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The 10 Commandments was one small section of the indivisible Mosaic Law that Israel received from the Lord Himself. The complete Law covered a wide range of moral; civil, religious and ceremonial ordinances. If the nation remained faithful to the Lord, He promised them unimaginable blessings, while disobedience would necessitate punishment Although in its entirety the Mosaic Law was given to God's covenant people, and although the Decalogue is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, we must never forget that Jesus Himself instituted a new covenant - a better covenant through His own blood. The main function of the Law is to point us to Christ. He is not only the fulfillment of the Law and the prophets, but He is the One Who has fulfilled the Law on behalf of all who would believe on His name. “You shall have no other gods before me.  Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for Your word and that truths that it contains. Thank You for Your faithfulness to Your people and thank You that in Your grace the Lord Jesus came to fulfil the Law and the prophets and to die on the cross so that that a new and better covenant might be implemented - so that whosever believes on Him would not perish but have everlasting life. Thank You in Jesus name we Pray. AMEN. Ambitions and emotions, temptations and trials, hope and fear, inner thoughts and expectations, together with spiritual strengths and weaknesses, can all be reflected in the face and mirrored in the expression of the eyes. It is often as we openly gaze into the reflection of our own face, through the mirror of God's Word, that we can identify areas that need spiritual adjustment and God's forgiveness. How important to examine our own heart and scrutinize our inner thoughts, through the mirror-like qualities of a still water-pool and to reflect whatever is good, and pure, and wholesome, and holy. The Word of God is the truthful mirror into which we should look carefully. The Bible is the still water-pool in which to gaze day by day - for the face of Christ is the reflection upon which our hearts should rest. As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.  Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, what wonderful truths are contained within Your Word. We pray that we may learn to keep the eyes of our hearts fixed upon Christ, and to daily search the Scriptures more faithfully, so that we may learn more of You and increasingly reflect the Lord Jesus in all we say and do. We pray that our lives may be mirror-images of Him, that we may only say the things that He has taught us, and only do those things that honor Him, so that His grace, love, care, and beauty, may be seen in us and flow out to others. In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN. The seventh day was a day of rest. It was God's Sabbath, and He blessed it and made it holy. The Lord set apart the Sabbath unto Himself and it represented completion, perfection, and rest. God did not rest because He was weary but because He had finished creating a perfect world and was satisfied with all that He had done. Had man not sinned in the garden, it is likely that God would still be resting today. But man did sin, which required God to begin working once again. However, the work in which the Lord is engaged today is the work of redemption. God's ongoing work today is the making of a new creation that is made in the image and likeness of Christ. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.  Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You that Jesus is our Sabbath rest and that in Him, we have peace with God and the peace of God that passes understanding. Thank You that we are new creations in Christ, and eternal rest is the promised possession of all who have trusted in Him for salvation. We pray that many more will come to an understanding that faith in Christ’s sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection has secured for them eternal rest, if they will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN. Israel was to be a NATION under God. They were to be a NATION who trusted God. They were to be a NATION who walked in His ways and kept His commandments as an example to the surrounding Gentile nations. And the Lord knew that the best way for Israel to walk in His ways and keep His commands, was to witness to the world of His goodness and His grace. If Israel told the world of the promised Messiah it would help them to REMEMBER WHO God is and NEVER FORGET WHAT He has done for them. Christians, in this dispensation of grace, should learn whatever lessons God has to teach us from Israel's experience. We should learn what God wants to teach us we should be careful not to repeat Israel's mistakes. We should REMEMBER WHO God is. We should NEVER FORGET WHAT He has done for us. We should heed His Word and be ready to tell others of the hope that we have in Him. I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word, the truths and encouragement that it contains. We see that You were faithful to Israel, despite their many failings, and rejoice to know that You will remain faithful to all who are called by Your name in this Church dispensation. We pray that You would use us in these dark and difficult times, when the world seems to be spiraling out of control, and may we never forget that You are a faithful God Who keeps His promises to a thousand generations. Thank You in Jesus' name, AMEN. Every generation since the creation is familiar with fire, and understands its benefits as well as its dangers. A fire needs fuel to keep it alight and if wood is withheld from the burning embers, then the heat it gives off will die down and the flame will go out! Although fire has many benefits and a wholesome tongue is like a tree of life... that same fire can cause havoc, distress, and devastation. In the same way the tale-bearer, the gossip, the slanderer, and the whisperer, can cause much mischief, but when there is no-one to spread gossip, conflict dies down. Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.  Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for the wisdom in the book of Proverbs. Help us to take to heart the devastation and destruction that can be caused by careless speech and foolish words. Keep us from participating in any form of talebearing or gossiping. Help us to take to heart this simple truth, that without wood, a fire will go out, and without a gossip, conflict will die down. Purify our hearts and our speech we pray, and may the words of our mouths and the thoughts of our hearts be acceptable to You. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN. As Christians we are not only kings and priests, but as God's redeemed children we are called to be like the Bereans who searched the scriptures daily to check the accuracy of what was being taught in their meetings. We are instructed and encouraged to do the same. Some complain of discrepancies or even contradictions in the Word of God.. and others like to allow popular teachers to spoon feed them with a somewhat distorted gospel - but God's word is clear - and His word is altogether true. We are instructed to search out the truth as we read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the whole counsel of God.. so that we may grow in grace, mature in the faith and discover the hidden things of God - secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things He has revealed, belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all that He commands. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.  Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word. Thank You for the simple truth of salvation and the things in Your Word that are quickly discernible on the surface of Scripture. Thank You that You have ordained those that seek out the deep things of God through steady study of the Word of God, a heart that is truly teachable.. and a spirit that is thoroughly submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit of God, will discover many hidden truths and secret treasures within Your Word. May we be diligent students and search out those secret things, which are hidden from our view.. in Jesus name we pray, AMEN. The description of God's creation in Genesis 1, introduces us to the essential fullness and the almighty power of God Who is seen working in harmony to bring into existence the heavens, the earth, and all that is therein. The first verse of chapter 2 completes this chronicle of creation which displays the eternal power of God. God saw all that He had made and behold, it was very good, and so we read of the evening and the morning of the sixth day, that final day of God's creative control when He made man in His own image and likeness. God created man to have dominion over His creative masterpiece and indeed it was good - it was very good. The host of earth would compose of plants and trees, herbs and flowers, birds and fish, creeping things and all the great creatures that filled the earth. And man, who was made in the image and likeness of God, would also be part of the host of earth that God created in those six, spectacular days of creation: Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.  Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, what a wonderful Creator You are Who formed the heavens and the earth and all the hosts of heaven and earth, in six spectacular days of Your creative power. We praise You for the glory of the heavens and the beauty of the earth and thank You that You made man in Your own image and likeness to have dominion over all that You had made. Thank You, Father, that despite the fall of man and our sinful nature, You purposed to redeem us, return us into fellowship with Yourself, and re-establish man’s rule on earth through the shed blood of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Thank You that Jesus is the perfect Man Who will rule the earth in righteousness. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN. How important that we should put a guard over our lips and tongue, and set our heart to look to the Lord by pouring out our heart to Him and seeking His guidance in all things so that we walk and talk in spirit and truth. Not only should we guard our mouth and be careful that we speak the truth in love and with grace, but we should also bridle our tongue so that we prevent ourselves from speaking hastily or without due thought or consideration. Let us seek to guard our lips and speak words of wisdom and truth that honor the Father in heaven. If our first priority is to acknowledge Him in all things, He will direct all our ways. Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity.  Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, too often we do not guard our lips and bridle our tongues. Please forgive us. Please help us say and do only those things that are honoring to You. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN. The Bible does not set out to prove the existence of God, it states this truth as a fact.. that in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Those who choose to deny this truth identify themselves foolish. The sovereign God, Who is Creator of all and in Whom all things have their being, is the logical starting place for human's journey of redemption - as outlined in Scripture. God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. God is good and the very first recorded words of our great Creator were spoken on that first day of creation, “let there be light.. and there was light'. Yes, God commanded light to shine out of the darkness on that first day of creation, which He would use to establish day from night. He wanted to ensure that light was distinct from the darkness and so He said: Let there be light and there was light.. But we are always to be on our guard as we journey through life.. for the enemy is a master-counterfeiter.. and no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light seeking to deceive even the elect of God. Praise God that by grace through faith in Christ we are not only children of the light, but God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.  Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You that Christ is our light and the light of our lives. Thank You that in Him the blackness in our hearts has been replaced with the light of the gospel of grace and that we have been saved from the kingdom of darkness and brought into the kingdom of Your Son. May we be a light shining in a dark world as a witness of Your goodness and grace - to Your praise and glory in Jesus name we pray, AMEN. There is much in Scripture that adheres to this truth, the inner motive of a truly broken heart that recognizes its own lack and poverty, insufficiency and helplessness before the Lord, is of far greater value to the Father that the outward trappings of the life that appears to be so beautiful to the outward eye, but which can so often conceal an unclean motive and hypocritical heart. Indeed, it is not the sacrificial acts of a man or woman who desires to be pleasing to the Lord that delights His heart, but the one that walks in spirit and truth, the one that dies to the self-life and lives to Christ, the one that looks to Jesus, the one that abides in Christ, the one that can say, "Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling." As we make our way in this world that is increasingly corrupt and self-serving, let us take to heart these wise words. Let us honor the Lord with our thoughts, words, and actions, from this day forth. To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.  Our United Prayer:
Loving Father, we do want to please You, but we recognize that simply trusting Your Word, applying it in our lives, and looking to Jesus, is of far greater worth than anything we ourselves can offer You. Keep us low at the Cross, we pray, and keep us broken before You all the days of our lives. In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN. |
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