5/12/2009 9:30 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Pentecost
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Deut. 16:9-12
Message of the verses: “9
"You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count
seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.
10 "Then you shall celebrate the
Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of
your hand, which you shall give just as the LORD your God blesses you; 11 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your
God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and
the Levite who is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow
who are in your midst, in the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish
His name. 12 "You shall remember
that you were a slave in Egypt
Dr. Wiersbe
writes, “The word ‘pentecost’ means ‘fiftieth’ and comes from the Greek
translation of the Old Testament, the Septuagint.”
This feast
came fifty days after Passover and was a joyful feast in which the priest would
present two loaves of bread with leaven.
At the feast of firstfruits the priest would wave a single sheaf of
grain.
The Feast
of Pentecost ushered in the harvest season and as seen in this section the Jews
were to share what they had and have a joyful feast.
The Holy
Spirit was given to the church at Pentecost and then Peter went out and
preached the first message of the Church era and 3000 people were added to the
Church. The two loaves represented the
Church and because there was leaven in these two loaves it showed that the
Church will not be completely holy until the Lord Jesus returns and take the
Church, His bride to heaven with Him and there it will be holy forever.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: In the book of Ephesians, which is the book
of the theology of the Church Paul writes of the importance of being filled
with the Holy Spirit in order to do the work that the Lord wants the Church to
do, and I wonder as others have wondered if the church today is not depending
upon the power of the Holy Spirit in order to get that work done for the glory
of God. I cannot do any of the work that
the Lord has called me to do without the filling of the Holy Spirit in my life.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Keep on being filled with the Holy Spirit.
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service today.
- Continue to learn contentment.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
Memory verses for the week: 1
John 2:15-17
15.
Do not love the world nor the things in the
world. If anyone loves the world, the
love of the Father is not in him.
16.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the
flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the
Father, but is from the world.
17.
The world is passing away, and also its lusts;
but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
5/12/2009 10:04 AM
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