Monday, January 20, 2025

COMMUNICATING WELL

Today’s Reading: Joshua 3-4

Click scripture link to read online or HERE to listen online (then click the symbol of the audio speaker above the scripture portion on the right-hand side).

 

Just east of Jericho, looking across the Jordan River into the country of Jordan, you can see a church that commemorates the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. This is also the area where the Children of Israel crossed into the Promised Land.

GOOGLE MAPS – To see where the photo was taken, click HERE.

 

Key Verse: Joshua 4:24

…that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.

 

God has often intervened in human history to use so-called “acts of God” to accomplish His purposes. In the case of the Jordan River being dammed up at Adam (there is a bridge here today called “The Adam Bridge”), God may have used an earthquake. In 1927 there was a quake in this very area. A 150-foot rise on the West Bank was dislodged, completely blocking the flow of the Jordan River into the Dead Sea for 21 hours.

The leadership of Joshua, born a slave in Egypt, was not questioned from this time forward. Moses, raised in Pharaoh’s palace, saw the potential of Joshua and mentored him well. The written Word and the verbal telling of God’s stories, along with the pile of stones, succeeded in keeping the people faithful for at least one generation. Let us remember that we must creatively renew our means of communicating God’s message in every generation.

PRAYER FOR TODAY:

Lord God, please enable me to communicate well to those for whom I am directly responsible. May I be faithful to point as many people as possible to You by the power of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen!

100 PERSONAL WORDS:

As a boy, I would often look at the photo album from my parents’ honeymoon in 1924 in what was then known as Palestine. They were in old-fashioned bathing suits swimming in the Jordan (see photo below) at approximately the place where the Children of Israel crossed over. I’ve visited that place several times. As a great-grandfather of 13, a grandfather of 16, and a father of 4, I must do everything I can do to remind those whose lives I can influence of the faithfulness of God in the past, present, and future.

Yours for communicating our God stories to the next generations,

David

P.S. Below is a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the book of Joshua. For more about the Dead Sea Scrolls, click.here The second photo below is

Found among the Dead Sea Scrolls were fragments, like the one pictured here, which retold various stories from the book of Joshua.

My parents on their honeymoon in 1924, bathing in the Jordan River.

5 thoughts on “Monday, January 20, 2025

  1. Father, thank You for Your help every day of our lives. As David said, help us share Your Truth with others, I ask in Jesus’s great name, amen

  2. Amen Rob. Praying for the Trump inauguration today. May God’s blessings and mercy help us through these changing times. Amen.

  3. Amen. Praying for anointing on President Trump and his team. May he follow where the Lord leads and bring the USA back to You, Lord and have any influence he has on Canada other nations be guided by You. We want to respect the USA but we want to remain Canada and Canadians. May God bless our countries and keep them Christian based as well as safe and free from corruption.

  4. Amen to all the prayers above, in Jesus’ Holy Name I pray, Amen.
    Thank You Lord God for every blessing You give us, Amen.
    To God be the Glory and Praise forever!

  5. I watched some highlights of the inauguration today.I pray that God will use this man for good purposes.He does not have to be a believer nor willing to be used by God.ie,King Cyrus of the Medes and Persians,who was prophesied by name in the bible.
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2045&version=NKJV;NIV
    I wrote these each in about 10 min about as fast as I could type.The first one I knew was about the US and the second I knew was about Trump.He definitely needs our prayers.(I was a ‘fan’ until the past few months.) Take note of the dates they were written.
    Under God

    One nation under God that denies Me,
    Will fall apart and be devoured,
    If you refuse my love that’s free,
    As if I am something now soured.

    Your enemies have delivered my warning,
    Therefore turn back to find truth,
    For the wolves only bring mourning
    From the sacrifice of your youth.

    Greed is now what too many now preach,
    For the demon has reached within, (The demons…demo crats.)
    But you can still change to teach,
    So the children may turn from sin.

    If you allow the wolves in their power, (Obama,the Clintons,Biden)
    To consume with endless thirst,
    Then you are guilty at this hour
    In helping bring about the worst.

    So remove the wolves behind the crown, (FBI,DOJ,etc the swamp)
    For they are deeply entrenched, (Appointed officials )
    And let them and their filth drown
    As my laws are tightly clenched.
    G W (Bill) Marshall / 11/09/2013
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    To Crown And God

    Make America greater still
    By following His holy will,
    For only God can choose who leads;
    The vote is cast by he who heeds.

    You do not choose who God may send
    For he stands on truth to defend
    Against the wolves who try to bend
    The will of God,as if to rend.

    Behind the throne for longest years
    Are those who rule by spreading fears
    And hidden monies buy their slaves
    But truth shall stand atop their graves.

    So guard against the wolves within
    And guard yourselves from greatest sin,
    For those who follow learn from you
    So e’er to crown and God be true.
    G W (Bill) Marshall /‎14 ‎Sept,2020

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