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June 20 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today we will read in 2 Kings Chapter 24:1-7, 2 Chronicles Chapter 36:5-7, and Jeremiah Chapter 35:1-14, 18-19, Chapter 36, and Chapter 45. We will read about the obedience of the family of Recab and review 2 Kings Chapter 10 to understand that the family of Recab has always been faithful to God. In fact, what I forgot to mention in today's video, is that Recab is actually descended from the family of Moses' father-in-law, Jethro! God will contrast the obedience of this family to the nation of Judah, telling Judah to learn from this family's example and obey Him. We will also read about God telling Jeremiah to write down the words He tells Jeremiah to write within a Megillah Scroll and read it to the people and leaders of Judah. When King Jehoiakim hears the words he cuts them off from the scroll and burns them. In our discussion for daily application we will talk about God's design for leadership- to shepherd people, and how the kings of Judah were failing to shepherd God's people. We will talk about our own roles of leadership, whatever they may be, and the importance of leading people to God, wherever we are, by doing the good works He has prepared ahead of time for us to do. We will talk about the big picture of these daily lessons - they are tools in our "belt of truth" that we are to put on daily, bringing forth the lessons we learn as we encounter each good work God has prepared for us to do so that we can do the work God has given us well. If we do not know which tool to use that we have been given, we are encouraged to call upon God's Holy Spirit to teach us which tool we need to use in each particular circumstance we encounter, since the Holy Spirit is our teacher and will remind us of all we have been learning when we need to use what we have learned.
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Introduction to the Year-long Bible Journey
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Hi everyone, today is June 20th and you are here with Robin at In The Family Way Coaching and we are here for our daily Bible reading through the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley.
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Thank you for joining me today whether you are watching or listening. Thank you for following along with this event. I hope that you are enjoying our daily Bible reading this year in going through the big story all the way through Genesis to Revelation this year.
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If you are following along on that commitment calendar, it's time to get that out and your sticker or however you're marking it off because you're about to hear the Bible today.
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We have some great reading today. i really enjoyed spending time learning about it today.
The Invasion of Babylon and Call for Repentance
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We are going to be reading about the actual invasion of Babylon today.
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We have finally reached that point. And so ah it's almost like, you know, waiting for a baby to be born. I feel like we've been waiting and waiting for this for months, getting to ah all of getting to finalize the judgment.
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And even during this time, ah God is still sending opportunities to turn back so that he doesn't have to carry out everything that will end up happening.
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Our God is so forgiving and so gracious. He's looking for the people to turn back to him. And today we will see him giving another opportunity and comparing their faithfulness or lack thereof to of particular family who has a great deal of faith in God.
Understanding Scriptures for Deeper Meaning
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So we are going to be reading today out of the books of 2 Kings, chapter chapter 36, Jeremiah, chapter 35, 36, and 45. chapter thirty six jeremiah chapter thirty five thirty six and forty five So I will give a little bit of ah explanation when we get to some of it so that we understand what we're reading. Because like we've said before, if we just read it and we don't understand what we're reading in God's word, then it's done us absolutely no good and it's been a waste of our time.
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So it's really important for me that we have understanding. And that's why we're using the Day by Day Kids Bible, because it is written so that we can understand it. And it's also ah written with not every single detail, but just enough so we can get the big picture of what it is that's going on.
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And so here we
Rechab's Family: A Lesson in Obedience
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go. We're going to be reading first about the family that obeyed.
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Jehoiakim was Judah's king when Babylon's army marched into Judah. The people of Babylon took over the land, and they let Jehoiakim be the leader.
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But the king of Babylon was his boss for three years. In, uh, And with a bigger word that would be called hit that King Jehoiakim was acting as his vassal, V-A-S-S-E-L.
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So he was put in charge and he was allowed to rule in that area, but he was not the actual king.
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Then the army of Babylon came back into the land and this time they took King Jehoiakim and they put chains on him. They took him to Babylon and they took things from God's worship house too.
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The king of Egypt did not come to fight anymore because Babylon had taken all of Egypt's land.
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Now while Jehoiakim was still king, God spoke to Jeremiah. And God told Jeremiah, Go to Rechab's family. Ask them to come to the worship house.
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Take them to a side room and then give them some wine to drink.
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So Jeremiah went to Rekab's house, a family, and he took them to God's worship house. He set out bowls of wine, he set out cups, and then he said, drink some wine.
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But they replied, we don't drink wine. Our father said our family should never drink wine. He told us not to build houses or plant fields.
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And he told us that we must always live in tents. We move from place to place. We are nomads and we obeyed. But then Babylon's army came into the land. And so we said, come on, we must go to Jerusalem to stay safe.
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And that's why we're here. Then God told Jeremiah to say these words, to to the people of Judah. Learn a lesson.
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Learn to obey me. Rechab told his family not to drink. They obeyed him, but I talk to you over and over again, and you have not obeyed me.
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These are the words God told Jeremiah to say to Rechab's family. You obeyed your father. You did everything he told you, so there will always be people in your family who serve me.
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The next section is Jeremiah 36 and and it's entitled, The King in the Winter House.
Jehoiakim's Defiance and Consequences
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God told Jeremiah, get a roll of paper. Now I want to explain that this was not just any roll of paper. Our particular version doesn't write down that it was Megillah.
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and it is a scroll that already has paper on it. It was a scroll of the books like Ruth and Song of Solomon and Lamentations. So it was already a scroll that had and some of the Old Testament, the Old Covenant written on it, which were special readings that were given during holiday times.
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And so those scrolls were called Megillah. So he was writing in between the words Write on it everything I told you.
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Write what I said about Israel, Judah, and other nations. Maybe the people will hear about it, and maybe they will stop doing wrong and start doing right.
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Then I will forgive them.
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So Jeremiah called his helper, Baruch. And Jeremiah told his helper what to write. And Baruch wrote it on the roll of paper, the scroll, the Megillah.
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Then Baruch said, I'm sad and tired. I'm worn out. I can't rest. So God gave Jeremiah some words for Baruch.
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God said, i am going to tear down what I built. I am going to pull up what I planted. So don't look for great things for yourself.
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I am bringing trouble to everybody but wherever you go, you will always, you will get away. You will live.
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Then Jeremiah said to Baruch, the leaders won't let me leave this place, so I can't go to the worship house. So you go and go on a day when people are giving up food, when they are having a fast.
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Read to the people from this scroll. God is very angry at them and so maybe they will turn to God and maybe they will stop doing wrong. So Baruch went to the worship house and he read from the scroll of paper during a time of a fast.
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And that's because the people would be gathered there. when the When a fast was called for, many people would be there. So there would be a big audience to hear.
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Now one of the leaders heard everything that Baruch read, and he heard everything God had told Jeremiah to write. So the man went to the palace, and he told all the other leaders what he had heard.
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Then the leaders sent someone to get Baruch, and he came. And the leaders said, Sit down, please. Read this to us. So Baruch read God's words to them too.
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They looked around at each other. They were afraid. They said, we have to tell the king about this. Where did you get these words? Did Jeremiah give them to you?
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Yes, said Baruch. He told me what to write, so I wrote it on this scroll, this Megillah.
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Go hide somewhere, said the leaders, and take Jeremiah with you. Don't let anybody know where you're hiding.
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So the leaders took the scroll and they put it on one of their rooms and put it in one of their rooms. And then they went to see King Jehoiakim. They told him about that scroll.
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King Jehoiakim sent a helper to get the scroll and the helper brought it back and read it to the king. And all the leaders were standing there too.
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Now the king was in his winter house and fire was burning in a pot right in front of him. His helper would read part of the paper scroll, and then the king would cut that part off with a knife, and he would throw it into the fire pot.
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At last, the whole scroll was burned. The leaders asked the king not to burn the scroll, but the king wasn't afraid. His helpers weren't afraid, and they wouldn't listen to the leaders.
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The king ordered his men to get Jeremiah and Baruch. He told them to put Jeremiah and Baruch in jail. But God had hidden them. Then God spoke to Jeremiah again.
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The king burned up the first scroll, said God. So get another Megillah. Write the same things you wrote on the first paper.
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So God also gave Jeremiah these words for the king. You burned the scroll of paper. You asked why Jeremiah wrote about Babylon coming.
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You asked why he wrote about them tearing up your land. So none of your children will become king after you, and your dead body will be thrown outside.
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It will be thrown out into the hot of the day, and I will be there for the frost to come on it at night. And I will pay you back for the wrong you have done. And I will do everything I said in that scroll of paper.
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I will bring every trouble because you did not listen.
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So then Jeremiah gave another scroll, Megillah, to Baruch. And Jeremiah told Baruch what to write. And Baruch wrote it. And he even put in more of God's words.
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That's the end of our reading today.
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God is so gracious. He was trying so hard to get the people to turn around. They were not turning around. ah The part of the reason why is because the king was not shepherding the people.
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So we will get to that in just a moment. I just wanted to give us a little bit of ah understanding here with who this family is who obeyed God or who obeyed their father, Rechab.
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So we read ah earlier this year after the kingdoms of Israel and Judah had been split into two kingdoms, they each had their own kings.
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So in the Northern kingdom of Israel, we had but We had all bad kings, but they some of them did a little bit of good. And one of them was King Jehu.
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King Jehu was, ah let's see, he was Amaziah's son, I believe.
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Let's see. He was a descendant of Ahaziah. And Jehu went through and was getting rid in Israel of the Baal worshipers.
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And we read that he brought everybody into their temple of Baal. And he told everybody there he was tricking them. do you remember he was tricking them?
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And he brought them in and he told them they were going to have a big holiday for Baal. But really what he was doing was he was going to get rid of the worshipers and followers of Baal.
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And who was there with him? It was Rechab's son.
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And his son's name was Jehonadab. So in 2 Kings chapter 10, we read about King but Jehu with Jehonadab, son of Rechab, who went into the temple of Baal.
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And he said, search and look that there is here with you none of the servants of the Lord, only servants of Baal. And so they went in to offer their sacrifices.
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And then after they had done all of that, that as soon as they finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said, go in and strike them down and don't let anyone get out. So the person who was with him was the son of Rechab and he was Jehonadab.
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And so what we are seeing here is that it is that family, So this family has still shown obedience. They were ah seen as being very zealous for obeying and of believing in God alone to worshiping only him.
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So I spent a good bit of time this morning reading about Rechab's family and they would be called the Rechabites. And they are they actually show up in other portions of the Bible where, and let's see, they were in,
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They built a portion of the walls of Jerusalem. They were notated in the book of Nehemiah. In 1 Chronicles, it said that the certain people of Jabez in Judah were the Kenites.
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And the Rechabites were a people who endeavored to resist the customs of the Kenites that came of Hema, the father of the house of Rechab. So it's clear from those passages that the Rechabites were a people who endeavored to resist the customs of settled life in Palestine by maintaining the nomadic ideal and that they existed at different times in both the northern and southern kingdoms and that they were especially interested in the worship of the Lord.
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and that the chronicler connects them with the Kenites. So it's actually considered that the promise that God gave to him, that there would always be a descendant in their family to worship and serve God that we read about today.
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It's actually considered greater than the promise made to King David, because when God made the promise to King David, he said, as long as you obey me, and let's see, how does it put that?
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This commentary notes that the covenant with David was conditional while the covenant with the Rechabites was without a reservation.
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And they were actually also found, they became scribes and saying part of the Sanhedrin and ah
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and they were considered like a type of Nazarite. like like Samson was. It doesn't say anything about them not cutting their hair, but that they but it was considered part of an of of like a description of them.
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So what God is doing is he's comparing the faithfulness of this one family to obey their father and to be zealous for God, to obey all of the the rules that Moses gave them and and that they all obeyed.
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Yet Judah was not obeying and God himself was the one who gave the order to obey versus just a father. So that was very interesting. i thought that was very fascinating to learn about that. So while not specifically a part of our daily application, I do like to share those little bits with you when I find them because I just think they're so fascinating.
Leadership Lessons from Jehoiakim's Failure
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So we see here with King Jehoiakim that he is not shepherding the people. When God established ah kings for the people at the request of the people, they wanted him to send kings.
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And God told them that I will, but you're not going to be happy with it. And when he selected the first king, he had Saul, and he's so he anointed David while Saul was still king.
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And God's intention was for the people to be shepherded. David is the kingdom that is the stay family line that Jesus would eventually come from.
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And David was a shepherd. So in that same way, David knew how to look after the sheep. He knew how to take care of them. He knew how to fight off the wolves and the lions, which he had told King Saul that he knew how to fight and kill.
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And so there would be no reason why he couldn't kill Goliath. and In that same way, we see Jesus fulfilling that and saying that he is our good shepherd. What we are seeing here is that King Jehoiakim is not shepherding the people.
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The kings of Judah were not shepherding the people for the most part. We had a few who who did so, but we so what we've been learning is that people will follow.
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what they are taught, what they will follow, what the leader is doing. And so they weren't being shepherded with any consistency and they weren't being led in the way that God needed them to be led.
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And so he was going to purge everything, which means to get rid of it. So our daily application here is to consider a position of leadership, any kind of leadership. We are leaders in our homes.
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We can be older brothers or sisters where we are helping to lead our younger brothers and sisters in the body of Jesus. We could potentially be leaders to help other people.
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We are all at different points in our walk and we are all meant to shepherd others. We are meant to iron sharpen iron, to strengthen one another and to encourage one another and to build one another up.
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And at times we are meant to look after people. And so we wanna look at that responsibility with a seriousness, with the way that God intends positions to be fulfilled.
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We could be leaders at work. Even a low-level manager is still a leader over other people. it It doesn't matter what level. There's always a greater level of management.
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We have ah pastors who look after the flock of the ah this church or the synagogue or the rabbis. We have ah Jesus who looks after us. He is our good shepherd.
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And we have this hierarchy of shepherding and leadership. And so wherever we are placed, we want to be sure that we are shepherding in the way that God designed us to do so that we are building one another up, that we are strengthening one another in the body,
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And that we are leading the way God intended us to do so. God gives us examples. He gives us Jesus as our greatest example and himself. And so we need to learn from these lessons to see how to do our job well.
Applying Leadership Lessons in Daily Life
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It's not enough just to do it, but for everything we do, we are to do as though we are doing it for God because we are doing it for God. God has placed us where we are.
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Like we spoke about yesterday, we are appointed in times with good works that he has prepared in advance for us to do So part of those good works are utilizing our skills as being a shepherd, as a leader, to lead people to God.
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We need to be pointing people to Jesus and to God. And that's what the king was not doing. He was not pointing the people to God. He was not leading by example. And we need to lead by example.
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We learn in the New Testament that we need to be careful with our speech and how we talk to people because whether we know know it or not, people hear us and we don't want to cause confusion. chen But with other people thinking, oh, what the if they're doing it, it must be fine to do.
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So we need to always be mindful of the things that we say, of the things that we do, because we are meant to be good examples of Jesus and of God so that we are always pointing people to God.
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The New Testament tells us that people may see our good works and praise our Father in heaven. are The reason that we do these things are not so that we can gain notoriety to be ah looked upon with favor, but it's to point people to God.
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Everything is to go to the glory of God. So everything that we are doing, these appointed times, these good works that God has prepared ahead of time for us to do,
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In everything we are doing, we are meant to point to people to God. And that's our daily application today.
Using Spiritual Lessons in Everyday Life
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So I hope that you feel that God is lighting your light and that you are going to meditate, which means to think, not to sit there like this or to clear your mind and be empty in what they would determine meditation to be nowadays or mindfulness.
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But God says to meditate on his word. It says on the law, but this is part of his word here, to meditate, to think about it and see how God wants you to apply today's daily application in your life with whatever he brings into your path today and every day.
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There are so many lessons in God's word. Every day we have daily application and they are all meant to be tools that we use in our belt of truth. As Julie said yesterday to me, i love that Julie, you and I mentioned as these are all just more tools to use in our belt. And you said, yes, the the belt of truth.
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So yes, these are, these are truths and we wear them like a tool belt. and everything we are learning is like a tool. So as we come into different situations in our daily lives, that we look through like a toolbox or a tool belt where we filter through and we go, oh, which tool is it that I need to use here?
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And so while it can be impossible for us to remember everything, that's where you call upon the Holy Spirit. And if you don't know readily what tool to use in your belt of truth,
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your tool belt of truth maybe we can call it, in teasing and in fun, to ask the Holy Spirit because we have been learning that he will tell us what to do and what to say because he is here doing what he hears Jesus tell him to do.
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And Jesus hears from the Father. So there's this whole chain where once again, we see how we are connected. So our goal this year is to use all of these tools that God is giving us to be more productive in his kingdom for his work and bring more people to know about him, to treat people the way God wants us to treat them, to make God the most important one in our lives every day as we seek to use these tools for his glory.
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So thank you for joining me today. And i just, I really love these lessons. They're very exciting to me. So I hope that you are feeling every bit as much of joy as I am as we go through these things.
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and learn these valuable lessons that God is giving us for our daily application. And i would encourage you to click that light button so that we can draw others to God as well, so that they too may hear these messages that God is teaching and learn how to you use the tools in their tool belt of truth so that they too can point people to God.
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And it's one great big circle here in in our body of Jesus. So thank you for being here, and I will be here with every everyone again tomorrow.