrified and ashamed.
They are like grass of the field
and new vegetation,
grass on the roof tops,
scorched before it stands.
27 "But I know your dwelling place,
your going out and your coming in,
and your raging against Me.
28 (2Ki 19:33; Eze 29:4) Because you have raged against Me,
and your self-assuredness has come up to My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
and My bridle on your lips,
and I will turn you back
on the way by which you came.
29 (2Ki 20:8-9; Ex 3:12) "This will be the sign to you:
This year you will eat what grows itself,
and in the second year the same.
Then in the third year sow, reap,
and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
30 (2Ch 32:22-23; 2Ki 19:4) The spared of the house of Judah who remain
will again take root below, and bear fruit above.
31 (Isa 9:7 ) For from Jerusalem a remnant will go forth,
and escapees from Mount Zion.
"The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this.
32 (2Sa 20:15; Isa 8:7-10) "Therefore thus says the Lord concerning
the king of Assyria:
He will not enter this city,
shoot an arrow there,
approach it with shield,
or heap up a siege ramp against it.
33 (2Ki 19:28) By the way that he came, he will return;
he will not enter this city,
declares the Lord.
34 (2Ki 20:6; 1Ki 11:12-13) For I will protect this city to save it,
for My own sake and for the sake of David My servant."
The Death of Sennacherib
35 (Ex 12:29-30; 2Sa 24:16) On that night the angel of the Lord
went out and struck 185000 in the camp of the Assyrians.
When others woke up early in the morning, these were all dead bodies.
36 (Jnh 1:2; 2Ki 19:7) So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed
and stayed in Nineveh.
37 (Ge 8:4; Ezr 4:2) As he was worshipping in the house of Nisrok his god,
Adrammelek and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword,
and they escaped into the land of Ararat.
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
Psalms 46
For the Music Director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.
A Song.
1 God {omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, immutble}
is our refuge and strength, a well-proven help in trouble.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) There is a river whose streams make glad the city
of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most High.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) God is in the midst of her; she will not be moved;
God will help her in the early dawn.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) The nations roared; the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice; the earth melted.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) The Lord of Hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) Come, see the works of the Lord,
who makes desolations in the earth.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts off the spear;
He burns the chariot in the fire.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) Be still and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) The Lord of Hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
Psalms 80
For the Music Director. To the melody of "Lilies of the Testimony."
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
You who lead Joseph like a flock;
You who are enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) In the sight of Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
stir up Your strength,
and come and rescue us.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) Restore us again, O God,
and cause Your face to shine,
and we shall be delivered.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) O Lord God of Hosts,
how long will You be angry
against the prayers of Your people?
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) You have fed them with the bread of tears
and have given them tears to drink in great measure.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) You make us contention for our neighbors,
and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) Restore us again, O God of Hosts,
and cause Your face to shine,
and we shall be delivered.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) You have brought a vine out of Egypt;
You have cast out the nations and planted it.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) You cleared the ground for it;
it took deep root and filled the land.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) The mountains were covered with its shadow
and the mighty cedars with its branches.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) It sent out its branches to the sea
and its shoots to the River.
12 Why have You then broken down its walls,
so that all those who pass by the way pluck its fruit?
13 The boar from the woods ravages it,
and the insects of the field devour it.
14 Return again, O God of Hosts;
look down from heaven, and behold,
have regard for this vine
15 and the root that Your right hand has planted,
and the shoots that You made strong for Yourself.
16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down;
may they perish at the rebuke from Your presence.
17 Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,
the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.
18 So we will not turn back from You;
give us life, and we will call upon Your name.
19 Restore us again, O Lord God of Hosts;
cause Your face to shine,
and we shall be delivered.
Psalms 135
Ps 115:4-11
1 Praise the Lord!
Praise the name of the Lord
praise Him, O servants of the Lord,
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) you who stand in the house of the Lord,
in the courts of the house of our God!
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
sing praises unto His name, for it is pleasant.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself,
and Israel for His special possession.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) For I know that the Lord is great,
and that our Lord is above all gods.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9 )Whatever the Lord pleases,
He does in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all the depths.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) He causes the clouds to ascend
from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain;
He brings the wind out from His storehouses.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) He struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
both of man and animal.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt,
against Pharaoh and all his servants;
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) He struck down great nations
and slew mighty kings-
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Sihon, king of the Amorites,
and Og king of Bashan,
and all the kingdoms of Canaan-
12 and gave their land for an inheritance,
a possession to Israel His people.
13 Your name, O Lord, endures forever;
and Your renown, O Lord, throughout all generations.
14 For the Lord will defend His people,
and He will have compassion on His servants.
15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
the work of men's hands.
16 They have mouths, but do not speak;
they have eyes, but do not see;
17 they have ears, but do not hear;
neither is there any breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them are like them;
so is everyone who trusts in them.
19 Bless the Lord, O house of Israel;
bless the Lord, O house of Aaron.
20 Bless the Lord, O house of Levi;
you who fear the Lord, bless the Lord.
21 Blessed be the Lord from Zion,
who dwells at Jerusalem.
Praise you the Lord!
2) Our Daily Bread for 27 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/27/smiling-with-the-eyes
entitled The Joy God Provides
Proverbs 15:13-15,30 Proverbs 17:22
13 (Pr 17:22; 12:25; 18:14) A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance,
but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
14 The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge,
but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.
15 All the days of the afflicted are evil,
but he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast.
30 (Pr 25:25) The light of the eyes rejoices the heart,
and a good report makes the bones healthy.
22 (Pr 15:13; Ps 22:15; Pr 12:25) A merry heart does good like a medicine,
but a broken spirit dries the bones.
When Marcia's out in public, she always tries to smile at others. It's her way
of reaching out to people who might need to see a friendly face.
Most of the time, she gets a genuine smile in return.
But during a time when Marcia was mandated to wear a facemask,
she realized that people could no longer see her mouth,
thus no one could see her smile. It's sad, she thought, but I'm not
going to stop. Maybe they'll see in my eyes that I'm smiling.
There's actually a bit of science behind that idea. The muscles
for the corners of the mouth and the ones that make the eyes
crinkle can work in tandem. It’s called a Duchenne smile,
and it has been described as "smiling with the eyes."
Proverbs reminds us that "a cheerful look brings joy to the heart"
and "a cheerful heart is good medicine" (15:30 nlt; 17:22).
Quite often, the smiles of God's children stem from the supernatural joy
we possess. It’s a gift from God that regularly spills out into our lives,
as we encourage people who are carrying heavy burdens
or share with those who are looking for answers to life's questions.
Even when we experience suffering, our joy can still shine through.
When life seems dark, choose joy. Let your smile be a window of hope
reflecting God's love and the light of His presence in your life.
By: Cindy Hess Kasper
Reflect & Pray
What else does the Bible teach us about the joy found in God?
How does inner joy contribute to a healthy mind, body, and spirit?
The joy You provide is my strength, dear God.
Help me to be a messenger of Your love to others.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 3 - Let the Word Dwell in You
Col 3:16
16 (Eph 5:19; Col 1:28; Ro 10:17) Let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing
one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Every day, whether we are aware of it or not, our minds are
bombarded by 20th Century values: "Dress for success!" "Get ahead!"
"You deserve a break today ...." Television, radio, and the incessant
voices that surround us distract our attention and keep us from
focusing on what is really important in our lives.
Paul's instruction to the Colossian Church brings us back to God's
value system: "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly."
When we give attention to the Word of God, we put ourselves in a position
to hear a higher truth the clamour of immediate demands
and the expectations of the world around us. We can experience peace
in the midst of struggle and rest in a restless environment.
God's Word is a powerful force for good in our lives - not merely
an attractive philosophy, but true power to overcome the pressures
of daily life.
Dwelling on the Word of God, and letting it indwell us, takes many forms.
Scripture memory, music, meditation, talking with others about the
goodness of God all help us keep our attention focused on Christ rather
than on the values of the world around us.
We can choose to listen to Christian radio or tapes. We can take time
daily for quiet meditation on his Word. We can commit the Word to memory
and draw on its power during the day. And as we listen to the voice
of the Spirit rather than the noise around us, we can enter into
his peace and live in communion with him.
Application
a) What pressures do I face that tend to distract me from the reality
of Christ's presence?
b) How can I "let the word of Christ dwell richly" in me, so that I
an regain my focus on him?
c) What practical changes can I make in my life to help me focus
my attention on Jesus and his word?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
2 Cor 8:9
9 (Mt 20:28; 2Co 6:10; 13:14) For you know the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
that though He was rich,
yet for your sakes He became poor,
that through His poverty you might be rich.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Freeing Forgiveness
Eph 1:3-8a
Spiritual Blessings in Christ
3 (2Co 1:3; Eph 6:12; 2:6) Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 (Eph 5:27; Col 1:22) just as He chose us in Him
before the foundation of the world, to be holy
and blameless before Him in love;
5 (Ro 8:29–30; Eph 1:11) He predestined us to adoption as sons
to Himself through Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure
of His will,
6 (Mt 3:17; Eph 1:12) to the praise of the glory of His grace
which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved.
7 (Ro 3:24; Ac 2:38; 20:28) In Him we have redemption through His blood
and the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace,
8 which He lavished
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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 and sek him in your troubles
and be humble.
Pray to the Lord to make his joy shine within you.
Pray to the Lord and that his word dwell richly within you.
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for beinng all
powerful.
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for
his power of forgiveness.
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray that there will be a growing number of people in your city or
community trusting in Christ as Saviour and Lord.
Pray to the Lord that Holy Spirit will
guide you in your discussion in the Word.
Pray for those seeking the Lord.
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 207, 26 July 2021
Isaiah 44 - 48
Isaiah 44
God's Blessing on Jacob
1 (Isa 41:8; Jer 30:10) Yet now listen, O Jacob, My servant,
and Israel, whom I have chosen.
2 (Dt 32:15; Isa 41:10) Thus says the Lord
who made you, and formed you from the womb,
who will help you:
Do not fear, O Jacob, My servant, and you,
Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
3 (Joel 2:28; Isa 59:21) For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
and floods on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants,
and My blessing on your offspring;
4 (Ps 1:3) and they shall spring up as among the grass,
as willows by the water courses.
5 One will say, "I am the Lord's";
another will call himself by the name of Jacob;
and another will write on his hand, "Belonging to the Lord,"
and name himself by the name of Israel.
Idolatry Condemned
6 (Rev 1:8; Isa 41:4; 43:1) Thus says the Lord the King of Israel,
and his Redeemer the Lord of Hosts:
I am the first, and I am the last;
besides Me there is no God.
7 (Isa 41:26; 41:22) Who is like Me? Let him proclaim
and declare it, and recount it in order for Me,
since I appointed the ancient people.
And let them declare to them the things that are coming,
and shall come.
8 (Isa 43:10; Dt 4:35; 1Sa 2:2) Do not fear, nor be afraid;
have I not told you from of old, and declared it?
You are My witnesses!
Is there a God besides Me?
There is no Rock; I know not any.
9 (Isa 41:24; Ps 97:7) Those who make a graven image are, all of them, vain,
and their delectable things shall not profit;
and they are their own witnesses;
they do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
10 (Jer 10:5; Hab 2:18) Who has formed a god or molded a graven image
that is profitable for nothing?
11 (Isa 42:17; 45:16) All his companions shall be ashamed;
and the workmen, they are mere men.
Let them all be gathered together; let them stand up,
yet they shall fear; they shall be ashamed together.
12 (Isa 40:19; 41:6-7) The smith with the tongs
both works in the coals
and fashions it with hammers,
and works it with the strength of his arms.
He becomes hungry, and his strength fails;
He drinks no water and is faint.
13 (Jdg 17:4-5; Ps 115:5-7) The carpenter stretches out his measuring line;
he marks it out with a line;
he fits it with planes,
and he marks it out with the compass,
and makes it after the figure of a man,
according to the beauty of a man,
that it may remain in the house.
14 (Isa 40:20) He hews down cedars for himself,
and takes the cypress and the oak,
which he raises for himself among the trees of the forest.
He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.
15 (2Ch 25:14 ) Then it shall be for a man to burn,
for he will take some of it and warm himself;
he kindles it and bakes bread;
he also makes a god and worships it;
he makes it a graven image and bows down to it.
16 He burns half of it in the fire;
over this half he eats meat;
he roasts it and is satisfied.
Also he warms himself and says,
"Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire."
17 (Isa 45:20) And the rest he makes into a god, even his carved image.
He falls down to it, and worships it,
and prays to it, and says,
"Deliver me, for you are my god."
18 (Ps 81:12; Isa 29:10 ) They have not known nor understood;
for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see,
and their hearts so that they cannot understand.
19 (Dt 27:15; 1Ki 11:5) No one considers in his heart,
nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say,
“I have burned part of it in the fire;
I also have baked bread on the coals;
I have roasted meat and eaten it;
and shall I make the rest into an abomination?
Shall I fall down to a block of wood?â€
20 (Job 15:31; Ps 102:9 )He feeds on ashes;
a deceived heart has turned him aside
so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say,
"Is there not a lie in my right hand?"
Israel Not Forgotten
21 (Isa 44:1–2) Remember these things, O Jacob,
and Israel, for you are My servant;
I have formed you; you are My servant;
O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by Me.
22 (Isa 43:25; 1Co 6:20) I have blotted out, as a thick cloud,
your transgressions, and your sins, as a cloud.
Return to Me,
for I have redeemed you.
23 (Ps 69:34; Isa 49:3 ) Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it.
Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth;
break forth into singing, you mountains,
O forest, and every tree in it.
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
and glorified Himself in Israel.
Jerusalem to Be Inhabited
24 (Isa 42:5; 43:14; 44:2) Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb:
I am the Lord
who makes all things,
who stretches out the heavens alone,
who spreads abroad the earth by Myself,
25 (2Sa 15:31; Ps 33:10) who frustrates the omens of the boasters
and makes fools out of diviners,
who turns wise men backward
and makes their knowledge foolish,
26 (Zec 1:6) who confirms the word of His servant
and performs the counsel of His messengers,
who says to Jerusalem, "You shall be inhabited,"
and to the cities of Judah, "You shall be built."
And I will raise up her ruins again;
27 (Isa 42:15; Jer 50:38) it is I who says to the deep, "Be dried up!"
And I will dry up your rivers;
28 (2Ch 36:22-1:3; Isa 45:1) it is I who says of Cyrus, "He is My shepherd,
and shall perform all My desire";
and he declares to Jerusalem, "You shall be built,"
and to the temple, "Your foundation shall be laid."
Isaiah 45
Cyrus, God's Anointed
1 (Isa 41:13; Ps 73:23) Thus says the Lord to Cyrus, His anointed,
whose right hand I have held-
to subdue nations before him
and to loosen the loins of kings,
to open doors before him
so that the gates will not be shut:
2 (Ps 107:16; Isa 40:4) I will go before you
and make the crooked places straight;
I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
and shatter the bars of iron.
3 (Isa 43:1; Jer 50:37) And I will give you the treasures of darkness
and hidden riches of secret places
so that you may know that I, the Lord,
who calls you by your name, am the God of Israel.
4 (Isa 41:8-9; Ac 17:23) For Jacob My servant’s sake
and Israel My chosen one,
I have even called you by your name;
I have named you,
though you have not known Me.
5 (Isa 44:8; Ps 18:39; Job 12:21) I am the Lord and there is no other;
there is no God besides Me.
I strengthen you,
though you have not known Me,
6 (Mal 1:11; Isa 37:20) so that they may know from the rising of the sun
and from the west
that there is no one besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other;
7 (Am 3:6 ) I form the light and create darkness;
I make peace and create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things.
8 (Hos 10:12; Ps 72:6 ) Drip down, O heavens, from above,
and let the clouds pour down righteousness;
let the earth open up,
and let them bring forth salvation,
and let righteousness spring up together.
I, the Lord, have created it.
9 (Isa 29:16; 64:8) Woe to him who strives with his Maker,
the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth!
Shall the clay say to the potter,
"What are you making?"
Or the thing you are making say,
"He has no hands"?
10 Woe to him who says to his father,
"What are you begetting?â€
Or to the woman,
“To what are you giving birth?"
11 (Isa 29:23; 43:7) Thus says the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel and his Maker:
Ask Me of things to come
concerning My sons,
and you shall commit to Me the work of My hands.
12 (Isa 42:5; Ge 2:1; Ne 9:6) I have made the earth
and created man on it.
I, even My hands, have stretched out the heavens,
and I have ordained all their host.
13 (Isa 41:2; 2Ch 36:22-23) I have raised him up in righteousness,
and I will direct all his ways;
he shall build My city,
and he shall let My captives go,
neither for price nor reward,
says the Lord of Hosts.
The Only Savior
14 (Isa 49:23; Jer 16:19; Zec 8:20-23) Thus says the Lord:
The products of Egypt and merchandise of Ethiopia
and of the Sabeans-men of stature-
shall come over to you,
and they shall be yours;
they shall come after you;
in chains they shall come over,
and they shall fall down before you.
They shall make supplication to you, saying,
"Surely God is with you, and there is no other;
there is no other God."
15 (Ps 44:24; Isa 57:17) Truly You are a God who hides Yourself,
O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 (Isa 42:17; 44:9) They shall be ashamed and also humiliated, all of them;
the craftsmen of idols shall go away in confusion together,
17 (Isa 26:4; 54:4) but Israel shall be saved by the Lord
with an everlasting salvation;
you shall not be ashamed nor humiliated
to all eternity.
18 (Isa 42:5; Ge 1:2) For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens,
who is God,
who formed the earth and made it,
who has established it,
who did not create it in vain,
who formed it to be inhabited:
I am the Lord,
and there is no other.
19 (Isa 48:16; 2Ch 15:2) I have not spoken in secret
in a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob,
"Seek Me in a waste place";
I, the Lord, speak righteousness;
I declare things that are right.
20 (Isa 43:9; 46:1) Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near together, you fugitives of the nations.
They have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image,
and pray to a god that cannot save.
21 (Isa 43:9; 43:11) Declare and set forth your case;
let them take counsel together.
Who has declared this from ancient times?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the Lord?
And there is no God besides Me,
a righteous God and Savior;
there is no other besides Me.
22 (Nu 21:8-9; 2Ch 20:12) Turn to Me and be saved,
all the ends of the earth.
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 (Php 2:10; Ps 63:11) I have sworn by Myself,
the word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness
and shall not return,
that to Me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall take an oath.
24 (Isa 41:11) Surely, one shall say, "Only in the Lord
are righteousness and strength."
Men shall come to him,
and all who are incensed at Him shall be ashamed.
25 (Isa 41:16) In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel
be justified and shall glory.
Isaiah 46
The Idols of Babylon
1 (Isa 21:9; Jer 50:2) Bel bows down, Nebo stoops,
their idols are appointed to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome;
they are a burden to the weary beast.
2 (Jdg 18:17-18; 2Sa 5:21) They stoop, they bow down together;
they could not deliver the burden,
but themselves have gone into captivity.
3 (Dt 1:31; Ps 71:6) Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
and all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who are borne by Me from birth
and are carried from the womb:
4 (Ps 71:18; Isa 43:13) And even to your old age I am He,
and even to your graying years I will carry you;
I have done it, and I will bear you;
even I will carry, and will deliver you.
5 (Isa 40:18; 40:25 ) To whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal,
and compare Me that we may be alike?
6 They lavish gold out of the bag,
and weigh silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god;
they fall down and worship it.
7 (Isa 45:20; Jer 10:5) They lift it on the shoulder, they carry it,
and they set it in its place, and it stands;
from its place it does not move.
If one shall cry to it, it cannot answer
nor save him out of his trouble.
8 Remember this, and show yourselves men;
bring it to mind again, O transgressors.
9 (Dt 32:7; Isa 42:9) Remember the former things of old,
for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is no one like Me,
10 (Pr 19:21; Ps 33:11) declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
"My counsel shall stand,
and I will do all My good pleasure,"
11 (Nu 23:19; Isa 41:2) calling a ravenous bird from the east,
the man who executes My counsel from a far country.
Indeed, I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it; I will also do it.
12 (Ps 119:150; Isa 46:3) Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted,
who are far from righteousness;
13 (Isa 61:3; 44:23) I bring My righteousness near;
it shall not be far off,
and My salvation shall not tarry.
And I will grant salvation in Zion,
and My glory for Israel.
Isaiah 47
The Fall of Babylon
1 (Ps 137:8; Isa 3:26) Come down, and sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon;
sit on the ground; there is no throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans.
For you shall no more be called
tender and delicate.
2 (Mt 24:41; Ex 11:5) Take the millstones and grind meal.
Uncover your veil,
strip off the skirt, uncover the leg,
pass over the rivers.
3 (Na 3:5) Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
and your shame shall be seen;
I will take vengeance,
and I will not meet you as a man.
4 (Isa 41:14; 43:14) As for our Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts is His name,
the Holy One of Israel.
5 (Isa 47:7) Sit silently, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans;
for you shall no more be called
the queen of kingdoms.
6 (Dt 28:50; 2Ch 28:9) I was angry with My people;
I have polluted My inheritance
and given them into your hand.
You did not show them mercy;
on the aged
you have laid your yoke very heavily.
7 (Dt 32:29; Isa 47:5) You said, "I shall be a queen forever,"
but you did not take these things to heart,
nor remember the outcome of them.
8 (Zep 2:15; Isa 32:9; 45:6) Therefore, now hear this,
you who are given to pleasures,
who dwell carelessly,
who say in your heart,
"I am, and there is no one besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
nor shall I know the loss of children";
9 (Na 3:4; Ps 73:19) but these two things shall come to you
in a moment, in one day,
the loss of children and widowhood.
They shall come upon you in their fullness
because of the multitude of your sorceries
and for the great abundance of your enchantments.
10 (Ps 52:7; Isa 5:21) For you have trusted in your wickedness;
you have said, "No one sees me";
your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you;
and you have said in your heart,
"I am, and there is no one besides me."
11 (1Th 5:3) Therefore, evil shall come upon you,
which you shall not know from where it rises.
And disaster shall fall upon you,
for which you shall not be able to atone.
And desolation shall come upon you suddenly,
which you shall not know.
12 Stand fast now with your enchantments,
and with the multitude of your sorceries
in which you have labored from your youth.
Perhaps you shall be able to profit,
perhaps you may cause trembling.
13 (Isa 44:25; 57:10) You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
let now the astrologers, the stargazers,
the monthly prognosticators stand up
and save you from these things that shall come upon you.
14 (Na 1:10; Mal 4:1) Surely they shall be as stubble,
the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves
from the power of the flame;
it shall not be coal to be warmed by
nor a fire to sit before.
15 Thus those shall be to you
with whom you have labored,
even your merchants, from your youth;
they shall wander, everyone to his quarter.
No one shall save you.
Isaiah 48
Israel Refined for God's Glory
1 (Ps 68:26; Jer 4:2) Hear this, O house of Jacob,
who are called by the name of Israel,
and have come forth from the waters of Judah;
who swear by the name of the Lord,
and invoke the God of Israel,
but not in truth or in righteousness;
2 (Mic 3:11; Isa 10:20) for they call themselves after the holy city,
and lean on the God of Israel;
the Lord of Hosts is His name:
3 (Isa 41:22; 42:9) I have declared the former things from the beginning;
and they went forth from My mouth, and I announced them.
Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
4 (Ex 32:9; Dt 31:27) Because I knew that you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew,
and your brow bronze;
5 (Isa 48:3; Jer 44:15-18) I have even from the beginning declared it to you;
before it came to pass I announced it to you,
lest you should say,
"My idol has done them,
and my carved image and my molded image has commanded them."
6 (Isa 42:9) You have heard; see all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have shown you new things from this time,
even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7 They are created now and not from the beginning;
even before the day when you did not hear them,
lest you should say,
"Yes, I knew them."
8 (Ps 58:3) You have not heard, you have not known,
indeed, from long ago your ear has not been open.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
and that from birth you have been called a rebel.
9 (Ps 78:38; Ne 9:30-31) For My name's sake I will defer My anger,
and for My praise I will restrain it for you
so that you are not cut off.
10 (Dt 4:20; Jer 9:7) See, I have refined you, but not with silver;
I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11 (Isa 42:8; Eze 20:9) For My own sake, even for My own sake, I will do it;
for how can My name be polluted?
And I will not give My glory to another.
The Lord’s Call to Israel
12 (Isa 41:4; Rev 22:13) Listen to Me, O Jacob
and Israel, whom I called:
I am He;
I am the First, and I am the Last.
13 (Isa 40:26; Ex 20:11) My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth,
and My right hand has spanned the heavens;
when I call to them,
they stand up together.
14 (Isa 43:9; 13:4-5) Assemble, all of you, and listen.
Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord has loved him;
he will do His pleasure on Babylon,
and His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken,
and I have called him;
I have brought him,
and his way will prosper.
16 (Isa 45:19) Come near to Me, hear this:
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
from the time that it was, there I am.
And now the Lord God has sent me
and His Spirit.
17 (Ps 32:8; Isa 43:14) Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you in the way you should go.
18 (Dt 32:29; Isa 66:12) Oh, that you had listened to My commandments!
Then your peace would have been as a river
and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
19 (Ge 22:17; Isa 10:22) Your descendants also would have been as the sand
and your offspring like grains of sand;
their name would not have been cut off
nor destroyed from before Me.
20 (Isa 52:9; Jer 50:8; 51:6) Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing declare,
proclaim this,
utter it even to the ends of the earth;
say, "The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob."
21 (Ex 17:6; Nu 20:11) They did not thirst when He led them
through the deserts;
He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them;
He also split the rock,
and the waters gushed out.
22 Isa 57:21 "There is no peace," says the Lord, "for the wicked."
2) Our Daily Bread for 26 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/26/look-whats-blooming
entitled Blooming for Jesus
John 13:31-35
31 (Jn 7:39; 14:13) When he had gone out, Jesus then said,
"Now is the Son of Man glorified, and in Him God is glorified.
32 (Jn 12:23; 17:1) If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him
in Himself and will immediately glorify Him.
33 (Jn 7:33-34; 1Jn 2:1) "Little children, yet a little while I am with you.
You will seek Me. And as I said to the Jews, so now I tell you,
'Where I am going, you cannot come.'
34 (Lev 19:18; Eph 5:2) "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 (Jn 17:21) By this all men will know that you are My disciples,
if you have love for one another."
I wasn't truthful about the tulips. A gift from my younger daughter,
the packaged bulbs traveled home with her to the US from Amsterdam
after she visited there. So I made a show of accepting the bulbs
with great excitement, as excited as I was to reunite with her.
But tulips are my least favorite flower. Many bloom early and fade fast.
The July weather, meantime, made it too hot to plant them.
Finally, however, in late September, I planted "my daughter's" bulbs-thinking
of her and thus planting them with love. With each turn of the rocky soil,
my concern for the bulbs grew. Giving their plant bed a final pat, I
offered the bulbs a blessing, "sleep well," hoping to see blooming tulips
in the spring.
My little project became a humble reminder of God's call for us
to love one another, even if we're not each other's "favourites."
Looking past each other's faulty "weeds," we're enabled by God
to extend love to others, even in temperamental seasons.
Then, over time, mutual love blooms in spite of ourselves.
"By this," Jesus said, "everyone will know that you are my disciples,
if you love one another" (John 13:35).
Pruned by Him, we're blessed then to bloom,
as my tulips did the next spring-on the same weekend my daughter
arrived for a short visit. "Look what's blooming!" I said. Finally, me.
By: Patricia Raybon
Reflect & Pray
Whom is God asking you to love, even if that person isn't your "favourite"?
What can you do to show that person more of the love of Christ?
Dear Jesus, prune my heart so I can learn to love others in Christ.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 2 - Growing Up
2 Tim 3:16-17
16 (Ro 15:4) All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable
for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction
in righteousness,
17 (1Ti 6:11; 2Ti 2:21) that the man of God may be complete,
thoroughly equipped for every good work.
"I can't wait till I get big!" Marc, age 5, declared. "Then I do
what I want!" Most of us, as children, shared Marc's statement.
We looked forward to that "magic age" - 16, 18, 21 - when we
would be adults: mature, able to make our own decisions.
We find, of course, that adulthood has its own share of
difficulties and conflicts. But even in our spiritual lives
we often long for a "magic moment" of maturity. As one woman
confessed, "Ever since I became a Christian, I've hoped I'd wake up
one morning to find myself mature."
But growth in the spiritual life comes gradually, like growth in
the physical world. In 2 Tim 2:16-17, Paul gives the young pastor
Timothy an important key to spiritual growing up - the Word of God.
The Word is "profitable" or "useful," Paul says, for "teaching" - that is,
for developing a right concept of God. Scripture offers "rebuke" when
we go wrong, "correction" to set us on the right path, and "training
in righteousness" so that we can grow in the image of Christ.
The purpose of Scripture's work in our lives, Paul emphasises,
is that we may be "perfect" - mature, equipped for the good things
God has for us to do. Such maturity does not come easily
or instantaneously, but it does come - sometimes imperceptibly -
as we submit our lives to the transforming power of God's Word.
Application
a) In what areas of my life do I need to grow? How can I benefit
from the Bible's
i) teaching?
ii) rebuke?
iii) correction?
iv) training in righteousness?
b) How can memorising God's Word help me grow in those areas?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Deut 30:19-20
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.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Freeing Forgiveness
Ps 103:1-14
PSALMS 103
A Psalm of David.
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me, bless His holy name.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all His benefits,
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) who forgives all your iniquities,
who heals all your diseases,
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) who satisfies your mouth with good things,
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) The Lord does righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) He made known His ways to Moses,
His acts to the people of Israel.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) He will not always accuse,
neither will He keep his anger forever.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) He does not treat us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord gives compassion to those who fear Him.
14 For He knows how we are formed;
He remembers that we are dust.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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 26 of the Month
a) Pray that Christians in the marketplace will demonstrate exemplary
work ethics and shine as witnesses of Christ (Matt 5:16
16 Let your light so shine before men that they may
see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
)
b) Pray for the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut
I) Pray for the leaders of Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut,
that God's Spirit would influence then to act justly,
serve with integrity
and honour high moral standards. ( 1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses
beaming forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use
the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and pray to come back to Him despite your wrongs.
Pray to the Lord "Dear Jesus, prune my heart
so I can learn to love others in Christ."
Pray to the Lord and ask him to help you memorise and understand The Word.
Pray to the Lord and ask Him to strengthen your faith in Him
Pray to the Lord and ask to be blessed in His Holy name
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray that Christians in the marketplace will demonstrate exemplary
work ethics and shine as witnesses of Christ.
Pray for ministry prtners seeking to bless persecuted Christians in China
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 206, 25 July 2021
Today at https://www.calvarycommunity.ca/ we looked at
Job 5:7
7 (Job 14:1; Ge 3:17-19) but man is born to trouble,
as the sparks fly upward.
Psalms 46
For the Music Director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.
A Song.
1 God {omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, immutble}
is our refuge and strength, a well-proven help in trouble.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) There is a river whose streams make glad the city
of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most High.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) God is in the midst of her; she will not be moved;
God will help her in the early dawn.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) The nations roared; the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice; the earth melted.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) The Lord of Hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) Come, see the works of the Lord,
who makes desolations in the earth.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts off the spear;
He burns the chariot in the fire.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) Be still and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) The Lord of Hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
John 16:33
33 (Jn 14:27; 1Jn 4:4; Jn 14:1) "I have told you these things
so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have
tribulation. But be of good cheer. I have overcome the world."
Isaiah 40 - 43
Isaiah 40
Comfort for God's People
1 (Isa 51:12; 51:3) Comfort, O comfort, My people, says your God.
2 (Isa 61:7; Jer 16:18) Speak kindly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare has ended,
that her iniquity has been pardoned,
that she has received of the hand of the Lord
double for all her sins.
3 (Mal 3:1; Jn 1:23; Mal 4:5-6 ) The voice of him who cries out,
"Prepare the way of the Lord
in the wilderness,
make straight in the desert
a highway for our God.
4 (Isa 45:2; Eze 21:26 ) Let every valley be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low,
and let the rough ground become a plain,
and the rough places a plain;
5 (Isa 1:20; 52:10) then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it."
6 (Job 14:2; Ps 102:11) The voice said, "Cry out."
And he said, "What shall I cry out?"
All flesh is grass,
and all its loveliness is as the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
because the Spirit of the Lord blows upon it;
surely the people are grass.
8 (Mt 5:18; 1Pe 1:25) The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God shall stand forever.
9 (Isa 25:9; 12:2) O Zion, bearer of good news,
get yourself up onto a high mountain;
O Jerusalem, bearer of good news,
lift up your voice with strength,
lift it up, do not be afraid;
say to the cities of Judah,
"Here is your God!"
10 (Isa 62:11; Rev 22:12) See, the Lord God will come with a strong hand,
and His arm shall rule for Him;
see, His reward is with Him,
and His recompense before Him.
11 (Eze 34:23; Mic 5:4) He shall feed His flock like a shepherd;
He shall gather the lambs with His arm,
and carry them in His bosom,
and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12 (Pr 30:4; Heb 1:10-12) Who has measured the waters
in the hollow of His hand,
and meted out heaven with the span,
and calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,
and weighed the mountains in scales,
and the hills in a balance?
13 (Ro 11:34; 1Co 2:16 ) Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,
or as His counselor has taught Him?
14 (Col 2:3; Job 21:22) With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him,
and taught Him in the path of justice,
and taught Him knowledge,
and showed to Him the way of understanding?
15 (Jer 10:10) Certainly the nations are as a drop in a bucket,
and are counted as the small dust of the balance;
He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing.
16 (Mic 6:6-7) Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
nor the beasts sufficient as a burnt offering.
17 (Ps 62:9) All nations before Him are as nothing,
and they are counted by Him as less than nothing
and meaningless.
18 (Isa 46:5; Ac 17:29; Ex 8:10) To whom then will you liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
19 (Ps 115:4-8; Hab 2:18-19) The workman melts a graven image,
and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold,
and casts silver chains.
20 (1Sa 5:3-4; Isa 41:7) He who is too impoverished for such an offering
chooses a tree that will not rot;
he seeks for himself a skillful workman
to prepare a graven image that shall not totter.
21 (Ac 14:17) Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 (Nu 13:33; Ps 104:2) It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth,
and the inhabitants are as grasshoppers,
who stretches out the heavens as a curtain,
and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.
23 (Job 12:21; Ps 107:40) He brings the princes to nothing;
He makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
24 (Isa 41:16; 17:13) Scarcely shall they be planted;
scarcely shall they be sown;
scarcely shall their tree take root in the earth,
when He will also blow on them,
and they will wither,
and the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.
25 (Isa 40:18) To whom then will you liken Me,
that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One.
26 (Ps 89:11-13; Isa 48:13) Lift up your eyes on high,
and see who has created these things,
who brings out their host by number;
He calls them all by name,
by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power;
not one of them is missing.
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.
Isaiah 41
The Lord Helps Israel
1 (Hab 2:20; Zec 2:13) Keep silent before Me, O islands,
and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come near, then let them speak;
let us come near together to judgment.
2 (Isa 40:24; 45:1) Who raised up the righteous man from the east,
called him to His foot,
gave the nations before him,
and made him rule over kings?
He makes them as the dust with his sword,
and as driven stubble with his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely,
by paths his feet have not traveled.
4 (Isa 41:26; 48:12) Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, am the first,
and with the last. I am He.
5 (Jos 5:1; Ps 67:7) The coastlands saw it and feared,
the ends of the earth were afraid;
they drew near and came.
6 Every one helped his neighbor,
and every one said to his brother, "Be of good courage."
7 (Isa 40:19-20) So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,
and he who smooths metal with the hammer
encourages him who strikes the anvil,
saying, "It is ready for the soldering";
and he fastened it with nails so that it should not totter.
8 (2Ch 20:7; Jas 2:23) But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
the seed of Abraham, My friend.
9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
and called from its remotest parts,
and said to you, “You are My servant;
I have chosen you and have not rejected you.â€
10 (Jos 1:9; Isa 41:13-14) Do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
yes, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
11 (Isa 45:24; Ex 23:22) Certainly all those who were incensed against you
shall be ashamed and humiliated;
they shall be as nothing,
and those who strive with you shall perish.
12 (Ps 37:35-36; Job 20:7-9) You shall seek them
and shall not find them, even those who contended with you.
Those who war against you
shall be as nothing, as a thing of nonexistence.
13 (Isa 45:1) For I, the Lord your God,
will hold your right hand,
saying to you, "Do not fear;
I will help you."
14 (Ps 22:6; Isa 43:14) Do not fear, you worm Jacob,
and you men of Israel.
I will help you, says the Lord
and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 (Mic 4:13; Hab 3:12) See, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument
with double edges;
you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small,
and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 (Jer 51:2) You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,
and the whirlwind shall scatter them;
and you shall rejoice in the Lord,
and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 (Isa 30:19; 42:16) When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongues fail for thirst,
I, the Lord, will hear them,
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 (Ps 107:35; Isa 30:25) I will open rivers in high places,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.
19 (Isa 55:13; 60:13) I will plant in the wilderness
the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive tree;
I will set in the desert
the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together,
20 (Job 12:9) that they may see, and know,
and consider, and understand together,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
The Futility of Idols
21 Present your case, says the Lord.
Bring forth your arguments, says the King of Jacob.
22 (Isa 45:21; 46:10) Let them bring them forth, and show us
what shall happen;
let them show the former things, what they were,
that we may consider them
and know their outcome,
or declare to us things to come.
23 (Isa 42:9; 44:7-8) Show the things that are to come hereafter,
that we may know that you are gods;
do good, or do evil,
that we may be dismayed and see it together.
24 (Ps 115:8; 1Co 8:4) Indeed you are nothing,
and your work amounts to nothing;
he who chooses you is an abomination.
25 (Isa 41:2; 2Sa 22:43) I have raised up one from the north,
and he shall come;
from the rising of the sun he shall call on My name;
and he shall come on princes as on mortar,
and as the potter treads clay.
26 (Isa 41:22; 44:7) Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know?
And from former times, that we may say, "He is right!"?
There is no one who shows,
no one who declares,
no one who hears your words.
27 (Isa 40:9; 52:7) Formerly I said to Zion, "Look, here they are,"
and to Jerusalem, "I will give one who brings good news."
28 (Isa 63:5) But when I look, there is no man,
even among them, and there is no counselor
who, when I ask of them, could answer a word.
29 (Isa 41:24; Jer 5:13) See, they all are vanity;
their works are nothing;
their molded images are wind and emptiness.
Isaiah 42
The Servant of the Lord
1 (Isa 43:10; 52:13) Here is My servant, whom I uphold,
My chosen one, in whom My soul delights.
I have put My Spirit upon him;
he shall bring forth justice to the nations.
2 (Zec 9:9) He shall not cry out, nor lift up his voice,
nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
3 (Ps 96:13; 147:3) A bruised reed he shall not break,
and the smoking flax he shall not quench;
he shall bring forth justice faithfully.
4 (Ge 49:10; Isa 60:9) He shall not be disheartened nor be discouraged,
until he has set justice in the earth;
and the coastlands shall wait for his law.
5 (Ac 17:25; Job 12:10) Thus says God the Lord,
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread forth the earth and that which comes out of it,
who gives breath to the people on it,
and spirit to those who walk in it:
6 (Lk 2:32; Isa 49:6; 49:8) I the Lord have called You in righteousness,
and will hold Your hand,
and will keep You and appoint You
for a covenant of the people,
for a light of the nations,
7 (Isa 35:5; 61:1; 49:9) to open the blind eyes,
to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8 (Isa 48:11; Ex 20:3-5) I am the Lord, that is My name;
and My glory I will not give to another,
nor My praise to graven images.
9 (Isa 43:19) See, the former things have come to pass,
and new things I declare;
before they spring forth
I tell you of them.
A Song of Praise
10 (Ps 33:3; 40:3) Sing to the Lord a new song,
and His praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
the coastlands, and the inhabitants.
11 (Isa 32:16; 60:7) Let the wilderness and the cities lift up their voices,
the villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing,
let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord,
and declare His praise in the islands.
13 (Ps 78:65; Hos 11:10) The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man;
He shall stir up zeal like a man of war.
He shall cry out, yes, raise a war cry;
He shall prevail against His enemies.
The Lord's Help Is Promised
14 I have for a long time held My peace;
I have been still and refrained Myself.
Now I will cry like a travailing woman;
I will destroy and devour at once.
15 (Isa 50:2; Na 1:4-6) I will lay waste mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation,
and I will make the rivers islands,
and I will dry up the pools.
16 (Isa 29:18; 32:3 ) I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know;
I will lead them in paths that they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them
and crooked things straight.
These things I will do for them
and not forsake them.
17 (Ps 97:7; Isa 1:29) They shall be turned back,
they shall be greatly ashamed,
who trust in graven images,
who say to the molded images, "You are our gods."
Israel's Disobedience
18 (Isa 29:18) Hear, you deaf;
look, you blind, that you may see.
19 (Jer 5:21; Eze 12:2) Who is blind, but My servant?
Or deaf, as My messenger whom I sent?
Who is blind as he who is at peace with Me,
and blind as the servant of the Lord?
20 You have seen many things, but you do not observe them;
your ears are open, but no one hears.
21 The Lord is well pleased
for His righteousness' sake
to magnify the law and make it honorable.
22 (Isa 14:17) But this is a people robbed and despoiled;
they are all snared in holes,
and they are hidden in prison houses;
they are for a prey,
and no one delivers,
for a spoil,
and no one says, "Restore them."
23 (Isa 48:18) Who among you will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave up Jacob as spoil,
and Israel to the robbers?
Did not the Lord,
against whom we have sinned?
For they would not walk in His ways,
nor were they obedient to His law.
25 (Hos 7:9; Isa 57:11) Therefore, He has poured on him the fury of His anger
and the strength of battle;
and it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not recognize it;
and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Isaiah 43
The Redeemer of Israel
1 (Isa 43:7; 44:2) But now, thus says the Lord
who created you, O Jacob,
and He who formed you, O Israel:
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name; you are Mine.
2 (Ps 66:12; Da 3:25-27) When you pass through waters,
I will be with you.
And through the rivers,
they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire,
you shall not be burned,
nor shall the flame kindle on you.
3 (Ex 20:2; Pr 21:18) For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I gave Egypt for your ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
4 (Ex 19:5-6) Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honorable,
and I have loved you;
therefore, I will give men for you,
and people for your life.
5 (Isa 49:12; 44:2) Do not fear, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,
and gather you from the west;
6 I will say to the north, "Give them up,"
and to the south, "Do not keep them back.
Bring My sons from afar,
and My daughters from the ends of the earth,
7 (Ps 100:3; Isa 43:1) even everyone who is called by My name,
for I have created him for My glory;
I have formed him, and I have made him."
8 (Isa 6:9; Eze 12:2) Bring forth the blind people who have eyes,
and the deaf who have ears.
9 (Isa 41:1; 43:26) Let all the nations be gathered together,
and let the people be assembled.
Who among them can declare this,
and show us former things?
Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified;
or let them hear and say, "It is true."
10 (Isa 41:4; 42:1) You are My witnesses, says the Lord,
and My servant whom I have chosen
that you may know and believe Me,
and understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
nor shall there be after Me.
11 (Hos 13:4; Dt 6:4) I, even I, am the Lord,
and besides Me there is no savior.
12 (Dt 32:12; Isa 43:10) I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown,
when there was no strange god among you;
therefore, you are My witnesses, says the Lord, that I am God.
13 (Ps 90:2; Job 9:12) Indeed, from eternity I am He;
there is no one who can deliver out of My hand;
I act, and who can reverse it?
14 (Isa 23:13) Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
For your sake I have sent to Babylon,
and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans,
into the ships in which they rejoice.
15 (Isa 43:1) I am the Lord, your Holy One,
the Creator of Israel, your King.
16 (Ps 77:19; Isa 51:10) Thus says the Lord,
who makes a way in the sea
and a path in the mighty waters,
17 (Isa 1:31; Ex 14:4-9) who brings forth the chariot and horse,
the army and the mighty men
(they shall lie down together, they shall not rise;
they are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):
18 (Isa 65:17) Do not remember the former things
nor consider the things of old.
19 (Ex 17:6; Nu 20:11) See, I will do a new thing,
now it shall spring forth; shall you not be aware of it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert.
20 (Isa 48:21; 13:22) The beast of the field shall honor Me,
the jackals and the owls,
because I give waters in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert,
to give drink to My people, My chosen ones.
21 (1Pe 2:9; Ps 102:18) This people I have formed for Myself;
they shall declare My praise.
Pleading With Israel
22 (Mic 6:3; Mal 1:13) But you have not called upon Me, O Jacob;
but you have been weary of Me, O Israel.
23 (Am 5:25; Zec 7:5-6) You have not brought Me the sheep
for your burnt offerings,
nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings,
nor wearied you with incense.
24 (Isa 1:14; 7:13) You have bought Me no sweet cane with money,
nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices;
but you have made Me burdened with your sins;
you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
25 (Isa 37:35; 44:22) I, even I, am He who blots out
your transgressions for My own sake,
and will not remember your sins.
26 (Isa 1:18; 43:9) Put Me in remembrance;
let us plead together;
state your cause, that you may be justified.
27 (Jer 5:31; Isa 28:7) Your first father has sinned,
and your teachers have transgressed against Me.
28 (Jer 24:9; Ps 79:4) Therefore, I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary,
and have given Jacob to the curse,
and Israel to reproaches.
2) Our Daily Bread for 25 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/25/of-prayer-and-dust-and-stars-2
entitled Of Prayer and Dust and Stars
Geensis 15:1-6
1 (Ge 26:24; Ps 3:3) After this the word of the Lord came to
Abram in a vision, saying,
"Do not fear, Abram.
I am your shield,
your exceedingly great reward.Or your reward will be great."
2 (Ac 7:5) But Abram said, "Lord God, what will You give me,
seeing I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
3 (Ge 14:14) Abram said, "Since You have not given me any children,
my heir is a servant born in my house."
4 (Ge 17:16) Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
"This man will not be your heir, but a son that is
from your own body will be your heir."
5 (Dt 1:10; Ge 22:17; Ex 32:13) He brought him outside and said,
"Look up toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them."
And He said to him, "So will your descendants be."
6 (Jas 2:23; Ps 106:31) Abram believed the Lord,
and He credited it to him as righteousness.
Lara and Dave desperately wanted a baby, but their physician told them
they were unable to have one. Lara confided to a friend:
"I found myself having some very honest talks with God."
But it was after one of those "talks" that she and Dave spoke to their pastor,
who told them about an adoption ministry at their church.
A year later they were blessed with an adopted baby boy.
In Genesis 15, the Bible tells of another honest conversation-this
one between Abram and God. God had told him,
"Do not be afraid, Abram. I am . . . your very great reward" (v. 1).
But Abram, uncertain of God’s promises about his future, a
nswered candidly: "Sovereign Lord, what can you give me
since I remain childless?" (v. 2).
Earlier God had promised Abram, "I will make your offspring
like the dust of the earth" (13:16). Now Abram-in a very human moment-
reminded God of that. But note God's response:
He assured Abram by telling him to look up and
"count the stars—if indeed you can,"
indicating his descendants would be beyond numbering (15:5).
How good is God, not only to allow such candid prayer
but also to gently reassure Abram! Later, God would change
his name to Abraham (“father of manyâ€). Like Abraham,
you and I can openly share our hearts with Him
and know that we can trust Him to do what's best for us and others.
By: James Banks
Reflect & Pray
How do you think Abraham felt when God encouraged Him
in such a difficult moment? What candid conversation
do you need to have with God today?
Loving heavenly Father, thank You for caring about
even the most intimate details of my life.
Help me to stay close to You in prayer today.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 1 - God's Perspective
Philip 4:13
13 (2Co 12:9–10; Eph 3:16) I can do all things because
of Christ who strengthens me.
Many of us live out self-fulfilling prophecies. We believe
what we tell ourselves - or what we have been told by others:
"You're stupid", "You're ugly", "You'll never amount to anything,"
"You can't do anything right."
We programme ourselvesfor spiritual failure as well.
"I just can't memorise Scripture," we say. "It comes and goes,
and I can't seem to get it to stay." Yet daily we memorise
volumes of information that is less significant than the
Sciptures - telephone numbers, identification codes,
songs lyrics, advertising jingles.
The answer to the dilemma of negativism is not positive
thinking, but right thinking - biblical thinking, according
to what the Bible reveals of God's perspective. God says,
"You are worthwhile. You are valued. You are loved. I created you
just as you are, and whatever I call you to do,
I will give you the strength to do it.:
The context of Phillipians 4:13 shows that Paul had learned
this important secret of spiritual strength. Paul had known
poverty and plenty, trouble and victory. But he also knew
he did not have to let circumstances dtermine his response to God's will.
We need not be controlled by the negative messages life throws in our paths
- even those self-defeating pronouncements we make to ourselves.
Rather, we can respond according to God's perspective, with the
conviction that God has given us strength we need to meet the
challenges we face.
Application
a) What challenges do I face that make me realise my own insufficiencies?
IS memorising Scripture one of those challenges for me?
b) How does today's memory verse help me face those challenges?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Is 48:15,17
15 I, even I, have spoken,
and I have called him;
I have brought him,
and his way will prosper.
17 (Ps 32:8; Isa 43:14) Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you in the way you should go.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Protection in Times of Trouble
Ps 91
PSALMS 91
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God in whom I trust."
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the hunter
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) He shall cover you with His feathers,
and under His wings you shall find protection;
His faithfulness shall be your shield and wall.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
nor of the arrow that flies by day;
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) nor of the pestilence that pursues in darkness,
nor of the destruction that strikes at noonday.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) A thousand may fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,
but it shall not come near you.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) Only with your eyes shall you behold
and see the reward of the wicked.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,
even the Most High, your dwelling,
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) there shall be no evil befall you,
neither shall any plague come near your tent;
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) for He shall give His angels charge over you
to guard you in all your ways.
12 They shall bear you up in their hands,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder;
the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
14 Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
and I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him My salvation.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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
community trusting in Christ as Saviour and Lord.
(Acts 2: 41,47b
41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized,
and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
47 ... And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
)
b) Pray that those who serve in the justice system will be agents of true
justice for all.
( Prov 11:1
1 A false balance is abomination to the Lord,
but a just weight is His delight.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for being a ever pesnet help in trouble
Pray to the Lord and repent of your sins.
Pray to the Lord "Loving heavenly Father, thank You for caring about
even the most intimate details of my life.
Help me to stay close to You in prayer today."
Pray to the Lord to overcome your own insufficificies.
Pray to the Lord and be thankly for any calling.
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for Salvation
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray that there will be a growing number of people in your city or
community trusting in Christ as Saviour and Lord.
Pray that those who serve in the justice system will be agents of true
justice for all.
Pray for believers from Muslim backgrounds in Palestinian
areas, espally those who have lost their jobs.
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 205, 24 July 2021
Isaiah 37-39 ; Psalms 76
Isaiah 37
Isaiah Foretells Deliverance
(2Ki 19:1-13)
1 And it came to pass when King Hezekiah heard it that he tore his clothes,
and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2 (Isa 1:1) He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth,
to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
3 (Hos 13:13; Isa 66:9) They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah:
This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy.
For children have come to birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
4 (Isa 1:9; 36:20) Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words
of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach
the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord your God has heard.
Therefore, lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left."
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 (Isa 7:4; 35:4) Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master,
'Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard,
with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
7 (Isa 37:9) Listen! I will put a spirit in him so that he shall hear a rumor,
and return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall
by the sword in his own land.' "
8 (Jos 10:29) So the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah. For he had heard that the king had left Lachish.
9 He heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
"He has come out to make war with you." And when he heard it,
he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 (Isa 36:15) “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying: Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying,
'Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
11 (Isa 36:18-20) Certainly you have heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands by utterly destroying them. So shall you be delivered?
12 (Ge 11:31; 2Ki 17:6) Have the gods of the nations delivered them
which my fathers have destroyed, even Gozan and Harran
and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Tel Assar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,
and the kings of the city of SephÂarvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?"
The Prayer of Hezekiah
2Ki 19:14-19
14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers
and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord,
and spread it before the Lord.
15 Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying,
16 (Ex 25:22; Ps 86:10) "O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, who dwells
above the cherubim, You are the God, even You alone,
of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
17 (2Ch 6:40; Ps 17:6) Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear. Open Your eyes,
O Lord, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib,
which he has sent to reproach the living God.
18 (2Ki 15:29; 16:9) "Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste
all the nations and their countries,
19 and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were not gods,
but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore,
they have destroyed them.
20 (Ps 46:10; 1Ki 18:36-37) Now, O Lord our God, save us from
his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone,
Lord, are God."
The Fall of Sennacherib
2Ki 19:20-37; 2Ch 32:20-21
21T hen Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying,
"Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Because you have prayed to Me
about Sennacherib king of Assyria,
22 (Job 16:4; Ps 9:14) this is the word which the Lord has spoken against him:
The virgin daughter of Zion
has despised you and mocked you;
the daughter of Jerusalem
has shaken her head at you.
23 (Eze 39:7) Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice,
and lifted up your eyes haughtily?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
24 (Isa 14:8; 10:18) Through your servants
you have reproached the Lord
and have said,
'With my many chariots
I have come up to the heights of the mountains,
to the remotest parts of Lebanon;
and I cut down its tall cedars,
and its choice fir trees;
and I will go to its highest peak,
its thickest forest.
25 (1Ki 20:10) I have dug wells
and drunk water,
and with the sole of my feet
I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.'
26 (Ac 2:23; 4:27-28) "Have you not heard?
Long ago I have done it,
from ancient times I have formed it.
Now I have brought it to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
into ruinous heaps.
27 (Ps 129:6) Therefore, their inhabitants were short of strength;
they were dismayed and humiliated;
they were as the grass of the field
and as the green herb,
as the grass on the housetops
is scorched before it is grown up.
28 "But I know your abode,
and your going out and your comingin,
and your rage against Me.
29 (Isa 30:28; Eze 38:4) Because your rage against Me
and your tumult have come up into My ears,
therefore I will put My hook in your nose,
and My bridle in your lips,
and I will turn you back
on the way by which you came.
30 "This shall be a sign to you:
You shall eat this year what grows of itself,
and the second year what springs from the same,
and in the third year sow and reap
and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31 (Isa 27:6) The surviving remnant of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
32 (Isa 9:7; 2Ki 19:31) For from Jerusalem shall go out a remnant,
and those who escape out of Mount Zion.
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts
shall do this.
33 "Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria:
He shall not come into this city,
nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before it with shields,
nor build a siege ramp against it.
34 (Isa 37:29) By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and shall not come into this city,
says the Lord.
35 (Isa 31:5; 38:6) For I will defend this city to save it
for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David."
36 (Isa 10:12; 2Ki 19:35) Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck
185 000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When others woke up early
in the morning, these were all dead bodies.
37 (Jnh 1:2; 3:3) So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed
and returned home and lived in Nineveh.
38 (Ge 8:4; Ezr 4:2) It came to pass as he was worshipping
in the house of Nisrok, his god, that Adrammelek and Sharezer, his sons,
struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat.
And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Isaiah 38
Hezekiah's Illness
2Ki 20:1-11; 2Ch 32:24-26
1 (2Sa 17:23; 2Ch 32:24) In those days Hezekiah was mortally ill.
And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him,
"Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die,
and not live."
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,
3 (1Ch 29:19; Ne 13:14) and said, "Remember now, O Lord, I beseech You,
how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying:
5 (2Ki 18:2) "Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David
your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears.
Surely I will add to your days fifteen years.
6 (Isa 37:35) I will deliver you and this city out of the hand
of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
7 (Jdg 6:37-39; Isa 37:30) “This shall be a sign to you from the Lord,
that the Lord will do this thing that He has spoken:
8 (Jos 10:12-14) I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down
with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, to go back ten steps."
So the sun's shadow returned ten steps on the sundial
by which it had gone down.
9 This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah
after his illness and recovery:
10 (2Co 1:9; Ps 102:24 ) I said: In the middle of my days,
I shall go to the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.
11 (Ps 27:13) I said, I shall not see the Lord,
even the Lord, in the land of the living;
I shall see man no more
with the inhabitants of the world.
12 (Ps 73:14; 2Co 5:1) My dwelling is pulled up
and removed from me as a shepherd’s tent;
I rolled up my life like a weaver.
He cuts me off from the loom;
from day even to night You make an end of me.
13 (Ps 51:8; Da 6:24) I composed my soul until morning,
like a lion, so He breaks all my bones;
from day even to night You make an end of me.
14 (Isa 59:11; Job 30:29) Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter;
I mourn as a dove;
my eyes look wistfully upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15 (1Ki 21:27; Job 7:11) What shall I say?
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it.
I shall wander about all my years
in the bitterness of my soul.
16 (Dt 8:3) O Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these things is the life of my spirit;
O restore me to health
and make me live!
17 (Ps 30:3; Isa 43:25) Surely it was for my own peace
that I had great bitterness;
but You have kept my soul
from the pit of corruption,
for You have cast all my sins
behind Your back.
18 (Ecc 9:10; Ps 6:5) For Sheol cannot thank You,
death cannot praise You;
those who go down into the pit
cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
19 (Dt 6:7; 4:9) It is the living who give thanks to You,
as I do this day;
a father explains to his sons
about Your faithfulness.
20 The Lord shall surely save me;
therefore, we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments
all the days of our lives
in the house of the Lord.
21 For Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs
and lay it on the boil, and he shall recover."
22 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go
up to the house of the Lord?"
Isaiah 39
Envoys From Babylon
2Ki 20:12-19
1 (2Ki 20:12–19; 2Ch 32:31) At that time Marduk-Baladan the son of Baladan,
king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard
that he had been sick and had recovered.
2 (2Ch 32:25; 32:31) Hezekiah was glad and showed them the house
of his precious things: the silver, and the gold, and the spices,
and the precious ointment, and his whole armoury, and all that was found
in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion,
that Hezekiah did not show them.
3 (Dt 28:49; 2Sa 12:1) Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said
to him, "What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?"
And Hezekiah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon."
4 Then he said, "What have they seen in your house?"
And Hezekiah answered, "All that is in my house they have seen.
There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."
5 (1Sa 13:13-14; 15:16) Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah,
"Hear the word of the Lord of Hosts.
6 (2Ki 24:13; 25:13-15) The days are surely coming when all that is
in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store
until this day, shall be carried to BabÂylon. Nothing shall be left,
says the Lord.
7 (2Ki 24:12; 2Ch 36:10) And some of your sons who descend from you,
whom you shall father, shall be taken away. And they shall become officials
in the palace of the king of Babylon."
8 (2Ch 32:26; 34:28) Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the Lord
which you have spoken is good."
For he said, "For there shall be peace and truth in my days."
Psalms 76
For the Music Director. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.
1 In Judah God is known;
in Israel His name is great.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) In Salem is His abode,
and His dwelling place in Zion.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) There He broke the fiery arrows of the bow,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) You are more glorious and excellent
than the mountains of prey.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) The strong of heart have been plundered;
they have been put to sleep;
and none of the mighty men
could use their hands.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both the chariot and horse lay stunned.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) You, even You, are to be feared;
and who may stand in Your sight from the moment of Your anger?
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) From the heavens You gave their judgment,
and the earth feared and was silent,
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) when God arose to judgment,
to save all the meek of the earth. Selah
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) Surely the wrath of people shall bring You praise;
the remainder of wrath You shall put on.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Make your vows to the Lord your God, and fulfill them;
let all who surround Him
bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.
12 He reduces the spirit of princes,
and is feared among the kings of the earth.
2) Our Daily Bread for 24 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/24/he-carries-us
entitled God Carries Us
Deuteronmy 1:26-31
26 (Nu 14:1-4) Yet you were not willing to go up,
but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God.
27 (Dt 9:28; Nu 14:3) You murmured in your tents, and said,
"Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land
of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
28 (Dt 9:1-2; Nu 13:28-33) Where shall we go up? Our brothers have
discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we.
The cities are great and walled up to heaven.
And moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakites there.' "
29 Then I said to you, "Do not be terrified, or afraid of them.
30 (Ex 14:14; Ne 4:20) The Lord your God who goes before you,
He shall fight for you, just as all that He did for you
in Egypt before your eyes,
31 (Isa 46:3-4; 63:9) and in the wilderness, where you saw how
the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all
the way that you went, until you came to this place.â€
In 2019, Hurricane Dorian overwhelmed the islands of the Bahamas
with intense rain, wind, and flooding—the worst natural disaster
in the country's history. As he sheltered at home with his adult son
who has cerebral palsy, Brent knew they needed to leave.
Even though Brent is blind, he had to save his son.
Tenderly, he placed him over his shoulders and stepped into
chin-deep water to carry him to safety.
If an earthly father facing a great obstacle is eager to help his son,
think of how much more our heavenly Father is concerned about His children.
In the Old Testament, Moses recalled how God carried His people even
as they experienced the danger of faltering faith. He reminded the Israelites
of how God had delivered them, providing food and water in the desert,
fighting against their enemies, and guiding the Israelites with pillars
of cloud and fire. Meditating on the many ways God acted on their behalf,
Moses said, "where you saw how
the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son†(Deuteronomy 1:31).
The Israelites' journey through the wilderness wasn't easy, and their faith
waned at times. But it was full of evidence of God's protection and provision.
The image of a father carrying a son-tenderly, courageously, confidently-is
a wonderful picture of how God cared for Israel. Even when we face challenges
that test our faith, we can remember that God's there carrying us through them.
By: Karen Pimpo
Reflect & Pray
In what ways have you seen God's provision and protection in your life?
How can you face difficulties knowing that God carries you tenderly
and confidently?
Loving God, help me remember that You carry me, even when I don't feel it.
Thank You for Your strength and compassion.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 8 Guided by Grace Day 7 - Upheld by His Hand
Is 41:10
10 (Jos 1:9; Isa 41:13–14) Do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
yes, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
Beth had the same recurring nightmare: she was running along a cliff,
then she slipped, and fell headlong, into a bottomless ravine.
Falling, without control,without end, falling, falling, falling...
Beth's dream may be one many of us identify with. The sense
of losing control can be nightmarish, and we may fear falling
without end, without remedy. Financial failure may be the chasm
that we face, or professional disgrace. Personal relationships
may go out of control, and we look into a never-ending
ravine of pain and misunderstanding
But God says, "Don't be afraid; I am holding you up."
Like the father who helps his child learn to swim,
God holds us above the water. We may not feel his hands;
indeed, we may suspect that he lets us go just so we can
do it on our own. But he promises that he doesn't let go.
"I am with you." he declares. "I give you strength
and hold you up."
God's promise never to let go takes on new meaning
in a world where relationships are temporary and life is
uncertain. We do not need to fear, for he is with us.
We can relax and stop striving, for he is our God.
His strength becomes ours; amid all our sin and rebellion,
he undergrids us with his righteousness. We cannot fall,
for he holds us fiirm.
Application
a) Under what circumstances have I felt myself "falling"?
b) How does God's promise in Is 41:10 help me to have faith
in the midst of my fears?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
2 Kings 18:7
7 (1Sa 18:14; 2Ki 16:7; Ge 39:2–3 )The Lord was with him.
Wherever he went, he prospered. He (Ahaz) rebelled against
the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Protection in Times of Trouble
Ps 121
PSALMS 121
A Song of Ascents.
1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills,
from where does my help come?
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) He will not let your foot slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Behold, He who guards Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) The Lord is your guardian;
the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) The sun shall not harm you during the day,
nor the moon during the night.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) The Lord shall protect you from all evil;
He shall preserve your soul.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) The Lord shall preserve your going out
and your coming in from now and for evermore.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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 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 and seek Him for everything.
Pray to the Lord "Loving God, help me remember that You carry me,
even when I don't feel it.
Thank You for Your strength and compassion."
Pray to the Lord and ask him to Strengthen you in the middle fo fears.
Pray to the Lord and serve Him humbly.
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for preserving you
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray that the Lord will open a door for the message for the Gospel
at every level of Canadian Society.
Pry for Pastor Bahkram Kholmatov of Tajikistan,
who was released from prison in December 2019.
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 204, 23 July 2021
Isaiah 35-36
Isaiah 35
The Future Glory of Zion
1 (Isa 51:3; 55:12-13) The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad,
and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;
2 (Isa 60:13; 25:9) it shall blossom abundantly
and rejoice even with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
the excellency of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the glory of the Lord
and the excellency of our God.
3 (Heb 12:12; Job 4:3-4) Strengthen the weak hands,
and support the feeble knees.
4 Isa 34:8; 28:16 Say to those who are of a fearful heart,
"Be strong, fear not.
Your God will come
with vengeance,
even God with a recompense;
He will come and save you."
5 (Isa 29:18; 32:3-4) Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 (Lk 11:14; Jn 5:8-9) Then the lame man shall leap as a deer,
and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.
For in the wilderness waters shall break out
and streams in the desert.
7 (Isa 13:22; 34:13) The parched ground shall become a pool,
and the thirsty land springs of water;
in the habitation of jackals where each lay,
there shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 (Isa 52:1; 11:16) A highway shall be there, a roadway,
and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean shall not pass on it,
but it shall be for the wayfaring men,
and fools shall not wander on it.
9 (Isa 62:12) No lion shall be there,
nor any ravenous beast shall go up on it;
these shall not be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there,
10 (Rev 21:4; Isa 25:8) and the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with songs
and everlasting joy upon their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isaiah 36
Sennacherib Invades Judah
2Ki 18:13-37; 2Ch 32:9-19
1 (2Ch 32:1; 2Ki 18:13) Now it came to pass in the 14th year of King Hezekiah
that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities
of Judah and took them.
2 (Isa 7:3; 2Ki 18:17-37) The king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh
[Possibly Commanding General.] from Lachish to Jerusalem
to King Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit
of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
3 Then Eliakim came to him, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.
4 The Rabshakeh said to them:
"Say now to Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria:
What confidence is this that you have?
5 (2Ki 18:7) I say, Your counsel and strength for war are only empty words.
Now on whom do you rely that you rebel against me?
6 (Eze 29:6-7) You rely on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt,
on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it.
So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
7 (2Ki 18:4-5) But if you say to me, 'We trust in the Lord our God,'
is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away,
and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar'?
8 "Now therefore, come make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria,
and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part
to set riders on them.
9 (Isa 10:8) How then will you turn away one captain of the least
of my master's servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 (1Ki 13:18) Have I now come up without the approval of the Lord
against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me,
Go up against this land, and destroy it."
11 (Ezr 4:7; Da 2:4) Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rabshakeh,
"Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it.
And do not speak to us in Hebrew
in the ears of the people who are on the wall."
12 But the Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master
and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men who sit
on the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine
with you?"
13 (2Ch 32:18) Then the Rabshakeh stood and cried out with a loud voice
in Hebrew, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14 Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you,
for he shall not be able to deliver you;
15 nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying,
The Lord will surely deliver us.
This city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
16 (1Ki 4:25; Zec 3:10) "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says
the king of Assyria: 'Make your peace with me and come out to me,
and eat every one of his vine and every one of his fig tree,
and drink every one the waters of his own cistern,
17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land,
a land of corn and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 (Isa 36:15) " 'Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord will
deliver us. Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land out
of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 (Jer 49:23; Isa 10:9-11) Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad?
Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?
And when have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 (2Ch 32:19) Who are they among all the gods of these lands that have
delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem
out of my hand?' "
21 (Pr 26:4) But they held their peace, and answered him not a word,
for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."
22 (Isa 36:3; 33:7) Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was
over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph,
the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn
and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
2) Our Daily Bread for 23 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/23/the-greatest-symphony
entitled The Greatest Symphony
1 Cor 12:12-20
12 (1Co 12:27; 10:17) For as the body is one and has many parts,
and all the many parts of that one body are one body, so also is Christ.
13 (Jn 7:37-39; Gal 3:28) For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body,
whether we are Jews or Gentiles, whether we are slaves or free,
and we have all been made to drink of one Spirit.
14 The body is not one part, but many.
15 If the foot says, "Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body,"
is it therefore not of the body?
16 And if the ear says, "Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body,"
is it therefore not of the body?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be?
If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
18 (1Co 12:11; 12:28) But now God has established the parts,
every one of them, in the body as it has pleased Him.
19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 So there are many parts, yet one body.
When BBC Music Magazine asked 151 of the world's leading conductors
to list twenty of what they believed to be the greatest symphonies
ever written, Beethoven's Third, Eroica, came out on top. The work,
whose title means "heroic," was written during the turmoil
of the French Revolution. But it also came out of Beethoven's own struggle
as he slowly lost his hearing. The music evokes extreme swings of emotion
that express what it means to be human and alive while facing challenges.
Through wild swings of happiness, sadness, and eventual triumph Beethoven's
Third Symphony is regarded as a timeless tribute to the human spirit.
Paul's first letter to the Corinthians deserves our attention for similar
reasons. Through inspired words rather than musical scores,
it rises in blessing (1:4-9), falls in the sadness of soul-crushing
conflict (11:17-22), and rises again in the unison of gifted people
working together for one another and for the glory of God (12:6Â-7).
The difference is that here we see the triumph of our human spirit
as a tribute to the Spirit of God. As Paul urges us to experience together
the inexpressible love of Christ, he helps us see ourselves as called together
by our Father, led by His Son, and inspired by His Spirit-not for noise,
but for our contribution to the greatest symphony of all.
By: Mart DeHaan
Reflect & Pray
Where do you hear the dissonance of conflict in your own life?
Where do you see the symphonic harmonies of love?
Father, please enable me to see what I can be with others,
with my eyes on Your Son, with reliance on Your Spirit,
with a growing awareness of what You can do with a noisemaker like me.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 8 Guided by Grace Day 6 - Through The Fire
Is 43:2
2 (Ps 66:12; Da 3:25–27) When you pass through waters,
I will be with you.And through the rivers,they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
nor shall the flame kindle on you.
In the Book of Daniel, 3 young men provide one of the world's best-known
Bible stories. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, three of the finest young
men of Israel, were taken into capitivity to Babylon. There King
Nebuchadnezzar, filled with his own importance, commanded that
everyone bow down and worship his image.
When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to worship anyone
except the One True god, they were cast into Nebuchadnezzar's
furnace of fire.
Is 43:2 brings their experience into focus for us. There the Lord says,
"When you pass throught the fire ... when you walk through the water ..."
Not if, but when. If we are committed to serving and honouring the Lord,
at some point we will be faced with "passing through the fire" for hm.
We may not face a physical frunace, but we may face the fires of
persecution, anger, hostility or suffering. And God says:
"I will be with you."
When the three young Israelites stepped into the king's furnace, all
the people looked and saw, not three, but four men in the fire, their
bonds burned away, walking freely among the flames. They did not
escape the fate decreed for them. But the Lord was with them in
the fire, as surely as he has promised to be with us in the flood
and the fire, as surely as he has promised to be with us in the
flood and fire tht life brings to us. The promise of god remains:
"I will be with you; the waters will not overflow, nor will the
flames burn you."
Application
a) What kinds of "fires" and "Floods" have I experienced?
b) How was I aware of the Lord's presence with me?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
2 Chr 31:21
21 And in every deed that he undertook in the service of the house
of God and with the law and commandment to seek out his God,
he did this with all his heart, and he found success.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Protection in Times of Trouble
Ps 27:1-6
PSALMS 27
A Psalm of David.
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom will I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life;
of whom will I be afraid?
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) When the wicked came against me
to eat my flesh—
my enemies and my foes—
they stumbled and fell.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) Though an army should encamp against me,
my heart will not fear;
though war should rise against me,
in this will I be confident.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) One thing I have asked from the Lord,
that will I seek after—
for me to dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to see the beauty of the Lord,
and to inquire in His temple.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) For in the time of trouble
He will hide me in His pavilion;
in the shelter of His tabernacle He will hide me;
He will set me up on a rock.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) Now my head will be lifted up
above my enemies encircling me;
therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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 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 and seek Him for the Battle belongs to the Lord
and Give Him thanks for His glorious kingdom.
Pray to the Lord "Father, please enable me to see what I can be with others,
with my eyes on Your Son, with reliance on Your Spirit,
with a growing awareness of what You can do with a noisemaker like me."
Pray to the Lord and wait upon Him during hard times.
Pray to the Lord and undertake His Will.
Pray to the Lord and praise Him for He is Saviour
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray for the genuine conversion and successful rehabilitation of those
who have committed crimes.
Pray for spiritual and functional unity in the Body of Christ
across Canada.
Pray for ongoing evangelistic and discipleship efforts in Laos
among the majority Khmu people.
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 203, 22 July 2021
Isaiah 31-34
Isaiah 31
Woe to Those Who Trust Egypt
1 (Ps 20:7; Dt 17:16) Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
and rely on horses,
and trust in chariots because they are many,
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel
nor seek the Lord!
2 (Nu 23:19; Isa 45:7) Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster
and will not call back His words,
but will arise against the house of the evildoers
and against the help of those who work iniquity.
3 (Isa 9:17; Eze 28:9) Now the Egyptians are men and not God;
and their horses flesh and not spirit.
When the Lord shall stretch out His hand,
both he who helps shall fall
and he who is helped shall fall down,
and they all shall fail together.
4 (Am 3:8; Isa 42:13; Hos 11:10) For thus the Lord has spoken to me:
Like the lion, and the young lion,
roars over his prey,
against which a multitude of shepherds
is called out against him,
he will not be afraid of their voice,
nor disturbed at their noise,
so shall the Lord of Hosts come down
to fight for Mount Zion, and for its hill.
5 (Ps 91:4; Dt 32:11) Like flying birds,
so the Lord of Hosts will defend Jerusalem.
He will defend and deliver it;
He will pass over and preserve it.
6 (Isa 55:7; Jer 3:10) Turn to Him whom you have deeply betrayed,
O sons of Israel.
7 (Isa 2:20; 30:22) For in that day every man shall cast away
his idols of silver and his idols of gold which your own hands
have made for you as a sin.
8 (Isa 14:25; Ge 49:15) "Then the Assyrian shall fall by the sword
that is not of man,
and the sword not of man shall devour him.
So he shall not escape the sword,
and his young men shall become forced laborers.
9 (Dt 32:31; Isa 18:3) He shall cross over to his stronghold for fear,
and his princes shall be afraid of the banner,"
says the Lord,
whose fire is in Zion,
and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 32
The Kingdom of Righteousness
1 (Isa 9:6-7; Jer 33:15) See, a king shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule justly.
2 (Isa 25:4; 7:14) A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind,
and a shelter from the tempest,
as rivers of water in a dry place,
as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 (Isa 29:18) The eyes of those who see shall not be blinded,
and the ears of those who hear shall listen.
4 (Isa 29:24) The heart also of the hasty shall understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5 (Isa 5:20) The vile person shall no more be called noble,
nor the rogue be spoken of as generous;
6 (1Sa 24:13; Isa 3:15) for the vile person will speak nonsense,
and his heart will work iniquity:
to practice hypocrisy
and to utter error against the Lord,
to keep the hungry unsatisfied
and to withhold drink from the thirsty.
7 (Jer 5:26-28; Isa 5:23) The instruments also of the rogue are evil;
he devises wicked schemes
to destroy the poor with lying words,
even when the needy speaks right.
8 But the noble devises noble things,
and by noble things he stands.
The Women of Jerusalem
9 (Isa 28:23; 3:16) Rise up, you women who are at ease,
hear my voice;
you careless daughters,
give ear to my speech.
10 (Isa 7:23) Within a year and a few days
you shall be troubled, you careless daughters;
for the vintage is ended
and the fruit gathering shall not come.
11 Tremble, you women who are at ease;
be troubled, you careless daughters;
strip, undress,
and put sackcloth on your waist.
12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine,
13 (Isa 22:2; 7:23) for the land of my people
in which thorns and briers shall come up,
yes, for all the joyful houses
and for the jubilant city;
14 (Isa 24:10; 24:12) because the palaces have been forsaken,
the populated city is forsaken.
The forts and towers shall be caves forever,
a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
15 (Isa 29:17; 35:1-2) until the Spirit is poured on us from on high,
and the wilderness is a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is counted as a forest.
The Peace of God's Reign
16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness will abide in the fruitful field.
17 (Ps 119:165; Ro 14:17) The work of righteousness shall be peace,
and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.
18 (Hos 2:18-23; Zec 2:5) My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation
and in secure dwellings
and in quiet resting places;
19 (Isa 28:17; 26:5) and it shall hail when the forest comes down,
and the city shall be utterly laid low.
20 (Ecc 11:1; Isa 30:23-24) How blessed are you
who sow beside all waters,
who send out freely the ox and the donkey.
Isaiah 33
A Prophecy of Deliverance
1 (Isa 21:2; Mt 7:2) Woe to you, O destroyer,
though you were not destroyed,
and he who is treacherous,
though others did not deal treacherously with you!
When you cease destroying,
you shall be destroyed;
and when you finish dealing treacherously,
others shall deal treacherously with you.
2 (Isa 25:9; 26:8) O Lord, be gracious to us;
we have waited for You.
Be our strength every morning,
our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the tumult, the people flee;
at the lifting up of Yourself, the nations scatter;
4 your spoil is gathered like the caterpillar gathers;
as locusts rush about, men rush about on it.
5 (Isa 2:17) The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high;
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 (Mt 6:33; Ps 112:1-3) He shall be the stability of your times,
a wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;
the fear of the Lord is His treasure.
7 (2Ki 18:18; Isa 36:22) Listen! Their valiant ones cry in the streets;
the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
8 (Jdg 5:6) The highways lie waste,
the wayfaring man ceases.
He has broken the covenant,
he has despised the cities,
he has no regard for man.
9 (Isa 35:2; 65:10) The earth mourns and languishes;
Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down.
Sharon is like a wilderness,
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Impending Judgment on Israel
10 (Ps 12:5) "Now I will rise," says the Lord,
"now I will be exalted,
now I will be lifted up.
11 (Ps 7:14; Isa 59:4) You have conceived chaff,
you shall bring forth stubble;
My breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12 (2Sa 23:6-7; Isa 27:4) The people shall be burned to lime,
as thorns cut up are burned in the fire."
13 (Ps 48:10; Isa 49:1) Hear what I have done, you who are far away;
and you who are near, acknowledge My might.
14 (Heb 12:29; Isa 66:24) The sinners in Zion are afraid;
fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:
"Who among us can live with the continual fire?
Who among us can live with everlasting burning?"
15 (Ps 119:37) He who walks righteously
and speaks uprightly,
he who rejects unjust gain
and shakes his hands from holding bribes,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
and shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
16 He shall dwell on high;
his place of defense shall be the impregnable rock;
his bread shall be given him,
his waters shall be sure.
The Land of the Majestic King
17 (Isa 6:5) Your eyes shall see the King in His beauty;
they shall see the land that is very far away.
18 (2Ki 18:14; 1Co 1:20) Your heart shall meditate on terror:
"Where is he who counts?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?"
19 (Isa 28:11; Dt 28:49-50) You shall not see a fierce people any more,
a people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends,
of a stammering tongue which no one understands.
20 (Ps 46:5; Isa 32:18) Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
your eyes shall see Jerusalem,
a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down;
not one of its stakes shall ever be removed,
nor shall any of its cords be broken.
21 (Ps 46:4-5) But there the glorious Lord will be to us
a place of broad rivers and streams
on which no boat with oars shall go
and on which no gallant ship shall pass,
22 (Jas 4:12; Ps 89:18) for the Lord is our judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver,
the Lord is our king;
He will save us.
23 (2Ki 7:8; Ps 68:12) Your tackle hangs loose;
it cannot hold the base of its mast securely,
nor spread out the sail.
Then the prey of an abundant spoil shall be divided;
the lame shall take the prey.
24 (Jer 50:20; 1Jn 1:7-9) The inhabitant shall not say, "I am sick";
the people who dwell there shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 34
Judgment on the Nations
1 (Dt 32:1; Isa 41:1) Come near, O nations, to hear;
and listen, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
the world, and all that comes from it.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations
and His fury upon all their armies;
He has utterly destroyed them,
He has delivered them to the slaughter.
3 (Joel 2:20; Isa 34:7) Their slain also shall be cast out,
and their corpses shall emit their stench,
and the mountains shall be drenched with their blood.
4 (Mt 24:29; Eze 32:7-8) All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
and the heavens shall be rolled together as a book;
and all their host shall fall down
as the leaf falls from the vine,
and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5 (Mal 1:4; Isa 63:1 ) For My sword is filled in heaven;
see, it shall come down for judgment on Edom,
and on the people whom I have devoted to destruction.
6 (Isa 63:1; Jer 49:13) The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
it is made full with fatness,
and with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 (Nu 23:22; Ps 68:30) The wild oxen shall also fall with them,
and the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
so their land shall be soaked with blood,
and their dust become greasy with fat.
8 (Isa 63:4; 61:2) For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord,
and the year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 (Dt 29:23; Ps 11:6 ) Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
and its dust into brimstone,
and its land shall become burning pitch.
10 (Rev 19:3; Isa 13:20) It shall not be quenched night or day;
its smoke shall go up forever.
From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
no one shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (2Ki 21:13; La 2:8) But the cormorant and the hedgehog shall possess it,
the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it.
And He shall stretch out on it
the line of desolation,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but no one shall be there,
and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 (Jer 9:11; 10:22) Thorns shall come up in her palaces,
nettles and brambles in the fortresses;
and it shall be a habitation of jackals
and a home for owls.
14 (Isa 13:21-22) The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet
with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to its kind;
the screech owl also shall rest there
and find for herself a place of rest.
15 (Dt 14:13) There shall the tree snake make its nest and lay eggs,
and it shall hatch and gather them under its protection;
yes, there shall the vultures also be gathered,
every one with its kind.
16 (Isa 30:8) Seek from the book of the Lord, and read.
Not one of these shall be missing,
not one shall lack its mate.
For His mouth has commanded,
and His Spirit has gathered them.
17 (Isa 34:10; Ps 78:55) He has cast the lot for them,
and His hand has divided it to them by line.
They shall possess it forever,
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
2) Our Daily Bread for 22 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/22/seeking-gods-help
entitled Seeking God's Help
2 Chron 20:5-12,15
5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Judah
and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before the new courtyard,
6 (1Ch 29:11-12; Dt 4:39; Da 4:17) and he said:
"O Lord God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens?
And do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations?
In Your hand are strength and might, and there is no one who can oppose You.
7 (Isa 41:8; Jas 2:23) Did You not, our God, drive out those who lived
in this land before Your people Israel, and You gave it perpetually
to the descendants of Abraham, who was in covenant love with You.
8And they have dwelled in it and have built in it for You
a sanctuary for Your name saying,
9 (2Ch 6:20; 6:28-30) 'If disaster comes upon us, the sword, or judgment,
or pestilence, or famine, then we will stand before this temple
and before You because Your name is in this temple.
And we will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear and deliver.'
10 (Nu 20:17-21; Dt 2:4-5) "Now here are the sons of Ammon
and Moab and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade
when they came out of the land of Egypt, when they turned away
from them and did not destroy them.
11 (Ps 83:3-12) See how they are rewarding us by coming to drive us
out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.
12 (Ps 25:15; Jdg 11:27) O our God, will You not render judgment on them?
For we have not strength enough to stand before this great army that is
coming against us. And we do not know what we should do, but our eyes are
on You."
15 (1Sa 17:47; 2Ch 32:7-8) And he said, "Pay attention all Judah,
and those dwelling in Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat:
Thus says the Lord to you,
'Do not fear, nor be dismayed because of this great army,
for the battle is not yours, but God's. '"
For five years in the late 1800s, grasshoppers descended on Minnesota,
destroying the crops. Farmers tried trapping the grasshoppers in tar
and burning their fields to kill the eggs. Feeling desperate,
and on the brink of starvation, many people sought a statewide
day of prayer, yearning to seek God's help together.
The governor relented, setting aside April 26 to pray.
In the days after the collective prayer, the weather warmed
and the eggs started to come to life. But then four days
later a drop in temperature surprised and delighted many,
for the freezing temperatures killed the larvae.
Minnesotans once again would harvest their crops of corn, wheat, and oats.
Prayer was also behind the saving of God's people during the reign
of King Jehoshaphat. When the king learned that a vast army was coming
against him, he called God’s people to pray and fast.
The people reminded God how He'd saved them in times past.
And Jehoshaphat said that if calamity came upon them,
"whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine,"
they would cry out to God knowing that He would hear
and save them (2 Chronicles 20:9).
God rescued His people from the invading armies,
and He hears us when we cry out to Him in distress.
Whatever your concern-whether a relationship issue
or something threatening from the natural world-lift it to God in prayer.
Nothing is too hard for Him.
By: Amy Boucher Pye
Reflect & Pray
How has God answered your prayers? What situations in your life
or in the world could you commit to Him today?
Creator God, You made the world and all that's in it.
Please restore order and save Your people, whom You love.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 8 Guided by Grace Day 5 - Waiting for the Wind
Is 40:31
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.
High above civilisation, alone on his craggy peak, the eagle waits.
He watches, senses, and then, with effortless grace, he spreads
his wings and soars. He does not flap frantically to gain altitude,
he merely turns his wings into the wind and rises.
Is 40:31 promises that we, too, can be like the eagle,
mounting up on wings, soaring effortlessly,
without weariness. But this is not often our experience.
We usually flap around like invalid pigeons, scratching
for mere existence, flying only when our place in the park is disturbed.
We need to learn to wait on the Lord. Like the wind that raises the eagle
to the heights, the wind of the Spirit will lift us up as well - beyond
the weariness of daily life, beyond the struggle for existence, beyond
the plodding pace of normal interaction.
But the eagle does not rise without plunging for the cliff into the wind.
His ability to stay aloft is based on his understand of wind currents;
when the wind is against him,he rises. He waits on the cliff
until the right moment, then allows the contrary breezes to lift him up.
Most of us are grounded by the winds that are against us. We give up
and never take the first flight. We fear the plunge from the cliff into the
buoyant breath of God, and so we stand fixed, afraid to launch out.
But when we do take the risk, when we wait upon the Lord, and then
give ourselves in obedience to a free-fall from the cliffs of his will,
we discover that there is rest in soaring with him. We do not have to
struggle; we have only to fly, and in flying, to find new strength.
Application
a) Why is "waiting upon the Lord" essential
to "Mounting up with wings as the eagle"?
b) How can this verse help me be more willing to take risks in God's will?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
2 Chr 26:5
5 (2 Ch 24:2; Da 1:17) And he sought after God in the days of Zechariah,
the one who instructed him in the fear of the Lord. And in the days
that he sought after the Lord, God caused him to succeed.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Gift of Salvation
Ps 40:1-3,9-11
PSALMS 40
1 I waited patiently for the Lord,
and He turned to me, and heard my cry.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
out of the miry clay,
and set my feet on a rock,
and established my steps.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) He has put a new song in my mouth,
even praise to our God;
many will see it, and fear,
and will trust in the Lord.
...
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) I have proclaimed righteousness
in the great congregation;
I have not held back my lips,
O Lord, You know.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) I have not hidden Your righteousness
within my heart;
I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth
from the great congregation.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Do not withhold Your compassion from me, O Lord;
may Your lovingkindness and Your truth always guard me.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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
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 and sek Him for solutions.
Pray to the Lord "Creator God, You made the world and all that's in it.
Please restore order and save Your people, whom You love."
Pray to the Lord and wait upon Him.
Pray to the Lord and seek Him first.
Pray to the Lord and declare Him as Lord and Saviour.
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray that the influence of the Holy Spirit would dissolve
every argument and pretension exalted against the knowledge
of God.
Pray for pastors in Cuba pressured to provide the government
with infornation about church leaders.
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 202, 21 July 2021
Isaiah 28-30
Isaiah 28
Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah
1 (Hos 7:5; Isa 28:3-4) Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
whose glorious beauty is a fading flower
which is at the head of the fertile valley
of those who are overcome with wine!
2 (Isa 30:30; Eze 13:11) See, the Lord has a mighty and strong one,
as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm,
as a flood of mighty overflowing waters,
He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.
3 (Isa 26:6) The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim
is trodden under foot;
4 (Mic 7:1; Na 3:12) and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is at the head of the fertile valley,
shall be like a first-ripe fig before the summer,
which when one sees, while it is yet in his hand,
he eats it up.
5 (Isa 62:3; 41:16) In that day the Lord of Hosts
shall become a crown of glory
and a diadem of beauty
to the remnant of His people,
6 (1Ki 3:28; Jn 5:30) a spirit of justice
for him who sits in judgment,
and strength
to those who turn away the battle at the gate.
7 (Ps 107:27; Pr 20:1) But they also have erred through wine
and stagger from strong drink;
the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink,
they are confused by wine,
they stagger from strong drink;
they err while having visions,
they stumble when rendering judgment.
8 (Jer 48:26) For all the tables are full of vomit
and filthiness so that there is no clean place.
9 (Ps 131:2; Jer 6:10) "To whom shall He teach knowledge,
and to whom shall He interpret the message?
Those just weaned from the milk
and drawn from the breasts?
10 For He says,
'Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.’'"
11 (1Co 14:21) For with stammering lips and foreign tongue
He will speak to this people,
12 (Mt 11:28-29; Isa 30:15) He who said to them,
"This is the rest. Give rest to the weary,"
and, "This is repose,"
yet they would not listen.
13 (Mt 21:44) So the word of the Lord will be to them,
"Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,"
that they might go and fall backward,
be broken, snared, and taken captive.
14 (Isa 1:10; 28:22) Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, Oscoffers,
who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
15 (Isa 8:7-8; Da 11:22) because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death,
and with hell we are in agreement.
The overflowing scourge shall not come to us
when it passes through,
for we have made lies our refuge
and under falsehood we have hid ourselves."
A Cornerstone in Zion
16 (Ps 118:22; Mt 21:42; Ro 9:33) Therefore, thus says the Lord God:
See, I lay in Zion a stone,
a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, firmly placed;
he who believes shall not act hastily.
17 (2Ki 21:13; Isa 28:2) I shall make justice the measuring line
and righteousness the plummet;
then the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies
and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 (Isa 7:7; 28:15) Your covenant with death shall be annulled,
and your agreement with hell shall not stand;
when the overflowing scourge passes through,
then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 As often as it passes through, it shall seize you;
for morning by morning it shall pass through,
anytime by day or night.
It shall be terror only
to understand the report.
20 The bed is too short to stretch out,
and the covering is too small to wrap oneself in it.
21 (Jos 10:10; 10:12) For the Lord shall rise up as at Mount Perazim,
He shall be wrathful as in the Valley of Gibeon
to do His work, His unusual work,
and bring to pass His task, His exceptional task.
22 (Isa 10:22-23 ) Now therefore, do not continue as mockers,
lest your bonds be made stronger;
for I have heard from the Lord God of Hosts
of determined destruction upon the whole earth.
23 Give ear and hear my voice;
listen and hear my speech.
24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow?
Does he continually turn and break the clods of his ground?
25 Does he not level its surface
and sow dill and scatter the cumin
and plant wheat in rows,
barley in its place
and the rye within its area?
26 For his God instructs
and teaches him appropriately.
27 (Am 1:3) For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument,
nor is a cartwheel driven over the cumin;
but the dill is beaten out with a staff,
and the cumin with a rod.
28 Grain for bread is crushed;
so he does not continue to thresh it forever,
nor break it with the wheel of his cart,
nor crush it with his horsemen.
29 (Isa 9:6; Ro 11:33) This also comes from the Lord of Hosts,
who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
Isaiah 29
Woe to the City of David
1 (2Sa 5:9 ) Woe to Ariel, to Ariel,
the city where David lived!
Add year to year,
observe your feasts on schedule.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel,
and she shall be a city of lamenting and sorrow,
and she shall be as an Ariel to me.
3 (Lk 19:43-44; Eze 21:22) I will encamp against you all around,
and will lay siege against you with a mound,
and I will raise forts against you.
4 (Isa 8:19) You shall be brought down, and shall speak from the ground,
and from the dust where you are prostrate your speech shall come;
your voice shall also be as that of a ghost from the ground;
and your speech shall whisper from the dust.
5 (1Th 5:3; Isa 17:13-14 ) Moreover the multitude of your enemies shall
become like fine dust,
and the multitude of the ruthless ones as chaff which blows away;
and it shall happen in an instant, suddenly.
6 (Mt 24:7; Mk 13:8) You shall be punished from the Lord of Hosts
with thunder and earthquake and loud noise,
with storm and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
7 (Job 20:8; Ps 73:20) The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel,
even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,
shall be as a dream
of a night vision.
8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and he eats;
but when he awakens, his hunger is not satisfied;
or as when a thirsty man dreams, and he is drinking;
but when he awakens, he is faint, and his thirst is not quenched;
so shall the multitude of all the nations be
who fight against Mount Zion.
9 (Isa 51:21-22; 19:14) Be delayed and wait,
blind yourselves and be blind.
They are drunk, but not with wine.
They stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 (Ro 11:8; Ps 69:23) For the Lord has poured out
on you the spirit of deep sleep
and has closed your eyes, the prophets;
and He has covered your heads, the seers.
11 (Isa 8:16; Da 12:4) The whole vision will be to you as the words
of a book that is sealed, which when they deliver it to one who is learned,
saying, "Read this, please," he shall say, "I cannot, for it is sealed."
12 Then the book shall be delivered to him who is not learned, saying,
"Read this, please." And he shall say, "I cannot read."
13 (Col 2:22) Therefore, the Lord said:
Because this people draw near with their mouths
and honor Me with their lips,
but have removed their hearts far fromMe,
and their fear toward Me
is tradition by the precept of men,
14 (Hab 1:5; Jer 49:7; Isa 6:9-10) therefore I will once again do
a marvelous work among this people,
even a marvelous work and a wonder;
for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.
15 (Isa 30:1; Eze 8:12) Woe to those who deeply
hide their counsel from the Lord
and whose works are done in the dark, and they say,
"Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"
16 Surely you turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be esteemed as the potter's clay?
Shall what is made say to its maker,
"He did not make me"?
Or shall the thing formed say to him who formed it,
"He has no understanding"?
17 (Isa 32:15) Is it not yet a very little while before Lebanon
shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be counted as a forest?
18 (Isa 35:5; Mt 11:5; Mk 7:37) And on that day the deaf shall hear
the words of a book,
and the eyes of the blind shall see
out of obscurity and darkness.
19 (Jas 2:5; Isa 61:1; Mt 5:5) The meek also shall increase
their joy in the Lord,
and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 (Mic 2:1; Isa 29:5) For the ruthless shall come to nothing,
and the scorner will be consumed,
and all who are intent on doing iniquity shall be cut off-
21 (Am 5:10-12) those who cause a man to be indicted by a word,
and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
and turn aside the righteous with meaningless arguments.
22 (Isa 51:2; 45:17)Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob:
Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
nor shall his face now turn pale;
23 (Isa 8:13; 19:25) but when he sees his children,
the work of My hands, in his midst,
they shall sanctify My name
and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,
and fear the God of Israel.
24 (Isa 28:7) Those also who err in spirit shall know the truth,
and those who murmured shall accept instruction.
Isaiah 30
The Warning of Judah
1 (Isa 1:2; 29:15) Woe to the rebellious children,
says the Lord,
who take counsel, but not from Me,
and make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
in order to add sin to sin;
2 (Nu 27:21; Isa 36:6) they walk down to Egypt
and have not asked from My mouth,
to strengthen themselves in the safety of Pharaoh
and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3 (Isa 20:5) Therefore the safety of Pharaoh shall be your shame
and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.
4 (Isa 19:11; Jer 43:7) For their princes were at Zoan,
and their ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 (Jer 2:36; Isa 30:7) They all will be ashamed
of a people who cannot profit them,
who are not a help or profit,
but a shame and also a reproach.
6 (Dt 8:15; Isa 46:1-2; Jer 11:4) The burden of the beasts of the Negev.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
from which comes the lioness and lion,
the viper and fiery flying serpent,
they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys,
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people who shall not profit them.
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose.
Therefore, I have called her,
"Rahab who has been exterminated."
8 (Isa 8:1; Hab 2:2) Now go, write it before them on a tablet,
and note it in a book,
that it may serve in the time to come
as a witness forever;
9 (Isa 30:1 ) for this is a rebellious people, lying children,
children who refuse to listen to the law of the Lord;
10 (Am 7:13; Jer 11:21) they say to the seers,
"You must not see visions,"
and to the prophets,
"You must not prophesy to us right things;
speak to us pleasant things,
prophesy illusions.
11 Get out of the way,
turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more
about the Holy One of Israel."
12 (Isa 5:24) Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel:
Because you despise this word
and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and rely on them,
13 (1Ki 20:30; Ps 62:3) therefore this iniquity shall be to you
as a breach ready to fall, swelling up in a high wall,
whose collapse comes suddenly, in an instant.
14 (Ps 2:9; Jer 19:10-11) He shall break it as the breaking of the potter's
vessel that is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it
a shard to take fire from the hearth
or with which to take water out of a cistern.
15 (Isa 32:17; 7:4) For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
In returning and rest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
Yet you were not willing,
16 (Isa 31:1; 31:3) and you said, "No, for we will flee on horses";
therefore you shall flee.
“And we will ride on swift horsesâ€;
therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.
17 (Lev 26:8; 26:36) One thousand shall flee
at the threat of one man;
at the threat of five
you shall flee
until you are left
as a flag on the top of a mountain
and as a banner on a hill.
God’s Promise to Zion
18( Isa 25:9; 2Pe 3:9) Therefore, the Lord longs to be gracious to you,
and therefore, He waits on high to have mercy on you;
for the Lord is a God of justice;
how blessed are all who long for Him.
19 (Ps 50:15; Isa 58:9) O people in Zion, inhabitants in Jerusalem,
you shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound
of your cry. When He hears it, He will answer you.
20 (1Ki 22:27; Ps 74:9) Though the Lord has given you the bread of adversity
and the water of affliction, yet He, your Teacher, will no longer hide Himself,
but your eyes shall see your Teacher.
21 (Ps 25:8-9; Isa 35:8-9) Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
"This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right hand
and when you turn to the left.
22 (Jdg 17:3-4; Isa 46:6) You shall defile also your graven images
overlaid with silver, and your Âmolded images ornamented with gold.
You shall scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, "Be gone!"
23 (Isa 32:20; Ps 65:9-13) Then He shall give you rain for the seed which you
shall sow in the ground and bread of the increase of the earth.
And it shall be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.
24 (Ge 45:6) The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that work the ground
shall eat cured fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and fork.
25 (Isa 35:6-7; 43:19-20) There shall be on every high mountain
and on every high hill rivers and streams of waters in the day
of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 (Isa 60:19-20; Dt 32:39) Moreover the light of the moon shall be
as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,
as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord binds
up the breach of His people and heals the wound from His blow.
Judgment on Assyria
27 See, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
burning with His anger, and its burden is heavy;
His lips are full of indignation,
and His tongue as a devouring fire.
28 (Isa 8:8; 11:4) And His breath is as an overflowing stream
which reaches to the middle of the neck,
to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity;
and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
causing them to err.
29 (Ps 42:4; Isa 2:3) You shall have songs,
as in the night when a festival is kept,
and gladness of heart,
as when one goes with a flute
to come into the mountain of the Lord,
to the Mighty One of Israel.
30 (Ps 18:13-14; Jos 10:11) The Lord shall cause His glorious voice
to be heard,
and shall show the descending of His arm
with the indignation of His anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire,
with scattering, and cloudburst, and hailstones.
31 (Isa 9:4; 10:5) For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian
shall be beaten down
when He strikes with a rod.
32 (Isa 11:15; 2:19) And every blow of the rod of punishment
which the Lord shall lay on him
shall be with tambourines and harps;
and in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.
33 (2Ki 23:10; Ge 19:24; Jer 19:6) For Topheth has been long prepared,
indeed, for the king it has been prepared.
He has made it deep and large,
a pile of fire with much wood;
the breath of the Lord,
like a stream of brimstone,
kindles it.
2) Our Daily Bread for 21 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/21/authentic-christianity
entitled Authentic Christianity
Matthew 5:3-10
3 (Isa 61:1; 66:2) “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 (Isa 61:2-3; Rev 21:4 ) Blessed are those who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.
5 (Ps 37:11; Ro 4:13) Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.
6 (Jn 4:14; 6:48-58) Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be filled.
7 (2Sa 22:26; Pr 11:17) Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.
8 (Ps 24:4; Heb 12:14) Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God.
9 (Mt 5:45; Lk 6:35) Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the sons of God.
10 (Mt 5:3; Lk 6:22) Blessed are those who are persecuted
for righteousness' sake,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
I applied for a position in a Christian organization years ago
and was presented with a list of legalistic rules having to do
with the use of alcohol, tobacco, and certain forms of entertainment.
"We expect Christian behavior from our employees" was the explanation.
I could agree with this list because I, for reasons mostly unrelated
to my faith, didn't do those things. But my argumentative side thought,
Why don't they have a list about not being arrogant, insensitive, harsh,
spiritually indifferent, and critical? None of these were addressed.
Following Jesus can’t be defined by a list of rules. It's a subtle quality
of life that's difficult to quantify but can best be described as "beautiful."
The Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-10 sum up that beauty: Those who are
indwelt by and dependent on the Spirit of Jesus are humble and self-effacing.
They're deeply touched by the suffering of others. They're gentle and kind.
They long for goodness in themselves and in others. They're merciful
to those who struggle and fail. They're single-minded in their love for Jesus.
They're peaceful and leave behind a legacy of peace. They're kind
to those who misuse them, returning good for evil. And they're blessed,
a word that means "happy" in the deepest sense.
This kind of life attracts the attention of others
and belongs to those who come to Jesus and ask Him for it.
By: David H. Roper
Reflect & Pray
Which of the attributes from Matthew 5 do you especially need in your life?
How can you grow in this?
Spirit of God, please produce these
characteristics from the Beatitudes in my life.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 8 Guided by Grace Day 4 - Send for Help !
James 1:5
5 (Pr 2:3–6; Jn 15:7) If any of you lacks wisdom,
let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally
and without criticism, and it will be given to him.
A new employee in an electronics plant had the responsibility
for overseeing one machine. The machine worked fine when the young man
came on duty, but soon it began to run a bit rough. The employee
tinkered with the machine, trying to "fix" it, until finally if stopped
working altogether
In fear and trembling the worker sent for the foreman, and stammered,
"I - I, well, sir, I did my best to fix it."
"Son", the foreman thundered, "you need to know only one thing. Around
here, doing you best means sending for me!"
Wisdom, James 1:5 says, has its source in God alone. And if we are
to attain wisdom, we need to learn doing our best means sending for God.
Often we spend time tinkering with our lives or the the lives of others.
We don't think to as God for his wisdom i nthe decisions we must take;
instead, we use our human reasoning and take our best guess.
But the path to wisdom does not lie in guesswork. The scriptures
give us clear indication of God's direction for his people, and through Bible
study, application, prayer, and meditation,
we can understand what God wants to reveal to us.
"If any of you lacks wisdom," James says, "he should ask God, who gives
generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him."
The first step to attaining wisdom is recognising that we are not wise.
The second step is to ask. And God, who is faithful to his Word
and His people, will respond.
Application
a) Under what circumstances have I tinkered with my life,
making it worse rather then fixing it?
b) What practical steps can I take to ask God for wisdom?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Mark 4:23-29
23 (Mk 4:9; Mt 11:15) "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
24 (Mt 7:2) He said to them, "Take heed what you hear.
The measure you give will be measured for you,
and to you who hear will more be given.
25 (Mt 13:12; Lk 8:18) For to him who has will more be given.
And from him who has not will be taken, even what he has."
The Parable of the Growing Seed
26 (Mt 13:24) He said, "The kingdom of God is like a man
who scatters seed on the ground.
27 (Ecc 11:5) He sleeps and rises night and day,
and the seed sprouts and grows; he does not know how.
28 For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade,
then the head, then the full seed in the head.
29 (Joel 3:13) But when the grain is ripe,
immediately he applies the sickle because the harvest has come."
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Gift of Salvation
Ps 51:1-13
PSALMS 51
For the Music Director. A Psalm of David,
when Nathan the Prophet came to him,
after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to Your lovingkindness;
according to the abundance of Your compassion,
blot out my transgressions.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2 ) Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) For I acknowledge my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) Against You, You only, have I sinned,
and done this evil in Your sight,
so that You are justified when You speak,
and You are blameless when You judge.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin my mother conceived me.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) You desire truth in the inward parts,
and in the hidden part You make me to know wisdom.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3 ) Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) Make me to hear joy and gladness,
that the bones that You have broken may rejoice.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) Hide Your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Do not cast me away from Your presence,
and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
and uphold me with Your willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
and sinners will return to You.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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
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 who serve in law enforcement will have the resources
they need and the vigilance their work requires.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and help Him to point out your sins and seek redemption.
Pray to the Lord "Spirit of God, please produce these
characteristics from the Beatitudes in my life."
Pray to the Lord and seek His wisdom.
Pray to the Lord and plant the seeds of the Lord spiritually.
Pray to the Lord and pray for Him to create in a clean heart.
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray for the leaders our educational system, that they would
have wisdom and make God honouring decisions
Pray that those who serve in law enforcement will have the resources
they need and the vigilance their work requires.
Pray the pastors and chrurch leaders in Vietnam will continue
to receive training and support material.
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 201, 20 July 2021
Hosea 8 - 14
Hosea 8
The Apostasy of Israel
1 (Dt 28:49; Hos 6:7) Set the trumpet to your mouth!
One like an eagle is on the house of the Lord,
because they have transgressed My covenant
and rebelled against My law.
2 (Mt 7:21; Titus 1:16) Israel cries to Me,
"My God, we know You."
3 Israel has cast off the good;
the enemy will pursue him.
4 (Hos 2:8; 13:2) They set up kings, but not through Me;
they made princes, but I did not knowit.
With their silver and gold,
they made idols,
so that they will be cut off.
5 (Jer 13:27; Hos 10:5) Your calf, O Samaria, is rejected!
My anger is kindled against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it,
and it is not God!
The calf of Samaria
will be broken to pieces.
7 Pr 22:8; Hos 7:9 For they sow the wind,
and they will reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no head
and will yield no flour.
If it were to yield,
foreigners would swallow it up.
8 (Jer 22:28; 51:34) Israel is swallowed up.
Now they are among the nations
as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.
9 (Jer 2:24; Eze 16:33-34) For they have gone up to Assyria
like a wild donkey alone by itself;
Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 (Eze 16:37; Isa 10:8) Though they hire among the nations,
I will now gather them.
They will begin to diminish due to the burden
of the king of princes.
11 (Hos 12:11) Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
they have become to him altars for sinning.
12 (Hos 4:6) I have written for him the great things of My law,
but they were regarded as a strange thing.
13 (Hos 9:6; Dt 28:68) For the sacrifices of My offerings,
they sacrifice flesh and eat it;
but the Lord does not accept them.
Now He will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins.
They will return to Egypt.
14 (Dt 32:18; Jer 17:27) Israel has forgotten his Maker
and built temples,
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
so I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it will devour his palaces.
Hosea 9
The Punishment of Israel
1 (Hos 10:5; Jer 44:17) Do not rejoice, O Israel!
Do not exult [Heb. they.] like the peoples,
for you have played the whore departing from your God.
You have loved a prostitute’s wages
on every threshing floor.
2 (Hos 2:9) The threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them,
and the new wine will fail in her.
3 (Lev 25:23; Eze 4:13) They will not dwell in the land of the Lord;
but Ephraim will return to Egypt,
and they will eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 (Hos 8:13; Jer 6:20) They will not offer wine offerings to the Lord,
and their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their sacrifices will be like the bread of mourners;
all who eat of it will be defiled.
For their bread will be only to satisfy their own hunger;
it will not come into the house of the Lord.
5 (Isa 10:3; Jer 5:31) What will you do on the appointed day,
and on the day of the festival of the Lord?
6 (Hos 10:8; Isa 5:6; 7:23) For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
Egypt will gather them,
and Memphis will bury them.
Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver,
and thorns will be in their tents.
7 (Mic 7:4; Isa 10:3) The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come.
Israel knows!
The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is insane,
because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
8 (Hos 5:1; Eze 3:17) The watchman of Ephraim is a prophet
for my God;
yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
and hatred in the house of his God.
9 (Hos 10:9; 8:13) They have deeply corrupted themselves
as in the days of Gibeah.
He will remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.
10 (Jer 11:13; Hos 4:14) Like grapes in the wilderness,
I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
But they went to Baal Peor
and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame,
and they became an abomination like the thing they loved.
11 (Hos 4:7; 9:14) As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird:
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 (Hos 7:13; Dt 31:17) Though they bring up their children,
I will bereave them until none are left.
Woe to them indeed,
when I depart from them!
13 (Eze 26:1-21) Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre,
planted in a pleasant place,
so now Ephraim will bring out
his children for slaughter.
14 (Lk 23:29) Give them, O Lord—
what will You give?
Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
15 (Hos 4:15; Isa 1:23) All their wickedness is in Gilgal,
for there I hated them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds,
I will drive them out of My house.
I will love them no more.
All their princes are rebels.
16 (Eze 24:21; Hos 9:11-13) Ephraim is stricken,
their root is dried up,
they shall bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth,
I will slay the beloved offspring of their womb.
17 (Hos 7:13; Dt 28:64-65) My God will reject them
because they did not listen to Him,
and they will be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 10
Israel's Sin and Captivity
1 (Hos 8:11; 1Ki 14:23) Israel is a fertile vine
that brings forth its fruit.
As his fruit multiplied,
so his altars increased;
as his land prospered,
so heHeb. they. improved his pillars.
2 (1Ki 18:21; Mic 5:13) Their heart is divided;
now they must bear their guilt.
He will break down their altars
and destroy their pillars.
3Hos 10:7; 10:15 For now they will say,
"We have no king,
because we do not fear the Lord;
and a king, what could he do for us?"
4 (Am 5:7; 2Ki 17:3-4) They speak mere words,
swearing falsely
in making a covenant.
Thus judgment springs up like a poisonous plant
in the furrows of the field.
5 (Hos 9:11; 2Ki 23:5) The inhabitants of Samaria fear
because of the calf of Beth Aven.
For its people mourn for it,
and its priests shriek for it,
because its glory has departed from it.
6 (Hos 5:13; Isa 30:3) It will be carried to Assyria
as a tribute to King Jareb.Or the great king.
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.Or counsel.
7 (Hos 10:3) As for Samaria, her king will perish
like a twig on the water.
8 (Hos 9:6; Lk 23:30) The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,
will be destroyed.
Thorn and thistle will grow
on their altars.
They will say to the mountains, Cover us,
and to the hills, Fall on us.
9 (Hos 9:9) O Israel, you have sinned since the days of Gibeah.
There they have continued.Heb. he has destroyed you.
Will not the war in Gibeah against evildoers
overtake them?
10 (Eze 5:13; Jer 16:16) When I desire, I will punish them.
The nations will be gathered against them
when they are disciplined [Gk.; Heb. bound.] for their two transgressions.
11 (Dt 25:4; Jer 50:11) Ephraim is a trained heifer
that loves to thresh grain,
but I harnessed her fair neck;
I will make Ephraim pull a plow.
Judah will plow;
Jacob shall furrow for himself.
12 (Isa 45:8; Pr 11:18) Sow to yourselves righteousness,
reap mercy,
break up your fallow ground;
for it is time to seek the Lord,
until He comes
and rains righteousness upon you.
13 (Job 4:8; Ps 33:16) You have plowed wickedness.
You have reaped iniquity,
and you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your power
and in the numbers of your warriors,
14 (Hos 13:16) therefore a tumult will arise among your people,
and all your fortresses will be destroyed
as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle;
mothers were dashed to pieces upon their children.
15 (Hos 10:5; 10:7) So will it be done to you, O Bethel,
because of your great wickedness.
At dawn
the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.
Hosea 11
God's Love for Israel
1 (Ex 4:22; Mt 2:15) When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called My son.
2 (Hos 2:13; Isa 65:7) As I [Gk. Syr.; Heb. bulls.] called them,
so they went from Me. Or those who offer human sacrifice.
They sacrificed to the Baals
and burned incense to idols.
3 (Dt 1:31; Jer 30:17) I taught Ephraim to walk,
taking them up in My [Gk. Syr. Vulg.; Heb. his.] arms,
but they did not know
that I healed them.
4 (Lev 26:13; Jn 12:32) I drew them with cords of human kindness,
[Heb. cords of a man.]
with bands of love.
I was to them as those who ease the yoke on their neck, Or jaws.
and I bent down and fed them.
5 (Hos 7:16; 2Ki 17:13-14) He will return
[So LXX. Heb. He not will return.] to the land of Egypt,
and Assyria will be his king,
because they refused to return to Me.
6 (Hos 13:16; 10:6) The sword slashes in their cities,
consumes their oracle-priests,
and devours because of their own counsels.
7 (Jer 8:5; Hos 11:2) My people are bent on backsliding fromMe.
Though they called to the Most High,
none at all exalt Him.
8 (Ge 14:8; Dt 29:23; Hos 6:4) How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboyim?
My heart churns within Me;
My compassion is stirred.
9 (Nu 23:19; Isa 12:6; Jer 30:11) I will not execute the fierceness
of My anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim.
For I am God, and not man,
the Holy One in your midst,
and I will not come in wrath.
10 (Isa 31:4; Joel 3:16) They will walk after the Lord,
who roars like a lion.
When He roars,
His children will come trembling from the west.
11 (Isa 11:11; 60:8 )They will come trembling
like a bird out of Egypt
and like a dove from the land of Assyria.
And I will let them dwell in their houses,
says the Lord.
God's Charge Against Ephraim
12 Ephraim has surrounded Me with lies,
and the house of Israel with deceit.
But Judah still walks with God,
and is faithful to the Holy One.Or holy ones.
Hosea 12
1 (Jer 22:22; Hos 5:13) Ephraim feeds on the wind
and chases after the east wind all day long.
He multiplies lies and devastation.
They make a covenant with Assyria,
and oil is carried to Egypt.
A History of Rebellion
2 (Hos 4:1; Mic 6:2) The Lord has a dispute with Judah,
and will punish Jacob according to his ways,
and repay him according to his doings.
3 (Ge 25:26; 32:24-28) In the womb, he took his brother by the heel,
and by his strength he strove with God.
4 (Ge 35:15) He struggled with the angel, and prevailed;
he wept, and sought favor from Him.
He found Him in Bethel,
and there He spoke with us.
5 (Ex 3:15) As for the Lord the God of Hosts,
the Lord is the name by which He is invoked!
6 (Mic 6:8; Hos 14:1) But as for you, return to your God,
hold fast to mercy and justice,
and wait on your God continually.
7 (Pr 11:1) A merchant, in whose hands are deceitful balances,
he loves to oppress.
8 (Rev 3:17; Ps 62:10) Ephraim said,
"Yet I am rich, I have found wealth for myself.
In all my labors, they shall find no offense in me
that would be sin."
9 (Lev 23:40-43; Ne 8:15-17) I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt.
I will again make you to dwell in tents,
as in the days of the appointed feast.
10 (2Ki 17:13; Eze 20:49 ) I have spoken by the prophets,
and I have multiplied visions,
and through the prophets I will bring destruction.Or speak in parables.
11 (Hos 8:11; 4:15) In Gilead there is iniquity;
surely they will come to nothing.
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls,
so their altars will be like stone heaps
in the furrows of the fields.
12 (Jacob) fled to the land of Aram,
and Israel served for a wife,
and for a wife he kept sheep.
13 (Ex 12:50–51; 13:3) By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt,
and by a prophet he was preserved.
14 (Eze 18:13; Da 11:18) Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly,
so his Lord shall leave his bloodguilt on him
and repay him for his reproach.
Hosea 13
God's Unrelenting Judgment on Israel
1 (Hos 11:2) When Ephraim spoke, trembling,
he was exalted in Israel.
But he incurred guilt through Baal worship and he died.
2 (Isa 44:17-20; 46:6) And now they continue sinning
and have made a cast image for themselves,
idols of their silver, according to their understanding;
all of them the work of craftsmen.
They say of them,
"Those who sacrifice Or those who offer human sacrifice.
are kissing calves!"
3 (Ps 68:2; Hos 6:4) Therefore they will be like the morning cloud,
or like the early dew that passes away,
like chaff blown off the threshing floor,
or like the smoke from a chimney.
4 (Hos 12:9; Isa 45:21-22) Yet I am the Lord your God
ever since the land of Egypt.
You know no God but Me,
and there is no savior besides Me.
5 (Dt 2:7; 8:15) I knew [Or fed.] you in the wilderness,
in the land of great drought.
6 (Dt 32:13-15) When they had pasture, they were satisfied.
They were satisfied, and their heart was exalted;
therefore they forgot Me.
7 (Jer 5:6; Hos 5:14) So I will be like a lion to them,
like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
8 (2 Sa 17:8; Pr 17:12) I will attack them like a bear bereaved of her cubs,
and will tear open their rib cage.
There I will devour them like a lion,
as the wild beast would tear them to pieces.
9 (Dt 33:26; Jer 2:17) O Israel, you are destroyed,Heb. he has destroyed you.
but in Me is your help.
10 (Hos 8:4; 1Sa 8:5-6) Where now is your king
that he may save you in all your cities?
And where are your judges of whom you said,
"Give me a king and princes"?
11 (1Sa 10:19) I gave you a king in My anger,
and took him away in My wrath.
12 (Job 14:17; Dt 32:34-35) The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
his sin is stored up.
13 (Isa 13:8; Mic 4:9-10) The pains of childbirth come for him.
He is an unwise son,
for he does not present himself
at the opening of the womb.
14 (Ps 49:15; Isa 25:8) I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.
I will redeem them from Death.
O Death, where are your plagues?
O Sheol, where is your sting?
Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
15 (Eze 19:12; 17:10) Though he be fruitful among his brothers,
the east wind will come, a wind of the Lord,
rising from the wilderness.
And his spring shall become dry,
his fountain shall be dried up.
It shall plunder his treasury
of every desirable thing.
16 (2Ki 8:12; 15:16; Isa 13:16) Samaria will be held guilty,
for she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword,
their infants will be dashed to pieces,
and their pregnant women will be ripped open.
Hosea 14
A Plea for Repentance
1 (Hos 6:1; 12:6) Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 (Heb 13:15; Ps 69:30-31) Take words with you
and return to the Lord.
Say to Him,
“Take away all iniquity,
and accept that which is good;
and we will offer the fruit [Gk. Syr.; Heb. bulls.] of our lips!
3 (Ps 10:14; 33:17) Assyria will not save us,
we will not ride on horses.
We will no longer say, 'Our God,'
to the work of our hands.
In You the orphan finds mercy."
4 (Zep 3:17; Isa 12:1) I will heal their backsliding;
I will love them freely,
for My anger has turned away from him.
5 (Isa 35:2; Job 29:19) I will be like the dew to Israel;
he shall grow like the lily
and shall strike his roots
like Lebanon.
6 (Ps 52:8) His branches will spread out,
and his beauty shall be like the olive tree,
and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.
7 (Ps 91:1) Those that dwell under his shadow will return,
they will flourish like the grain
and grow as a vine.
Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
8 (Job 34:32; Isa 41:19) O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after him.
I am like a green fir tree;
your fruit is found in Me.
9 (Ps 107:43; Pr 10:29) Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
whoever prudent, let him know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the just will walk in them;
but the transgressors stumble in them.
2) Our Daily Bread for 20 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/20/my-god-is-so-big
entitled God's Power on Display
Job 38:24-38
24 By what way is the light diffused,
or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
25 (Job 28:26) Who has divided a channel for the overflowing waters,
or a path for the thunderbolt,
26 (Ps 107:35_ to cause it to rain on the earth where no man is,
on the wilderness in which there are no people,
27 to satisfy the desolate waste,
and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 (Jer 14:22; Ps 147:8) Does the rain have a father?
Or who has produced the drops of dew?
29 (Ps 147:16-17; Job 37:10) From whose womb came the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?
30 (Job 37:10) The waters harden like stone,
and the surface of the deep is frozen.
31 (Job 9:9; Am 5:8) "Can you tie the cords to the Pleiades
or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 Can you bring out the constellation in its season?
Or can you guide the Bear with its cubs?
33 (Jer 31:35-36) Do you know the ordinances of heaven?
Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34 (Job 22:11) "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 Can you send lightning that they may go forth
and say to you, 'Here we are'?
36 (Job 32:8; Ps 51:6 ) Who has put wisdom in the inward parts,
or who has given understanding to the heart?
The Heb. may refer to celestial bodies.
37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
Or who can empty out the bottles of heaven,
38 when the dust turns into hard clumps
and the clods stick together?
It was a lightning storm, and my six-year-old daughter
and I were on the floor watching the dazzling display through the glass door.
She kept repeating, "Wow! God is so big." I felt the same way.
It was obvious to both of us how small we were, and how powerful God must be.
Lines from the book of Job flashed through my mind,
"By what way is the light diffused,
or the east wind scattered upon the earth?" (Job 38:24).
Job needed to be reminded of God's power (vv. 34–41). His life had fallen
apart. His children were dead. He was broke. He was sick. His friends
offered no empathy. His wife encouraged him to abandon his faith (2:9).
Eventually, Job asked God, "Why?" (ch. 24)
and He responded out of a storm (ch. 38).
God reminded Job of His control over the physical attributes
of the world (ch. 38). This comforted him and he responded,
"My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you"(42:5).
In other words, "Now I get it, God! I see that you don't fit into my box."
When life falls apart, sometimes the most comforting thing we can
do is to lie on the floor and watch the lightning-to be reminded that the God
who created the world is big enough and loving enough to take care of us too.
We may even start singing our favorite worship songs that tell of the might
and greatness of our God.
By: Daniel Ryan Day
Reflect & Pray
When was the last time you saw God's power on display?
What went through your mind as you witnessed His bigness?
God, help me see how big You are and to stop trying to fit You into small
boxes. Help me to trust that if You’re big enough to create and control
lightning, You're big enough to help me through life's challenges.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 8 Guided by Grace Day 3 - The Promise of Completion
Philippians 1:6
6 (1Co 1:8; Jn 6:29) I am confident of this very thing,
that He who began a good work in you will perfect it
until the day of Jesus Christ.
"Elizabeth is a good student", the note on the side of the report card read,
"but she doesn't finish what she starts. She has a lot of good ideas, but
rarely brings then to completion."
Many of us are like Elizabeth. We start into a new venture with high hopes
and great motivation. Bit somewhere along the way, we become discouraged.
Someone tells us that our ideas are stpuide, or that we are not capable of
doing what we dream. We get a particulatly difficule hurdle and give up.
Sometimes we fell the Christian like is like that, too. We start well, and
believe that in Christ we can accomplish anything. But then our prayers
become rote, our Bible reading ritual. We can't seem to regain that sense
of God's presence; we have, we conclude, "Lost our first love."
But God has a different perspective. He began the work of salvation in us;
he leads and guides us in his will, and he will complete what he has begun.
Often we fail to see God's grace in hte ongoing proces of walking with him
because his agenda is different from ours. We know what we want to see
happen in our lives; God knows what needs to happen.
"When I fist came into a relationship with Christ," one woman explained,
"I knew I had a lot of changing to do. But, strangely enough, the things God
changed weren't on my list at all!"
When God begins his work in oue lives, he has a plan for our maturity.
He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. And what God
has begun, he will finish.
Application
a) Have I ever tried to "decide" for God what problems in my life
needed dealing with?
b) Has God ever pointed out issues that were a surprise to me?
c) How can today's verse help me relax in God's will and
have confidence in the direction of my life?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Philip 4:19
19 (Ro 2:4) But my God shall supply your every need according
to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Reconciling Peace
Ps 85:8-13
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) I will hear what God the Lord will speak,
for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints,
but let them not turn again to folly.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) Surely His salvation is near to them who fear Him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) Mercy and truth have met together;
righteousness and peace have kissed.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) Truth springs from the ground,
and righteousness looks down from the sky.
12 Yes, the Lord gives that which is good,
and our land shall yield its increase.
13 Righteousness shall go before Him
and prepare a way for His footsteps.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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
20th Day of the Month
a) Pray for the children of Canada, thar they would come to know
Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord.
( Matthew 19:14
14 (Mt 18:3; Lk 18:16–17)
But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me,
and do not forbid them. For to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."
)
b) Pray that Christians will recognise that our struggle is not
against the natural world but against invisible spiritual forces.
(
Eph 6:12
12 (Eph 1:3; 1:21) For our fight is not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces
of evil in the heavenly places.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and help Him to point out your sins and seek redemption.
Pray to the Lord "God, help me see how big You are and to stop trying to fit
You into small boxes. Help me to trust that if You’re big enough to create
and control lightning, You're big enough
to help me through life's challenges."
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for making you complete.
Pray to the Lord and trust in Him to supply your riches.
Pray to the Lord and pray to Him to increase Your faith.
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray for the children of Canada, thar they would come to know
Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord.
Pray that Christians will recognise that our struggle is not
against the natural world but against invisible spiritual forces.
Pray for those ministering in syria to persecute Druze people in Suwayda.
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 200, 19 July 2021
Hosea 1 - 7
Hosea 1
1 (Isa 1:1; Mic 1:1; Am 1:1) The word of the Lord that came to Hosea
son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah,
kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Hosea's Wife and Children
2 (Hos 3:1; Dt 31:16) When the Lord first spoke by Hosea, the Lord said
to Hosea: "Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry,
for the land has committed great harlotry, departing from the Lord."
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim as a wife.
She conceived, and bore him a son.
4 (2Ki 10:7-8; 10:10-11) The Lord said to him: "Call his name Jezreel,That is,
May God make fertile. for in a little while, I will punish the house of Jehu
for the blood of Jezreel,
and will bring to an end the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 (Jos 17:16; Jdg 6:33) On that day, I will break the bow of Israel
in the Valley of Jezreel."
6 (2Ki 17:6; Hos 2:4) Then Gomer conceived again, and bore a daughter.
And the Lord said to Hosea: "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah,
[Or the great king.] for I will no longer have mercy upon the house of Israel
but will utterly sweep them away.
7 (Zec 4:6; 2Ki 19:35) But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah,
and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow,
or by sword, or by battle, or by horses, or by horsemen."
8 When Gomer had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
9 Then the Lord said: "Call his name Lo-Ammi, [That is, Not My people.]
for you are not My people, and I am not your God."
10 (Hos 1:9; Ge 13:16) Yet the number of the children of ÂIsrael will be
as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered.
And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not My people,"
there it will be said to them, "You are the children of the living God."
11 (Isa 11:12–13; Hos 3:5) Then will the Judahites and the children of Israel
be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they will come
up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
Hosea 2
1 (Hos 2:2) 3Say to your brothers, Ammi,
[That is, My people.] and to your sisters, Ruhamah.That is, Pitied.
Israel's Unfaithfulness Punished
2 (Isa 50:1; Eze 23:45) Plead with your mother, plead-
for she is not My wife,
and am I not her husband-
that she put away her harlotry from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts,
3 (Isa 32:13–14; Eze 16:22) lest I strip her naked
and leave her as in the day that she was born,
and turn her into a wilderness,
and turn her into a dry land,
and kill her with thirst.
4 (Jer 13:14; Eze 8:18) I will not have mercy upon her children,
for they are children of harlotry.
5 (Isa 1:21; Jer 44:17-18) For their mother has played the whore.
She that conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, "I will pursue my lovers,
who provide my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink."
6 (Job 19:8; 3:23) Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,
and make a wall, so that she will not find her paths.
7 (Jer 2:2; Hos 5:13) She will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
and she will seek them but will not find them.
Then she will say,
"I will go and return to my first husband,
for it was better for me then than now."
8 (Isa 1:3; Eze 16:16-19) But she did not know that it was I who provided her
the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and multiplied her silver and gold
that they used for Baal.
9 (Hos 2:3) Therefore I will take back My grain in its time
and My wine in its season,
and I will recover My wool and My flax,
given to cover her nakedness.
10 (Eze 23:29) Therefore I will uncover her shame
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will deliver her from My hand.
11 (Jer 7:34; Isa 1:13-14) I will also bring to an end all her joy,
her annual feasts, her New Moons,
and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
12 (Isa 5:5; 7:23) I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
of which she has said, "These are my rewards that my lovers have given me."
I will make them a forest,
and the beasts of the field will eat them.
13 (Hos 11:2; Jdg 3:7) I will punish her for the days of the Baals,
when she burned incense to them
and adorned herself with her earrings and her jewelry,
and pursued her lovers,
but forgot Me,
declares the Lord.
God's Mercy on Israel
14 (Eze 20:35-36) Therefore, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
15 (Jer 2:2; Jos 7:26) From there, I will give her vineyards to her,
and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope.
She will respond there as in the days of her youth,
and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 (Isa 54:5; Hos 2:7) On that day, declares the Lord,
you will call Me, "My husband,"
and will no longer call Me, "My Baal." Or My master.
17 (Ex 23:13; Jos 23:7) I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,
and they will no longer be remembered by their name.
18 (Eze 34:25; Isa 2:4; Jer 23:6) On that day, I will make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field, with the fowls of heaven,
and with the creeping things of the ground.
I will break the bow and the sword and the battle
from the earth,
and will make them to lie down safely.
19 (Jer 3:14-15; 2Co 11:2) I will take you for My wife forever.
I will take you for My wife in righteousness and in justice,
in mercy and in compassion.
20 (Jer 31:33–34; Jn 17:3) I will take you for My wife in faithfulness,
and you will know the Lord.
21 (Zec 8:12) On that day I will answer,
declares the Lord;
I will answer the heavens,
and they will answer the earth.
22 (Hos 1:4; 1:11) The earth will answer the grain,
the wine, and the oil;
and they will answer Jezreel.
23 (Hos 1:6; Jer 31:27) Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth.
I will have mercy upon Lo-Ruhamah,
and I will say to Lo-Ammi, "You are My people,"
and they will say, "You are my God."
Hosea 3
Hosea Redeems His Wife
1 (Jer 3:20; Hos 1:2-3) Then the Lord said to me, "Go, again, love a woman
who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just as the Lord loves
the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love raisin cakes."
2 (Lev 27:16; Eze 45:11) So I purchased her for myself for fifteen shekels
of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley.
3 (Dt 21:13) Then I said to her, "You will remain with me many days.
You will not play the whore, and you will not belong to another man.
And also I will be with you."
4 (Jdg 17:5; Ge 31:19; Ex 28:4) For the children of Israel will remain
many days without a king and without a prince, without a sacrifice
and without a standing stone, and without an ephod and teraphim.
5 (Isa 2:2; Jer 30:9) Afterward the children of Israel will return
and seek the Lord their God and David their king.
They will come in fear to the Lord and to His goodness in the latter days.
Hosea 4
God Accuses Israel
1 (Jer 4:22; Mic 6:2) Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
for the Lord has a dispute
with the inhabitants of the land:
There is no truth or mercy,
and no knowledge of God in the land.
2 (Hos 6:9; 7:1) Swearing, lying, and killing,
and stealing and adultery
break out,
and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
3 (Zep 1:3; Jer 4:25) Therefore the land dries up,
and everyone who lives in it withers
with the beasts of the field
and the birds of the sky;
even the fish of the sea disappear.
4 (Dt 17:12; Hos 4:17) Yet let no one contend,
and let none reprove another,
for your people are like those
that contend with a priest.Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
5 (Jer 15:8; Hos 2:2) You will stumble in the day,
and the prophet also will stumble with you in the night,
and I will destroy your mother.
6 (Isa 5:13; Hos 4:1) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from being My priest.
And because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your children.
7 (Hos 13:6; 1Sa 2:30) As they increased, so they sinned against Me.
I will change Or like/at Adam. their glory
MT; Ancient Heb. tradition My glory. into shame.
8 (Isa 56:11; Mic 3:11) They feed upon the sin of My people,
and they are greedy for their iniquity.
9 (Isa 24:2; Jer 5:31) It will be like people, like priest.
I will punish them for their ways
and reward them for their deeds.
10 (Lev 26:26; Mic 6:14) They will eat, but not be satisfied;
they will play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
by devoting themselves to
11 (Pr 20:1; Isa 28:7; 5:12) harlotry;
wine and new wine
take away understanding.
The Idolatry of Israel
12 (Jer 2:27; Hos 5:4) My people seek counsel from their wood,
and their staff informs them.
For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
and they have played the whore in defiance of their God.
13 (Isa 1:29; Jer 3:6) They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains,
and burn incense upon the hills
under oak, poplar, and elm
because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the whore,
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
14 (Hos 4:1) I will not punish your daughters
when they play the whore,
nor your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery.
For the men separate themselves with whores,
and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes.
A people without understanding will come to ruin.
15 (Hos 9:15; 12:11) Though you play the whore, O Israel,
do not let Judah offend.
Do not come to Gilgal,
or go up to Beth Aven,
and do not swear, "As the Lord lives."
16 Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn.
Now will the Lord feed them
like a lamb in a wide pasture?
17 (Ps 81:12; Hos 4:4) Ephraim is joined to idols;
let him alone.
18 (Mic 3:11) Their drink has soured,
they have played the whore continually.
Her rulers dearly love shame.
19 (Isa 1:29; Jer 51:1) A wind has wrapped her in its wings,
and they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Hosea 5
Judgment Against Israel and Judah
1 (Hos 9:8; 6:9) Hear this, O priests!
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you,
because you have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread over Tabor,
2 (Hos 9:15; Isa 29:15) and a pit dug deep in Shittim;
but I will discipline them all.
3 (Am 3:2) I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from Me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore.
Israel is defiled.
4 (Hos 4:12) Their deeds do not allow them
to return to their God;
for a spirit of harlotry is in their midst,
and they do not know the Lord.
5 (Hos 7:10; Eze 23:31-35) The pride of Israel testifies against him.
Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity.
Judah also stumbles with them.
6 (Pr 1:28; Mic 6:6-7) With their flocks and their herds they will go
to seek the Lord,
but they will not find Him.
He has withdrawn from them.
7 (Hos 6:7; Isa 48:8) They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord,
for they have given birth to illegitimate children.
Now the New Moon will devour them
along with their portion.
War, Wrath, and Repentance
8 (Hos 9:9; 1Sa 15:34) Blow the horn in Gibeah,
and the trumpet in Ramah.
Cry aloud at Beth Aven,
"Look behind you, O Benjamin!"Or "After you, O Benjamin!"
9 (Isa 46:10; Hos 9:11-17) Ephraim will become desolate
in the day of punishment.
Among the tribes of Israel
I make known that which is sure.
10 (Dt 19:14; 27:17) The princes of Judah have become
like those who remove a boundary marker.
Upon them I will pour out
My wrath like water.
11 (Dt 28:33; Mic 6:16) Ephraim is oppressed
and broken in judgment,
because he eagerly followed after vanity.
12 (Isa 51:8; Job 13:28) Therefore I will be like pus to Ephraim
and like rottenness to the house of Judah.
13 (Hos 7:11; Jer 30:12) When Ephraim saw his sickness
and Judah saw his wound,
then Ephraim went to Assyria,
and sent to King Jareb.Or the great king.
Yet he cannot cure you
or heal your wound.
14 (Ps 7:2; Mic 5:8) For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, Myself, will tear and go away.
I will carry off, and no one will rescue.
15 (Jer 2:27; Lev 26:40-42) I will again return to My place
until they acknowledge their offense
and seek My face.
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.
Hosea 6
A Call to Repentance
1 (Dt 32:39; Jer 50:4) Come, let us return to the Lord,
for He has torn,
and He will heal us.
He has struck,
and He will bind us up.
2 (1Co 15:4) After two days He will revive us.
On the third day He will raise us up,
that we may live before Him.
3 (Ps 72:6; Job 29:23) Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His appearance is as sure as the dawn.
He will come to us like the rain;
like the spring rains He will water the earth.
Impenitence of Israel and Judah
4 (Hos 11:8; 13:3) What shall I do to you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do to you, O Judah?
Your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,
and like the early dew it goes away.
5 (Jer 23:29; 1:10) Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets.
I have killed them by the words of My mouth,
and My [Gk. Syr.: Heb. Your.] judgments go forth like light.
6 (Mt 9:13; 12:7) For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice,
and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 (Hos 5:7; 8:1) But like men [Or like/at Adam.]
they have transgressed the covenant.
There they dealt faithlessly with Me.
8 (Hos 12:11) Gilead is a city of evildoers,
polluted with blood.
9 (Hos 7:1; 5:1) As robbers lie in wait for someone,
so a company of priests
murder on the way to Shechem.
They commit a shameful deed.
10 (Hos 5:3; Jer 5:30-31) I have seen a horrible thing
in the house of Israel.
The harlotry of Ephraim is there;
Israel is defiled.
11 (Joel 3:13; Jer 51:33) Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,
when I restore the fortunes of My people.
Hosea 7
1 (Hos 4:2; 6:4) When I would heal Israel,
the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
and the wickedness of Samaria.
For they deal deceitfully;
the thief breaks in;
the robbers raid outside,
2 (Jer 2:19; 14:10) but they did not consider in their hearts
that I remember all their wickedness.
Now their own deeds surround them;
they are before My face.
Corrupt and Disloyal Politics
3 (Mic 7:3; Ro 1:32) They make the king glad with their wickedness,
and the princes with their lies.
4 (Jer 9:2) They are all adulterers,
like an oven heated by a baker,
who ceases stirring the fire
after kneading the dough until it is leavened.
5 (Isa 28:1) On the day of our king the princes made him sick
from the heat of wine.
He stretched out his hand with scorners.
6 For they are kindled [Gk. Syr.: Heb. brought near.] like an oven.
Their heart burns within them;Or while they lie in wait.
their anger smolders [Or Their baker sleeps.] all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 (2Ki 15:10; 15:14) They are all hot as an oven,
and they devour their judges.
All their kings have fallen,
and none of them calls to Me.
8 (Ps 106:35; Hos 5:13) Ephraim mixes himself with the people.
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 (Hos 8:7) Foreigners devour his strength,
but he does not know it.
Gray hairs are here and there upon him,
but he does not know it.
10 (Isa 9:13; Hos 5:5) The pride of Israel testifies against him,
but they do not return to the Lord their God,
nor seek Him for all this.
11 (Hos 5:13; 12:1) Ephraim is like a dove,
silly and without sense;
they call to Egypt,
they go to Assyria.
12 (Eze 12:13; Dt 28:15-68) Wherever they go, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky;
I will discipline them according to
the report to their congregation.
13 (Hos 9:12; 11:12) Woe to them,
for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
for they have rebelled against Me!
Though I would redeem them,
yet they speak lies against Me.
14 (Am 2:8; Jdg 9:27) They do not cry to Me with their heart
when they howl on their beds.
They gather together for grain and wine,
they rebel against Me.
15 (Na 1:9) Though I trained and strengthened their arms,
yet they devise mischief against Me.
16 (Ps 78:57; Hos 9:3) They return, but not to the Most High.
They are like a loose bow.
Their princes will fall by the sword
for the rage of their tongue.
This will be their derision
in the land of Egypt.
2) Our Daily Bread for 19 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/19/firm-refusal
entitled Firm Refusal
Daniel 6:10-23
10 (Ps 55:17; 95:6) Now when Daniel knew that the writing
was signed, he went into his house. And his windows being open
in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled on his knees
three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God,
as he had been doing previously.
11 (Ps 37:32–33; Da 6:6) Then these men assembled
and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
12 (Da 6:8; Est 1:19; Da 3:8-12) Then they came near
and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree:
"Have you not signed a decree, that every man who asks a petition
of any god or man within thirty days, save of you,
O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?"
The king answered and said, "The thing is true, according to the law
of the Medes and Persians, which may not be altered."
13 (Da 2:25; 3:12) Then they answered and said before the king,
"That Daniel, who is of the sons of the captivity of Judah,
does not regard you, O king, or the decree that you have signed,
but makes his petition three times a day."
14 (Mk 6:26) Then the king, when he heard these words, was sorely displeased
with himself and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him. And he labored
until sunset to deliver him.
15 (Est 8:8; Da 6:12) Then these men came by agreement to the king and said
to the king, "Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians
that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed."
16 (Job 5:19; Ps 37:39-40) Then the king commanded, and they brought
Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spoke
and said to Daniel, "Your God whom you serve continually,
He will deliver you."
Daniel Saved From the Lions
17 (La 3:53) A stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den,
and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords
so that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
18 (Est 6:1; Da 2:1) Then the king went to his palace and passed the night
fasting, and no instruments of music were brought before him. And his sleep
fled from him.
19Then the king arose very early in the morning
and went in haste to the den of lions.
20 (Da 3:17; 6:16; Ge 18:14) When he came to the den, he cried with a voice
full of sorrow to Daniel. And the king spoke and said to Daniel,
"Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you serve continually
been able to deliver you from the lions?"
21 (Da 2:4; 6:6T) hen Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever!
22 (Da 3:28; 2Ti 4:17) My God has sent His angel and has shut the lions'
mouths so that they have not hurt me, because innocence was found
in me before Him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm."
23 (1Ch 5:20; Da 3:25) Then the king was exceeding glad for him
and commanded that they take Daniel up out of the den.
So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of harm
was found on him, because he believed in his God.
When the Nazis drafted Franz Jägerstätter during World War II,
he completed military basic training but refused to take
the required pledge of personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler.
Authorities allowed Franz to return to his farm,
but they later summoned him to active duty.
After seeing Nazi ideology up close and learning of the Jewish genocide,
however, Jägerstätter decided his loyalty to God meant
he could never fight for the Nazis. He was arrested and sentenced
to execution, leaving behind his wife and three daughters.
Over the years, many believers in Jesus-under peril of death-have offered
a firm refusal when commanded to disobey God. The story of Daniel
is one such story. When a royal edict threatened that anyone
"who pray[ed] to any god or human being except [the king]†(Daniel 6:12)
would be thrown into the lions' den, Daniel discarded safety
and remained faithful. "Three times a day he got down on his knees
and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before" (v. 10).
The prophet would bend his knee to God-and only God-no matter the cost.
Sometimes, our choice is clear. Though everyone around us implores us
to go along with prevailing opinion-though our own reputation or well-being
may be at risk-may we never turn from our obedience to God.
Sometimes, even at great cost, all we can offer is a firm refusal.
By: Winn Collier
Reflect & Pray
Where are you sensing that obedience to God will require your firm refusal?
What might this refusal cost you? What will you gain?
God, I know my loyalty to You will at times mean saying no to others'
expectations or demands. It may cost me dearly. Give me courage.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 8 Guided by Grace Day 2 - God's purpose: The Image of Christ
Romans 8:28-29
28 (Gal 1:15; Ge 50:20) We know that all things work together for
good to those who love God,
to those who are called according to His purpose.
29 (Ro 11:2; 1Co 15:49; Eph 1:11) For those whom He foreknew,
He predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son,
so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.
A baby dies of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and the parents are
devastated, plagued with guilt, and Asking "Why?" A 17-year-old plunges
headfirst into a pond and to the surface a quadriplegic. A single mother
of 3, struck down by leukemia, has to release he children to foster homes.
And in all these cases, well-meaning Christians stand by and attempt to
comfort: "All thingswork together for good, you know," they say blithely,
"just trust God, and praise him for everything."
Such pat answers are often repeated because they do contain an element
of truth; they become "pat", meaningless, and superficial, when they are
used as a panacea for all ills, whether the cure fits or not.
The truth is, God does use everything for the benfit of his people -
even disaster and tragedy. Romans 8:28 says, "Ian all things God works ...."
God foes not cause human suffering. He is not the author of pain
and misery. But what the Enemy of our souls intends for
destructions, God can use for growth.
The key to understanding Romans 8:28 is Romans 8:29 . The Lord makes
clear what "his purpose" is: that we be "conformed to the
likeness of his Son." Everything that happens is not good,
but nothing is wasted in the economy of God. Even the sorrow,
misfortune, and calamity that strike all of us cam be used by the Spirit
to transform us into the image of Christ.
Application
a) Have I ever had experiences that made me doubt the
"all things work together for good"?
b) How does Romans 8:29 clarify Romans 8:28?
c) How can these verses help me deal with the struggles I have in my
own life?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Luke 16:10-12
10 (Mt 25:21; Lk 19:17) "He who is faithful in what is least is faithful
also in much. And he who is dishonest in the least is dishonest also
in much.
11 So if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth,
who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's,
who will give you that which is your own?"
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Reconciling Peace
Col 3:12-17
12 (Eph 4:2; Lk 1:78) So embrace, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,
a spirit of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, and longsuffering.
13 (Eph 4:32; Mk 11:25; Eph 4:2) Bear with one another
and forgive one another. If anyone has a quarrel against anyone,
even as Christ forgave you, so you must do.
14 (Eph 4:3; 1Co 13:1–13) And above all these things, embrace love,
which is the bond of perfection.
15 (Jn 14:27; Eph 5:20) Let the peace of God,
to which also you are called in one body,
rule in your hearts. And be thankful.
16 (Eph 5:19; Col 1:28; Ro 10:17 ) Let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing
one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 (1Co 10:31; Eph 5:20 ) And whatever you do in word or deed,
do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
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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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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
19th Day of the Month
a) Pray the the Holy Spirit will influence our governmental leaders
as they make vital decisions that shape Canadian Society
(
1 Tim 2:1-2
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2(Ezr 6:10)for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
)
b) Pray for the province of Prince Edward Island
I) Pray for the leaders of Prince Edward Island,
that God's Spirit would influence
then to act justly,
serve with integrity
and honour high moral standards. ( 1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
)
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses
beaming forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use
the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and Heed His Warnings
Pray to the Lord "God, I know my loyalty to You
will at times mean saying no to others'
expectations or demands. It may cost me dearly.
Give me courage."
Pray to the Lord to be loving and caring.
Pray to the Lord to be faithful even in the smallest of stewardships.
Pray to the Lord to be forgiving and understanding.
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray the the Holy Spirit will influence our governmental leaders
as they make vital decisions that shape Society
Pray that persecuted Christians in Mauritania will perservere
and remember the hope they have in Christ.
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 199, 18 July 2021
Today at htps://www.calvarycommmunity.ca/
We focused on Psalms 8
Psalms 8
For the Music Director. According to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, our Lord,
how excellent is Your name in all the earth!
You have set Your glory
above the heavens.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2, Matt 21:15-16) Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength
because of Your enemies,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) When I consider Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You have established,
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) what is man that You are mindful of him,
and the son of man that You attend to him?
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) You have given him dominion
over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) the birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea,
and whatever travels the paths of the seas.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) O Lord, our Lord,
how excellent is Your name in all the earth!
2 Kings 18; 2 Chron 29-31 ; Psalms 48
2 Kings 18
Hezekiah, King of Judah
2Ch 29:1-2; 31:1, 20-21; 2Ki 17:3-7
1 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel,
Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, became king.
2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king,
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi
daughter of Zechariah.
3 (2Ki 20:3) He did what was right in the sight of the Lord,
according to everything that David his father had done.
4 (2Ch 31:1; Nu 21:8-9) He removed the high places, broke down the sacred
pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and crushed the bronze serpent that Moses
had made, for until those days the children of Israel had made offerings to it.
They called it Nehushtan.
5 (2Ki 19:10; 23:25) He trusted in the Lord God of Israel. Afterwards,
there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah
or among those who were before him.
6 (Dt 10:20; Jos 23:8) He clung to the Lord. He did not depart from
following him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord Âcommanded Moses.
7 (1Sa 18:14; 2Ki 16:7; Ge 39:2-3) The Lord was with him. Wherever he went,
he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
8 (2Ki 17:9; Isa 14:29) He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza
and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.
9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea
son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up
against Samaria and besieged it.
10 He seized it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah,
that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 (1Ch 5:26; 2Ki 17:6) Then the king of Assyria exiled Israel to Assyria
and put them in Halah and in Habor by the River of Gozan
and in the cities of the Medes,
12 because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God,
but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the Lord
commanded, and would not obey or do them.
Sennacherib Invades Judah
Isa 36:1-22; 2Ch 32:9-19
13 (Isa 36:1-22) In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah
and captured them.
14 (2Ki 18:7) Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria
at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; turn away from me. I will bear
whatever you put on me." So the king of Assyria required
of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents
[About 11 tons, or 10 metric tons.] of silver and thirty talents
[About 1 ton, or 1 metric ton.] of gold.
15 (2Ki 16:8; 12:18) So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found
in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house.
16 At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple
of the Lord and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah
had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 (2Ki 20:20; Isa 7:3) Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan,
[Possibly Commander in Chief.] the Rabsaris,[Possibly Chief of Staff.]
and the Rabshakeh [Possibly Commanding General.] from Lachish
to King Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem.
So they went up and came to Jerusalem.
When they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool,
which is on the highway of the Fuller's Field.
18 (2Ki 19:2) Then they called to the king, and Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph,
the recorder, came out to them.
19 (Isa 36:4) Then the Rabshakeh said to them, "Speak to Hezekiah:
"Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria:
What is the basis of your confidence?
20 You speak empty words concerning counsel and strength for the war.
Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
21 (Isa 30:7; Eze 29:6-7) Now, look! You trust in the staff of this bruised
reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will enter his hand
and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
22 (2Ch 31:1) But if you say to me, 'We trust in the Lord our God,'
is it not He, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed,
saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship
before this altar in Jerusalem'?
23 "Now, make a wager with my lord king of Assyria. I will give you
two thousand horses if you are able to set riders on them.
24 (Isa 10:8) How can you turn away one official of the least
of my master's servants and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
25 (2Ki 19:6) Have I come up apart from the will of the Lord
against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me,
Go up against this land and destroy it."
26 (Ezr 4:7; Da 2:4) Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah
said to the Rabshakeh, "Speak to your servants in Aramaic,
for we understand it. Do not speak with us in the language of Judah
in earshot of the people who are on the wall."
27 But the Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to speak
these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall,
who are about to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"
28 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called with a loud voice in the language
of Judah, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
29 (2Ch 32:15) Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you,
for he is not able to deliver you from my hand.
30 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying,
The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given
into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
31 (1Ki 4:25; 4:20) "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king
of Assyria: 'Submit to me; come out to me, so that every man may eat
from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
32 (Dt 8:7-9; Ex 3:8) until I come and take you to a land like your own land,
a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil
and honey, that you may live and not die.'
"Do not listen to Hezekiah when he leads you astray saying,
The Lord will deliver us.
33 (Isa 10:10-11) Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered
its land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 (Isa 10:9) Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad?
Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?
Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
35 (Da 3:15) Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their land
out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"
36 But the people were silent and answered him not a word,
for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."
37 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe,
and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes
torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
2 Chronicles 29
Hezekiah, King of Judah
2Ki 18:2-3
1 (2Ki 18:1-3; 1Ch 3:13) Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began
to reign, and he was king in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years.
The name of his mother was Abijah [Or Abi in 2Ki 18:2.]
the daughter of Zechariah.
2And he did what was correct in the eyes of the Lord
just as his father David had done.
Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple
3 (2Ch 28:24; 29:7) And in the first year and first month of his reign
he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and restored them.
4 He then brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square
on the eastern side
5 (2Ch 35:6; 1Ch 15:12) and said to them, "Listen to me, Levites.
Consecrate yourselves and consecrate the house of the Lord God
of your fathers. And bring out the detestable things
from the holy sanctuary.
6 (Eze 8:16; Jer 2:27) For our fathers have acted unfaithfully
and have done what is evil in the eyes of the Lord our God,
and they have abandoned Him. They have turned their face
from the sanctuary of the Lord and have turned their back.
7 (2Ch 28:24) They also shut the doors of the vestibule
and have extinguished the lamps, nor have they burned incense
or burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel.
8 (Jer 25:9; 25:18) Therefore the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah
and Jerusalem for a terror, horror, and scorn as you all can see
with your own eyes.
9 (2Ch 28:17; 28:5-8) Observe, our fathers have fallen by the sword,
and now our sons, daughters, and wives are in captivity for all this.
10 (2Ch 23:16) Now it is in my heart to make a covenant
with the Lord God of Israel so that His burning anger might turn away from us.
11 My people, do not now be negligent for the Lord has chosen you all
to stand in His presence, to serve Him, and to be ministers
and make sacrifices for Him."
12 Then the Levites arose:
from the Kohathites,
Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;
from the Merarites,
Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;
from the Gershonites,
Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;
13 (1Ch 6:39; 15:8) from the descendants of Elizaphan,
Shimri and Jeiel;
from the descendants of Asaph,
Zechariah and Mattaniah;
14 (1Ch 6:33) from the descendants of Heman,
Jehiel and Shimei;
from the descendants of Jeduthun,
Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15 (2Ch 30:12; 1Ch 23:28) So they gathered their brothers together
and consecrated themselves and entered in as the king commanded
by the words of the Lord in order to cleanse the house of the Lord.
16 (2Ch 15:16) Then the priests came into the inner part of the house
of the Lord to cleanse it, and they removed everything that they found
that was unclean in the main hall of the temple of the Lord to the court.
And the Levites took those things and brought them out to the Kidron Valley.
17 They began to consecrate themselves on the first day of the first month,
and on the eighth day of the month they entered the vestibule of the Lord.
They consecrated the house of the Lord for eight days. Then on the 16th day
of the first month they completed the task.
18 Then they came toward Hezekiah the king and said, "We have cleaned
the entire house of the Lord, the altar of burnt offerings and all its utensils,
and the table for showbread and all its utensils.
19 (2Ch 28:24) All the vessels that King Ahaz discarded from use
during his reign in his treachery we have prepared and consecrated.
They are before the altar of the Lord."
Hezekiah Restores Temple Worship
20 So King Hezekiah got up early and gathered the officials of the city
and went up to the house of the Lord.
21 (Lev 4:3-14) And he brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs,
and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, sanctuary,
and Judah. Then he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer
them up on the altar of the Lord.
22 (Lev 4:18; 8:19) So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests
took their blood and sprinkled it on the altar and then slaughtered
the rams and sprinkled their blood on the altar. They did the same
for the lambs.
23 (Lev 4:15) And they brought the male goats for a sin offering
before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on the goats.
24 And the priests slaughtered them and purified the altar with their blood
to provide atoning reconciliation for all Israel because the king said
that the burnt offering and sin offering would be for all Israel.
25 (2Ch 8:14; 2Sa 24:11) And he set the Levites at the house of the Lord
with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the commandment of David,
and Gad the seer of the king, and Nathan the prophet.
For the commandment came from the Lord through His prophets.
26 (1Ch 23:5; 15:24) So the Levites stood with the instruments of David
and the priests with the trumpets.
27 (2Ch 23:18) Then Hezekiah gave the command to offer the burnt offering
on the altar. When they started the burnt offering, the song of the Lord began
also, with the trumpets and the instruments of David, king of Israel.
28 The entire assembly worshipped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters
sounded. All of this took place until the burnt offering was finished.
29 (2Ch 20:18) When the burnt offering was finished, the king and all those
with him bowed down and worshipped.
30 Then Hezekiah the king and the officials ordered the Levites
to praise the Lord with the words of David and Asaph the seer.
So they praised with gladness and bowed down to worship.
31 (2Ch 13:9; Ex 35:22) Then Hezekiah responded, "Now you have dedicated
yourselves to the Lord. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings
to the house of the Lord." So the assembly brought sacrifices
and thank offerings, and all who had a willing heart brought burnt offerings.
32 The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was seventy
bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs;
all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.
33 The consecrated animals were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.
34 (2Ch 30:3; 35:11) However there were too few priests, and they were
not able to skin the burnt offerings. But their brothers the Levites
helped them until the work was finished and more priests consecrated
themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to consecrate
themselves than the priests.
35 (Nu 15:5-10; Ex 29:13) Also burnt offerings were in abundance with the fat
of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for the burnt offerings.
So the service of the house of the Lord was set in order.
36 Then Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced that God had prepared the people,
since the events happened suddenly.
2 Chronicles 30
Hezekiah Celebrates the Passover
1 And Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah. He even wrote letters
to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they come to the house of the Lord
in Jerusalem to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.
2 (Nu 9:10-11) The king counseled with his officials and all the assembly
in Jerusalem to have the Passover in the second month.
3 (2Ch 29:34; Ex 12:6) For they were not able to have it at the appropriate
time of the first month because a sufficient amount of priests had not
consecrated themselves, nor had the people assembled yet in Jerusalem.
4 And this matter was pleasing in the eyes of the king and all the assembly.
5 (Jdg 20:1) So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel,
from Beersheba to Dan, that they come to keep the Passover to the Lord God
of Israel in Jerusalem, for the multitude of people did not do
as it was written.
6 (Est 8:14; Jer 51:31) So couriers ran throughout all Israel and Judah
with a letter from the hand of the king and his officials
as a command from the king:
"Sons of Israel, return to the Lord of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel
that He might turn to the remnant who has escaped from the king of Assyria.
7 (2Ch 29:8) Do not act like your fathers and brothers who were faithless
before the Lord God of their fathers, and He appointed them for horror,
as you observe.
8 (Ex 32:9; 2Ch 29:10) So now do not harden your necks as your fathers,
but give yourselves to the Lord and come to the sanctuary
that He has consecrated permanently. Serve the Lord your God so that
His burning anger might turn away from you all.
9 (Ex 34:6-7; Ps 106:46) Because if you return to the Lord, your brothers
and children will find compassion before those who have taken them captive,
in order to return you to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious
and compassionate. He will not turn His face from you
if you all return to Him."
10 (2Ch 36:16; 30:6) So the couriers ran from city to city in the land
of Ephraim and Manasseh and up to Zebulun, but the people laughed
at them and mocked them.
11 (2Ch 30:18; 30:21) However some men from Asher, Manasseh,
and Zebulun humbled themselves and journeyed to Jerusalem.
12 (Php 2:13; Jer 32:39) And even in Judah the hand of God was on them
to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king
and officials by the word of the Lord.
13 And many people assembled in Jerusalem to have
the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month.
There was a very large assembly.
14 (2Ch 28:24; 2Sa 15:23) They went out and removed the altars
that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars
and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
15 (2Ch 29:34) They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day
of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed,
and they consecrated themselves and brought in burnt offerings
to the house of the Lord.
16 (Dt 33:1; 2Ch 35:15) They stood at their places according
to the Law of Moses, the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood
they received from the hands of the Levites.
17 (2Ch 29:34) For there were many in the assembly
who had consecrated themselves, so the Levites slaughtered
the Passover lamb for those who were not clean in order to consecrate
the people to the Lord.
18 For a multitude of the people-many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar,
and Zebulun-had not purified themselves. For they ate of the Passover
contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed over them saying,
"The Lord is good, and may He pardon
19 (2Ch 19:3) everyone who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord God
of his fathers, but is not pure according the rules of the holy sanctuary."
20 So the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
21 (Ex 12:15; 13:6) Then the sons of Israel present in Jerusalem kept
the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy,
and the Levites and priests praised the Lord every day,
singing with loud instruments to the Lord.
22 (2Ch 32:6; Ne 9:3) Then Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites
who taught the good knowledge of the Lord. So they ate for the appointed
seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God
of their fathers.
23 (1Ki 8:65; 2Ch 7:9) Then the whole assembly counseled to have the feast
for another seven days, so they had seven more days of gladness.
24 (2Ch 29:34; 35:7-8) For Hezekiah king of Judah lifted up for the assembly
one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep. And the officials offered up
for the assembly one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep.
And a multitude of priests consecrated themselves.
25 (2Ch 30:11; 30:18) So all the assembly of Judah and the priests
and Levites and all the assembly who came from Israel rejoiced,
even the sojourners who came from the land of Israel
and those who resided in Judah.
26 (2Ch 7:8-10) And there was a great rejoicing in Jerusalem,
for since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel
there had not been anything like this.
27 (Dt 26:15; Ps 68:5) Then the priests and Levites went out
and blessed the people, and their voices were heard.
And their prayers came up to His holy habitation in the heavens.
2 Chronicles 31
1 (2Ki 18:4; 2Ch 32:12) And when this celebration was finished,
all of Israel that was present went out to the cities of Judah
and smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles
and tore down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah
and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until everything
was destroyed. Then all Israel returned to their cities,
each man to his own possession.
Temple Contributions
2Ki 18:5-7
2 (1Ch 24:1) And Hezekiah set up the divisions of the priests
and Levites according to their divisions, each man as he worked
among the priests and Levites for burnt and fellowship offerings,
to serve, give thanks, and offer praise at the gates of the camp of the Lord.
3 (2Ch 35:7; Eze 45:17) And the portion of the king that came from his own
possessions was for burnt offerings, those given in the morning and evening,
and those given for Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts,
as written in the Law of the Lord.
4 (Mal 2:7; Nu 18:8-21) And he ordered those people living in Jerusalem
to give a portion for the priests and Levites, in order for them to devote
themselves to the Law of the Lord.
5 (Ne 13:12; Nu 18:12) And when the command spread, the sons of Israel
gave generously the first fruits of grain, wine, oil, honey,
and all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundance
a tenth portion of everything.
6 (Lev 27:30; Dt 14:28) And the sons of Israel and Judah
and all who dwelled in the cities of Judah also brought in a tenth portion
of cattle and sheep, and a tenth portion of the consecrated items
that were to the Lord their God, and brought them in and set them
in great piles.
7 In the third month they began to assign the piles of contribution,
and they finished in the seventh month.
8 When Hezekiah and the officials saw the contribution piles,
they blessed the Lord and His people Israel.
9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites
regarding the contribution piles.
10 (Mal 3:10; 1Ch 6:8) Azariah the head priest from the house of Zadok
said, "Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord,
there has been plenty of food and a large amount left over.
For the Lord has blessed His people, and this great abundance is left over."
11 Then Hezekiah ordered them to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord,
and they did this.
12 (2Ch 35:9) They reliably brought in the contributions, tenth portions,
and consecrated items. The leader over them was Konaniah the Levite,
and Shimei his brother was second to him.
13 And Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah,
Mahath, and Benaiah were supervisors under Konaniah and Shimei his brother
by the appointment of Hezekiah the king
and Azariah the leader of the house of God.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite was gatekeeper for the East Gate
and over the voluntary offerings to God, to designate the contributions
of the Lord and most holy offerings.
15 (Jos 21:9-19) Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, SheÂmaiah, Amariah,
and Shekaniah reliably assisted him in the cities of the priests
to distribute the portions to their brothers by division,
both great and small.
16 (Ezr 3:4) Besides those males registered from three years old and above,
they distributed to all who entered into the house of the Lord his daily
portion, for their services according to their duties and their divisions.
17 (1Ch 23:24; 23:27) The registration of the priests was according
to the house of their fathers and the Levites from twenty years and above,
according to their duties and their divisions.
18 They were registered with all their little children, wives, sons,
and daughters for the entire assembly for they consecrated
themselves in faithfulness.
19 (2Ch 31:12-15; Lev 25:34) Also for the sons of Aaron, the priests,
who were in the fields of common land of their cities,
there were men in each city who were designated by name to allocate
portions to every male among the priests and to everyone
who was registered by genealogy among the Levites.
20 (2Ki 20:3; 22:2) Hezekiah did this throughout all Judah,
and he did what was good and just and faithful before the Lord his God.
21 And in every deed that he undertook in the service of the house of God
and with the law and commandment to seek out his God,
he did this with all his heart, and he found success.
Psalms 48
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
1 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
in the city of our God, in His holy mountain.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) Beautiful in elevation,
the joy of the whole earth,
is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north,
the city of the great King.
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) God is known in her citadels
as a refuge.
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) For the kings were assembled,
they passed by together.
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) They saw it, and so they were astounded;
they were alarmed, they hurried away.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) Trembling seized them there,
and pain like a woman in labor;
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) You break the ships of Tarshish
with an east wind.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) As we have heard,
so have we seen
in the city of the Lord of Hosts,
in the city of our God;
God will establish it forever. Selah
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) We have thought of Your lovingkindness, O God,
in the midst of Your temple.
10 (Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17) According to Your name, O God,
so is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
11 (Ps 42:5; 43:5) May Mount Zion rejoice,
may the daughters of Judah be glad,
because of Your judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her;
count her towers;
13 mark well her bulwarks;
consider her citadels;
that you may tell it to the generation following.
14 For this God is our God forever and ever;
He will be our guide even to death.
2) Our Daily Bread for 18 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/18/come-back-home
entitled God's Restoring Ways
Hosea 14
Hosea 14
A Plea for Repentance
1 (Hos 6:1; 12:6) Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 (Heb 13:15; Ps 69:30-31) Take words with you
and return to the Lord.
Say to Him,
“Take away all iniquity,
and accept that which is good;
and we will offer the fruit [Gk. Syr.; Heb. bulls.] of our lips!
3 (Ps 10:14; 33:17) Assyria will not save us,
we will not ride on horses.
We will no longer say, 'Our God,'
to the work of our hands.
In You the orphan finds mercy."
4 (Zep 3:17; Isa 12:1) I will heal their backsliding;
I will love them freely,
for My anger has turned away from him.
5 (Isa 35:2; Job 29:19) I will be like the dew to Israel;
he shall grow like the lily
and shall strike his roots
like Lebanon.
6 (Ps 52:8) His branches will spread out,
and his beauty shall be like the olive tree,
and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.
7 (Ps 91:1) Those that dwell under his shadow will return,
they will flourish like the grain
and grow as a vine.
Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
8 (Job 34:32; Isa 41:19) O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after him.
I am like a green fir tree;
your fruit is found in Me.
9 (Ps 107:43; Pr 10:29) Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
whoever prudent, let him know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the just will walk in them;
but the transgressors stumble in them.
One of the most moving songs in the musical The Greatest Showman is
"From Now On." Sung after the main character comes to some painful
self-realizations about the ways he's wounded family and friends,
the song celebrates the joy of coming back home and finding that
what we already have is more than enough.
The book of Hosea concludes with a similar tone-one of breathless joy
and gratitude at the restoration God makes possible for those
who return to Him. Much of the book, which compares the relationship
between God and His people to a relationship with an unfaithful spouse,
grieves Israel's failures to love Him and live for Him.
But in chapter 14, Hosea lifts up the promise of God's boundless love,
grace, and restoration-freely available to those who return to Him
heartbroken over the ways they've abandoned Him (vv. 1-3).
"I will heal their waywardness," God promises, "and love them freely" (v. 4).
And what had seemed broken beyond repair will once more find wholeness
and abundance, as God's grace, like dew, causes His people to
"blossom like a lily" and "flourish like the grain" (vv. 5–7).
When we've hurt others or taken for granted God's goodness in our life,
it's easy to assume we've forever marred the good gifts we've been given.
But when we humbly turn to Him, we find His love is always
reaching to embrace and restore.
By: Monica La Rose
Reflect & Pray
When have you experienced or witnessed restoration beyond what seemed
possible? In what areas of your life do you need reassurance of God's promise
to heal and restore?
Loving God and Creator of Life, teach me to trust in Your goodness-not just
when I'm good, but all the time.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 8 Guided by Grace Day 1 A circle of Light
John 8:12
12 (Jn 12:35; Job 33:28; Isa 49:6)Again, Jesus spoke to them, saying,
"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me
shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life."
When Judy Garland stepped onstage, she filled the spotlight. Nothing was
illuminated but her face, and as she sang, her listeners had a sense of being
transported beyond themselves into the meaning of her song. The focus of
reality, at that moment, was "Judy", and everything else faded into the dim
recesses of the shadowed room. The spotlight brought her into sharp focus
as the center of attention, and all around her was darkness.
When the scriptures speaks of Jesus as "the light," the image is not
of thousands of blazing bulbes lighting up a football field for a night game.
Rather, he is like a hand-help lamp that throws a circle of light in the
immediate vicinity. such a lamp lights the path that a traveler will walk,
but lights it only one step at a time.
Jesus is the center of that circle of light. As we follow him, we share the
light, but he is always at center. Jesus Christ is the focal point,
and everything else fades into dim gray by comparison.
If we are to keep our lives illuminated, to have his light falling upon the
road we walk, we must stay close to him. Jesus does not hand the lamp
to us and suggest that we go the way he wants; he , the Light, leads,
and if we want to stay in the light, we follow.
Application
a) Have I ever tried to go my own way, apart frm the Light?
What was the result?
b) How can this verse help me remember the importance of staying close
to Jesus?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Matthew 6:19-21
Treasures in Heaven
Lk 12:33–34
19 (Heb 13:5; Lk 12:21) "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
20 (Lk 12:33; Mt 19:21) But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust destroy
and where thieves do not break in nor steal,
21 (Lk 12:34) for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Eternal Faithfulness
2 Tim 2:8-13
8 (Mt 1:1; Ro 2:16) Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead,
descended from David, according to my gospel,
9 (Php 1:7; 2Ti 1:8) in which I suffer trouble like a criminal,
even with chains. But the word of God is not bound.
10 (Col 1:24; 2Co 1:6; 4:17) Therefore I endure all things
for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain
the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 (Ro 6:8; 1Th 5:10) This is a faithful saying:
If we die with Him,
we shall also live with Him.
12 (Mt 10:33; Ro 8:17 ) If we endure,
we shall also reign with Him.
If we deny Him,
He also will deny us.
13 (Nu 23:19; Ro 3:3 )If we are faithless,
He remains faithful;
He cannot deny Himself.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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
18th Day of the Month
a) Pray that pastors will experience spiritual, emotional and physical
refreshing for the presence of the Lord
( Jer 31:25
25 For I satiate the weary souls and I replenish every languishing soul.
)
b) Pray that the Lord will protect and deliver our nation from
danger and adversity
( Ps 34:7
7 The angel of the Lord camps around those who fear Him,
and delivers them.
)
Conclusion:
Praise the Lord for He is Majesty
Pray to the Lord for godly leaders to lead your nation!
Pray to the Lord "Loving God and Creator of Life,
teach me to trust in Your goodness - not just
when I'm good, but all the time."
Pray to the Lord to stay close to Him as he is the Light.
Pray to the Lord to store treasure in Heaven
Pray to the Lord during persecution not to deny Him.
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray that pastors will experience spiritual, emotional and physical
refreshing for the presence of the Lord.
Pray that the Lord will protect and deliver our nation from
danger and adversity
Pray for internally displaced Christians in Burkina Faso,
who have suffered tremendous loss for the sake of Christ.
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 198, 17 July 2021
Isaiah 23-27
Isaiah 23
An Oracle Concerning Tyre
1 (Joel 3:4–8; Ge 10:4) The oracle of Tyre.
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for Tyre is laid waste
so that there is no house or harbor;
from the land of Cyprus
it is reported to them.
2 (Isa 47:5) Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,
you merchants of Sidon;
your messengers passed over the sea,
3 (1Ch 13:5; Jer 2:18) and were on many waters;
the grain of the Nile,
the harvest of the RiverNile River. was her revenue;
and she was the market of nations.
4 Be ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea has spoken,
even the stronghold of the sea, saying,
"I have not travailed nor brought forth children;
neither have I brought up young men nor raised virgins."
5 (Ex 15:14-16; Jos 2:9-11) When the report reaches Egypt,
they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6 (Isa 23:12) Pass over to Tarshish;
wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.
7 (Isa 22:2) Is this your joyous city,
whose origin is from ancient days,
whose feet used to carry her
to sojourn in distant locations?
8 Who has planned this against Tyre,
the crowning city,
whose merchants are princes,
whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
9 (Isa 13:11; Job 40:11-12) The Lord of Hosts has purposed it,
to stain the pride of all glory
and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
10 Pass through your land as the Nile,
O daughter of Tarshish;
there is no more restraint.
11 (Zec 9:3-4; Ex 14:21) He stretched out His hand over the sea,
He shook the kingdoms;
the Lord has given a command against the merchant city,
to destroy its strongholds.
12 (Rev 18:22; Isa 23:1-2) He said: You shall rejoice no more,
O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise, pass over to Cyprus;
there also you shall have no rest.
13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans;
this was a people who was not;
Assyria founded it
for those who dwell in the wilderness.
They set up their siege towers,
they stripped its palaces,
and brought it to ruin.
14 (Isa 23:1) Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your stronghold is laid waste.
15 (Jer 25:22) In that day Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years,
according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years
Tyre shall sing as a harlot:
16 Take your harp, go about the city,
O forgotten harlot;
make sweet melody, sing many songs,
that you may be remembered.
17 (Na 3:4) At the end of seventy years, the Lord will punish Tyre.
Then she shall turn to her harlot's wages and shall commit fornication
with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
18 (Ps 72:10) Her merchandise and her harlot's wages shall be set apart
to the Lord. It shall not be treasured nor stored up, for her merchandise
shall be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently,
and for choice clothing.
Isaiah 24
Judgment on the Earth
1 Now the Lord makes the earth empty,
and makes it waste,
and turns it upside down,
and scatters its inhabitants abroad.
2 (Hos 4:9; Eze 7:12-13) It shall be:
as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the servant, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 (Isa 6:11; 24:1) The land shall be utterly emptied,
and utterly despoiled,
for the Lord has spoken this word.
4 (Isa 33:9; Hos 4:3) The earth mourns and fades away,
the world languishes and fades away,
the haughty people of the earth languish.
5 The earth also is defiled by its inhabitants
because they have transgressed the laws,
violated the ordinances,
broken the everlasting covenant.
6 (Zec 5:3-4 ) Therefore, the curse devours the earth,
and those who dwell in it are held guilty.
Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
and few men are left.
7 (Isa 16:10; 16:8) The new wine fails, the vine languishes,
all the merry-hearted sigh.
8 (Hos 2:11; Jer 7:34) The joy of tambourines ceases,
the noise of those who rejoice ends,
the joy of the harp ceases.
9 (Ecc 9:7; Isa 5:22) They shall not drink wine with song;
strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down;
every house is shut up so that no one may come in.
11 There is an outcry for wine in the streets,
all joy is turned to gloom,
the joyfulness of the earth is gone.
12 Desolation is left in the city,
and the gate is battered to destruction.
13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth
among the peoples,
as the shaking of an olive tree,
and as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.
14 (Isa 54:1) They lift up their voices; they sing for the majesty of the Lord;
they cry aloud from the west.
15 (Mal 1:11; Isa 42:4) Therefore glorify the Lord in the east,
even the name of the Lord God of Israel
in the coastlands of the sea.
16 (Isa 21:2; 33:1) From the uttermost part of the earth we hear songs,
that is, "Glory to the Righteous One."
But I say, Woe to me! Woe to me!
Alas for me!
The treacherous deal treacherously;
indeed, the treacherous deal very treacherously.
17 (Jer 48:43-44) Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you,
O inhabitant of the earth.
18 (Ge 7:11; Ps 18:7) He who flees from the report of disaster
shall fall into the pit,
and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit
shall be taken in the snare.
For the windows from on high are open,
and the foundations of the earth shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down,
the earth is split through,
the earth is shaken violently.
20 (Isa 19:14; 29:9) The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard,
and it totters like a shack,
and its transgression is heavy upon it,
and it shall fall, never to rise again.
21 (Ps 76:12; Isa 10:12) In that day the Lord shall punish
the host of heaven on high
and the kings of the earth on the earth.
22 (Zec 9:11) They shall be gathered together,
as prisoners are gathered in the dungeon,
and shall be shut up in the prison,
and after many days they shall be punished.
23 (Isa 13:10; 60:19) Then the moon shall be humiliated and the sun ashamed,
when the Lord of Hosts reigns
in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
and His glory shall be before His elders.
Isaiah 25
Praise to the Lord
1 (Ex 15:2; Ps 98:1) O Lord, You are my God.
I will exalt You, I will praise Your name,
for You have done wonderful things;
Your plans formed of old
are faithfulness and truth.
2 (Isa 17:1; 13:22) For You have made a city into a heap,
a fortified city into a ruin;
a palace of strangers is a city no longer;
it shall never be built.
3 Therefore a strong people shall glorify You;
cities of ruthless nations shall fear You.
4 (Isa 14:32; 32:2) For You have been a defense to the poor,
a defense to the needy in his distress,
a refuge from the storm,
a shadow from the heat;
for the breath of the ruthless ones
is as a storm against the wall.
5 You bring down the noise of strangers,
as heat in drought;
as the heat by the shadow of a cloud,
the song of the ruthless ones shall be brought low.
6 (Isa 2:2-3; Ps 63:5) In this mountain the Lord of Hosts shall prepare
for all people a lavish feast,
a feast of aged wines,
choice pieces full of marrow, and refined, aged wines.
7 (Eph 4:18) He will destroy in this mountain
the covering which is over all peoples,
even the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 (Rev 21:4; Hos 13:14; 1Co 15:54) He will swallow up death for all time,
and the Lord God will wipe away tears
from all faces;
and the reproach of His people He shall take away
from all the earth,
for the Lord has spoken it.
9 (Ps 20:5; Ge 49:18) It shall be said in that day:
Look, this is our God
for whom we have waited that He might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
10 (Isa 25:6; Jer 48:2) For in this mountain the hand of the Lord shall rest,
and Moab shall be trodden down in his place
as straw is trodden down in the water for the manure pile.
11 (Isa 5:25; 14:26) He shall spread out his hands in the midst of it,
as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
yet the Lord shall bring down his pride
together with the trickery of his hands.
12 (Isa 26:5) The unassailable fortresses of your walls
He shall bring down, lay low,
and bring to the ground,
even to the dust.
Isaiah 26
A Song of Victory
1 (Isa 60:18; 12:1) In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city;
He appoints walls
and bulwarks for security.
2 (Ps 118:20; Isa 60:11) Open the gates,
that the righteous nation may enter,
the one who remains faithful.
3 You will keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on You,
because he trusts in You.
4 (Isa 12:2; 50:10) Trust in the Lord forever,
for in God the Lord we have an everlasting rock.
5 (Job 40:11-13) For He brings down those who dwell on high,
the lofty city; He lays it low; He lays it low,
even to the ground;
He brings it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down,
even the feet of the poor
and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the righteous is smooth;
O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.
8 In the way of Your judgments, O Lord,
we have waited for You eagerly;
the desire of our souls is Your name,
even Your memory.
9 (Ps 63:1; Mt 6:33 ) With my soul I have desired You in the night;
my spirit within me seeks You diligently;
for when Your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10 (Hos 11:7; Jn 5:37-38) Though favor is shown to the wicked,
yet he will not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals unjustly
and does not perceive the majesty of the Lord.
11 (Isa 5:24; Mic 5:9) Lord, Your hand is lifted up,
but they do not see it.
They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame;
the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.
12 Lord, You will ordain peace for us,
for You also have done all our works for us.
13 (Isa 2:8) O Lord our God, other lords besides You have had dominion over us,
but through You alone we confess Your name.
14 (Isa 8:19) The dead shall not live;
the departed spirits shall not rise.
Therefore, You have punished and destroyed them
and made all remembrance of them to perish.
15 (Isa 9:3) You have increased the nation, O Lord,
You have increased the nation;
You are glorified;
You have extended all the borders of the land.
16 (Hos 5:15) Lord, in trouble they have sought You;
they poured out a prayer
when Your chastening was on them.
17 (Isa 13:8; Jn 16:21) Like a woman with child,
who is in pain and cries out in her pangs
when she draws near the time of her delivery,
so have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
18 (Ps 17:14) We have been with child, we have been in pain,
we have, as it were, brought forth wind;
we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
nor were the inhabitants of the world born.
19 (Isa 25:8; Da 12:2) Your dead shall live,
their corpses shall arise.
Awake and sing,
you who dwell in dust,
for your dew is as the dew of the dawn,
and the earth shall give birth to the departed spirits.
20 (Ps 30:5; 91:4) Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide for a little while
until the indignation is over.
21 (Job 16:18) For the Lord comes out of His place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
the earth also shall disclose her bloodshed
and shall cover her slain no more.
Isaiah 27
The Deliverance of Israel
1 (Ps 104:26; Isa 51:9) In that day
the Lord with His fierce and great
and strong sword shall punish
Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
and He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 (Jer 2:21) In that day:
Sing of it! A vineyard of red wine.
3 (Isa 58:11; 1Sa 2:9) I, the Lord, am its keeper;
I water it every moment;
lest anyone damage it,
I protect it night and day.
4 (Isa 10:17; Mt 3:12) I have no fury.
Should someone give Me briers and thorns in battle,
then I would step on them,
I would burn them fully.
5 (Job 22:21; Isa 25:4) Or let him rely on My strength;
let him make peace with Me;
let him make peace with Me.
6 (Isa 37:31; Hos 14:5-6) In the days to come Jacob shall take root;
Israel shall blossom and bud
and shall fill the whole world with fruit.
7 (Isa 37:36-38) Has He struck them,
as He struck those who struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain,
have they been slain?
8 (Jer 4:11; 10:24) You fought with them by banishing them,
by driving them away.
He has expelled them
on the day of the east wind with His fierce wind.
9 (Isa 17:8; 48:10) Through this, therefore,
the iniquity of Jacob shall be forgiven,
and this will be the full price of the removal of his sin:
when he makes all the stones of the altar
as chalkstones that are pulverized,
when the groves and incense altars
shall not stand.
10 (Isa 17:2; 17:9) For the fortified city shall be desolate,
a homestead forlorn and forsaken like a wilderness;
there the calf shall graze,
and there it shall lie down
and eat its branches.
11 (Isa 1:3; 43:1) When its boughs are withered, they are broken off;
the women come and make a fire with them,
for they are not a people of understanding;
therefore, their Maker will not have mercy on them,
and their Creator will show them no grace.
12 (Ge 15:18; Dt 30:3-4) In that day the Lord shall thresh
from the channel of the RiverEuphrates River. to the stream of Egypt,
and you shall be gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.
13 (Lev 25:9; Mt 24:31) And in that day the great trumpet shall be blown,
and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the outcasts
in the land of Egypt shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
2) Our Daily Bread for 17 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/17/heart-work
entitled Prejudice and Forgiveness
Acts 10:23-28,34
23 (Ac 10:45; 11:12) Then he invited them in and gave them lodging.
The next day Peter went with them, and some brothers from Joppa
accompanied him.
24 And the next day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting
for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
25 (Mt 8:2; Da 2:46) As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him
and fell down at his feet and worshipped him.
26 (Rev 19:10) But Peter lifted him up, saying, "Stand up. I myself am a man."
27 (Ac 10:24) As he talked with him, he went in
and found many who had come together.
28 (Jn 4:9; 18:28) He said to them, "You know how unlawful it is for a Jew
to visit or approach a foreigner. But God has shown me not to call
any man common or unclean. "
34 (Dt 10:17; 2Ch 19:7) Then Peter began to speak, saying,
"Truthfully, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons."
After hearing a message about correcting injustice, a church member
approached the pastor weeping, asking for forgiveness and confessing
that he hadn't voted in favor of calling the black minister to be
pastor of their church because of his own prejudice. "I really need you
to forgive me. I don't want the junk of prejudice and racism spilling
over into my kids' lives. I didn't vote for you, and I was wrong."
His tears and confession were met with the tears and forgiveness
of the minister. A week later, the entire church rejoiced upon hearing
the man's testimony of how God had worked in his heart.
Even Peter, a disciple of Jesus and a chief leader in the early church,
had to be corrected because of his ill-conceived notions about non-Jewish
people. Eating and drinking with gentiles (who were considered unclean),
was a violation of social and religious protocol. Peter said,
"You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate
with or visit a Gentile" (Acts 10:28). It took nothing less than
the supernatural activity of God (vv. 9-23) to convince him that
he "should not call anyone impure or unclean" (v. 28).
Through the preaching of Scripture, the conviction of the Spirit,
and life experiences, God continues to work in human hearts
to correct our misguided perspectives about others.
He helps us to see that "God does not show favoritism" (v. 34).
By: Arthur Jackson
Reflect & Pray
What experiences or people has God used to help you see that He
doesn't show favoritism? What are the things in your life that
may have blinded you to His acceptance of all people?
Dear God, search my heart and show me where I need to change.
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 Tim 6:17-19
17 (Ro 11:20; 1Ti 4:10) Command those who are rich in this world that they
not be conceited, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God,
who richly gives us all things to enjoy.
18 (Ro 12:8; 12:13) Command that they do good, that they be rich
in good works, generous, willing to share,
19 (Lk 16:9; 1Ti 6:12) and laying up in store for themselves a good
foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of eternal life.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Eternal Faithfulness
Ps 89:1 -8
PSALMS 89
A Contemplative Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever;
with my mouth I will make known
Your faithfulness to all generations.
2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2) For I have said,
"Mercy shall be built up forever;
Your faithfulness shall be
established in the heavens."
3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) You have said,
"I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
I have sworn to David my servant:
4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) 'Your offspring I will establish forever,
and build up your throne for all generations.' " Selah
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Let the heavens praise Your wonders, O Lord;
Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9) For who in the skies can
be compared to the Lord?
Who among the heavenly sons is like the Lord?
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) God is greatly to be feared
in the assembly of the holy ones
and awesome to all those who surround Him.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) O Lord God of Hosts,
who is a mighty Lord like You,
with Your faithfulness all around You?
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Where do Muslims live?
Canada is a land of immigrants. And Muslims are coming in increasing numbers
to our shores. Where do they live? How can we prayfor these areas? Use this as
your more effectively for Muslims in Canada.
Data for those population figures is extrapoled for the 2011 National
Household Survay and population growth projections by Pew Forum. These have
also been adjusted by +40% as reliable sources state that on 60% of Muslims
self-identify on government surveys and forms. These estimates are still on
the conservative end of the spectrum. Percentages represent that of the total
Canadian population, not provincial
BC - 136493 - 7.5%
AB - 195240 - 11%
SK - 17279 - 1%
MB - 21349 - 1.2%
ON - 1001542 - 55%
QC - 418946 - 23%
NB - 4543 - 0.003%
NS - 14629 - 0.1%
PEI - 1127 - 0.0006%
NFLD - 2065 - 0.001%
Yukon - 69 - 0.00004%
NWT - 473 - 0.0003%
NU - 86 - 0.00005%
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 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other,
"What does this mean?"
13 (1Co 14:23) Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter's Speech at Pentecost
14 (Ac 1:26) But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
and said to them, "Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since it is the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 (Isa 44:3; Ac 10:45) 'In the last days it shall be,' says God,
'that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams.'
- Pray 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
17th Day of the Month
a) Pray for the safety of those
who live in your community -
safety from conflict an crimes
( Ps 122:7 - 7 Peace be within your walls
and security within your towers!†)
b) Pray for the province of Ontario
I) Pray for the leaders of Ontario,
that God's Spirit would influence
then to act justly,
serve with integrity
and honour high moral standards. ( 1 Tim 2:1 - 4
1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
II) Pray for the churches of the province,
that they would be lighthouses
beaming forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.
III) Pray that the Lord would use
the Finding the Hope Campaign
and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to understand his prophecies , fulfilled
and unfilled, to the fullest. Pray like Daniel to understand
His Word!
Pray to the Lord "Dear God, search my heart and show me
where I need to change."
Pray to the Lord and thank Him for being your support system.
Pray to the Lord to store treasue in Heaven
Pray to the Lord for his mercies .
Pray for Muslims in Canada to know Jesus as Saviour.
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.
Pray for the safety of those
who live in your community -
safety from conflict an crimes
Pray that more leaders in the country of Brunei will hear the truth
and want to know Jesus.
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.