Scripture: Exodus 40:34 - 35 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Observation: Wow, imagine the very presence of God filling a tent. Did everyone weep, laugh, fall on their faces? Was it like the presence of God that we experience today? Or was it like a million times more powerful?
Application: God told Moses to build the tent so that he could dwell with them. God wants to be with us! When we humble ourselves, and seek him, he will show up. He loves us, and he wants to be with us. If you have ever experience a drop of God's presence, you know it is the most wonderful thing in the universe. Get hungry for it.
Prayer: Dear Jesus, teach us your ways. Help us to know you in a new and more intimate way so that we can live in your presence. Help us to make you the owner of our lives.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
I saw God, and lived to tell about it!
Scripture: Exodus 24: 9-11 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself. But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
Observation: Can you imagine, seeing God himself? This experience on Mount Sinia must have been like none other. Later in the exodus it talks about the top of the mountain being covered with holy fire. The pure power and goodness of God in one place! These fellows were not able to come too close to God, but they were close enough to see him and live to tell about it.
Application: We can see God and know him too. We have something that Moses and his leaders didn't, we have the reconciliation to God through Jesus Christ. Jesus made a way for us to be with him always, on earth and in eternity. We only need to love him, and give him charge of our lives.
Prayer: Thank You Jesus that you are life, and that you are all that is good. Thank you for your love, in that before we knew you, you loved us and made a way for us to be with you always. Help us to love you each day, and live each day of our lives for you alone.
Observation: Can you imagine, seeing God himself? This experience on Mount Sinia must have been like none other. Later in the exodus it talks about the top of the mountain being covered with holy fire. The pure power and goodness of God in one place! These fellows were not able to come too close to God, but they were close enough to see him and live to tell about it.
Application: We can see God and know him too. We have something that Moses and his leaders didn't, we have the reconciliation to God through Jesus Christ. Jesus made a way for us to be with him always, on earth and in eternity. We only need to love him, and give him charge of our lives.
Prayer: Thank You Jesus that you are life, and that you are all that is good. Thank you for your love, in that before we knew you, you loved us and made a way for us to be with you always. Help us to love you each day, and live each day of our lives for you alone.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The greatest commandment?
Scripture: Exd 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Observation: Exodus 20:3 is the first of the ten commandments which God gave Moses on Mount Sinai. However, it was not the commandment chosen by Jesus as the "Greatest Commandment" The Greatest Commandment was to Love the Lord God with all of your heart, and all of your soul. It seems to be the tendency of mankind to latch on to the first of the ten commandments, to have no other gods, and feel that we are right with God. It isn't so. If we say that we know God, and that he is our God, but we don't love him passionately, we have missed it. Big Time missed it.
Application: It isn't enough to be Christian in name only, we need God's love. We will be empty and miserable without it. We MIGHT have a ticket to heaven, but we may have hell on earth without God's love. Do you want God's love? Give and it will be given to you. Give him your love, and you will open your heart to receive his love. He already loves you, but he is a gentleman, he wont force his love on you. He will wait until you open your heart to his.
Prayer: Thank You Jesus for your Love. We know that before the worlds were formed, that you love us. You knew us, you cared for us. Break our hard hearts, and help us to be used by you. Help us to know you m0re intimately. Help us to meet you each day.
Observation: Exodus 20:3 is the first of the ten commandments which God gave Moses on Mount Sinai. However, it was not the commandment chosen by Jesus as the "Greatest Commandment" The Greatest Commandment was to Love the Lord God with all of your heart, and all of your soul. It seems to be the tendency of mankind to latch on to the first of the ten commandments, to have no other gods, and feel that we are right with God. It isn't so. If we say that we know God, and that he is our God, but we don't love him passionately, we have missed it. Big Time missed it.
Application: It isn't enough to be Christian in name only, we need God's love. We will be empty and miserable without it. We MIGHT have a ticket to heaven, but we may have hell on earth without God's love. Do you want God's love? Give and it will be given to you. Give him your love, and you will open your heart to receive his love. He already loves you, but he is a gentleman, he wont force his love on you. He will wait until you open your heart to his.
Prayer: Thank You Jesus for your Love. We know that before the worlds were formed, that you love us. You knew us, you cared for us. Break our hard hearts, and help us to be used by you. Help us to know you m0re intimately. Help us to meet you each day.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
He is our Saviour
Scripture - Exd 12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. Exd 12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for [there was] not a house where [there was] not one dead.
Observation - How could a loving, good, God kill babies? This is a tough question, but there is a good answer. God is a loving father, a Saviour to his people. There were over 1 million of his people in Egypt, all children of Jacob and his twelve sons. In four hundred years, they had multiplied from 70 people into over a million. However, there was an evil regime oppressing them. They had become slaves, and they were abused daily by cruel task masters and their children were killed at birth to prevent further population growth. If those were your children, wouldn't you be angry? Wouldn't you save them, even if it meant having to take a weapon to those who were killing your family? God tried t10 times to get Pharaoh to let his family go free, but Pharaoh would not. In the end, God had to allow the destroyer (Satan) to do something horrible. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The Egyptians had killed the babies of his family, and so God allowed the Egyptians children to be killed.
Application: Sometimes the right thing to do is to get angry and protect those who need protection, even when that means violence or death.
Prayer: Thank you Jesus that you took God's Anger upon yourself, so that we don't have to face it. Thank you that you took all the things that we did, or will ever do upon yourself and you took the punishment for us so that we can live righteously even though we don't deserve it. We love you Jesus, and we trust your with our lives. Protect us, and those we love.
Observation - How could a loving, good, God kill babies? This is a tough question, but there is a good answer. God is a loving father, a Saviour to his people. There were over 1 million of his people in Egypt, all children of Jacob and his twelve sons. In four hundred years, they had multiplied from 70 people into over a million. However, there was an evil regime oppressing them. They had become slaves, and they were abused daily by cruel task masters and their children were killed at birth to prevent further population growth. If those were your children, wouldn't you be angry? Wouldn't you save them, even if it meant having to take a weapon to those who were killing your family? God tried t10 times to get Pharaoh to let his family go free, but Pharaoh would not. In the end, God had to allow the destroyer (Satan) to do something horrible. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The Egyptians had killed the babies of his family, and so God allowed the Egyptians children to be killed.
Application: Sometimes the right thing to do is to get angry and protect those who need protection, even when that means violence or death.
Prayer: Thank you Jesus that you took God's Anger upon yourself, so that we don't have to face it. Thank you that you took all the things that we did, or will ever do upon yourself and you took the punishment for us so that we can live righteously even though we don't deserve it. We love you Jesus, and we trust your with our lives. Protect us, and those we love.
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