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God is Zealous   God has zeal for us  We keep on going farther and farther from God, but God has the zeal to find us again. God has zeal against wickedness Now a Moabite king did not like the Israelites crossing through his land, so he asked a sorcerer Balaam to curse the Israelites. God made sure Balaam did not curse the Israelites, even sending an angel! so all Balaam could say was blessings for the Israelites! and even prophesied about Jesus! But then Balaam told the king how to overcome the Israelites! they should make the woman of their country intermarry with the Israelites and then their God [the one true God] would forsake them.  The King followed this advice and so, God made a plague come to the Israelites that killed lots of people.   Just then, while everyone was weeping in penitence at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, an Israelite man, flaunting his behavior in front of Moses and the whole assembly, paraded a Midianite woman into his famil...

God is YOUR father   Now when we think of God we should not think that God is only love or God is only justice, God can be a lot of things at the same time. God is like a father, a father has a lot of love for his children even when they do wrong because the parent knows that the child is Just a child, there are many more ways that God is like a father, just like Psalm 103 8-18 Psalm 103:8-14 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us our sins or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgression from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, and he remembers that we are dust. The father does get angry but it is controlle...

  God is eXtraordinary !!!  You can see how God is extraordinary through the whole Bible! First God made this extraordinary world and all that is in it! the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and the land, and God made you and me! And all that in just 6 days! Then the first people sinned and later God’s people were enslaved in Egypt God led them out of Egypt through 10 miraculous plagues first, water into blood, lots of frogs, lice, flies, livestock disease, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and then the death of all the firstborn in Egypt, except for the people who put lambs’ blood on their door post as God said.    Then God led his people through the desert with many miracles like food [Manna - which means what is it] and then God repeatedly saved his people from their enemies time and time again, even when they disobeyed or didn’t listen to him, like when God helped David who was 17 years old, defeat a giant named Goliath who was one of their enemies called ...

                 God is With you! What does it mean when I say “God is with you”   To understand what I mean by God is with you we need to understand what the Hebrew word for with states, the first letter of the Hebrew word is ayin, ayin means eye, and eye stands for watchfulness. so, remember that God is always watching you.   The second Hebrew letter for the Hebrew for with is mem, and it can mean a lot of things like King or Water. so, when I say God is with you, I mean the King of the world is with you and is watching you.   God is with you in the valley   God is with you no matter what happens, psalm 23 says God will be with us in the valley, but what is a valley? A valley is a slope-like place in between two mountains, but in the Judean wilderness, there are a lot of valleys. And the paths of those valleys aren't always safe, food might not be there, or water, or maybe predators might be there....

 

God is UNSEEN   How do we know God is there when we can’t see him?   Today we will answer that question and  look at bible stories about the topic.    Now Elisha would tell the Israelite king where the Arameans [their enemies] were encamping because God told Elish whatever the king of Aram said even in his bedroom when the Arameans king found out he sent an army to kill Elisah in the city of Dothan when the servant saw the large army, he called Elisha to see the army, Elisha said to the servant – “Don’t be afraid, those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” then the servant said ‘what more with us than them’, then Elisha asked God to open the servant's eye’s then the servants’ eyes where opened.   The servant saw hundreds of the Lord’s fiery chariots defending them and Elisha asked God to strike the Arameans with blindness. Elisah informed the army they were not in the right place and Elisha led them to the king of Israel, o...

God is trustworthy, Sheep can’t do much so they have to trust the shepherd for everything. Adam and Eve didn’t trust God and wanted the power for themselves, and they ate the fruit! so they were sent out of the garden of Eden, so we should trust God because God is trustworthy, in Hebrew trust means stability like a rock! God is like a rock not moving. Cast sheep are sheep that have rolled on their back and they can’t get up by themselves, if they don’t get back up they’ll die! they have to trust that the shepherd will help them. In the winter the sheep have a lot of wool to keep warm but in the summer they don’t need it anymore so the shepherd sheers it, if they don’t sheer the sheep they will become very hot, so trust that God knows what is best for you, when something like sheering happens you might think why is this happing to me, remember God knows what is best for you. When things get hard trust that God only does what is best for us, so we should trust God when things are hard so...

 

God can resurrect you,, Jesus took time to resurrect Lazarus, so when things are hard and God is taking time remember that God does only what is best for us. When death comes there seems to be no hope,  but God can raise us from the dead, sometimes literally and metaphorically when you are in sin God will help you if you ask him, God can heal the dead in real life too. God rose from the dead, so God concord death and sin, so we don’t need to be afraid of anything. God is the light of the world! Jesus concurred death's darkness with his light. Jesus said that they should open the tomb before he heeled Lazarus, so we should have soft hearts not like that rock. Some people say that raising people from the dead is impossible! but the maker of something can say what that something does, and God made the whole world and everything in it, so God can command it.  Chet is the first Hebrew letter in the word darkness, chet means solitude if you look you can see it’s like a life without ...

 

God is our protector. germs and fungi aren't good for food and they aren't good for the person eating the food, so food preservatives are very important, so we the food when God preserves us God is protecting us from the bacteria or fungi can’t get to us. God’s love, grace, and mercy are abounding, to preserve some foods salt is added it's like God's love, and the taste of salt on meat is delicious like God’s love. or the vinegar is also used to preserve some food vinegar is kind of like God’s grace, or the mercy of God like the oil used to preserve.  The fungi The main germ that feeds on food is Fungi, Fungi are so small you can’t see them with the naked eye, you have to look into a microscope, but the devi’s forces are invisible you can’t see them with any piece of technology! But God protects us from it by preserving us. It can attack at any time! So be prepared, we also should get prepared by wearing the armour of God. God is with you In all this God is always with ...

God is Omnipresent God is everywhere, which means that God is present in all places at all times.” God is omnipresent” meaning God is everywhere. you might say “How can God be everywhere at the same time?” well we don’t know! Because we can’t see God or comprehend God, you might ask “Then how do we know God is with us or even exists?” well because God says so, in the Bible   Psalm 139 2-3 ESV [English Standard Version]   You know when I sit down and when I rise up;     you discern my thoughts from afar.  You search out my path and my lying down     and are acquainted with all my ways.   So, the psalmist is saying, you see whatever I do, and what I think. Jehovah Shammah is a name for God that means God is everywhere.   Yes! God knows when we sit down and when we stand up. God knows our thoughts and is familiar with all our ways. This means that God sees everything we do and knows what we think. No one...

God can not sin, even when God was on earth he never sinned. even when tempted Jesus didn’t give in to it, like when Jesus was tempted, now after   Jesus was baptised then Jesus went into the desert and fasted [not eating] for 40 days, then the devil showed up, and he said “If you are real the son of God turn these stones it into bread,” Jesus said “It is written: man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” then the devil took Jesus took up to the top of the temple and told Jesus “fall for it is written:‘He will command his angels concerning you,     and they will lift you up in their hands,     so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’ then Jesus said “it is also written: Do not put the Lord your God to the test” then the devil showed Jesus everything the glory of the world, and the devil would give it all to him If Jesus bowed down to him! Jesus said “  Away from me, Satan!   For it is wr...

 When you hear marvellous it may come to your notice now that God is marvellous, we can not see a cube’s six sides all in reality at the same time, but is infinitely more bigger than anything, so if we can’t even understand a cube how can we understand God? So with this much complexity we can call God marvellous. God’s love for us is marvellos When we sinned, and disobeyed God, God could just zap us with lightning, or anything but God chose to forgive us, but when we forgive someone mostly you just say “i forgive you” but there is some hardness for you to say that, but for God to forgive us must have been hard\, because Jesus had to die! On a cross, But three days later Jesus rose from the dead Jesus overcame everything, so there is nothing you can experience that God didn’t experience. And after this God still trust’s us! Like Abraham he lied about his wife, and God didn’t do anything to Abraham but God gets angry at Abimalack! Who didn’t know what happened, we don’t understand ev...

God is looking for you, when Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they hid from God! Then God came looking for them, God is looking for you, when you sin you stray away from God, like the parable of the good shepherd, one sheep gets lost and the good shepherd left his 99 sheep! and went after 1 sheep, he finds the lost sheep at the end of the parable, we are like that sheep sometimes, we want to leave God and go after sin’s happiness, but sin’s happiness will be with you 1 minute and the next it goes away, sin’s happiness won’t last forever, but God’s love is everlasting. God finds you when you even don’t want to be found When you're in sin’s happiness and you don’t want God to find you, then you're in a Jonah incident. Jonah ran from God, Hoping that God wouldn’t see him, but God is everywhere so God saw Jonah all the time. In our sin, we don’t want to be seen. Sin’s happiness  the happiness of sin is like a cracker, one minute you are happy because of the beauty, and the next minute e...