Author: bidcstark

“Are we to give in to you and let you continue in this great evil, breaking faith with our God by marrying foreign women?”
Nehemiah 13:27 CJB

Here we see Nehemiah getting tough with the people on their compromising with the world, really calling out those who are mingling with worldliness! Is he trying to be a killjoy? No! He really is hearing from the LORD and telling the folks that compromising with the world is not acceptable!

“Eliyahu stepped forward before all the people and said, How long are you going to jump back and forth between two positions? If Adonai is God, follow Him; but if it’s Ba’al, follow him! These people answered him not a word.”
1 Kings 18:21 CJB

The same goes for us today! We all need to be careful of compromise, we need to step up for the LORD. Looking at the world around us, we can see all kinds of things that can and do distract us from the LORD! Our duty is to walk uprightly and lead people to a saving knowledge of Jesus and the salvation He gives us!

“In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they may see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven.”
Matthew 5:16 CJB

Today, realize, we need to reflect the light of the LORD and salt the world with His word, being careful of not watering it down or dimming His light!
Have a blessed day being salt and light for JESUS!

“With joy they offered great sacrifices that day, for God had made them celebrate with great joy. The women and children too rejoiced, so that the celebrating in Yerushalayim could be heard far off.”
Nehemiah 12:43 CJB

Does our day revolve around the LORD or does it revolve around us? Do we make sacrifices for the LORD or do we make sacrifices for ourselves? The answer to both questions is our lives need to revolve around the LORD and we need to be a living sacrifices for Him, often times we fail at both.

“I Exhort you, therefore, brothers, in view of God’s mercies, to offer yourselves as a sacrifice, living and set apart for God. This will please Him; it is logical “Temple worship” for you.”
Romans 12:1 CJB

Realize “Temple worship” means the same way you act at church is the same way you need to act in public! Our lives really need to revolve around the LORD not ourselves!

“Give thanks to Adonai! Call on His name! Make His deeds known among the peoples.”
1 Chronicles 16:8 CJB

Today, let’s offer ourselves, our praise and all that we have to the LORD, it’s what the world around us really needs, not our views or our posts, but the LORD!
Have a blessed day worshipping Him!

“When Adonai your God brings you into the land you are entering in order to take possession of it, you are to put the blessing on Mount G’rizim (Gerizim) and the curse on Mount Eival (Ebal).
Deuteronomy 11:29 CJB

The LORD wants us to live uprightly in Him! He has given us a choice to live in blessings (happiness) or in worldliness (misery)!

“You are to follow Adonai your God, fear Him, obey His mitzvot (Law), listen to what He says, serve Him and cling to Him.”
Deuteronomy 13:5 CJB

In everything we do we need to cling to the LORD and do what He says! Understand when we cling to the LORD, He is never letting us go! Anytime we do anything else or cling to anything other than the LORD, it will end in misery or a curse!

“Serve Adonai with gladness. Enter His presence with joyful songs.”
Psalm 100:2 CJB

No matter what is going on in the world we will always be better off on the mountain of blessing with the LORD!
May your day be filled with joy!
Shabbat Shalom!

“For they were subject to the king’s orders; and there was a fixed schedule for singers, assigning them their daily duties.”
Nehemiah 11:23 CJB

We all have a duty to serve and share about the LORD! Also it isn’t a bad idea to have a daily schedule!

“Adonai, in the morning You will hear my voice; in the morning I lay my needs before You and wait expectantly.”
Psalm 5:3 CJB

Do we get up seek the LORD, lay our needs and concerns out before Him and wait expectantly for His answers?

“But in my mind I keep returning to something, something that gives me hope-that the grace of Adonai is not exhausted, that His compassion has not ended. [On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great Your faithfulness.”
Lamentation 3:21-23 CJB

Today, let’s put the LORD on our schedule and do it daily! We need to be setting time apart with the LORD!
Have a blessed day!
Shabbat Shalom!

“Every year we will bring the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of all fruit from every kind of tree to the house of Adonai.”
Nehemiah 10:36 CJB

Do we give God our best or do we give Him our second best?

“Give thanks to the LORD of lords, for His grace continues forever.”
Psalm 136:3 CJB

Our LORD has given us everything including Himself, so we should hold nothing back!

“I exhort you, therefore, brothers, in view of God’s mercies, to offer yourselves as a sacrifice, living and set apart for God. This will please Him; it is the logical “Temple worship” for you.”
Romans 12:1 CJB

God has given us life everlasting, so we should give Him all we have, it’s a very reasonable thing to do! Understand the idea of “Temple worship” is the way you act at church is the way you should act in public!
Have a blessed day giving your best to the LORD, because He has given His best for you!