 |
Home | Mission Statement | Video Gallery | Audio Gallery | Photo Gallery | Daily Manna | Testimonies | | Links | Contact us |
 |
For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
 |
| Archived Manna: | |
Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Monday, November 12, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:The Fruits of Faith Bible Verse:Hebrews 11:8-16 "By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore. These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. " Message:
Paul returns to Abraham several times in his epistle to the Hebrews, drawing parallels between Abraham’s history and the new life he asks the Hebrews to accept, a new life in Christ.
I love the introduction to his Abraham metaphor in today’s Scripture: “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going.” This could be from the beginning of a great adventure novel or a history of a famous explorer. It certainly applies to millions of immigrants who left their home countries to come to the United States.
Abraham would have been known to almost every Jew in the first century AD; he was the founder of their faith and their race, as central to their history as say George Washington is to an American. So when Paul lists the actions Abraham took “by faith,” they are immediately familiar to the Hebrews. He wants the Hebrews to accept the Good News by faith just as Abraham accepted so many things by faith. Abraham’s faith yielded enormous rewards. Just so, Paul wants to convince the Hebrews that the rewards they will receive by accepting Christ will be immeasurable.
Meditation : Prayer : May the God of hope fill me and all of us with the joy and peace that comes from believing, so that we may abound in hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit....Amen |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
 |
