REMEMBER
Today’s Reading: Nehemiah 13
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This olive tree is just outside the ancient city walls of the City of David in Jerusalem. Science has determined that olive trees can live and produce olives well over 2,000 years. Perhaps Jesus picked an olive from this tree’s branches.
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Key Verse: Nehemiah 13:2b, 13:31b
Our God turned the curse into a blessing….Remember me, O my God, for good!
God takes any bad situation and turns it into good as we pray fervently about it, trust Him, and then make a full commitment to His will being done! He turns a curse into a blessing!
God does remember, but He does not remember our sins which we have confessed and for which we have been forgiven (Hebrews 8:10-13). A few days ago we were reminded that “a book of remembrance” is kept by God. Malachi was there in Nehemiah’s time and he wrote about that book. We can be sure God heard and answered Nehemiah’s prayer (Malachi 3:16-18).
Things were very different under the first covenant. Under the New Covenant (read Jeremiah 31:31-34) there are big changes. We start tomorrow, God willing, in the book of Colossians. We’ll learn that this church was coming under bondage to the rules and regulations of the Old Covenant, over-emphasis on the observance of sacred days, and religious forms and regulations. Let us not miss the next three days, and then we expect to begin our consideration of the book of Esther.
PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Thank You, Lord, that You have not shut the gates to any person anywhere at any time in these days of the New Covenant. You have invited me to come “boldly to Your throne of grace.” There I receive mercy and help in my time of need (Hebrews 4:14-16). I pray for grace to do this without fail every day. Lord Jesus, You are the Door by which we enter, and I pray these things in Your name, Amen! (John 10:7-10).
100 PERSONAL WORDS:
I’m aware from the records that this blog has new readers. Therefore, I want to tell again about the most important thing that ever happened to me. I found that God did not shut the gates on me as Nehemiah did on the non-Jews during the Sabbath. I was 16 when I went forward at the invitation of an evangelist who was preaching in the Glebe Collegiate Auditorium in Ottawa. There, an elderly man gave me the sentence spoken by Jesus which turned my life around. He opened his Bible to John 6:37 and asked me to read it out loud to him. I read, “The one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.” He said, “Now David (he had asked my name already), you have come to Jesus, right?” “Yes” I said. Then he asked me, “What does Jesus do?” I answered, “He receives me.” Immediately, the light in my spirit turned on. I knew that I was not rejected by God but accepted by Him. I believed this fact. The next day, in order to confirm what had happened to me, I walked down to the stream behind my sister’s house, where I was staying, and repeated that promise of Jesus over and over. I’ve never doubted since that time that this most unworthy sinner had been accepted by God into His eternal family.
Yours for assurance that in the New Covenant God does not shut the gates on anyone who comes to Him,
David
Thank You, Lord, for all Your precious promises. You always keep Your Word. Bring Your will to being in all this world, I ask in Jesus’s great name, amen
Thank you Lord Jesus for accepting us and never “casting us off.”
Thinking of and praying for you, Doreen.
Blessings on everyone
Amen Rob. Thank you Luisa. So WONDERFUL – God does not turn any sincere person who comes to Him through Jesus. The one who sincerely asks for forgiveness and help in knowing Him. Amazing Grace. Truly. Blessings to all.
Amen to all the prayers and comments.
Doreen, I continue to pray for you and your loved ones. May God put his healing hands on Lori & Denis and remove all signs of the fever, restore them 100%, and also for health and peace for you. God Bless.
Praying also for our leaders that they step back and listen to the Lord and lead this country to follow You Lord, not to be lead down the path of sinfulness, worshiping idols. Stop them from allowing murder (abortion and maid), and all the woke agendas, etc. Please help us Lord to stand on guard for Canada, give us a whole new slate of government reps, chase out the evil. Thank you Lord.
Amen, HJR! We need to pray daily for our country and our leaders.
Canada has wandered far off from the principles and moral values that once were celebrated and treasured in this country. We need to return to those values. As it is, we are on a dangerous slipping slope. May God have mercy on us!
Amen to all of you,especially HJR and Luisa,our leaders need to have their eyes opened before we come to ruin.I pray especially for Doreen’s daughter and her husband,that their drugs will be made more potent by God’s hand.In Jesus’ name with all glory to God,amen.
Praise God