Day 195 - 14 July 2021 reflections
Day 195, 14 July 2021
2 Chron 28; 2 Kings 16-17
2 Chronicles 28
Ahaz, King of Judah
2Ki 16:1-20
1 (1Ch 3:13; Isa 1:1) Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign,
and he was king in Jerusalem for sixteen years. And he did not do
what was correct in the eyes of the Lord as David his father.
2 (Ex 34:17; Jdg 2:11) And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,
and he cast images for Baal worship.
3 (Lev 18:21; 2Ch 33:2) And he made sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom,
and he burned his sons in the fire according to the detestable acts
of the nations that the Lord had displaced before the sons of Israel.
4 He even made sacrifices and offered incense on the high places
of the hills and under every green tree.
Judah Defeated
5 (Isa 7:1; 2Ki 16:5-6) So the Lord his God gave him
into the hand of the king of Aram. They struck Ahaz and took captive
many prisoners and brought them to Damascus.
He was even given into the hand of the king of Israel,
and he attacked Ahaz with a great slaughter.
6 (2Ki 15:27; Isa 9:21) And Pekah the son of RemÂaliah killed
120000 in Judah in one day, and they were all strong men,
but they abandoned the Lord God of their fathers.
7 And Zikri, a mighty warrior from Ephraim, killed Maaseiah
the son of the king, and Azrikam the official of the palace,
and Elkanah second to the king.
8 (2Ch 11:4; Dt 28:25) And the sons of Israel took captive 200000
of their kin, women, sons, and daughters.
They also took much plunder and brought the plunder to Samaria.
9 (Ezr 9:6; Isa 47:6) And there was a prophet there whose name was Oded,
and he went out to the army as it approached Samaria and said to them,
"See that the anger of the Lord God of your fathers is against Judah,
and He gave them into your hand, and you all have killed them
in a rage that has reached even to heaven.
10 (Lev 25:39-46) And now you are planning to subdue for yourselves
the people of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves.
Do you all not surely have among you guilt before the Lord your God?
11 (Jas 2:13) And now listen to me. Return the captives whom you have taken
captive from your relatives
because the burning wrath of the Lord is on you all."
12 And some men who were heads of the people of Ephraim rose up
before those coming from the war: Azariah the son of Jehohanan,
Berekiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum,
and Amasa the son of Hadlai.
13 And they said, "You will not bring the captives here, for guilt
from the Lord will be on us, and you plan to add to our sin and guilt.
Our guilt is great, and there is already a burning anger against Israel."
14 So the soldiers left the captives and spoil before the officials
and all the assembly.
15 (Dt 34:3; 2Ki 6:22) Then the men who were designated by name took
the captives and clothed those who were naked from the plunder.
So they clothed them, gave them sandals, offered them food and drink,
anointed them with oil, and led them on donkeys, even all those who stumbled.
They brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees,
which was near their kinsmen. Then the officials returned to Samaria.
16 At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
17 (Ob 1:10) The Edomites continually came and struck Judah
and carried off captives.
18 (Eze 16:57; 16:27) Even the Philistines made raids on the cities
of the lowlands of the Shephelah and the Negev of Judah.
And they captured Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soko and its villages,
Timnah and its villages, and Gimzo and its villages; and they settled there.
19 (2Ch 21:2) For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Judah,
for he allowed depravity to spread in Judah and continually transgressed
against the Lord.
20 (2Ki 15:29; 1Ch 5:26) So Tiglath-ÂPileser king of Assyria came
against him, but he brought him distress and not strength.
21 For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the Lord
and palace of the king and the officials, and he gave it
to the king of Assyria, but the king did not help Ahaz.
The Death of Ahaz
22 (Isa 1:5) And at the time that he was oppressed he increased
in unfaithfulness against the Lord.
23 (2Ch 25:14) So he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus
that had devastated him, for he said, "Because the gods of the kings
of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that
they might help me." But they were his downfall in Judah
and the downfall for all of Israel.
24 (2Ch 29:7; 2Ki 16:17-18) And Ahaz gathered the vessels from the house
of God, and he cut up the vessels. Then he shut the doors of the house
of the Lord, and he made altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 (2Ch 28:3) Then in every city in Judah he made high places to make
offerings to other gods. So he provoked the Lord God of his fathers.
26 (2Ki 16:19-20) Now the remainder of the acts and all his ways,
from first to last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
27 (2Ch 21:20; 24:25) So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him
in the city of Jerusalem because they did not bring him to the tombs
of the kings of Israel. Then Hezekiah his son was king in his place.
2 Kings 16
Ahaz, King of Judah
2Ch 28:1-27
1 (Isa 1:1) In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah,
Ahaz son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king.
2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king,
and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.
He did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God
like David his father.
3 (Dt 12:31; Lev 18:21; 2Ki 21:2) He walked in the way of the kings
of Israel and even made his son pass through the fire according
to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed
before the children of IsraelÂ.
4 (Dt 12:2; 1Ki 14:23) He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places,
on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 (2Ki 15:37) Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah,
king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to battle, and they besieged Ahaz
but could not subdue him.
6 (2Ki 14:22; 2Ch 26:2) At that time ReÂzin king of Aram recovered Elath
for Aram and expelled the Judeans from Elath. The Edomites came to Elath
and live there to this day.
7 (2Ki 15:29) So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath--Pileser king of Assyria,
saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand
of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel,
who are rising up against me."
8 (2Ki 12:17-18) Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found
in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king's house,
and sent a present to the king of Assyria.
9 (Isa 22:6; Am 9:7) So the king of Assyria listened to him.
The king of Assyria went up to Damascus, captured it,
exiled the people to Kir, and killed Rezin.
10 (Isa 8:2) Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser
king of Assyria and saw an altar that was in Damascus.
King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a pattern of the altar and model of it,
according to the manner of its construction.
11 Uriah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent
from Damascus. Thus Uriah the priest worked until King Ahaz
came from Damascus.
12 (2Ch 26:16-19) When the king came back from Damascus
and saw the altar, the king approached the altar and made offerings on it.
13 He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out
his libations, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings upon the altar.
14 (2Ch 4:1; Ex 40:6) And the bronze altar that was before the Lord
he moved from the front of the house, from between the altar
and the house of the Lord. He put it on the north side of the new altar.
15 (Ex 29:39-41) Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, "Upon the great
altar offer the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering,
the king's burnt offering, and his grain offering with the burnt offering
of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their libations.
Sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood
of the sacrifice, and the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by."
16 So Uriah the priest did everything that King Ahaz commanded.
17 King Ahaz cut off the bases of the stands and removed the basin from them.
He took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it
and put it on stone pavement.
18 The structure for the Sabbath that they had built in the house
and the king's outer entrance he removed from the house of the Lord
for the king of Assyria.
19 Now the rest of the deeds of Ahaz that he did, are they not written
in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
20 Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers
in the City of David. Then Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 17
Hoshea, King of Israel
2Kgs 18:9-12
1 (2Ki 15:30) In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah
became king in Samaria over Israel for nine years.
2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord, only not as the kings of Israel
who were before him.
3 (Hos 10:14) Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him.
Hoshea became his servant and gave him gifts.
4 But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea,
for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt
and offered up no gift to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year.
So the king of Assyria detained him, and then put him in prison.
Israel Exiled to Assyria
5 Then the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, went up to Samaria,
and besieged it for three years.
6 (Dt 28:64; 1Ch 5:26) In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria
seized Samaria and exiled Israel to Assyria. He put them in Halah,
in Habor by the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 (Jos 23:16; Ex 20:2) This happened because the children of Israel had sinned
against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt
from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had feared other gods
8 (Lev 18:3; Dt 18:9) and walked in the statutes of the nations,
whom the Lord dispossessed before the children of Israel,
and walked in the statutes which the kings of Israel had made.
9 (2Ki 18:8) The children of Israel ascribed things to the Lord their God
that were not so, and they built for themselves high places
in all their cities from the watchtower to the fortified city.
10 (1Ki 14:23; Ex 34:13; 2Ki 16:4) They set up standing stones
and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did
whom the Lord had carried away before them. And they did wicked things
to provoke the Lord to anger,
12 for they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them,
"You shall not do this thing."
13 (1Sa 9:9; Jer 18:11) But the Lord warned Israel and Judah
by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying,
"Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes,
according to all the law which I commanded your fathers
and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets."
14 (Dt 31:27; Ac 7:51) But they would not listen. They stiffened their necks,
like the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
15 (Dt 12:30-31; 32:21) They rejected His statutes and His covenant
that He had made with their fathers and the decrees He had given them.
They followed idols, and became idolaters, and followed the surrounding
nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them, that they should not
do like them.
16 (1Ki 12:28; 14:15) They forsook all the commandments of the Lord
their God, made themselves cast images (two calves), made an Asherah pole,
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17 (2Ki 21:6; 1Ki 21:20; 2Ki 16:3) They caused their sons and daughters
to pass through the fire, used divination and omens, and sold themselves
to do evil in the sight of the Lord to anger Him.
18 (1Ki 11:13; 11:32) Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel
and removed them from His presence. None remained except the tribe of Judah.
19 (1Ki 14:22-23; 2Ki 16:3) Judah also did not keep the commandments
of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
20 (2Ki 15:29; 13:3) The Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, afflicted them,
and gave them into the hand of plunderers
until He had cast them out of His presence.
21 (1Ki 11:11; 11:31) For He had torn Israel from the house of David,
and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Jeroboam diverted Israel
from following the Lord and caused them to sin greatly.
22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins which Jeroboam
committed. They did not turn aside from them
23 (2Ki 17:6; 17:13) until the Lord removed Israel from His presence
as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled
from their land to Assyria until this day.
Assyria Resettles Samaria
24 (2Ki 18:34; 17:30-31) Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon,
Kuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and put them in the cities of Samaria
instead of the children of Israel.
They possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
25 (2Ki 17:32; 17:34) Right at the beginning of their settling there,
they did not fear the Lord, so the Lord sent lions among them,
and they killed some of them.
26 So they said to the king of Assyria, "The nations which you have exiled
and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god
of the land. Therefore He has sent lions among them; they are killing them,
because they do not know the requirements of the god of the land."
27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Escort back one of the priests
whom you exiled from there and let him go and dwell there.
Let him teach them the law of the god of the land."
28 Then one of the priests whom they had exiled from Samaria
came and lived in Bethel. He taught them how they should fear the Lord.
29 (1Ki 12:31; Mic 4:5) But each nation was making its own gods,
and they put them in the houses of the high places that the people
of Samaria had made, each nation in the cities where they were living.
30 The men of Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, the men of Kuthah made Nergal,
the men of Hamath made Ashima,
31 (2Ki 17:24; 17:17) the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak. The Sepharvites
were burning their children in fire to Adrammelek and Anammelek,
the gods of Sepharvaim.
32 (1Ki 12:31; 2Ki 17:29) They feared the Lord and made from amongst
themselves priests of the high places, who were working for them
in the houses of the high places.
33 They feared the Lord, and they were serving their own gods,
after the manner of the nations whom they exiled from there.
34 (Ge 32:28; 35:10) To this day they continue to practice
their former customs. They do not fear the Lord, nor are they doing
according to the statutes, requirements, the law or commandment
that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
35 (Jdg 6:10) The Lord had made a covenant and commanded them, saying,
"You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them.
You shall not serve them or sacrifice to them.
36 (Ex 6:6; Dt 6:13) Rather, the Lord, who brought you up
out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm,
Him you shall fear, to Him you shall bow down, and to Him you shall sacrifice.
37 The statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandment, which He wrote
for you, you shall observe to do forever. And you shall not fear other gods.
38 (Dt 4:23; 6:12) The covenant that I have made with you, you shall not
forget. You shall not fear other gods.
39 (2Ki 17:36) Rather the Lord your God you shall fear,
and He will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies."
40 But they did not listen; rather they were practicing their former customs.
41 (Zep 1:5; Mt 6:24) So these nations feared the Lord and were serving
their carved images, both their children and their grandchildren,
as their fathers did, and so they are doing to this day.
2) Our Daily Bread for 14 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/14/listen-and-learn-2
entitled Listen and Learn
James 1:19-27
Hearing and Doing the Word
19 (Pr 10:19; 14:29) Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man
be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
20 for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.
21 (Eph 1:13; 4:22) Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining
wickedness and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls.
22 (Ro 2:13; Lk 6:46-48) Be doers of the word and not hearers only,
deceiving yourselves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
viewing his natural face in a mirror.
24 He views himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets
what kind of man he was.
25 (Jas 2:12; Jn 13:17) But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty,
and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work,
this man will be blessed in his deeds.
26 (Ps 34:13; 141:3) If anyone among you seems to be religious
and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart,
this man's religion is vain.
27 (Isa 1:23; Ro 12:2) Religion that is pure and undefiled before God,
the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction
and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
On one side of the street a homeowner displays in his yard a giant
blow-up bald eagle draped in a US flag. A big truck sits in the driveway.
Its side window features a painted flag and the back bumper is covered
with patriotic stickers. Directly across the street in a neighbor's yard
are signs that highlight the slogans for current social justice issues
in the news.
Are the people in these homes feuding or friends? we might wonder.
Is it possible that both families are believers in Jesus?
God calls us to live out the words of James 1:19:
"Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry."
Too often we stubbornly hold on to our opinions and aren't willing
to consider what others are thinking. Matthew Henry's Commentary
has this to say: "We should be swift to hear reason and truth on all sides,
and be slow to speak . . . and, when we do speak,
there should be nothing of wrath."
Someone has said, "Learning requires listening." The practical words from God
in the book of James can only be accomplished if we're filled with God's
loving Spirit and choose to respect others. He's willing to help us make changes
in our hearts and attitudes. Are we open to listen and learn?
By: Anne Cetas
Reflect & Pray
How does God want you to put James 1 into practice?
Whom might you need to listen to and hear?
You know me, God. I can be opinionated sometimes.
Help me to be quick to listen and slow to speak.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 4 - Giving and Receiving
Luke 6:38
38 "Give, and it will be given to you: Good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over will men give unto you.
For with the measure you use, it will be measured unto you."
"Just give the Lord", the voice on the radio declared. "Give, and he will
give back to you, a hundredfold." The preacher went on to explain how
an old woman on social security had sent her last $10 to support his
ministry, and the next day she got an anonymous money order for
a $1000 . "The Lord will be faithful to his Word," the preacher
concluded. "You give, and you'll receive."
The Lord is, of course, faithful to his Word. But many well-meaning Christians
have interpreted Luke 6:38 as a "paymant in kind" bargain with God:
if I give God my dollar, he's obliged to return it to me with interest.
This "seed-sowing" fallacy, where $20 supposedly becomes $2000 by
an act of divine, multiplication, has caused much
disappointment and frustration.
The "giving and receiving" principle is a valid one; the Lord does, indeed say
"Give, and it will be given to you," but he does not specify what the "return"
will be. The verse appears in the context of forgiveness, of not judging; the
principle is not investment, in any material sense, but generosity.
As we give, as ew are compassionate with others, we take on the
character of the Lord himself. He is generous and giving, and he gives
to us as we give ourselves in love to others.
Application
a) Have I ever "given" to God ot to others as a bribe, to get something
in return?
b) What is God's concept of giving, as demonstrated
in the gift of Jeus Christ?
c) How can this verse help me to give more selflessly?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Mattehw 6:25-33
Care and Anxiety
Lk 12:22–34
25 (Mt 6:31; 6:34; Php 4:6) "Therefore, I say to you, take no thought about
your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink, nor about your body,
what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body than clothing?
26 (Job 38:41; Ps 147:9) Look at the birds of the air, for they do not sow,
nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much better than they? 27 Who among you by taking thought
can add a cubit(A cubit is about half a meter.) to his stature?
28 (Mt 6:25; 6:31) "Why take thought about clothing? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow: They neither work, nor do they spin.
29 (1Ki 10:4–7; 2Ch 9:4–6) Yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory
was not dressed like one of these. 30 (Mt 8:26; 14:31) Therefore, if God so
clothes the grass of the field, which today is here and tomorrow is thrown
into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 (1Pe 5:7) Therefore, take no thought, saying, 'What shall we eat?'
or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
32 (Mt 6:8; Lk 12:30)(For the Gentiles seek after all these things.)
For your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
33 (1Ti 4:8; 1Ki 3:11–13)
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all these things shall be given to you.
34 (Mt 6:25) Therefore, take no thought about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will take thought about the things of itself.
Sufficient to the day is the trouble thereof.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Inexhaustible Strength
Philippians 4:10-13
10 (2Co 11:9) I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived
your concern for me. Regarding this, you did care, but you lacked opportunity.
11 (Php 3:8; 1Ti 6:6–9) I do not speak because I have need, for I have learned
in whatever state I am to be content.
12 (2Co 11:27; 11:9) I know both how to face humble circumstances and how
to have abundance. Everywhere and in all things I have learned the secret,
both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 (2Co 12:9–10; Eph 3:16) I can do all things because of Christ
who strengthens 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
14th Day of the Month
a) Pray for God's kingdom to come
in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,
and in our nation ( Matt 6:10)
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
b) Pray for those who serve with
denominations and Christian organisations
in Canada - that God will bless their ministry
and anoint them for effective service.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to be obedient to him for he rewards the faithful.
Pray to the Lord "You know me, God. I can be opinionated sometimes.
Help me to be quick to listen and slow to speak."
Pray to the Lord to ge a joyful giver.
Pray to the Lord to seek his righteousness first.
Pray to the Lord to strenghten 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 for God's kingdom to come
in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,
and in our nation
Pray for those who serve with
denominations and Christian organisations
in Canada - that God will bless their ministry
and anoint them for effective service.
Pray for the safety of believers in Somalia facing persecution from family,
neighbours, terrorists and the government.
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.
2 Chron 28; 2 Kings 16-17
2 Chronicles 28
Ahaz, King of Judah
2Ki 16:1-20
1 (1Ch 3:13; Isa 1:1) Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign,
and he was king in Jerusalem for sixteen years. And he did not do
what was correct in the eyes of the Lord as David his father.
2 (Ex 34:17; Jdg 2:11) And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,
and he cast images for Baal worship.
3 (Lev 18:21; 2Ch 33:2) And he made sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom,
and he burned his sons in the fire according to the detestable acts
of the nations that the Lord had displaced before the sons of Israel.
4 He even made sacrifices and offered incense on the high places
of the hills and under every green tree.
Judah Defeated
5 (Isa 7:1; 2Ki 16:5-6) So the Lord his God gave him
into the hand of the king of Aram. They struck Ahaz and took captive
many prisoners and brought them to Damascus.
He was even given into the hand of the king of Israel,
and he attacked Ahaz with a great slaughter.
6 (2Ki 15:27; Isa 9:21) And Pekah the son of RemÂaliah killed
120000 in Judah in one day, and they were all strong men,
but they abandoned the Lord God of their fathers.
7 And Zikri, a mighty warrior from Ephraim, killed Maaseiah
the son of the king, and Azrikam the official of the palace,
and Elkanah second to the king.
8 (2Ch 11:4; Dt 28:25) And the sons of Israel took captive 200000
of their kin, women, sons, and daughters.
They also took much plunder and brought the plunder to Samaria.
9 (Ezr 9:6; Isa 47:6) And there was a prophet there whose name was Oded,
and he went out to the army as it approached Samaria and said to them,
"See that the anger of the Lord God of your fathers is against Judah,
and He gave them into your hand, and you all have killed them
in a rage that has reached even to heaven.
10 (Lev 25:39-46) And now you are planning to subdue for yourselves
the people of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves.
Do you all not surely have among you guilt before the Lord your God?
11 (Jas 2:13) And now listen to me. Return the captives whom you have taken
captive from your relatives
because the burning wrath of the Lord is on you all."
12 And some men who were heads of the people of Ephraim rose up
before those coming from the war: Azariah the son of Jehohanan,
Berekiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum,
and Amasa the son of Hadlai.
13 And they said, "You will not bring the captives here, for guilt
from the Lord will be on us, and you plan to add to our sin and guilt.
Our guilt is great, and there is already a burning anger against Israel."
14 So the soldiers left the captives and spoil before the officials
and all the assembly.
15 (Dt 34:3; 2Ki 6:22) Then the men who were designated by name took
the captives and clothed those who were naked from the plunder.
So they clothed them, gave them sandals, offered them food and drink,
anointed them with oil, and led them on donkeys, even all those who stumbled.
They brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees,
which was near their kinsmen. Then the officials returned to Samaria.
16 At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
17 (Ob 1:10) The Edomites continually came and struck Judah
and carried off captives.
18 (Eze 16:57; 16:27) Even the Philistines made raids on the cities
of the lowlands of the Shephelah and the Negev of Judah.
And they captured Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soko and its villages,
Timnah and its villages, and Gimzo and its villages; and they settled there.
19 (2Ch 21:2) For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Judah,
for he allowed depravity to spread in Judah and continually transgressed
against the Lord.
20 (2Ki 15:29; 1Ch 5:26) So Tiglath-ÂPileser king of Assyria came
against him, but he brought him distress and not strength.
21 For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the Lord
and palace of the king and the officials, and he gave it
to the king of Assyria, but the king did not help Ahaz.
The Death of Ahaz
22 (Isa 1:5) And at the time that he was oppressed he increased
in unfaithfulness against the Lord.
23 (2Ch 25:14) So he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus
that had devastated him, for he said, "Because the gods of the kings
of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that
they might help me." But they were his downfall in Judah
and the downfall for all of Israel.
24 (2Ch 29:7; 2Ki 16:17-18) And Ahaz gathered the vessels from the house
of God, and he cut up the vessels. Then he shut the doors of the house
of the Lord, and he made altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 (2Ch 28:3) Then in every city in Judah he made high places to make
offerings to other gods. So he provoked the Lord God of his fathers.
26 (2Ki 16:19-20) Now the remainder of the acts and all his ways,
from first to last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
27 (2Ch 21:20; 24:25) So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him
in the city of Jerusalem because they did not bring him to the tombs
of the kings of Israel. Then Hezekiah his son was king in his place.
2 Kings 16
Ahaz, King of Judah
2Ch 28:1-27
1 (Isa 1:1) In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah,
Ahaz son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king.
2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king,
and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.
He did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God
like David his father.
3 (Dt 12:31; Lev 18:21; 2Ki 21:2) He walked in the way of the kings
of Israel and even made his son pass through the fire according
to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed
before the children of IsraelÂ.
4 (Dt 12:2; 1Ki 14:23) He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places,
on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 (2Ki 15:37) Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah,
king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to battle, and they besieged Ahaz
but could not subdue him.
6 (2Ki 14:22; 2Ch 26:2) At that time ReÂzin king of Aram recovered Elath
for Aram and expelled the Judeans from Elath. The Edomites came to Elath
and live there to this day.
7 (2Ki 15:29) So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath--Pileser king of Assyria,
saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand
of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel,
who are rising up against me."
8 (2Ki 12:17-18) Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found
in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king's house,
and sent a present to the king of Assyria.
9 (Isa 22:6; Am 9:7) So the king of Assyria listened to him.
The king of Assyria went up to Damascus, captured it,
exiled the people to Kir, and killed Rezin.
10 (Isa 8:2) Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser
king of Assyria and saw an altar that was in Damascus.
King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a pattern of the altar and model of it,
according to the manner of its construction.
11 Uriah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent
from Damascus. Thus Uriah the priest worked until King Ahaz
came from Damascus.
12 (2Ch 26:16-19) When the king came back from Damascus
and saw the altar, the king approached the altar and made offerings on it.
13 He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out
his libations, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings upon the altar.
14 (2Ch 4:1; Ex 40:6) And the bronze altar that was before the Lord
he moved from the front of the house, from between the altar
and the house of the Lord. He put it on the north side of the new altar.
15 (Ex 29:39-41) Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, "Upon the great
altar offer the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering,
the king's burnt offering, and his grain offering with the burnt offering
of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their libations.
Sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood
of the sacrifice, and the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by."
16 So Uriah the priest did everything that King Ahaz commanded.
17 King Ahaz cut off the bases of the stands and removed the basin from them.
He took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it
and put it on stone pavement.
18 The structure for the Sabbath that they had built in the house
and the king's outer entrance he removed from the house of the Lord
for the king of Assyria.
19 Now the rest of the deeds of Ahaz that he did, are they not written
in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
20 Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers
in the City of David. Then Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 17
Hoshea, King of Israel
2Kgs 18:9-12
1 (2Ki 15:30) In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah
became king in Samaria over Israel for nine years.
2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord, only not as the kings of Israel
who were before him.
3 (Hos 10:14) Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him.
Hoshea became his servant and gave him gifts.
4 But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea,
for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt
and offered up no gift to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year.
So the king of Assyria detained him, and then put him in prison.
Israel Exiled to Assyria
5 Then the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, went up to Samaria,
and besieged it for three years.
6 (Dt 28:64; 1Ch 5:26) In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria
seized Samaria and exiled Israel to Assyria. He put them in Halah,
in Habor by the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 (Jos 23:16; Ex 20:2) This happened because the children of Israel had sinned
against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt
from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had feared other gods
8 (Lev 18:3; Dt 18:9) and walked in the statutes of the nations,
whom the Lord dispossessed before the children of Israel,
and walked in the statutes which the kings of Israel had made.
9 (2Ki 18:8) The children of Israel ascribed things to the Lord their God
that were not so, and they built for themselves high places
in all their cities from the watchtower to the fortified city.
10 (1Ki 14:23; Ex 34:13; 2Ki 16:4) They set up standing stones
and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did
whom the Lord had carried away before them. And they did wicked things
to provoke the Lord to anger,
12 for they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them,
"You shall not do this thing."
13 (1Sa 9:9; Jer 18:11) But the Lord warned Israel and Judah
by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying,
"Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes,
according to all the law which I commanded your fathers
and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets."
14 (Dt 31:27; Ac 7:51) But they would not listen. They stiffened their necks,
like the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
15 (Dt 12:30-31; 32:21) They rejected His statutes and His covenant
that He had made with their fathers and the decrees He had given them.
They followed idols, and became idolaters, and followed the surrounding
nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them, that they should not
do like them.
16 (1Ki 12:28; 14:15) They forsook all the commandments of the Lord
their God, made themselves cast images (two calves), made an Asherah pole,
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17 (2Ki 21:6; 1Ki 21:20; 2Ki 16:3) They caused their sons and daughters
to pass through the fire, used divination and omens, and sold themselves
to do evil in the sight of the Lord to anger Him.
18 (1Ki 11:13; 11:32) Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel
and removed them from His presence. None remained except the tribe of Judah.
19 (1Ki 14:22-23; 2Ki 16:3) Judah also did not keep the commandments
of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
20 (2Ki 15:29; 13:3) The Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, afflicted them,
and gave them into the hand of plunderers
until He had cast them out of His presence.
21 (1Ki 11:11; 11:31) For He had torn Israel from the house of David,
and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Jeroboam diverted Israel
from following the Lord and caused them to sin greatly.
22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins which Jeroboam
committed. They did not turn aside from them
23 (2Ki 17:6; 17:13) until the Lord removed Israel from His presence
as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled
from their land to Assyria until this day.
Assyria Resettles Samaria
24 (2Ki 18:34; 17:30-31) Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon,
Kuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and put them in the cities of Samaria
instead of the children of Israel.
They possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
25 (2Ki 17:32; 17:34) Right at the beginning of their settling there,
they did not fear the Lord, so the Lord sent lions among them,
and they killed some of them.
26 So they said to the king of Assyria, "The nations which you have exiled
and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god
of the land. Therefore He has sent lions among them; they are killing them,
because they do not know the requirements of the god of the land."
27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Escort back one of the priests
whom you exiled from there and let him go and dwell there.
Let him teach them the law of the god of the land."
28 Then one of the priests whom they had exiled from Samaria
came and lived in Bethel. He taught them how they should fear the Lord.
29 (1Ki 12:31; Mic 4:5) But each nation was making its own gods,
and they put them in the houses of the high places that the people
of Samaria had made, each nation in the cities where they were living.
30 The men of Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, the men of Kuthah made Nergal,
the men of Hamath made Ashima,
31 (2Ki 17:24; 17:17) the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak. The Sepharvites
were burning their children in fire to Adrammelek and Anammelek,
the gods of Sepharvaim.
32 (1Ki 12:31; 2Ki 17:29) They feared the Lord and made from amongst
themselves priests of the high places, who were working for them
in the houses of the high places.
33 They feared the Lord, and they were serving their own gods,
after the manner of the nations whom they exiled from there.
34 (Ge 32:28; 35:10) To this day they continue to practice
their former customs. They do not fear the Lord, nor are they doing
according to the statutes, requirements, the law or commandment
that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
35 (Jdg 6:10) The Lord had made a covenant and commanded them, saying,
"You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them.
You shall not serve them or sacrifice to them.
36 (Ex 6:6; Dt 6:13) Rather, the Lord, who brought you up
out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm,
Him you shall fear, to Him you shall bow down, and to Him you shall sacrifice.
37 The statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandment, which He wrote
for you, you shall observe to do forever. And you shall not fear other gods.
38 (Dt 4:23; 6:12) The covenant that I have made with you, you shall not
forget. You shall not fear other gods.
39 (2Ki 17:36) Rather the Lord your God you shall fear,
and He will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies."
40 But they did not listen; rather they were practicing their former customs.
41 (Zep 1:5; Mt 6:24) So these nations feared the Lord and were serving
their carved images, both their children and their grandchildren,
as their fathers did, and so they are doing to this day.
2) Our Daily Bread for 14 July 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/07/14/listen-and-learn-2
entitled Listen and Learn
James 1:19-27
Hearing and Doing the Word
19 (Pr 10:19; 14:29) Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man
be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
20 for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.
21 (Eph 1:13; 4:22) Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining
wickedness and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls.
22 (Ro 2:13; Lk 6:46-48) Be doers of the word and not hearers only,
deceiving yourselves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
viewing his natural face in a mirror.
24 He views himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets
what kind of man he was.
25 (Jas 2:12; Jn 13:17) But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty,
and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work,
this man will be blessed in his deeds.
26 (Ps 34:13; 141:3) If anyone among you seems to be religious
and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart,
this man's religion is vain.
27 (Isa 1:23; Ro 12:2) Religion that is pure and undefiled before God,
the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction
and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
On one side of the street a homeowner displays in his yard a giant
blow-up bald eagle draped in a US flag. A big truck sits in the driveway.
Its side window features a painted flag and the back bumper is covered
with patriotic stickers. Directly across the street in a neighbor's yard
are signs that highlight the slogans for current social justice issues
in the news.
Are the people in these homes feuding or friends? we might wonder.
Is it possible that both families are believers in Jesus?
God calls us to live out the words of James 1:19:
"Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry."
Too often we stubbornly hold on to our opinions and aren't willing
to consider what others are thinking. Matthew Henry's Commentary
has this to say: "We should be swift to hear reason and truth on all sides,
and be slow to speak . . . and, when we do speak,
there should be nothing of wrath."
Someone has said, "Learning requires listening." The practical words from God
in the book of James can only be accomplished if we're filled with God's
loving Spirit and choose to respect others. He's willing to help us make changes
in our hearts and attitudes. Are we open to listen and learn?
By: Anne Cetas
Reflect & Pray
How does God want you to put James 1 into practice?
Whom might you need to listen to and hear?
You know me, God. I can be opinionated sometimes.
Help me to be quick to listen and slow to speak.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 4 - Giving and Receiving
Luke 6:38
38 "Give, and it will be given to you: Good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over will men give unto you.
For with the measure you use, it will be measured unto you."
"Just give the Lord", the voice on the radio declared. "Give, and he will
give back to you, a hundredfold." The preacher went on to explain how
an old woman on social security had sent her last $10 to support his
ministry, and the next day she got an anonymous money order for
a $1000 . "The Lord will be faithful to his Word," the preacher
concluded. "You give, and you'll receive."
The Lord is, of course, faithful to his Word. But many well-meaning Christians
have interpreted Luke 6:38 as a "paymant in kind" bargain with God:
if I give God my dollar, he's obliged to return it to me with interest.
This "seed-sowing" fallacy, where $20 supposedly becomes $2000 by
an act of divine, multiplication, has caused much
disappointment and frustration.
The "giving and receiving" principle is a valid one; the Lord does, indeed say
"Give, and it will be given to you," but he does not specify what the "return"
will be. The verse appears in the context of forgiveness, of not judging; the
principle is not investment, in any material sense, but generosity.
As we give, as ew are compassionate with others, we take on the
character of the Lord himself. He is generous and giving, and he gives
to us as we give ourselves in love to others.
Application
a) Have I ever "given" to God ot to others as a bribe, to get something
in return?
b) What is God's concept of giving, as demonstrated
in the gift of Jeus Christ?
c) How can this verse help me to give more selflessly?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Mattehw 6:25-33
Care and Anxiety
Lk 12:22–34
25 (Mt 6:31; 6:34; Php 4:6) "Therefore, I say to you, take no thought about
your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink, nor about your body,
what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body than clothing?
26 (Job 38:41; Ps 147:9) Look at the birds of the air, for they do not sow,
nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much better than they? 27 Who among you by taking thought
can add a cubit(A cubit is about half a meter.) to his stature?
28 (Mt 6:25; 6:31) "Why take thought about clothing? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow: They neither work, nor do they spin.
29 (1Ki 10:4–7; 2Ch 9:4–6) Yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory
was not dressed like one of these. 30 (Mt 8:26; 14:31) Therefore, if God so
clothes the grass of the field, which today is here and tomorrow is thrown
into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 (1Pe 5:7) Therefore, take no thought, saying, 'What shall we eat?'
or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
32 (Mt 6:8; Lk 12:30)(For the Gentiles seek after all these things.)
For your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
33 (1Ti 4:8; 1Ki 3:11–13)
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all these things shall be given to you.
34 (Mt 6:25) Therefore, take no thought about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will take thought about the things of itself.
Sufficient to the day is the trouble thereof.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Inexhaustible Strength
Philippians 4:10-13
10 (2Co 11:9) I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived
your concern for me. Regarding this, you did care, but you lacked opportunity.
11 (Php 3:8; 1Ti 6:6–9) I do not speak because I have need, for I have learned
in whatever state I am to be content.
12 (2Co 11:27; 11:9) I know both how to face humble circumstances and how
to have abundance. Everywhere and in all things I have learned the secret,
both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 (2Co 12:9–10; Eph 3:16) I can do all things because of Christ
who strengthens 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
14th Day of the Month
a) Pray for God's kingdom to come
in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,
and in our nation ( Matt 6:10)
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
b) Pray for those who serve with
denominations and Christian organisations
in Canada - that God will bless their ministry
and anoint them for effective service.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord to be obedient to him for he rewards the faithful.
Pray to the Lord "You know me, God. I can be opinionated sometimes.
Help me to be quick to listen and slow to speak."
Pray to the Lord to ge a joyful giver.
Pray to the Lord to seek his righteousness first.
Pray to the Lord to strenghten 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 for God's kingdom to come
in your home, neighbourhood, city or community,
and in our nation
Pray for those who serve with
denominations and Christian organisations
in Canada - that God will bless their ministry
and anoint them for effective service.
Pray for the safety of believers in Somalia facing persecution from family,
neighbours, terrorists and the government.
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.