Bible Study
Friends: I will not be posting any studies for another week as I am still recovering from a hospital stay. Thank you for your patience.In His love and care, Mary
Mary West // Love God, love people. I write children's inspirational books and I am mission minded. Im also in sales for Ridge Island Groves.com which sells citrus from Oct-June. Love to travel and let people know that God loves them...They cant hear enough of how they are loved by God. Hope that everyone has a great day! Join me in my studies!
Today's Reading: Joshua 12-14, 1 Corinthians 7
The faithful man of God, Caleb, recieves God's promise to him and the added benefit was having a healthy life to enjoy God's promise. In Joshua 14, Caleb declares that when he was 40 years old, he was sent to explore the promised land and he brought back a favorable report according to his convictions. He followed the Lord wholeheartedly. The land on which his feet walked would be his inheritance from the Lord. Now 45 years had passed and he is still as strong and vigourous enough to go out in battle yet waiting to recieve that promise. So again he requests that which he had been promised. He acknowledges what God had done by saying the Lord helped me drive out the people of that land. So he was blessed with that land which we know today as Hebron. Wait upon the Lord. Observe and obey his commands. Be faithful, wholeheartedly. Request again that which was promised after you have done your part. And He will give you that which was promised to you.
Today's Reading: Joshua 3-6, I Corinthians 4
Those who have been given a trust by God must prove to be faithful. Joshua and Paul were two such people. Joshua was entrusted with the nation of Israel to navigate them through the Jordan river and through the promised land. He was faithful in listening to God and following his instructions in order to receive what was promised to Israel and to himself. He was rewarded by the Lord for his faithfulness and God exalted him above his people. Other nations feared him because they knew that God was with him and he was unstoppable. For Paul, he was demonstrating his faithfulness to God by carrying on the work God gave him to do no matter what the cost. Even though he suffered hardship for doing what was right in the sight of the Lord, he remained faithful in the teachings of Christ to those churches he fathered. Paul also instilled in Timothy the same way of life in Christ as himself and found him to be faithful. May we all be found faithful to the teachings of Christ till His return.
Today's Reading: Joshua 1-2, Psalm 37, I Corinthians 3
Psalm 37 is written by David who is reminding himself as to who he is as a Christ-follower and how he is to conduct his life. Trust in the Lord and do good. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord. Be still and wait patiently for the Lord. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath. Hope in the Lord. Meekness is rewarded. You are blameless and righteous, blessed, and just and faithful to God. He gives you wisdom, salvation, and a hope and a future. May we all practice this type of conduct daily in our representation of Christ to the world.
HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!!!
Today's Reading: Deut. 32-34, 1 Cor. 2
We have the mind of Christ. Not through human wisdom but through the Spirit of God. No one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God and when we receive His Spirit we now have access to and may understand what God had freely given to us. What is it that we have access to from God? We have access to the Spirit of God expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. What are the spiritual words and spiritual truths? It is the word of God that brings us into understanding by way of the Holy Spirit to interpret and apply spiritual truths and words to our every day life. So now that we have this access what exactly do we do with it? We use what the Spirit of God teaches us to be a witness to others who are in need of the Savior which is Christ the Lord. Notice I did not say go witness. To be a witness is to let others see what you do and how you handle your everyday life by the principles of the Word of God under the direction of the Holy Spirit. When they see a difference in your life they want to know why and will ask. Then share the good news of Jesus Christ. To go witness is a man made process without specific direction from God. These are two very different processes. One is God generated, the other is man generated. May we all tap into God's wisdom under the direction of the Holy Spirit to be a witness for Him. Blessings!
Today's Reading: Deut 16-18, Ps 38, Gal. 2
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations. God knew before hand the nature of man and what he would do and when. So God would set up safeguards for his people. For instance, before there was a king among the Israelites, He knew that they wanted one just like the other nations. They wanted to imitate the practices of other nations. So even though God wanted to be their King, and their leader, he gave them guide lines for a king. He must be chosen by me. He must be from among your brothers. He must not acquire great numbers of horses. He must not acquire, many wives lest they lead you away from me. He must have a written copy of the law from the levites and he is to read it daily so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then the king will rule a long time over the Kingdom of Israel. Even though man has a tendency to wander from what God had planned for him, he makes provision to bring them back to himself.
