Day 235 - 23 August 2021 reflections
Day 235, 23 August 2021
Jeremiah 51-52
Jeremiah 51
The Destruction of Babylon
1 (Jer 4:11-12; Hos 13:15) Thus says the Lord:
I will raise up against Babylon,
and against those who dwell in Leb Kamai,
the spirit of a destroyer.
2 (Jer 15:7; Mt 3:12) And I will send foreigners to Babylon
that they may winnow her and empty her land.
For in the day of trouble
they will be against her all around.
3 (Jer 46:4; 50:14) Let not him who bends his bow bend it,
and let him not rise up in his scale-armor,
and do not spare her young men;
utterly destroy all her host.
4 (Jer 49:26; Isa 13:15) Thus the slain will fall
in the land of the Chaldeans,
and those who are thrust through in her streets.
5 (Hos 4:1; Jer 33:24-26) For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah,
by his God, the Lord of Hosts,
though their land was filled with sin
against the Holy One of Israel.
6 (Jer 50:8; 50:15; 50:28) Flee out of the midst of Babylon,
and each of you deliver his soul!
Do not be cut off in her punishment,
for this is the time of the vengeance of the Lord;
He will render to her a recompense.
7 (Rev 14:8; 17:4; 17:2) Babylon has been a golden cup
in the hand of the Lord,
that made all the earth drunk.
The nations have drunk of her wine;
therefore the nations are mad.
8 (Isa 21:9; Jer 46:11) Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed.
Howl for her.
Take balm for her pain;
perhaps she may be healed.
9 (Isa 13:14; Jer 50:16) We applied healing to Babylon,
but she is not healed.
Forsake her, and let us each go into his own country;
for her judgment reaches to heaven
and is lifted up even to the skies.
10 (Jer 50:28; Ps 37:6) The Lord has brought forth our righteousness.
Come, and let us declare in Zion
the work of the Lord our God.
11 (Jer 46:4; 50:45) Sharpen the arrows.
Gather the shields.
The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.
For His device is against Babylon, to destroy it;
because it is the vengeance of the Lord,
the vengeance of His temple.
12 (Isa 13:2; Jer 51:11) Set up the standard against the walls of Babylon,
make the watch strong,
set up the watchmen,
prepare the ambushes.
For the Lord has both devised and done
that which He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 (Rev 17:1; Isa 45:3) O you who dwell by many waters,
abundant in treasures,
your end has come,
and the measure of your end.
14 (Jer 49:13; 50:15) The Lord of Hosts has sworn by Himself,
saying: Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts,
and they will lift up shouts of victory against you.
15 (Job 9:8; Jer 10:12-16) He has made the earth by His power;
He has established the world by His wisdom,
and has stretched out the heaven by His understanding.
16 (Ps 135:7; 18:13; Jnh 1:4) When He utters His voice,
there is a multitude of waters in the heavens,
and He causes the clouds to ascend from the remote parts of the earth;
He makes lightning with rain,
and brings out the wind from His storehouses.
17 (Jer 10:14; Hab 2:18-19) Every man is ignorant by His knowledge;
every founder is humiliated by the graven image,
for his molded image is falsehood,
and there is no breath in them.
18 They are vanity, the work of errors;
in the time of their punishment they will perish.
19 (Jer 10:16; Ps 73:26) The portion of Jacob is not like them,
for He is the former of all things,
and Israel is the rod of His inheritance.
The Lord of Hosts is His name.
20 (Isa 10:5; 41:15-16) He says: You are My battle-ax
and weapon of war:
for with you I will break in pieces the nations,
and with you I will destroy kingdoms;
21 (Ex 15:1) and with you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider;
and with you I will break in pieces the chariot and his rider.
22 (2Ch 36:17; Isa 13:18) With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
and with you I will break in pieces old and young;
and with you I will break in pieces the young man and the young woman.
23 I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock;
and with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
and with you I will break in pieces captains and rulers.
24 (Jer 50:15) I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea
all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the Lord.
25 (Rev 8:8; Zec 4:7; Isa 13:2) I am against you, O destroying mountain,
says the Lord,
who destroys all the earth.
And I will stretch out My hand against you,
and roll you down from the rocks,
and will make you a burned mountain.
26 (Isa 13:19-22; Jer 50:12-13) They will not take of you
a stone for a corner,
or a stone for foundations,
but you will be desolate forever,
says the Lord.
27 (Ge 8:4; 10:3) Set up a standard in the land,
blow the trumpet among the nations,
prepare the nations against her,
call together against her the kingdoms
of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
appoint a captain against her.
Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.
28 (Jer 51:11) Prepare against her the nations,
the kings of the Medes,
the captains, and all the rulers,
and every land of their dominion.
29 (Jer 8:16; 51:43) So the land trembles and sorrows,
for the purposes of the Lord will be performed against Babylon,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation
without an inhabitant.
30 (Na 3:13; La 2:9; Isa 13:7-8) The mighty men of Babylon
have ceased fighting;
they have remained in their strongholds.
Their might has failed;
they became as women.
They have burned her dwelling places;
the bars of her gates are broken.
31 (2Sa 18:19-31; 2Ch 30:6) One courier will run to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another,
to show the king of Babylon
that his city has been captured from end to end,
32 and the passages have been seized,
and they have burned the reeds with fire,
and the men of war are terrified.
33 (Isa 21:10; Hos 6:11) For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel:
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor,
it is time to thresh her;
yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.
34 (Jer 50:17; 51:44) "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
has devoured me and crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel.
He has swallowed me up like a dragon;
he has filled his belly with my delicacies,
he has cast me out.
35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,"
the inhabitant of Zion will say;
and, "May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,"
Jerusalem will say.
36 (Jer 50:38; Ps 140:12) Therefore thus says the Lord:
I will plead your cause,
and take vengeance for you.
And I will dry up her sea,
and make her springs dry.
37 (Rev 18:2; Jer 18:16) Babylon will become heaps,
a dwelling place for jackals,
an astonishment, and a hissing,
without an inhabitant.
38 (Jer 2:15) They will roar together like young lions;
they will growl as lions' whelps.
39 (Jer 51:57; 25:27) When they become heated up,
I will make their feasts,
and I will make them drunk,
that they may rejoice,
and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake,
says the Lord.
40 (Jer 50:27) I will bring them down
like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.
41 (Jer 25:26; Isa 13:19) How Sheshak has been captured!
And how the praise of the whole earth has been seized!
How Babylon has become an astonishment
among the nations!
42 (Isa 8:7-8; Da 9:26) The sea has come up over Babylon;
she has been covered with the multitude of the waves.
43 (Isa 13:20; Jer 2:6) Her cities have become a desolation,
a dry land and a wilderness,
a land in which no man dwells,
through which no son of man passes.
44 (Jer 51:34; 51:58) I will punish Bel in Babylon,
and I will bring forth from his mouth what he has swallowed up;
and the nations will not flow together any more to him.
Indeed, the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 (Jer 51:6; Isa 48:20) My people, go out of her midst,
and deliver every man his soul
from the fierce anger of the Lord,
46 (2Ki 19:7; Isa 13:3-5) lest your heart grows faint, and you are afraid
for the report that will be heard in the land-
for the report will come one year, and after that in another year will come
another report,
and violence will be in the land,
ruler against ruler-
47 (Jer 50:2; Isa 46:1-2) therefore the days are coming
when I will punish the graven images of Babylon;
and her whole land will be humiliated,
and all her slain will fall in her midst.
48 (Isa 44:23; Rev 18:20) Then the heaven and the earth,
and all that is in it,
shall sing for joy over Babylon;
for the destroyers will come to her
from the north,
says the Lord.
49 (Jer 50:29; 51:24) As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
so at Babylon the slain of all the earth will fall.
50 (Jer 44:28; Dt 4:29-31) You who have escaped the sword,
go away, do not stand still.
Remember the Lord afar off,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51 (La 1:10; Ps 44:13-16) We are humiliated
because we have heard reproach.
Shame has covered our faces,
for strangers have come into
the holy places of the house of the Lord.
52 (Jer 51:47; 50:38) Therefore, surely the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will punish her graven images,
and the mortally wounded shall groan
through all her land.
53 (Jer 49:16; Ge 11:4) Though Babylon should mount up to heaven,
and though she should fortify the height of her strength,
yet from Me will destroyers come to her,
says the Lord.
54 (Jer 50:22; 48:3-5) A sound of an outcry comes from Babylon,
and great destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans,
55because the Lord has devastated Babylon,
and destroyed the great voice out of her.
When her waves roar like great waters,
a noise of their voice is uttered.
56 (Ps 46:9; 94:1-2) Because the destroyer is coming against her,
even upon Babylon, and her mighty men will be captured,
every one of their bows are broken.
For the Lord is a God of recompense;
He will completely repay.
57 (Jer 46:18; 25:27) I will make her officials drunk, and her wise men,
her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men;
and they will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake,
says the King whose name is the Lord of Hosts.
58 (Jer 51:64; Hab 2:13) Thus says the Lord of Hosts:
The broad wall of Babylon will be utterly broken,
and her high gates will be burned with fire;
and the peoples will labor in vain,
and the nations become exhausted only for fire.
Jeremiah’s Command to Seraiah
59 (Jer 32:12; 36:4) The word which Jeremiah the prophet
commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah,
when he went with ZedÂekiah the king of Judah into Babylon
in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was a quartermaster.
60 (Isa 30:8; Jer 30:2-3) So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll
all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words
that are written against Babylon.
61 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, then see
that you read aloud all these words,
62 (Jer 50:3; 50:13) and say, 'O Lord, You have spoken against
this place to cut it off, that no one will remain in it,
neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate forever.'
63 (Jer 19:10-11; Rev 18:21) It will be that when you have made
an end of reading this scroll that you will bind a stone to it,
and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,
64 (Jer 51:58; Job 31:40) and say, 'Thus Babylon will sink
and not rise from the disaster that I will bring upon her,
and they will become weary.' "
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 52
The Fall of Jerusalem Reviewed
2Ki 24:18-20; 25:1-21; 2Ch 36:11-20; Jer 39:1-10
1 (2Ki 24:18; Jos 10:29) Zedekiah was 21 years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 (1Ki 14:22) He did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all
that Jehoiakim had done.
3 (2Ch 36:13; Isa 3:4-5) Through the anger of the Lord this came to pass in
Jerusalem and Judah until He had cast them out from His presence.
Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 (Jer 39:1; Eze 24:1-2) In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
in the tenth day of the month, NebÂuchadnezzar king of Babylon came,
he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it;
they built a siege wall all around it.
5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6 (Isa 3:1; 2Ki 25:3) In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month,
the famine was so severe in the city that there was no bread for the people
of the land.
7 (2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:4-7) Then the city was breached, and all the men of war
fled and went out of the city by night by way of the gate between
the two walls, which was by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans
were all around the city, and they went by way of the Arabah.
8 (Jer 21:7; 32:4) But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho,
and all his army was scattered from him.
9 (Nu 13:21; Jer 39:5) Then they took the king and carried him up
to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath
where he passed sentence on him.
10 (Jer 22:30; 2Ki 25:7) The king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes; he also slew all the officials of Judah in Riblah.
11 (Eze 12:13) Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon
bound him in chains and carried him to Babylon and put him in prison
until the day of his death.
The Temple Burned
12 (2Ki 25:8; Jer 39:9; 52:29) Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day
of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard who served the king of Babylon came into
Jerusalem,
13 (2Ch 36:19; Ps 79:1) and burned the house of the Lord,
and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem.
Even all the large houses, he burned with fire.
14 (Ne 1:3; 2Ki 25:10) And all the army of the Chaldeans who were
with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem
all around.
15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
some of the poorest of the people, and the rest of the people
who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell
to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16 (2Ki 25:12) But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left
some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.
17 (Jer 27:19-22; 2Ch 4:12-15) Also the pillars of bronze
that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands,
and the bronze sea that was in the house of the Lord,
the Chaldeans broke and carried all their bronze to Babylon.
18 (Ex 27:3; Nu 4:14) The cauldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers,
and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with
which they ministered, they took away.
19 (1Ki 7:49-50) The captain of the guard also took away the basins,
and the fire pans, and the bowls, and the cauldrons, and the lampstands,
and the spoons, and the cups, what was of fine gold,
and what was of fine silver.
20 (1Ki 7:47; 2Ki 25:16) The two pillars, one sea, and twelve bronze bulls
that were under the bases, which King Solomon had made
in the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.
21 (2Ki 25:17) Concerning the pillars: the height of one pillar
was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference a
nd in thickness it was four fingers,
[About 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference,
or 8.1 meters high and 5.4 meters in circumference.]
and hollow.
22 A capital of bronze was upon it, and the height of one capital was five
cubits, [About 7 1/2 feet, or 2.3 meters.] with network and pomegranates
upon the capital all around, all of bronze. The second pillar also
and the pomegranates were like these.
23 (1Ki 7:20) There were 96 pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates
were a hundred upon the network all around.
The Babylonian Exile
24 (2Ki 25:18; 1Ch 6:14; Jer 21:1) The captain of the guard took Seraiah
the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,
and the three officers of the temple.
25 (Est 1:14; 2Ki 25:19) He also took out of the city one official
who had charge of the men of war, and seven men of the advisers
of the king who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander
of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men
of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them
and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27 (Isa 6:11-12; 27:10) The king of Babylon struck them
and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath.
Thus Judah was carried away captive out of its own land.
28 (2Ki 24:2-3; 24:12-16) These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar
carried away captive:
in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three Jews.
29 (Jer 52:12) In the eighteenth year of NebuchadÂnezzar
he carried away captive from ÂJerusalem 832 persons.
30 In the 23rd year of Nebuchadnezzar,
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
of the Jews 745.
All the persons were 4600 .
Jehoiachin Released
2Ki 25:27-30
31 (Ge 40:13; 40:20) In the 37th year of the captivity of Jehoiachin,
king of Judah, in the 12th month, on the 25th day of the month,
Awel-Marduk, king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign lifted up
the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison,
32 and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne
above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
33 (2Sa 9:7; Ge 41:14) Therefore Jehoiachin changed his prison garments
and continually ate meals before him all the days of his life.
34 (2Sa 9:10) For his allowance, there was a continual allowance
given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion all the days
of his life until the day of his death.
2) Our Daily Bread for 23 August 2021
https://odb.org/CA/2021/08/23/love-your-samaritan
entitled Loving Your Enemy
Acts 1:1-8
Acts 1
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
1 (Lk 1:3; 24:19) The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus,
concerning all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 (Jn 13:18; 20:21) until the day when He was taken up, after He had given commandments through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He had chosen,
3 (1Co 15:5-7; Jn 20:26) to whom He presented Himself alive after His passion
by many infallible proofs, appearing to them for forty days,
and speaking concerning the kingdom of God.
4 (Lk 24:49; Jn 14:16) Being assembled with them, He commanded them,
"Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father,
of which you have heard from Me. (Lk 24:49).
5 (Mt 3:11; Lk 3:16) For John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized
with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
The Ascension
6 (Mt 17:11) So when they had come together, they asked Him,
"Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"
7 (Mt 24:36; Da 2:21; Mk 13:32) He said to them,
“It is not for you to know the times or the dates,
which the Father has fixed by His own authority.
8 (Mt 28:19; Mk 16:15) But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit
comes upon you. And you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
I ducked into a room before she saw me. I was ashamed of hiding,
but I didn't want to deal with her right then-or ever. I longed to tell her
off, to put her in her place. Though I'd been annoyed by her past behavior,
it's likely I had irritated her even more!
The Jews and Samaritans also shared a mutually irritating relationship.
Being a people of mixed origin and worshiping their own gods, the Samaritans
-in the eyes of the Jews-had spoiled the Jewish bloodline and faith,
erecting a rival religion on Mount Gerizim (John 4:20). In fact, the Jews so
despised Samaritans they would walk the long way around rather
than take the direct route through their country.
Jesus revealed a better way. He brought salvation for all people, including
Samaritans. So He ventured into the heart of Samaria to bring living water
to a sinful woman and her town (vv. 4-42). His last words to His disciples
were to follow His example. They must share His good news with everyone,
beginning in Jerusalem and dispersing through Samaria until they reached
"the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8). Samaria was more than the next
geographical sequence. It was the most painful part of the mission.
The disciples had to overcome lifetimes of prejudice to love people
they didn't like.
Does Jesus matter more to us than our grievances?
There's only one way to be sure. Love your "Samaritan."
By: Mike Wittmer
Reflect & Pray
How can you begin to show love to those who aren't very loving?
When have you been loving to a difficult person
and then found them softening?
Father, may the waves of Your love crash over me,
producing a torrent that streams to others through me.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 5 Rejoice in Grace - Day 2 The Wardrobe of Joy Isaiah 61:10
10 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.
On her wedding day, the bride dresses carefully for the ceremony
that is about to take place. Never before has she spent so much
time in preparation for one relatively brief event. When she
looks in the mirror and rejoices in her happiness, she responds not
out of vanity, but for sheer joy as she anticipates the coming ceremony.
God wants his people, lie that bride to be joyful, to rejoice in the Lord,
the Bridegroom. And he gives, through his grace,
the garments of joy to his beloved ones.
He clothes us, Isaiah says, with salvation, and covers us with
the robe of righteousness. The wardrobe that God provides is not merely
a utility garment, a coverall that hides our sin from his eyes.
It is his own righteousness in Christ, given to us as a free gift, so that
we might be united with him. And God himself, Isaiah says,
is filled with joy, adorning himself like a bridegroom.
When we truly see God's immeasurable gift in accepting us as him own,
we also will "greatly rejoice" in the Lord. He, the eternal god,
Creator of the universe, desires to be united with us, as a husband
desires his wife! God does not simply accept us grudgingly,
reminding us of our unworthiness to be with him. Rather, he celbrates
with unrestained joy his oneness in Spirit with those he cals his own.
And we, having been fully forgiven
and set free from sin, can rejoice unashamedly as well.
Application
a) Have I ever felt ashamed to draw close to God? Why?
b) What does this verse tell me about God's attitude towards me?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Luke 12:21
21 "So is he who stores up treasure for himself,
and is not rich toward God."
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
When you are Impatient
James 5:7-11
Patience and Prayer
7 Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.
Notice how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth
and is patient with it until he receives the early and late rain.
8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts,
for the coming of the Lord is drawing near.
9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned.
Look, the Judge is standing at the door.
10 My brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord,
as an example of suffering and patience.
11 Indeed we count them happy who endure.
You have heard of the patience of Job
and have seen the purpose of the Lord,
that the Lord is very gracious and merciful.
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?)
New Brunswick
Total population 753900
Muslim population (est.) 4543
Moncton, followed by Fredericton and Saint John, each have a growing Muslim
population in New Brunswick, In 2007, the buliding that was formerly a Baptist
chruch was converted into Moncton's 1st mosque. The University of Moncton
also has a Muslim studentt association hosting prayer services, fellowship
getherings, and outreaches on campus.
Fredericton also has one mosque and a Muslim student assoication serving the
campusus of the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University.
Fredericton's MUslim population consists in 2014 of about 50 families,
and between 300 to 400 university students.
Saint John is home to the 1st Muslim Association for the province,
which also helped foster the Islamic asociations of Fredericton and Moncton.
a 'musalla', or prayer location that is not officially structured as a mosque,
has been established in the Uptown area with the intention of seeing it grow
into a 2nd official place of Muslim worship. Demand for this new location has
been primarily for university students moving into the area.
Pray for Muslims and New Brunswick
- that the eyes of pastors, believers and entire congregations will be opened
to see this growing body of Muslims, and their hearts will be opened
to sharing God's love in JEsus Christ with them
- that intentional ministries to Muslims will grow and flourish in these
areas of concentration
- that cooperative CNNMM Networks will form to really, encourage,
and equip believers to lovingly reach Muslims in this province.
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 os those
who have committed crimes.
b) Pray for spiritual and functional unity in the Body of Christ
across Canada.
(
John 13:34-35
34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another,
even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples,
if you have love for one another."
Rom 12:10
10 Be devoted to one another with brotherly love; prefer one another in honour
Heb 10:24
24 And let us consider how to spur one another to love and to good works.
1 Peter 3:8
8 Finally, be all of one mind, be loving toward one another, be gracious,
and be kind.
1 John 3:23
23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name
of His Son ÂJesus Christ and love one another as He commanded us.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and know that He is your help.
Pray to the Lord and seek His Will and Timing.
Pray to the Lord "Father, may the waves of Your love crash over me,
producing a torrent that streams to others through me."
Pray to the Lord and for Jesus Christ who
died for our sins in the cross.
Pray to the Lord and pray not to store treasure for yourself.
Pray to the Lord and pray for patience in your life.
Pray for Muslims in New Brunswick 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 os those
who have committed crimes.
Pray for spiritual and functional unity in the Body of Christ
across Canada.
Pray for the comfort and direction of the many missionaries
deported from Turkey.
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.