Day 54 of the 2nd Bible Study Journey - 23 Feb 2022 reflections
Day 54, 23 Feb 2022
1)
Leviticus 25:14-55
Leviticus 26
LEVITICUS 25
14 (Lev 19:13; 25:17) If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything
from your neighbor, you shall not oppress one another.
15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall pay your
neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops
he shall sell to you.
16 According to the increase of years you shall increase the price,
and according to the decrease of years you shall diminish the price of it.
For he shall sell to you according to the number of years of crops.
17 (Lev 19:14; 19:32) You shall not therefore oppress one another,
but you shall fear your God. For I am the Lord your God.
18 (Dt 12:10; Jer 23:6) Therefore you shall do My statutes,
and keep My decrees, and do them, and you shall dwell securely in the land.
19 (Lev 26:5; Ps 85:12) The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat
your fill and live securely in it.
20 (Lev 25:4; Lk 12:29) If you shall say, "What shall we eat in the seventh
year, if we shall not sow nor gather in our crop?"
21 (Dt 28:8) then I will command My blessing upon
22 (Lev 26:10; 2Ki 19:29) You shall sow in the eighth year,
and eat yet of old crops until the ninth year until its crops come in for you.
Redemption of Property
23 (1Ch 29:15; Ps 39:12) The land shall not be permanently sold,
for the land is Mine. For you are foreigners and sojourners with
24 In all the land of your possession
you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 (Ru 2:20; 3:9) If your brother becomes poor and has sold
some of his possession, then his nearest redeemer will come
to redeem it, and buy back that which his brother sold.
26 If the man has none to redeem it, but he himself is able to redeem it,
27 then let him count the years since the sale and pay back the balance
to the man to whom he sold it, so that he may return to his property.
28 But if he is not able to restore it to himself,
then that which he sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it
until the Year of Jubilee, and in the Jubilee it shall be released,
and he shall return to his possession.
29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem
it within a year after it is sold, within a full year he may have
the right to buy it back.
30 If it is not redeemed within the time of a full year,
then the house that is in the walled city shall be given
permanently to him who bought it throughout his generations.
It shall not be returned in the Jubilee.
31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them
shall be counted as the fields of the land. They may be redeemed,
and they shall be returned in the Jubilee.
32 For the cities of the Levites, they may redeem at any time
the houses in the cities that they possess.
33 If a Levite purchases back the house that was sold in the city
of his possession, then it shall be returned in the Jubilee.
For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession
among the children of Israel.
34 (Lev 25:23; Ac 4:36-37) But the fields of the land of their
cities may not be sold, for they are their perpetual possession.
Helping the Poor
35 (Dt 15:7-8; Ps 37:26) If your brother becomes poor
and cannot maintain himself with you,
then you shall support him as if he were a foreigner or a sojourner,
so that he may live with you.
36 (Ex 22:25; Dt 23:19-20) Take no usury or interest from him;
but fear your God, so that your brother may live with you.
37 You shall not lend him your money at interest,
nor lend him your food for profit.
38 (Lev 11:45; 22:32-33) I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
The Law About Slavery
39 (Ex 21:2; 1Ki 9:22; Lev 25:46) If your brother who dwells near you
becomes poor and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve
as a bondservant.
40 But as a hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with you.
He shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
41 (Lev 25:28; Ex 21:3) And then he shall depart from you,
both he and his children with him,
and he shall return to his own family
and to the possession of his fathers.
42 (Lev 25:55; Ro 6:22) For they are My servants,
whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.
They shall not be sold as slaves.
43 (Col 4:1; Ex 1:13-14) You shall not rule over him with harshness,
but you shall fear your God.
44 Both your male and female slaves, whom you may have,
they shall be bought from the nations that are around you.
45 Moreover of the foreigners who sojourn among you
and of their families who are with you, who were born in your land,
you may also buy from them, and they may be your possession.
46 You may take them as an inheritance for your children after you,
for their possession. They shall be your slaves forever.
But over your brothers, the children of Israel,
you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
47 If a sojourner or foreigner becomes rich by you,
and your brother who dwells beside him becomes poor
and sells himself to the foreigner or sojourner with you,
or to a member of the stranger's family,
48 (Ne 5:5) then after he is sold he may be redeemed
One of his brothers may redeem him,
49 (Lev 25:26) or either his uncle or his cousin may redeem him,
or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him.
Or if he is able, he may redeem himself.
50 (Isa 16:14; 21:16) He shall calculate with him who bought him
from the year that he was sold to the Year of Jubilee,
and the price of his sale shall be accordi
51 If there are still many years left until the Jubilee,
he shall pay the price proportionately for his redemption
as some of the price that he was bought for.
52 If there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee,
then he shall calculate and pay the price proportionately
for his redemption according to his years of service.
53 As a yearly hired servant he shall be treated,
and the other shall not rule harshly over him in your sight.
54 (Ex 21:2-3) If he is not redeemed in these years,
then he shall go out in the Year of Jubilee,
both he and his children with him.
55 (Lev 25:42) For to Me the children of Israel are servants.
They are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt:
I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 25
[14] And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy
neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
[15] According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy
neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall
sell unto thee:
[16] According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price
thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price
of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell
unto thee.
[17] Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy
God: for I am the LORD your God.
[18] Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
[19] And the land shall yield her fruit, and he shall eat your fill, and
dwell therein in safety.
[20] And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we
shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
[21] Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it
shall bring forth fruit for three years.
[22] And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the
ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
[23] The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are
strangers and sojourners with me.
[24] And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for
the land.
[25] If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his
possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem
that which his brother sold.
[26] And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem
it;
[27] Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the
overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his
possession.
[28] But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold
shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of
jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his
possession.
[29] And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem
it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem
it.
[30] And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the
house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that
bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
[31] But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them
shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and
they shall go out in the jubile.
[32] Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities
of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
[33] And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and
the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the
houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children
of Israel.
[34] But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is
their perpetual possession.
[35] And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then
thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that
he may live with thee.
[36] Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy
brother may live with thee.
[37] Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals
for increase.
[38] I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
[39] And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold
unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
[40] But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and
shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
[41] And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him,
and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers
shall he return.
[42] For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
[43] Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
[44] Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of
the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and
bondmaids.
[45] Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of
them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat
in your land: and they shall be your possession.
[46] And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you,
to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but
over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over
another with rigour.
[47] And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that
dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by
thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
[48] After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may
redeem him:
[49] Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is
nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may
redeem himself.
[50] And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was
sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be
according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired
servant shall it be with him.
[51] If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give
again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
[52] And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he
shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again
the price of his redemption.
[53] And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall
not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
[54] And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the
year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
[55] For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
LEVITICUS 26
Rewards for Obedience
1 (Lev 19:4; Ex 23:24; 20:4 - 5) You shall not make for yourselves idols;
neither set up a carved image nor a standing stone, nor shall you set up
any sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
2 (Lev 19:30) You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:
I am the Lord.
3 (Dt 28:1-14; 11:13-15) If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments
and do them,
4 (Ps 67:6; 85:12) then I will give you rain in due season,
and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield
their fruit.
5 (Am 9:13; Lev 25:18-19) Your threshing shall last till the grape harvest,
and the grape harvest shall last till the time for sowing, and you shall eat
your bread till you are full and dwell in your land safely.
6 (Isa 35:9; Jer 30:10) I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down
for sleep, and none shall make you afraid; I will remove harmful beasts from
the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 (Dt 32:30; Jos 23:10) Five of you shall chase a hundred,
and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight,
and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 (Ge 17:6-7; Ne 9:23) I will turn toward you and make you fruitful
and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
10 (Lev 25:22) You shall eat the old harvest long stored,
and clear out the old to make way for the new.
11 (Ex 25:8; 29:45) I will set My tabernacle among you,
and I shall not abhor you.
12 (2Co 6:16; Ge 3:8) I will walk among you, and I will be your God,
and you shall be My people.
13 (Eze 34:27; Ex 20:2) I am the Lord your God, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves,
and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
Punishment for Disobedience
14 (Dt 28:15-68; Mal 2:2) But if you will not listen to Me,
and will not do all these commandments,
15 (2Ki 17:15) if you despise My statutes, or if you abhor My judgments,
so that you will not do all My commandments, but you break My covenant,
16 (Job 31:8; 1Sa 2:33) then I will do this to you: I will visit you
with terror, with wasting disease, and with a fever that shall consume
the eyes and cause sorrow of heart, and you shall sow your seed in vain,
for your enemies shall eat it.
17 (Ps 53:5; Lev 17:10) I will set My face against you, and you shall be
slain before your enemies. They that hate you shall reign over you,
and you shall flee when none pursues you.
18 (Lev 26:21; 26:24) If you will not yet listen to Me after all this,
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 (Dt 28:23; Isa 25:11) I will break the pride of your power,
and I will make your heaven as iron and your land as bronze.
20 (Ps 127:1; Isa 49:4) Your strength shall be spent in vain,
for your land shall not yield her increase,
nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21 If you continue to walk contrary to Me and will not listen to Me,
I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
22 (Dt 32:24; Jdg 5:6) I will also send wild beasts among you,
which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock,
and make you few in number. And your roads shall be desolate.
23 (Jer 5:3; 2:30) And if by these things you are not turned to Me,
but walk contrary to Me,
24 (2Sa 22:27; Ps 18:26) then I will also walk contrary to you
and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 (Nu 14:12; Eze 5:17) I will bring a sword upon you that shall
extract vengeance for My covenant. And when you are gathered together
within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall
be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 (Isa 3:1; Mic 6:14) When I have broken the supply of your bread,
ten women shall bake your bread in one oven,
and they shall ration your bread again by weight,
and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 (Lev 26:21; 26:24) If you will not listen to Me for all this,
but walk contrary to Me,
28 (Isa 59:18; 63:3) then I will walk contrary to you also in fury,
and I Myself will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 (La 4:10; Eze 5:10) You shall eat the flesh of your sons
and the flesh of your daughters.
30 (2Ki 23:20; Isa 27:9) I will destroy your high places,
and cut down your images, and cast your funeral offerings
on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I shall abhor you.
31 (Ne 2:3; 2Ki 25:4-10) I will make your cities a waste
and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell
the savor of your fragrant offerings.
32 (Jer 9:11; 18:16) I will bring the land into desolation,
and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it.
33 (Dt 4:27; Eze 20:23) I will scatter you among the nations
and I will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall
be desolate and your cities a waste.
34 (2Ch 36:21) Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths
as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest
because it did not rest during your sabbaths when you lived upon it.
36 (Eze 21:7; Lev 26:17) And on those who are left alive of you
I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
and the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them flee,
and they shall flee as from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37 (Jos 7:12-13; Jdg 2:14) They shall fall one upon one another,
as to escape before the sword,
though no one pursues,
and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You shall perish among the nations,
and the land of your enemies shall consume you.
39 (Eze 4:17; 33:10) And those who are left of you shall rot away
in their iniquity in your enemies' lands, and also because of the
iniquities of their fathers, they shall rot away with them.
40 (1Ki 8:33-36; Pr 28:13) But if they confess their iniquity,
and the iniquity of their fathers, with their treachery that
they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary to Me,
41 (Eze 44:7; Ac 7:51) and that I also have walked contrary to them
and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled,
and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
42 (Ex 2:24; 6:5) then will I remember My covenant with Jacob,
and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham,
and I will remember the land.
43 (Lev 26:15) But the land shall be abandoned by them, and enjoy
its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They shall make amends
for their iniquity, because they despised My
and because they abhorred My statutes.
44 (Ro 11:2; 2Ki 13:23) Yet for all that, when they are in the land of
their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor will I abhor them
to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them,
for I am the Lord their God.
45 (Lev 22:33; 25:38) But for their sake I will remember the covenant
with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight
of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.
46 (Lev 27:34; 25:1) These are the statutes and judgments
and laws that the Lord made between Himself
and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus 26
[1] Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a
standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to
bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
[2] Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
[3] If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
[4] Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her
increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
[5] And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall
reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and
dwell in your land safely.
[6] And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall
make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall
the sword go through your land.
[7] And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the
sword.
[8] And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put
ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
[9] For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply
you, and establish my covenant with you.
[10] And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
[11] And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
you.
[12] And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my
people.
[13] I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of
your yoke, and made you go upright.
[14] But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments;
[15] And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my
judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my
covenant:
[16] I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror,
consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause
sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall
eat it.
[17] And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your
enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when
none pursueth you.
[18] And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish
you seven times more for your sins.
[19] And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven
as iron, and your earth as brass:
[20] And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield
her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
[21] And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will
bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
[22] I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your
children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your
highways shall be desolate.
[23] And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk
contrary unto me;
[24] Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven
times for your sins.
[25] And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my
covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send
the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the
enemy.
[26] And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake
your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by
weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
[27] And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto
me;
[28] Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will
chastise you seven times for your sins.
[29] And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your
daughters shall ye eat.
[30] And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast
your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
[31] And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto
desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
[32] And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell
therein shall be astonished at it.
[33] And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword
after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
[34] Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate,
and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy
her sabbaths.
[35] As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in
your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
[36] And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into
their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf
shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they
shall fall when none pursueth.
[37] And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when
none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
[38] And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies
shall eat you up.
[39] And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your
enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine
away with them.
[40] If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their
fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also
they have walked contrary unto me;
[41] And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them
into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be
humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
[42] Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with
Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will
remember the land.
[43] The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths,
while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the
punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my
judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
[44] And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will
not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and
to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
[45] But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors,
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen,
that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
[46] These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made
between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
2) Our Daily Bread for 22 February 2022
https://odb.org/CA/2022/02/22/love-your-loved-ones
entitled Love Your Loved Ones
Psalm 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) 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!
Psalm 8
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained
strength because of thine enemies,
That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,
And hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
Thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen,
Yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord,
How excellent is thy name in all the earth!
In the early twentieth century, Italian poet F. T. Marinetti
launched Futurism, an artistic movement that rejected the past,
scoffed at traditional ideas of beauty, and glorified machinery instead.
In 1909, Marinetti wrote his Manifesto of Futurism, in which he declared
"contempt for women," praised "the blow with the fist," and asserted,
"We want to glorify war." The manifesto concludes: "Standing on the world's
summit we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars!"
Five years after Marinetti's manifesto, modern warfare began in earnest.
World War I did not bring glory. Marinetti himself died in 1944.
The stars, still in place, took no notice.
King David sang poetically of the stars but with a dramatically different
outlook. He wrote, "When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that
you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?" (Psalm 8:3-4).
David's question isn't one of disbelief but of amazed humility. He knew that
the God who made this vast cosmos is indeed mindful of us. He notices every
detail about us-the good, the bad, the humble, the insolent-even the absurd.
It's pointless to challenge the stars.
Rather, they challenge us to praise our Creator.
By: Tim Gustafson
Reflect & Pray
What current philosophies or movements can you think
of that leave no room for God? What reminds you of your Creator,
and how does that prompt you to praise Him?
Heavenly Father, I acknowledge Your love for me with
feelings of amazement, awe, and humility. Who am I?
Thank You for loving me!
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."
38 give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down,
and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.
For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured
to you again.
"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 "payment 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 few 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 to others as a bribe, to get something
in return?
b) What is God's concept of giving, as demonstrated
in the gift of Jesus Christ?
c) How can this verse help me to give more selflessly?
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 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah,
who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long
as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
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.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1 I waited patiently for the LORD;
And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even
praise unto our God:
Many shall see it, and fear,
And shall trust in the LORD.
...
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:
Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;
I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation:
I have not concealed thy lovingkindness,
And thy truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD:
Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve 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."
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."
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as high as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the largest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in Jesus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discipleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congregations, and equally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
Day 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.
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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."
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another;
as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples,
if ye have love one to another.
Rom 12:10
10 Be devoted to one another with brotherly love; prefer one another in honour
10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love;
in honour preferring one another;
Heb 10:24
24 And let us consider how to spur one another to love and to good works.
24 and let us consider one another to provoke unto 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.
8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another,
love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 John 3:23
23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name
of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another as He commanded us.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name
of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
)
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and remember His Rewards for obedience.
Pray to the Lord
"Heavenly Father, I acknowledge Your love for me with
feelings of amazement, awe, and humility. Who am I?
Thank You for loving me!"
Pray to the Lord and pray to be generous in His eyes.
Pray to the Lord and seek Him daily.
Pray to the Lord and declare His Faithfulness and thanksgiving.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
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 the encouragement and growth of those who receive Bibles throughout
Egypt
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Leviticus 25:14-55
Leviticus 26
LEVITICUS 25
14 (Lev 19:13; 25:17) If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything
from your neighbor, you shall not oppress one another.
15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall pay your
neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops
he shall sell to you.
16 According to the increase of years you shall increase the price,
and according to the decrease of years you shall diminish the price of it.
For he shall sell to you according to the number of years of crops.
17 (Lev 19:14; 19:32) You shall not therefore oppress one another,
but you shall fear your God. For I am the Lord your God.
18 (Dt 12:10; Jer 23:6) Therefore you shall do My statutes,
and keep My decrees, and do them, and you shall dwell securely in the land.
19 (Lev 26:5; Ps 85:12) The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat
your fill and live securely in it.
20 (Lev 25:4; Lk 12:29) If you shall say, "What shall we eat in the seventh
year, if we shall not sow nor gather in our crop?"
21 (Dt 28:8) then I will command My blessing upon
22 (Lev 26:10; 2Ki 19:29) You shall sow in the eighth year,
and eat yet of old crops until the ninth year until its crops come in for you.
Redemption of Property
23 (1Ch 29:15; Ps 39:12) The land shall not be permanently sold,
for the land is Mine. For you are foreigners and sojourners with
24 In all the land of your possession
you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 (Ru 2:20; 3:9) If your brother becomes poor and has sold
some of his possession, then his nearest redeemer will come
to redeem it, and buy back that which his brother sold.
26 If the man has none to redeem it, but he himself is able to redeem it,
27 then let him count the years since the sale and pay back the balance
to the man to whom he sold it, so that he may return to his property.
28 But if he is not able to restore it to himself,
then that which he sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it
until the Year of Jubilee, and in the Jubilee it shall be released,
and he shall return to his possession.
29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem
it within a year after it is sold, within a full year he may have
the right to buy it back.
30 If it is not redeemed within the time of a full year,
then the house that is in the walled city shall be given
permanently to him who bought it throughout his generations.
It shall not be returned in the Jubilee.
31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them
shall be counted as the fields of the land. They may be redeemed,
and they shall be returned in the Jubilee.
32 For the cities of the Levites, they may redeem at any time
the houses in the cities that they possess.
33 If a Levite purchases back the house that was sold in the city
of his possession, then it shall be returned in the Jubilee.
For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession
among the children of Israel.
34 (Lev 25:23; Ac 4:36-37) But the fields of the land of their
cities may not be sold, for they are their perpetual possession.
Helping the Poor
35 (Dt 15:7-8; Ps 37:26) If your brother becomes poor
and cannot maintain himself with you,
then you shall support him as if he were a foreigner or a sojourner,
so that he may live with you.
36 (Ex 22:25; Dt 23:19-20) Take no usury or interest from him;
but fear your God, so that your brother may live with you.
37 You shall not lend him your money at interest,
nor lend him your food for profit.
38 (Lev 11:45; 22:32-33) I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
The Law About Slavery
39 (Ex 21:2; 1Ki 9:22; Lev 25:46) If your brother who dwells near you
becomes poor and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve
as a bondservant.
40 But as a hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with you.
He shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
41 (Lev 25:28; Ex 21:3) And then he shall depart from you,
both he and his children with him,
and he shall return to his own family
and to the possession of his fathers.
42 (Lev 25:55; Ro 6:22) For they are My servants,
whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.
They shall not be sold as slaves.
43 (Col 4:1; Ex 1:13-14) You shall not rule over him with harshness,
but you shall fear your God.
44 Both your male and female slaves, whom you may have,
they shall be bought from the nations that are around you.
45 Moreover of the foreigners who sojourn among you
and of their families who are with you, who were born in your land,
you may also buy from them, and they may be your possession.
46 You may take them as an inheritance for your children after you,
for their possession. They shall be your slaves forever.
But over your brothers, the children of Israel,
you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
47 If a sojourner or foreigner becomes rich by you,
and your brother who dwells beside him becomes poor
and sells himself to the foreigner or sojourner with you,
or to a member of the stranger's family,
48 (Ne 5:5) then after he is sold he may be redeemed
One of his brothers may redeem him,
49 (Lev 25:26) or either his uncle or his cousin may redeem him,
or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him.
Or if he is able, he may redeem himself.
50 (Isa 16:14; 21:16) He shall calculate with him who bought him
from the year that he was sold to the Year of Jubilee,
and the price of his sale shall be accordi
51 If there are still many years left until the Jubilee,
he shall pay the price proportionately for his redemption
as some of the price that he was bought for.
52 If there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee,
then he shall calculate and pay the price proportionately
for his redemption according to his years of service.
53 As a yearly hired servant he shall be treated,
and the other shall not rule harshly over him in your sight.
54 (Ex 21:2-3) If he is not redeemed in these years,
then he shall go out in the Year of Jubilee,
both he and his children with him.
55 (Lev 25:42) For to Me the children of Israel are servants.
They are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt:
I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 25
[14] And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy
neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
[15] According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy
neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall
sell unto thee:
[16] According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price
thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price
of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell
unto thee.
[17] Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy
God: for I am the LORD your God.
[18] Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
[19] And the land shall yield her fruit, and he shall eat your fill, and
dwell therein in safety.
[20] And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we
shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
[21] Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it
shall bring forth fruit for three years.
[22] And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the
ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
[23] The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are
strangers and sojourners with me.
[24] And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for
the land.
[25] If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his
possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem
that which his brother sold.
[26] And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem
it;
[27] Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the
overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his
possession.
[28] But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold
shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of
jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his
possession.
[29] And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem
it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem
it.
[30] And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the
house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that
bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
[31] But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them
shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and
they shall go out in the jubile.
[32] Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities
of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
[33] And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and
the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the
houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children
of Israel.
[34] But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is
their perpetual possession.
[35] And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then
thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that
he may live with thee.
[36] Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy
brother may live with thee.
[37] Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals
for increase.
[38] I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
[39] And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold
unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
[40] But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and
shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
[41] And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him,
and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers
shall he return.
[42] For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
[43] Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
[44] Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of
the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and
bondmaids.
[45] Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of
them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat
in your land: and they shall be your possession.
[46] And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you,
to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but
over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over
another with rigour.
[47] And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that
dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by
thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
[48] After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may
redeem him:
[49] Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is
nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may
redeem himself.
[50] And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was
sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be
according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired
servant shall it be with him.
[51] If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give
again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
[52] And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he
shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again
the price of his redemption.
[53] And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall
not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
[54] And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the
year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
[55] For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
LEVITICUS 26
Rewards for Obedience
1 (Lev 19:4; Ex 23:24; 20:4 - 5) You shall not make for yourselves idols;
neither set up a carved image nor a standing stone, nor shall you set up
any sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
2 (Lev 19:30) You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:
I am the Lord.
3 (Dt 28:1-14; 11:13-15) If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments
and do them,
4 (Ps 67:6; 85:12) then I will give you rain in due season,
and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield
their fruit.
5 (Am 9:13; Lev 25:18-19) Your threshing shall last till the grape harvest,
and the grape harvest shall last till the time for sowing, and you shall eat
your bread till you are full and dwell in your land safely.
6 (Isa 35:9; Jer 30:10) I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down
for sleep, and none shall make you afraid; I will remove harmful beasts from
the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 (Dt 32:30; Jos 23:10) Five of you shall chase a hundred,
and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight,
and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 (Ge 17:6-7; Ne 9:23) I will turn toward you and make you fruitful
and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
10 (Lev 25:22) You shall eat the old harvest long stored,
and clear out the old to make way for the new.
11 (Ex 25:8; 29:45) I will set My tabernacle among you,
and I shall not abhor you.
12 (2Co 6:16; Ge 3:8) I will walk among you, and I will be your God,
and you shall be My people.
13 (Eze 34:27; Ex 20:2) I am the Lord your God, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves,
and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
Punishment for Disobedience
14 (Dt 28:15-68; Mal 2:2) But if you will not listen to Me,
and will not do all these commandments,
15 (2Ki 17:15) if you despise My statutes, or if you abhor My judgments,
so that you will not do all My commandments, but you break My covenant,
16 (Job 31:8; 1Sa 2:33) then I will do this to you: I will visit you
with terror, with wasting disease, and with a fever that shall consume
the eyes and cause sorrow of heart, and you shall sow your seed in vain,
for your enemies shall eat it.
17 (Ps 53:5; Lev 17:10) I will set My face against you, and you shall be
slain before your enemies. They that hate you shall reign over you,
and you shall flee when none pursues you.
18 (Lev 26:21; 26:24) If you will not yet listen to Me after all this,
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 (Dt 28:23; Isa 25:11) I will break the pride of your power,
and I will make your heaven as iron and your land as bronze.
20 (Ps 127:1; Isa 49:4) Your strength shall be spent in vain,
for your land shall not yield her increase,
nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21 If you continue to walk contrary to Me and will not listen to Me,
I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
22 (Dt 32:24; Jdg 5:6) I will also send wild beasts among you,
which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock,
and make you few in number. And your roads shall be desolate.
23 (Jer 5:3; 2:30) And if by these things you are not turned to Me,
but walk contrary to Me,
24 (2Sa 22:27; Ps 18:26) then I will also walk contrary to you
and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 (Nu 14:12; Eze 5:17) I will bring a sword upon you that shall
extract vengeance for My covenant. And when you are gathered together
within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall
be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 (Isa 3:1; Mic 6:14) When I have broken the supply of your bread,
ten women shall bake your bread in one oven,
and they shall ration your bread again by weight,
and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 (Lev 26:21; 26:24) If you will not listen to Me for all this,
but walk contrary to Me,
28 (Isa 59:18; 63:3) then I will walk contrary to you also in fury,
and I Myself will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 (La 4:10; Eze 5:10) You shall eat the flesh of your sons
and the flesh of your daughters.
30 (2Ki 23:20; Isa 27:9) I will destroy your high places,
and cut down your images, and cast your funeral offerings
on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I shall abhor you.
31 (Ne 2:3; 2Ki 25:4-10) I will make your cities a waste
and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell
the savor of your fragrant offerings.
32 (Jer 9:11; 18:16) I will bring the land into desolation,
and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it.
33 (Dt 4:27; Eze 20:23) I will scatter you among the nations
and I will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall
be desolate and your cities a waste.
34 (2Ch 36:21) Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths
as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest
because it did not rest during your sabbaths when you lived upon it.
36 (Eze 21:7; Lev 26:17) And on those who are left alive of you
I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
and the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them flee,
and they shall flee as from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37 (Jos 7:12-13; Jdg 2:14) They shall fall one upon one another,
as to escape before the sword,
though no one pursues,
and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You shall perish among the nations,
and the land of your enemies shall consume you.
39 (Eze 4:17; 33:10) And those who are left of you shall rot away
in their iniquity in your enemies' lands, and also because of the
iniquities of their fathers, they shall rot away with them.
40 (1Ki 8:33-36; Pr 28:13) But if they confess their iniquity,
and the iniquity of their fathers, with their treachery that
they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary to Me,
41 (Eze 44:7; Ac 7:51) and that I also have walked contrary to them
and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled,
and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
42 (Ex 2:24; 6:5) then will I remember My covenant with Jacob,
and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham,
and I will remember the land.
43 (Lev 26:15) But the land shall be abandoned by them, and enjoy
its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They shall make amends
for their iniquity, because they despised My
and because they abhorred My statutes.
44 (Ro 11:2; 2Ki 13:23) Yet for all that, when they are in the land of
their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor will I abhor them
to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them,
for I am the Lord their God.
45 (Lev 22:33; 25:38) But for their sake I will remember the covenant
with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight
of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.
46 (Lev 27:34; 25:1) These are the statutes and judgments
and laws that the Lord made between Himself
and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus 26
[1] Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a
standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to
bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
[2] Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
[3] If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
[4] Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her
increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
[5] And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall
reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and
dwell in your land safely.
[6] And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall
make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall
the sword go through your land.
[7] And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the
sword.
[8] And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put
ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
[9] For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply
you, and establish my covenant with you.
[10] And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
[11] And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
you.
[12] And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my
people.
[13] I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of
your yoke, and made you go upright.
[14] But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments;
[15] And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my
judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my
covenant:
[16] I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror,
consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause
sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall
eat it.
[17] And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your
enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when
none pursueth you.
[18] And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish
you seven times more for your sins.
[19] And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven
as iron, and your earth as brass:
[20] And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield
her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
[21] And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will
bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
[22] I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your
children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your
highways shall be desolate.
[23] And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk
contrary unto me;
[24] Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven
times for your sins.
[25] And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my
covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send
the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the
enemy.
[26] And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake
your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by
weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
[27] And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto
me;
[28] Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will
chastise you seven times for your sins.
[29] And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your
daughters shall ye eat.
[30] And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast
your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
[31] And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto
desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
[32] And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell
therein shall be astonished at it.
[33] And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword
after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
[34] Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate,
and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy
her sabbaths.
[35] As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in
your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
[36] And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into
their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf
shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they
shall fall when none pursueth.
[37] And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when
none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
[38] And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies
shall eat you up.
[39] And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your
enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine
away with them.
[40] If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their
fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also
they have walked contrary unto me;
[41] And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them
into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be
humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
[42] Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with
Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will
remember the land.
[43] The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths,
while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the
punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my
judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
[44] And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will
not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and
to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
[45] But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors,
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen,
that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
[46] These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made
between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
2) Our Daily Bread for 22 February 2022
https://odb.org/CA/2022/02/22/love-your-loved-ones
entitled Love Your Loved Ones
Psalm 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) 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!
Psalm 8
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained
strength because of thine enemies,
That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,
And hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
Thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen,
Yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord,
How excellent is thy name in all the earth!
In the early twentieth century, Italian poet F. T. Marinetti
launched Futurism, an artistic movement that rejected the past,
scoffed at traditional ideas of beauty, and glorified machinery instead.
In 1909, Marinetti wrote his Manifesto of Futurism, in which he declared
"contempt for women," praised "the blow with the fist," and asserted,
"We want to glorify war." The manifesto concludes: "Standing on the world's
summit we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars!"
Five years after Marinetti's manifesto, modern warfare began in earnest.
World War I did not bring glory. Marinetti himself died in 1944.
The stars, still in place, took no notice.
King David sang poetically of the stars but with a dramatically different
outlook. He wrote, "When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that
you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?" (Psalm 8:3-4).
David's question isn't one of disbelief but of amazed humility. He knew that
the God who made this vast cosmos is indeed mindful of us. He notices every
detail about us-the good, the bad, the humble, the insolent-even the absurd.
It's pointless to challenge the stars.
Rather, they challenge us to praise our Creator.
By: Tim Gustafson
Reflect & Pray
What current philosophies or movements can you think
of that leave no room for God? What reminds you of your Creator,
and how does that prompt you to praise Him?
Heavenly Father, I acknowledge Your love for me with
feelings of amazement, awe, and humility. Who am I?
Thank You for loving me!
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."
38 give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down,
and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.
For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured
to you again.
"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 "payment 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 few 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 to others as a bribe, to get something
in return?
b) What is God's concept of giving, as demonstrated
in the gift of Jesus Christ?
c) How can this verse help me to give more selflessly?
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 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah,
who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long
as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
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.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1 I waited patiently for the LORD;
And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even
praise unto our God:
Many shall see it, and fear,
And shall trust in the LORD.
...
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:
Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;
I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation:
I have not concealed thy lovingkindness,
And thy truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD:
Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve 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."
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."
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Alberta
Quick facts on Muslims in Alberta
Alberta 2015 population 4121700
est Muslim Population 195240
CNMM Networks: Calgary and Edmonton
It is estimated that Calgary has 82000 Muslims and Edmonton another 50000 .
Alberta may have a total as high as 195240 today.
Calgary is notable as the first Canadian city with a Muslim mayor. It's
become a prominent place of Islamic fundamentalism.
Edmonton's Muslim population is very diverse, with the largest group
coming from Tanzania, followed by Somalia, and then North African countries
such as Egypt, Morocco, etc.
Muslims are coming to faith in Jesus! They overcome huge spiritual,
emotional and cultural hurdles to follow Christ. Yet their challenges still
continue, especially in growing in discipleship. They often fell lost in our
Western congregations, and equally lost trying to find a church body with whom
they can identify. some are even being lured into Christian cult groups.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
Day 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.
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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."
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another;
as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples,
if ye have love one to another.
Rom 12:10
10 Be devoted to one another with brotherly love; prefer one another in honour
10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love;
in honour preferring one another;
Heb 10:24
24 And let us consider how to spur one another to love and to good works.
24 and let us consider one another to provoke unto 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.
8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another,
love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 John 3:23
23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name
of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another as He commanded us.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name
of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
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Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and remember His Rewards for obedience.
Pray to the Lord
"Heavenly Father, I acknowledge Your love for me with
feelings of amazement, awe, and humility. Who am I?
Thank You for loving me!"
Pray to the Lord and pray to be generous in His eyes.
Pray to the Lord and seek Him daily.
Pray to the Lord and declare His Faithfulness and thanksgiving.
Please join us in praying for:
- The church to reach out to the growing Muslim populations in Alberta.
- for Canadian churches to start contextualised discipleship ministries to
Muslim-background believers.
- for Muslm-background believers to be well grounded spiritually and socially
in their faith and the Church.
- and for Muslim-background believers to share their faith with their
not-yet-believing family and friendship networks.
- for Farsi and Arabic fellowships to grow in spiritual maturity and outreach.
- for current and new workers among Muslims in these growing Muslim
in these growing Muslim population centres.
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 the encouragement and growth of those who receive Bibles throughout
Egypt
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