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Faith's Checkbook
by Charles Spurgeon
Mark of Covenant Grace
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
— Deuteronomy 30:6
Here we read of the true circumcision. Note the author of it: "The LORD thy God." He alone can deal effectually with our heart and take away its carnality and pollution. To make us love God with all our heart and soul is a miracle of grace which only the Holy Ghost can work. We must look to the LORD alone for this and never be satisfied with anything short of it.
Note where this circumcision is wrought. It is not of the flesh but of the Spirit. It is the essential mark of the covenant of grace. Love to God is the indelible token of the chosen seed; by this secret seal the election of grace is certified to the believer. We must see to it that we trust in no outward ritual but are sealed in heart by the operation of the Holy Ghost.
Note what the result is-"that thou mayest live." To be carnally minded is death. In the overcoming of the flesh, we find life and peace. If we mind the things of the Spirit, we shall live. Oh, that Jehovah, our God, may complete His gracious work upon our inner natures, that in the fullest and highest sense we may live unto the LORD.
#Faith's Checkbook#devotional#Charles H. Spurgeon#Mark of Covenant Grace#Deuteronomy 30:6#October 12#2022
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How to pray for unbelievers
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. (Romans 10:1)
Paul prays that God would convert Israel. He prays for her salvation! He does not pray for ineffectual influences, but for effectual influences. And that is how we should pray too.
We should take the new covenant promises of God and plead with God to bring them to pass in our children and our neighbors and on all the mission fields of the world.
God, take out of their flesh the heart of stone and give them a new heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 11:19)
Circumcise their heart so that they love you! (Deuteronomy 30:6)
Father, put your Spirit within them and cause them to walk in your statutes. (Ezekiel 36:27)
Grant them repentance and a knowledge of the truth that they may escape from the snare of the devil. (2 Timothy 2:25–26)
Open their hearts so that they believe the gospel! (Acts 16:14)
When we believe in the sovereignty of God — in the right and power of God to elect and then bring hardened sinners to faith and salvation — then we will be able to pray with no inconsistency, and with the confidence of great biblical promises for the conversion of the lost.
Thus, God has pleasure in this kind of praying because it ascribes to him the right and honor to be the free and sovereign God that he is in election and salvation.
#faith#christian#bibleverses#verse image#visual verse#daily devotions#daily devotion#desiring god#solid joys#Romans 10:1#Ezekiel 11:19#Deuteronomy 30:6#Ezekiel 36:27#2 Timothy 2:25–26#Acts 16:14
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The Magic Pomegranate Seeds
The pomegranate eaten on Rosh Hashanah has great significance, The most outstanding aspect of the pomegranate is its seeds. As we say before eating the pomegranate on Rosh Hashanah, “May it be Your will, G-d and G-d of our fathers, that we be filled with mitzvot (good deeds) like a pomegranate is filled with seeds.”
The times were bad, a poor woman was having a hard time finding food for her…
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#Blessing#Deuteronomy 8:3#good deeds#Jalapeno#Jewish Stories#mitvahs#Pomegranate#Pomegranate Relish#pomegranate seeds#Proverbs 6:30#Psalms 9:9#Rosh haShanah#Rosh Hashanah Stories#short stories#story recipes#woman
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Follow His Cloud by Day, Fire by Night (195) – May 27 2023
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The Lord endeavors to lead His creation away from evil and captivity and into a better place in relationship with Him. Out of the Kingdom of Darkness and into the Kingdom of His Beloved Son, Jesus (Colossians 1:13).
He led His chosen children of Israel in the pillar of cloud and fire day and night. His Spirit led His Only Begotten Son into the wilderness to be tried and…
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#1 John 3:22#2 timothy 3:16#christ#christ jesus#cloud#cross#Deuteronomy 30:10-20#Exodus 13:1-22#father#fire#follow#Galatians 5:16#god#Jesus#jesus christ#Joshua 24:15#Jude 1:20#Matthew 4:1#Matthew 6:6#pillar of cloud#pillar of fire#Psalm 119:105#Psalm 37:23-25#yahweh#yhwh
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Courage: Something You Can Have. Something You Can Take
Courage: Something You Can Have. Something You Can Take
Defining Courage
“Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.” (Psalms 31:24 NASB) Courage is an interesting thing, and people try to define it in different ways. Many of us probably first thought about courage when we saw The Wizard of Oz, and listened to the Cowardly Lion wish that he had some.
Courage is not merely about being fearless or foolish, but it is a…
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#2 Chronicles 32:7#2 Samuel 7:27#Acts 23:11#courage#Deuteronomy 31:6#Jesus#John 14:29-30#Maya Angelou#Psalm 31:24#the Wizard of Oz
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The Return of the King title page // Heading to Zechariah 9
The Song of the Eagles // The Holy Bible
Psalm 30:4; Isaiah 25:8a; Revelation 20:14a; Zechariah 9:9a; Psalm 130:6 & Hebrews 6:10; Psalm 107:16; Zechariah 9:9b; 1 Corinthians 15:54b & John 16:33b; Philippians 4:4; Hebrews 9:28a; John 1:14; Luke 1:75; Revelation 22:2b; Isaiah 2:2a; Deuteronomy 28:3a & Psalm 87:3; Psalm 149:1
#reading Zechariah 9 and knew I just had to do this#i will not say the day is done#tolkien legendarium#intertextuality#pontifications and creations
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Seven Cat Calls fandom event
What is this event about?
This event is for celebrating your favorite Cats performers!
What types of works are allowed?
Anything you'd like! Gif-sets, fanart, meta posts or essays, anything! Anyway you'd like to share your love for your favorite performers!
When does this event start and end?
This event will begin the week of May 11th and end the week of October 26th (treat these dates as the beginning of their respective weeks.)
General rules/info:
This event is for any and all productions of Cats!
Each prompt/character gets a week and you can post at any time during that week.
Don't worry about being late! I mean for this to be a fun, casual event. If you miss a certain week, you can still make a post for it!
Please tag your event posts with #sevencatscalls2024 Since tumblr can be glitchy with tags at times, also feel free to tag me @statisticalcats2 in your posts!
I will not reblog from people who are anti-fiction/anti-ship.
If you have any other questions, my ask box is open!
Event schedule (below the cut):
Week 1 (May 11-17) - Grizabella
Week 2 (May 18-24) - Bill Bailey/Tumblebrutus
Week 3 (May 25-31) - Rum Tum Tugger
Week 4 (June 1-7) - Coricopat
Week 5 (June 8-14) - Asparagus/Gus the Theatre Cat
Week 6 (June 15-21) - Jellylorum
Week 7 (June 22-28) - Rumpleteazer
Week 8 (June 29 - July 5) - Bustopher Jones
Week 9 (July 6-12) - Bombalurina
Week 10 (July 13-19) - Carbucketty/Pouncival
Week 11 (July 20-26) - Alonzo
Week 12 (July 27 - August 2) - Old Deuteronomy
Week 13 (August 3-9) - Victoria
Week 14 (August 10-16) - Mistoffelees
Week 15 (August 17-23) - Demeter
Week 16 (August 24-30) - Admetus/Plato
Week 17 (August 31 - September 6) - Jemima/Sillabub
Week 18 (September 7-13) - Cassandra
Week 19 (September 14-20) - Jennyanydots
Week 20 (September 21-27) - Tantomile
Week 21 (September 28 - October 4) - Macavity
Week 22 (October 5-11) - Mungojerrie
Week 23 (October 12-18) - Munkustrap
Week 24 (October 19-25) - Skimbleshanks
Week 25 (October 26 - November 1) - Rare characters/swings/production specific characters
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Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
God give each human a choice not victim hood! Satan the Father of the lie steals individual choice by the god of government!
The blasphemous lie that God creates dictators is from the children of Father of the lie advancing their one world Globalist take over where individual choices is sacrifice on the demonic Altar of Government collectivism!
God allows us to experience what we plant and the fruit we must eat good or bad, God has never created evil Government we do!
Gal.6:7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
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Our Daily Homily
by F.B. Meyer
The Lord thy will circumcise thine heart, to love the Lord thy God.
- Deuteronomy 30:6
Circumcision is the sign of separation. It was enjoined on Abraham and his children that they might be God’s peculiar people, chosen from all the nations of the earth. Similarly, the circumcision of Christ, which is made without hands, of which the Apostle speaks, is a putting off, a separation from the sins of the flesh, a participation in the grave and burial of Christ (Colossians 2:12).
We must be separated from the spirit and temper of the world. Between us and its sins, ambitions, methods, there must be not only an outward, but a heart severance. We were separated in the purpose of God when Jesus was cast without the camp to die. But we must be separate in our personal behavior. Wouldst thou have this? Then claim that this promise should be fulfilled, and ask that God would circumcise thine heart—the seat of thine affections, the hearth of thy soul-life.
Then thou wilt love the Lord with all thine heart. This is why we love God so little. The force of our love is spread over too wide a surface—it is like the river Orinoco, which is lost in swamps as it approaches the sea. If only we were really separated from all that is alien to God, and given up to Him wholly, we should find all the capacity of our hearts becoming filled with His love. We should love all things and people with a tenderness and glow which were steeped in colors obtained from His.
You will never succeed in overthrowing the strongholds of Satan, Christian worker, till God has taken away your self-reliance, and has brought you down into the dust of death: then, when the sentence of death is in yourself you will begin to experience the energy of the Divine life, the glory of the Divine victory.
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How much God wants to bless you
“The Lord will again take delight in prospering you.” (Deuteronomy 30:9)
God does not bless us begrudgingly. There is a kind of eagerness about the beneficence of God. He does not wait for us to come to him. He seeks us out, because it is his pleasure to do us good. God is not waiting for us; he is pursuing us. That, in fact, is the literal translation of Psalm 23:6, “Surely goodness and mercy shall pursue me all the days of my life.”
God loves to show mercy. Let me say it again. God loves to show mercy. He is not hesitant or indecisive or tentative in his desires to do good to his people. His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger. That’s what he meant when he came down on Mount Sinai and said to Moses, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love” (Exodus 34:6). It’s what he meant when he said in Jeremiah 9:24, “I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”
God is never irritable or edgy. His anger never has a short fuse. Instead he is infinitely energetic with absolutely unbounded and unending enthusiasm for the fulfillment of his delights.
This is hard for us to comprehend, because we have to sleep every day just to cope, not to mention thrive. Our emotions go up and down. We get bored and discouraged one day and feel hopeful and excited another.
We are like little geysers that gurgle and sputter and pop erratically. But God is like a great Niagara Falls — you look at 186,000 tons of water crashing over the precipice every minute, and think: Surely this can’t keep going at this force year after year after year. Yet it does.
That’s the way God is about doing us good. He never grows weary of it. It never gets boring to him. The Niagara of his grace has no end.
#faith#christian#daily devotional#bibleverses#desiring god#solid joys#Deuteronomy 30:9#psalm 23:6#Exodus 34:6#Jeremiah 9:24
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The best way to view the Bible when you are reading it, is to realize you are having a conversation. The fact that He is speaking to you through those words is as real as if He were sitting beside you and the words were coming out of His mouth instead of from the pages.
However we view or handle - or possibly dismiss - The Word of God, we have to keep in mind Who we are viewing and handling and dismissing. John chapter one explains that God and His Word are one and the same. And He says He never changes. And He never has. We are warned not to add to it, not to take away from it, not to change it, not to neglect it - we are commanded to heed it, to study it, to abide in it… and we are encouraged to love it, and tremble at it.
“If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting” 2ndTimothy 1:10
“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” John 15:7
“And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.”1stCorinthians 2:13
“Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.” Psalm 119:89
“Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.”Proverbs 30:5-6
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” Isaiah 40:8
“He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.” Titus 1:9
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”2Timothy 3:16-17
“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.” 2Timothy 4:2
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” James 1:17
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Hebrews 13:8
“You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.” Deuteronomy 4:2
“Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.” Deuteronomy 12:32
“Repent at my rebuke - then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings. But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand, since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you - when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.” Proverbs 1:23-27
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” 1 Samuel 15:23
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God loves us so much that he created Hell just in case You don't love him back.
Compulsory, obligatory, commanded love.
Matthew 22:36-38
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
Mark 12:30
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
John 15:12/15:17
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Deuteronomy 6:5
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy 30:16
In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments
Love cannot be demanded, compelled or expected.
#love me or burn#christianity#jesus christ#burn for eternity#compulsory love#obligatory love#religion is a mental illness
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PUTTING ON LOVE - PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES
I love You, God, because You first loved me. (1 John 4:19)
You sent Your only begotten Son, Jesus, to this earth out of Your love for me and for others. I have believed on Him and now, I will not perish - I have everlasting life. You did not send Jesus to condemn me, but to save me, and I thank You for that! (John 3:16,17)
God, if You loved me that much, I should give love to others. (1 John 4:11)
So, I will love others. It's a sign that I've been born of You, because You are love. But if I fail to love others, I fail to love You. Help me to always love! (1 John 4:7,8)
I put on love each day, as if it's a coat, because I know that You consider it the highest of all virtues - Your love binds every other good virtue together and makes them one. (Colossians 3:14)
Love is the most important sacrifice to another person that I can make. I will love God with all my heart, soul, mind and all my strength, Lord, and I will love my neghbor as myself. (Mark 12:33)
Help me to love my enemies and pray for those who persecute me. I do this in obedience to You, my Father in Heaven. (Matthew 5:44)
I love others because You have loved me, and people will know that I'm a disciple of Yours because of the love that I show. (John 13:34-35)
Circumcise my heart, God. Consecrate me and help me to love You with all my heart and soul so that I may truly live well! (Deuteronomy 30:6)
Father, help me to remain in Your love just like Jesus. He always obeyed Your commands and always remained in Your love. (John 15:10)
Thank You for the gift of the Holy Spirit! Through Him, You have poured Your great love into my heart! (Romans 5:5)
God, I know the Your love matters the most - though I speak many words, including the tongues of angels, if I don't love others, my words are nothing but a lot of noise! I can prophesy, understand everything there is to know, and have faith enough to move mountains. I can give everything I have to feed the poor, even if I give my own body as a sacrifice to You, but without love, none of these things do any good at all: Love matters most! (1 Corinthians 13:1-3)
Help me to see Your love for what it is - patient and kind, never envious, boastful, proud, rude, self-seeking, or easily angered. You love stops me from keeping a record of wrongs or delighting in what is evil. Your love helps me to rejoice in truth and always protect, trust, hope, and persevere! (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
Whatever I do, Lord, help me to do it in love! (1 Corinthians 16:14)
The covenant I have with You, God, is not because of something physical, like circumcision. My covenant was made through Jesus Christ - and my faith works by love! (Galatians 5:6)
The fruit of your Spirit is love. (Galatians 5:22)
I was called by God to be free! But, I don't use my freedom as an excuse to live in sin and do only what I want. Instead, I serve others in the way of love. (Galatians 5:13)
God, You are rich in mercy and because of Your great love for me, You have made me alive with Christ! Even when I was dead in sin, you made a way of grace so that I could be saved! (Ephesians 2:4-5)
I am being rooted and established in love. I'm gaining the power to grasp the amazing measurements of Your love. I realize that it surpasses all knowledge, but in "seeking" to find its measurements, I am being filled with the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19)
I'm a volunteer prisoner of You and I will live a life worthy of Your calling. In humility, gentleness, and patience, I will bear what others do in love. I will strive to always keep the unity of Your Spirit and keep the peace. (Ephesians 4:1-3)
I speak the truth in love and it causes me to grow up in all things - I'm a part of the body of Christ and we serve under the Head of the Church, Jesus Christ! We work together in love and this unites the whole body of Christ! (Ephesians 4:15,16)
Like a child imitates those he admires, I imitate You Jesus, and live a life of love! Because You loved me and gave Yourself for me as a good-smelling offering to God, I will give myself to others, as an offering to You. (Ephesians 5:1)
I will speak peace, love, and faith over all my brothers and sisters today! (Ephesians 6:23)
Thank You for correcting my heart when I do wrong. I know that You discipline those You love. (Hebrews 12:6)
I will live in harmony with others and be sympathetic, compassionate, and humble. (1 Peter 3:8)
Above it all, I will love others deeply because love covers a multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8)
I have known and believed in the love that You have for me. You are Love and I make my life in You. Your great love is being perfected in me day-to-day. I will be able to have boldness in the day of judgment because I have a life of love! 1 John 4:16,17)
I won't fear! Your love in me casts fear out! I'm being made perfect in Your love day by day! (1 John 4:18)
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Line Upon Line Lesson 007: Get on the Boat!
Genesis 7:1 - Then the Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.”
Many people think God commanded Noah to build the ark solely to save the animals and his own family. However, this is actually not true.
Let’s read together Ezekiel 14:14-20; Habakkuk 2:4; and Hebrews 11:6-7.
Noah was considered righteous by God because Noah believed in God. Noah demonstrated His faith in God through his obedience to God’s commands. Noah built the ark even though there was no evidence or prior history of floods in the world.
Note that the Bible clearly states Noah could not save anyone else with his righteousness. This means Noah’s wife, his three sons, and their wives each had an individual faith in God. They also believed in God and were obedient to His words.
Let’s read together Psalm 142:7; Isaiah 42:6-7; 1 Peter 3:18-20; and 2 Peter 2:5.
The Bible described Noah as a preacher of righteousness. God used Noah to deliver a message of repentance. Noah wasn’t just building the ark for one hundred and twenty years. He was warning the entire world about God’s judgment and the impending flood.
Let’s read together Deuteronomy 30:19-20; Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-27; and Ephesians 4:17-32.
In essence, Noah’s message was, “Repent now and get on the boat! If you do not, you will be destroyed by the coming flood! This is the only way you can be saved!”
Unfortunately, no one listened to Noah. Their hearts were so set on sin, the Holy Spirit could not reach them. God wanted to save them all, but they chose not to be saved.
Let’s read together Acts 4:10-12.
God gives us all the same choice today that He gave the people of the Antediluvian age. Repent now and accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. There is no other way to be saved. Will you choose Jesus?
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Geometry today was a pain and a half! I am almost positive the answer key was wrong for two sets of questions because I checked and rechecked my work and followed the examples exactly on the third check, and my answers always stayed the same. Sometimes this will happen as the textbooks might go through an edit but then the link to the answer key is an old link instead of the updated one. Besides, when I did the same type of questions on KA and in the second set on my assignment, doing it the same way I did in the first set, they were correct.
Still, persistence was getting aggravated. I should trust myself more when I know I am right instead of worrying that I did something wrong and have no realization of what that wrong could be because everything appears exactly how it should after multiple times solving the problem in different ways using the same formula.
Either way, I am glad to be done with school work for the day. I'm finishing up dinner now and then I can enjoy ballet tonight. Yes, it's disciplined and intense, but it's my safe space and where I find joy in my day. It's my study break.
Tasks Completed:
Geometry - Reviewed arc length + learned to find areas of sectors and segments + practice
Lit and Comp II - Studied Unit 16 vocabulary + read chapter 7 of Emma by Jane Austen + reviewed elements of a story + read about plot diagrams + read over literary analysis terms + reviewed story terms
Spanish 2 - Copied new unit vocabulary
Bible I - Read Deuteronomy 21-22
World History - Read about growing urbanization during the Industrial Revolution + read a summary of the Communist Manifesto + answered an opinion question in paragraph form
Biology with Lab - Read about terrestrial biomes + completed biomes chart
Foundations - Read the definition of orderliness + completed Lumosity daily brain workout + gave speech and presented visual aid to Dad (30/30)
Piano - 60-minute piano lesson + practiced for one hour
Khan Academy - Completed High School Geometry Unit 8: Lessons 3 and 6 + completed High School Biology Unit 9: Lesson 1
CLEP - Watched Module 8.0 introduction video
Duolingo - Completed at least one lesson each in Spanish, French, and Chinese
Reading - Read pages 1-45 of House of Marionne by J. Elle
Chores - Laundry
Activities of the Day:
Ballet
Pointe
Journal/Mindfulness
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What I’m Grateful for Today:
I am grateful for having patience and being persistent in times of struggle.
Quote of the Day:
There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
-The Naming, Alison Croggon
🎧Ballade, CD 78, L.70 - Claude Debussy
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Numbers in the Bible are significant! Over the next few weeks I'm going to share the meaning of some of them. (Although, this is just what we humans think they mean. Only God really knows what He means by all the numbers in the Bible. Amen!)
“The Meaning of Numbers in the Bible: The Number 40” By Kevin Halloran:
“Mentioned 146 times in Scripture, the number 40 generally symbolizes a period of testing, trial or probation. During Moses' life, he lived forty years in Egypt and forty years in the desert before God selected him to lead his people out of slavery.
Moses was also on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights, on two separate occasions (Exodus 24:18, 34:1 - 28), receiving God's laws. He also sent spies, for forty days, to investigate the land God promised the Israelites as an inheritance (Numbers 13:25, 14:34).
The prophet Jonah powerfully warned ancient Nineveh, for forty days, that its destruction would come because of its many sins. The prophet Ezekiel laid on His right side for 40 days to symbolize Judah's sins (Ezekiel 4:6).
Elijah went 40 days without food or water at Mount Horeb. Jesus was tempted by the devil many times during the 40 complete days he fasted just before his ministry began. He also appeared to his disciples and others for 40 days after his resurrection from the dead.
The number forty can also represent a generation of man. Because of their sins after leaving Egypt, God swore that the generation of Israelites who left Egyptian bondage would not enter their inheritance in Canaan (Deuteronomy 1). The children of Israel were punished by wandering the wilderness for 40 years before a new generation was allowed to possess the Promised Land.
Jesus, just days before his crucifixion, prophesied the total destruction of Jerusalem (Matthew 24:1 - 2, Mark 13:1 - 2). Forty years after his crucifixion in 30 A.D., the mighty Roman Empire destroyed the city and burned its beloved temple to the ground.
Appearances of the number forty: The book of Exodus, with its 40 chapters and 1,213 verses, is the seventh longest book. The longest is the Psalms.
From the time they entered the Promised Land, to the time of King Saul, Israel was sporadically governed by a number of individuals known as Judges. Though they did not rule like a king, they nevertheless had a tremendous influence on the people, as they represented God and were inspired to execute his will. Judges who served 40 years include Othniel, Deborah and Barak, Eli and Gideon.
The first three human kings over the children of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon, each ruled for forty years (1050 to 930 B.C.). After the united kingdom split into two separate pieces, King Joash served forty official years (39 actual years) as one of Judah's better kings.
Abraham tried to bargain with God to not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if forty righteous people were found (Genesis 18:29). Both Isaac and Esau were forty years old when they were first married (Genesis 25:20, 26:34).
God flooded the earth by having it rain for forty days and nights (Genesis 7:12). After the patriarch Jacob (Israel) died in Egypt, the Egyptians spent forty days embalming his body (Genesis 50:3).”
These are just some of the examples of the number 40 in the Bible. And the Bible was written by forty different people! Now, none of this is “coincidence.” Amen!
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