Author: bidcstark

“Stand up, and do your duty, for we are with you; take courage, and do it!”
Ezra 10:4 CJB

Like Ezra, we need to stand up and do what the LORD calls us to do! The people in Judah and in Jerusalem were marrying foreigners, which the LORD was displeased with. Ezra was called to make it right! How? REPENT! The same goes for us!

“From the time on, Yeshua began proclaiming, Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!”
Matthew 4:17 CJB

For believers, we need to always be mindful of what we are doing. It’s easy to get caught up in sin. The good news is all we have to do is repent and Jesus forgives!

“He forgives all your offenses, He heals all your disease, He redeems your life from the pit, He surrounds you with grace and compassion, He contents you with good as long as you live, so that your youth is renewed like and eagle’s.”
Psalm 103:3-5 CJB

What great news! As believers, we can repent, be forgiven and renewed in the LORD! Today, let’s share that Good News with the unbelieving world and walk in His ways!
Have a blessed day.

“This I pleaded with Adonai, Adonai Elohim, You have begun to reveal Your greatness to your servant, and your strong hand-for what other god is there in heaven or on earth that can do the works and mighty deeds You do?”
Deuteronomy 3:23-24 CJB

Are we pleading with the LORD praying and calling on His name, realizing, That He does great and mighty things that no one else can do?

“But I will call on God, and Adonai will save me. Evening, morning and noon I complain and moan; but He hears my voice.”
Psalm 55:16-17 CJB

As believers, we need to spend more time calling, talking and listening to the LORD and less time doing silly things!

“These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 CJB

Today, let’s spend some serious time with the LORD, praying and seeking His will for us, then sharing it with those around us!
Have a blessed day.
Shabbat Shalom!

“Now, after all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our deep guilt-and even so, you, our God, have punished us less than our sins deserve and have given us a surviving remnant.”
Ezra 9:13 CJB

Ezra is basically saying “thank God” we are not getting the punishment we deserve for our sins, but He is giving us grace instead!

“But I can enter Your house because of Your great grace and love; I will bow down toward Your holy temple in reverence for You.”
Psalm 5:7 CJB

The LORD gives us amazing things because of His grace. We are saved and we get to spend eternity with the LORD! Why? Because of His amazing love for us! Yes we blow it, but when we call out to the LORD and repent, He forgives!

“Adonai is close to all who call on Him, to all who sincerely call on Him.”
Psalm 145:18 CJB

Today, realize, we all fail and deserve all the penalties of our sin! The Good News is when we call on the LORD, He is always ready, willing and able to forgive. All we have to do is call on His name and repent!
May your day be richly blessed!
Shabbat Shalom!

“Then, there at the Ahava River (river of love), I proclaimed a fast; so that we could humble ourselves before our God and ask a safe journey of Him for ourselves, our little ones and all our possessions.”
Ezra 8:21 CJB

What a great concept instead of looking to the world for help Ezra humbles himself and goes to the LORD! We need to be seeking the LORD for everything, because He is the River of Love!

“When you seek Me, you will find Me, provided you seek Me wholeheartedly.”
Jeremiah 29:13 CJB

When we need direction, answers and salvation we can always find it when we seek the LORD!

“For I would have been ashamed to ask the king for a detachment of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies along the road, since we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on all who seek Him, for good; but His power and fury is against all who abandon Him. So we fasted and asked our God for this, and He answered our prayer.”
Ezra 8:22-23

Today, let’s really spend some time seeking the LORD! We need to be in prayer and maybe try fasting, but we as believers really need to be spending some serious time seeking the LORD!
May your day be blessed seeking the LORD! He is the River of Love!

“For Ezra, had set his heart on studying and practicing the Torah of Adonai and teaching Israel the laws and rulings.”
Ezra 7:10 CJB

Like Ezra we need to prepare our hearts before the LORD!

“My soul yearns, yes, faints with longing for the courtyards of Adonai; my heart and body cry for joy to the living God.”
Psalm 84:2 CJB

We need to be a people who are longing for the LORD, not the world! In life, if we put our hope in the health care system, governments and even, unfortunately, preachers we will be let down! When we put our hope and trust in the LORD, He will never let us down!

“Happy is he whose help is Ya’akov’s (Jacob) God, whose hope is in Adonai his God.”
Psalm 146:5 CJB

Today, let’s set our heart on the LORD, studying and practicing His word!
Have a blessed day seeking Him!