OT DAY 290 - You Are Being Protected And Secure in God (Please click here for English podcast)

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Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

        
  As for man, his days are like grass;
     he flourishes like a flower of the field;
16     for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
   and its place knows it no more.
17 But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting        on those who fear him,
        and his righteousness to children's children,
18  to those who keep his covenant
  and remember to do his commandments.

               
                                    Psalm 103:15-18

Confession and Repentance

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Deuteronomy 25:1-19)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 24&version=ESV

17 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, 18 how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. 19 Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

                   Deuteronomy 25:17-19

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My Listening

      Today we focus on the last passage of chapter 25. Lots of people are in fear feeling insecure each day hearing evil people, armies and nations rising up killing people. Today's passage gives us assurance that God has his time and way to deal with those people who have no fear for God. 

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     Alongside the Canaanites, the Amalekites are the one nation whose wrongdoing Israel is not to forget, not merely because it was done against Israel but because it indicated that they had no reverence for God. Israel is supposed to be the means of God's punishing these two nations for their wrongdoing, though in neither case will Israel be very good at doing so; leniency with the Amalekites is one reason Saul gets reflected as king by God. 

John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.180.

      The whole Old Testament teaches the Israelites one thing: Fearing God. Actually if we really can have a heart to fear God and do what He commands, there is no fear of anything or anyone. 

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Help us to be able to have a heart to fear God so that we have no fear of anything or anyone.  In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Do you have some kinds of fear? Can you describe why you fear those things or people?

2. How can today's message help you to be assure that you are being protected and secure in God? 

Praise and Thanksgiving

Let's give thanks for God with us. Let us praise Him:

10,000 Reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E

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