Here daughters, I forgot to add this to the last post. Listen to the words of this song by Keith Green. Consider your life. Who will you be in 2017.
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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Genesis 12:1-9, Part 6: An Altar to the Lord
An Altar to the Lord
Abram, content that God was fulfilling his promise, built and altar to the Lord. It is not said what he said to the Lord when he cried out, but worship him he did. Abram knew he had heard God's voice, and now he was at the place God had prepared for him. In gratitude, Abram build an altar and lays his offering on it to thank and honor God there.
Beginning with Adam and Eve, after the flood and now as Abram recognizes God faithfulness, God's people make it know that they appreciate what God has done in their lives. An altar was not only a place to lay your sacrifice or offering, it remained as a visible sign that someone had called on the name of the Lord. Honor and devotion to the Creator was real.
A and K, today, you do not sacrifice on a altar built by human hands. Instead you are called to be living sacrifice to him. This is done through obedience to his statues. In his Word, both Old and New Testaments, he describes how you are to live. In 1st Samuel 15:22, Samuel told Saul that a true sacrifice was one of obedience. Your life should portray Christ and should leave behind a visible sign that you consistently call on the name of the Lord. You are to be both the sacrifice and the altar. Live in obedience to him in the new year ahead that others may see God's faithfulness and wonder.
~Dad
Genesis 12:8b There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord
Abram, content that God was fulfilling his promise, built and altar to the Lord. It is not said what he said to the Lord when he cried out, but worship him he did. Abram knew he had heard God's voice, and now he was at the place God had prepared for him. In gratitude, Abram build an altar and lays his offering on it to thank and honor God there.
Beginning with Adam and Eve, after the flood and now as Abram recognizes God faithfulness, God's people make it know that they appreciate what God has done in their lives. An altar was not only a place to lay your sacrifice or offering, it remained as a visible sign that someone had called on the name of the Lord. Honor and devotion to the Creator was real.
A and K, today, you do not sacrifice on a altar built by human hands. Instead you are called to be living sacrifice to him. This is done through obedience to his statues. In his Word, both Old and New Testaments, he describes how you are to live. In 1st Samuel 15:22, Samuel told Saul that a true sacrifice was one of obedience. Your life should portray Christ and should leave behind a visible sign that you consistently call on the name of the Lord. You are to be both the sacrifice and the altar. Live in obedience to him in the new year ahead that others may see God's faithfulness and wonder.
~Dad
Friday, December 30, 2016
Quick Note: Satan Incites Evil
Stan Incites Evil
Ladies, don't think for a moment that Satan isn't active. When you least expect it, he will rise up like a serpent and attack. In his sneaky, slithery way, he will work to convince you that what you desire to do is right and good. Check it against scripture and against what you have been taught by spiritual wisdom to be right. I pray that the Lord will restrict Satan in your life and stop his schemes Satan has planned against you. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you (James 4:7)!
~Dad
1 Chronicles 21:1 Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel
Ladies, don't think for a moment that Satan isn't active. When you least expect it, he will rise up like a serpent and attack. In his sneaky, slithery way, he will work to convince you that what you desire to do is right and good. Check it against scripture and against what you have been taught by spiritual wisdom to be right. I pray that the Lord will restrict Satan in your life and stop his schemes Satan has planned against you. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you (James 4:7)!
~Dad
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Quick Note: What is Right
What is Right
This was the promise God gave Jeroboam. He was about to tear the kingdom away from Solomon because he failed to follow him. Instead he had begun to follow after other Gods because of the wives he had married.
A and K, walk in the ways of the Lord. He determines what is right and what is wrong. Not you, not society, not even the church. Then become a wife who leads her husband and family to walk in the ways of the Lord. Together you will follow his ways then God will be with you. That is the place you want to be.
~Dad
1 Kings 11:38 If you do whatever I command you and walk in my ways and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statues and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you.
This was the promise God gave Jeroboam. He was about to tear the kingdom away from Solomon because he failed to follow him. Instead he had begun to follow after other Gods because of the wives he had married.
A and K, walk in the ways of the Lord. He determines what is right and what is wrong. Not you, not society, not even the church. Then become a wife who leads her husband and family to walk in the ways of the Lord. Together you will follow his ways then God will be with you. That is the place you want to be.
~Dad
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Quick Note: Do to Remember
Do to Remember
Throughout the books of the Law God gave ways for the Israelites to remember what he had said and did for them. "Do this... so you will remember. Build this altar... so you will not forget. Talk about, wrote them down, have this feast. God wants us to remember what he says.
Girls, what will you do in your life to remember what God has said... I must go but think of ways in which you can remember his Word and the vows you have made to him
~Dad
Numbers 15:38 & 39a Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. You will have these tassels to remember all the commands of the Lord...
Throughout the books of the Law God gave ways for the Israelites to remember what he had said and did for them. "Do this... so you will remember. Build this altar... so you will not forget. Talk about, wrote them down, have this feast. God wants us to remember what he says.
Girls, what will you do in your life to remember what God has said... I must go but think of ways in which you can remember his Word and the vows you have made to him
~Dad
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Quick Note: The Righteous Delivered
The Righteous Delivered
We talked yesterday on how God will hold the wicked accountable for their acts, specifically referring to those who tear down the church from within the church. For those who follow the evil desires of the flesh, for those who despise authority, and all the unrighteous, God will hold for the day of judgement, they will not go unpunished; not later, not now! It is mine to avenge the Lord said (Ro 12:19).
Meanwhile, the righteous just have to suffer? They have to wait for the Last Days for justice to occur? Yes and no. Yes, because it is good to suffer. In Romans it say we suffer with him in order to be glorified with him (Ro 8:17). But, James tells us that if we are suffering or in trouble we should pray. It is right to pray for deliverance for God will deliver. (check out these verses on suffering) That is the point of verses 7 thru 9 of 2 Peter 2... God saw the torment that Lot was going through. There weren't even 10 righteous people in the area where he lived. The filth of their lives brought distress and God did something about it. Lot, a righteous man, was delivered from evil.
Ladies, do not succumb to the filth around you, continue to live holy lives in this unholy world! But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do (1 Pet 1:15) If you succumb, then the punishment saved for the wicked will be yours as well, but if you are tormented by the sins around you and stand against the wickedness continuing to do what is right, God will deliver you just as he did Lot. He knows how to rescue his followers from their trials. Trust him through it all, for then the day of judgement will be glorious for you!
~Dad
2 Peter 2:9a If this is so, then God knows how to rescue godly men from trials...
We talked yesterday on how God will hold the wicked accountable for their acts, specifically referring to those who tear down the church from within the church. For those who follow the evil desires of the flesh, for those who despise authority, and all the unrighteous, God will hold for the day of judgement, they will not go unpunished; not later, not now! It is mine to avenge the Lord said (Ro 12:19).
Meanwhile, the righteous just have to suffer? They have to wait for the Last Days for justice to occur? Yes and no. Yes, because it is good to suffer. In Romans it say we suffer with him in order to be glorified with him (Ro 8:17). But, James tells us that if we are suffering or in trouble we should pray. It is right to pray for deliverance for God will deliver. (check out these verses on suffering) That is the point of verses 7 thru 9 of 2 Peter 2... God saw the torment that Lot was going through. There weren't even 10 righteous people in the area where he lived. The filth of their lives brought distress and God did something about it. Lot, a righteous man, was delivered from evil.
Ladies, do not succumb to the filth around you, continue to live holy lives in this unholy world! But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do (1 Pet 1:15) If you succumb, then the punishment saved for the wicked will be yours as well, but if you are tormented by the sins around you and stand against the wickedness continuing to do what is right, God will deliver you just as he did Lot. He knows how to rescue his followers from their trials. Trust him through it all, for then the day of judgement will be glorious for you!
~Dad
Monday, December 26, 2016
Quick Note: The WIcked Destroyed
The Wicked Destroyed
Make no mistake, God will judge the world, and the unrighteous will be destroyed. Chapter 2 speaks about those who are in the church. These men left the ways of the Lord to revel in their own pleasures. They draw others away from the faith encouraging them to seek the fulfillment of the flesh. God promises that they too, like the wicked people of the past, will be held for the day of destruction and sent to hell!
K and A, choose which path you will take. God will destroy those who have left the straight way to follow wickedness (vs 15). If you once escaped the corruption of the world by know our Lord and Savior, then you are again entangled and are overcome, you are worse off then you were in the beginning (vs 20). Choose righteousness. It leads to life and an eternity with Christ and his followers!
~Dad
2 Peter 2:4, 5, 6 & 10...for if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, ...he did not spare the ancient world but the flood, ...he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, ...he will hold the unrighteous for the day of judgement.
Make no mistake, God will judge the world, and the unrighteous will be destroyed. Chapter 2 speaks about those who are in the church. These men left the ways of the Lord to revel in their own pleasures. They draw others away from the faith encouraging them to seek the fulfillment of the flesh. God promises that they too, like the wicked people of the past, will be held for the day of destruction and sent to hell!
K and A, choose which path you will take. God will destroy those who have left the straight way to follow wickedness (vs 15). If you once escaped the corruption of the world by know our Lord and Savior, then you are again entangled and are overcome, you are worse off then you were in the beginning (vs 20). Choose righteousness. It leads to life and an eternity with Christ and his followers!
~Dad
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