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place a purpose! – 1 Chronicles 9
Feb 18, 2013 - 1 Chronicles 9
Dear Saints,
Today we prayerfully Feast in 1 Chronicles 9. Praise God!
As we read God’s word notice
that these genealogies, not only gives the names but also their location and
purpose. “1
So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book
of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of
their breach of faith. 2 Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in
their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
3 And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in
Jerusalem:”1 Chronicles 9:1-3, English Standard Version (ESV). I firmly believe that God has a purpose for
every person in the Church. I know this he didn’t save us to fill pews on Sunday
and Wednesday. Don’t fret if you don’t
know what your calling is yet. Get to
know Jesus in Prayer, Praise and Reading the Holy Bible. “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one
another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us
and his love is perfected in us.” 1 John 4:11-12 ESV. Part of knowing God is assembly in God’s
love with the Church. When we join together in prayer praise and worship God’s
love will be perfected in us. Always keep the first thing first. That is salvation through the blood of the
Lamb. Trust our Savior and allow the
Holy Spirit to perfect God’s love in us. Continue to seek God and you’ll find
your place and purpose.
The Feast
Tue, February 19, 2013, 1 Chronicles 9, - “Genealogies” – Matthew Henry Concise
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Devotional Series On Loving God! By Pastor Glen Aycock.
Posted 2/19/2013
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God Speaking To Our Hearts Today –Devotional
thought by Pastor Glen Aycock
SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 5:
Even those who didn’t sin precisely as Adam did
by disobeying a specific command of God still had to experience this
termination of life, this separation from God. But Adam, who got us into
this, also points ahead to the One who will get us out of it.
15 Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly
parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man’s sin put crowds of people at
the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God’s gift
poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do!
16 There’s no comparison between that
death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift. The verdict on that
one sin was the death sentence; the verdict on the many sins that followed
was this wonderful life sentence.
17 If death got the upper hand through one
man’s wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes,
sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant
life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus
Christ provides?
18 Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one
person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death,
another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just
getting us out of trouble, he got us into life!
19 One man said no to God and put many
people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.
20 All that passing laws against sin did was
produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in
competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin
versus grace, grace wins hands down.
21 All sin can do is threaten us with death,
and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together
again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on
and on, world without end.
COMMENTS
What a tragedy we read about in the Garden
where man traded God’s will for his (Adams) will. The broken relationship
was costly and a relationship lost with God because of the sin of
disobedience. Can we grasp how much emotional pain Adam was going through
when he was driven out of the Garden of Eden? I picture him broken hearted,
angry at himself, feeling stupid because it was a simple matter to say no.
They looked forward to a life of toil and disappointment and death .
However how wonderful the Grace of God is, (grace=unmerited favor) God made
an opportunity for man’s reconciliation through Jesus even before man was
ready to repent. Because Jesus said yes to God and died for us on the
cross, which paid the debt for our sins, we have abundant life without end.
Have you accepted His gift of life? I pray if not that you will ask Jesus
into your heart today.
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God Bless you,
Brother Mike
Tags: jesus, love, hope, care, god, holy, ghost, save,
help
“For I am sure that neither death nor
life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor
powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able
to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans
8:38-39 ESV.
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