Thursday
VOTD
(2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
I’m 100% sure I just went over these verses in a devotional within the past couple weeks. What I said then still applies: How often do we actually live for Messiah? How often do we not worry about what people will think about us? How often do we let our struggles define us, when Yeshua’s struggle should be our defining moment? Do we know better than God? Maybe that struggle that we have will be the very thing that helps us win a soul later. Don’t be fooled into thinking that every hardship you go through is because you are a follower of Messiah, but every hardship you go through is a chance to show Messiah’s love.
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 22:22-31, Mark 3:31-4-29, Exodus 23-24)
Psalms – Sometimes, as I’m reading through the Bible, I find myself skimming – or even zoning out and not paying attention to what I’ve been reading – but then I look down and I realize that what I was supposed to be reading are words of praise to the Almighty of the universe. My attention needs to be on Him, not what is to happen next. If this goes for when I’m reading the Bible, you know that it also goes for when I’m living everyday life.
Mark – How often do we treat our brothers and sisters in Christ as if they’re actually family? And I’m not talking about extended family who just came over for Thanksgiving dinner, family. Let’s try to be more functional!
What does it mean, “Lest they should turn and their sins be forgiven them”? There’s something deeper here. Maybe something to do with how we can’t eat of the tree of life when we are in sin.
Exodus – Why do we not observe the Feasts which God has told us to observe? Often we hear that we don’t need to anymore because Jesus died for our sins. First of all, how does that make sense? Just because we don’t have to, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. Secondly, observing the feasts of Yahweh, isn’t a sin. I guess, since it was the law to observe the feasts, it would be a sin not to. So are we saying that Jesus died so that we could sin? This isn’t the case at all! Jesus died for us so that when we sin, we are not held captive by the lawful punishments, but that doesn’t mean that we should go out of our way to sin. Sin is transgression of the law.
Friday
VOTD
(Proverbs 16:3)
Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. - Pro 16:3 ESV
This one is an important one. Do we really, each day, commit our work to Yahweh? I know I’m guilty of not doing this. You get to work and you try to figure out the best way to get this done or get that done. But, I very rarely take the opportunity to ask God what the best way would be. And I very rarely commit what I’m doing to Him. And yet, that’s probably the most important part of the day. So I’m going to take advantage of this moment right now (before I go to work for the day) and say:
VOTD
(2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
I’m 100% sure I just went over these verses in a devotional within the past couple weeks. What I said then still applies: How often do we actually live for Messiah? How often do we not worry about what people will think about us? How often do we let our struggles define us, when Yeshua’s struggle should be our defining moment? Do we know better than God? Maybe that struggle that we have will be the very thing that helps us win a soul later. Don’t be fooled into thinking that every hardship you go through is because you are a follower of Messiah, but every hardship you go through is a chance to show Messiah’s love.
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 22:22-31, Mark 3:31-4-29, Exodus 23-24)
Psalms – Sometimes, as I’m reading through the Bible, I find myself skimming – or even zoning out and not paying attention to what I’ve been reading – but then I look down and I realize that what I was supposed to be reading are words of praise to the Almighty of the universe. My attention needs to be on Him, not what is to happen next. If this goes for when I’m reading the Bible, you know that it also goes for when I’m living everyday life.
Mark – How often do we treat our brothers and sisters in Christ as if they’re actually family? And I’m not talking about extended family who just came over for Thanksgiving dinner, family. Let’s try to be more functional!
What does it mean, “Lest they should turn and their sins be forgiven them”? There’s something deeper here. Maybe something to do with how we can’t eat of the tree of life when we are in sin.
Exodus – Why do we not observe the Feasts which God has told us to observe? Often we hear that we don’t need to anymore because Jesus died for our sins. First of all, how does that make sense? Just because we don’t have to, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. Secondly, observing the feasts of Yahweh, isn’t a sin. I guess, since it was the law to observe the feasts, it would be a sin not to. So are we saying that Jesus died so that we could sin? This isn’t the case at all! Jesus died for us so that when we sin, we are not held captive by the lawful punishments, but that doesn’t mean that we should go out of our way to sin. Sin is transgression of the law.
Friday
VOTD
(Proverbs 16:3)
Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. - Pro 16:3 ESV
This one is an important one. Do we really, each day, commit our work to Yahweh? I know I’m guilty of not doing this. You get to work and you try to figure out the best way to get this done or get that done. But, I very rarely take the opportunity to ask God what the best way would be. And I very rarely commit what I’m doing to Him. And yet, that’s probably the most important part of the day. So I’m going to take advantage of this moment right now (before I go to work for the day) and say:
Heavenly Father, I thank You for the opportunity
You’ve given me to represent You. I commit my day to You, and everything that I
do, I do it for You. I ask that You would remind me as the day goes along what
it is that You would have me do. Bring your Name to my remembrance before I do
or say something out of selfishness. I ask that Your Holy Spirit would instruct
me as to the right things to say and do. I ask all of these things in the
saving name of Jesus, our Messiah. Amen.
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 23, Mark 4:30-5:20, Exodus 25-26)
Psalms – Every time I come across Psalm 22 I get excited. I wish I could go about every day with that excitement of knowing that Yahweh is my shepherd. I mean, I should be able to do this, but life gets in the way. I need to make sure that it doesn’t.
Mark – My biggest question, every time I read about the man with the legion of unclean spirits, is why was there a herd of pigs in Israel?
Exodus – Recently I’ve become aware that there’s an alternate understanding of what the Tabernacle looked like. This claim is that it was round. The dimensions seem to work out, but what does that mean for the Temple?
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 23, Mark 4:30-5:20, Exodus 25-26)
Psalms – Every time I come across Psalm 22 I get excited. I wish I could go about every day with that excitement of knowing that Yahweh is my shepherd. I mean, I should be able to do this, but life gets in the way. I need to make sure that it doesn’t.
Mark – My biggest question, every time I read about the man with the legion of unclean spirits, is why was there a herd of pigs in Israel?
Exodus – Recently I’ve become aware that there’s an alternate understanding of what the Tabernacle looked like. This claim is that it was round. The dimensions seem to work out, but what does that mean for the Temple?
Saturday
VOTD
(Psalm 119:2)
Happy are those who keep His decrees and seek Him with all their heart. (Psa 119:2 HCSB)
Psalm 119 is basically a love song to the Word of God. But what does this mean today? Should we be any less willing to walk in the laws of Yahweh? Why do we think that just because we have grace, we can sin as much as we want? If we believe the Bible (and this verse in particular), we are happy when we keep His decrees. We are not under the law, but if God wants us to follow is commandments out of love, shouldn’t we give that a go?
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 24, Mark 5:21-6:6, Exodus 27-28)
Psalms – Who is the King of Glory? Not only did the band Third Day concentrate on this question, but it sure looks like David paid attention to this question, too. If this was a question that David wanted to focus on, to draw out the characteristics of God, then that’s a good enough reason for me to do it, too.
Mark – Here we deal with the woman who touched the hem of Yeshua’s robe as he walked by, and was healed. When we hear that Yeshua felt power go out of him – without attempting to sound sacrilegious – that borders on sounding like magic. It makes me wonder what healing power really is. We know that Jesus spent a lot of His time in prayer, was this a way of storying up healing power to be used later? Again, I don’t want this to sound sacrilegious, this is an honest question.
Exodus – The breastplate and the Ephod of the High Priest. There’s so much
here. I’m going to post this teaching here because it’s going to go into
everything I want to go in to.
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