I have a dream...(blessed be the believers)

As Jews and later Christians, God’s people were to be so totally dependent and submissive to God. This is David’s sentiment in Psalms 45:2-16. There is beauty in obeying His laws and seeking His will. And none of His Word or obedience to His Word was meant for outer attractiveness but for the inner soul to be molded to God. We must be prepared and know where we are going and to be ready for anything, being alert and ready to shine as one of His children. (Matthew 25:1-4).

The Singing God

God gives us His song to be joyous to sing we are lonely or happy. (Isa 30:29) He wants to save us and join us in singing. (Is 32:20) Because He is a merciful God He wants to share this with all of us. (Isa 49:13; Isa 52:9) We sing because we are enjoying our salvation, because it is God who after all gave us music to sing songs, especially of His bountiful goodness. (Jeremiah 31:11-12)

Give us this day...thanking God for our teachers (part 2)

I thank God for teachers that demonstrate Jesus in their lives and work as God appointed them to work, as it says in Ephesians 4:11 and 1 Corinthians 12:28 and 29. Those teachers are not afraid of the truth, and they are willing to teach as Jesus did, in the temple in Luke 19:47. And they are willing to expound the truth of Jesus, and proclaim His origin and authority, much as Jesus did in Luke 24:27. I thank God for Jesus for explaining without a doubt His authority and His wisdom and those preachers that acknowledge this and feed me with His Word accordingly.

 

Give us this day....thanking God for our teachers

Some leaders are godly men and leaders who want to serve their God and their people. In Joshua 4:1-11, for example, Joshua does as God commands and told the people to set up the 12 stones to ford the river. Why? As a memorial to what God did for His people, and to commemorate what He put in place many, many years prior to even the 10 commandments that lead to those same commandments. It was God directing the pathways of His people by setting the 12 tribes, it was God that sent Joseph into Egypt, it was God that sent Moses to be raised by Egyptians and to lead the Jews out of Egypt, and it was God to direct the movement and paths of the ark of the covenant which held the covenant between God and His people. Such men allowed God in their lives to really carry forth His plan for His people. Godly leaders helped those they teach remember God and what He has done for His people, by following God’s direction to make certain clothing or parts of clothing in remembrance of the sacredness of His people, as in Numbers 15:38-39, and also the leading His people out of Egypt in Exodus 13:11-16.