SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY (Luke 12:27)
Today’s Reading: 1 Kings 9-10
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The Timna Valley is located in southern Israel in the southwestern Arabah, approximately 30 km north of the Gulf of Aqaba and the port city of Eilat, where Solomon built his fleet of ships for international trade. The area is rich in copper ore, and has been actively mined for at least 3,000 years, from the time of Solomon onward. These great rocks are known as Solomon’s Pillars.
GOOGLE MAPS – To see where the photo was taken, click HERE.
Key Verse: 1 Kings 9: 6 & 7a
But if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight.
PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Lord God, I have sinned and come short of Your Glory. Forgive me for my disobedience. I humbly ask for more grace to obey You more fully than ever. In and through the One who always obeyed fully, my Saviour and Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen!
100 PERSONAL WORDS:
When I visit Solomon’s Pillars (pictured above), my imagination is fired up with the thought of those early miners and the open smelters which were refining copper and other metals. When I visit Solomon’s chariot city of Megiddo, I can almost see the great stables full of huge war horses (pictured below).
Yours for obedience in doing all God has purposed, now and throughout eternity,
David
P.S. Below are pictures of Elat (“Elath” in our reading -1 Kings 9:26) and a model of Solomon’s chariot city of Megiddo.
Standing in Elat, Israel, looking across the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aqaba). Just beyond the hotel, which is in Israeli territory, you can see the mountains of Moab in Jordan.
Model of ancient Megiddo.
Just reading the queen of Sheba’s description and the abundance of gold is staggering.But that ‘bait’ is also a strong attraction for other greedy kings as we will see later on.I think all this wealth is proof to other nations of God’s favour on His people.May God bless these troubled times
MAY
O Jesus, I Have Promised
Author: John Ernest Bode (1869)
O Jesus, I have promised
To serve thee to the end;
Be thou forever near me,
My Master and my friend;
I shall not fear the battle
If thou art by my side,
Nor wander from the pathway
If thou wilt be my guide.
O let me feel thee near me!
The world is ever near:
I see the sights that dazzle,
The tempting sounds I hear.
My foes are ever near me,
Around me and within;
But, Jesus, draw thou nearer,
And shield my soul from sin.
O let me hear thee speaking
In accents clear and still,
Above the storms of passion,
The murmurs of self-will.
O speak to reassure me,
To hasten or control;
O speak, and make me listen,
Thou guardian of my soul.
O Jesus, thou hast promised
To all who follow thee
That where thou art in glory
There shall thy servant be.
And, Jesus, I have promised
To serve thee to the end;
O give me grace to follow,
My Master and my friend.
Oh dear, the song & lyrics did not come through. Do not click on my next post. I copied the link so carefully. I can’t understand why it doesn’t work. Sorry folks.
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A great prayer song. Thanks Beverley. https://www.YouTube.com/watch?V=svgHDdP5xY. I hope it comes through okay 👌 Blessings all.
You have to hold the cursor over the link (song you want to post), press CTRL C to copy and then press CTRL P into the space on 100words.ca to paste that song link, Doreen. I suspect you want the song that goes with the poem/hymn I posted for May:
O Jesus, I Have Promised
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svgHDdzP5xY
Thanks Beverlee!
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Dear Lord God, forgive us of all our sins and help us to renounce and turn from them. Please give us the discipline we need to follow You. Thank You, Lord, in Jesus’s name, amen
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Amen to Rob’s prayer