Father God Let this message touch someone’s heart today in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our LORD. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
Nehemiah 8:10
I think on this verse. It gets me enticed on wanting to go help others. Seeing if they need prayer. Or they just need a listening ear. Helping a mom that is struggling. Helping the elderly who have no one to take them to the doctor or they just need a friend. Someone they can trust. In this life. I have been there when no one cared. Maybe they just didn’t have the time for me. I always made the time for others. There was times in my life I couldn’t get to those in need or who was far from me. So I just pray that God will send someone to help them. This verse has always spoke volumes to me when I really grasped it. Before that I would worry about everything instead of praying about everything. Praying makes a big difference and action makes a big difference when you go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. Joy, gladness or giving. The root word for joy in this context means to rejoice or to make glad. “Strength” in the same verse is a Hebrew word meaning “a place or means of safety, protection refuge, or stronghold.” The joy and the thanksgiving may be general. Let the poor have reason to rejoice as well as you.
Is this just food and drink. Or is this Prayer and action also. If we teach those to pray for themselves and others are we not for filling Gods purpose of living a eternal life of purpose.
When the Lord Returns: What shall I be doing?
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You for this verse that can make all people rejoice in Your works weather they believe in You or not. That You guide those who believe in You to share with those who don’t believe, That they may come to know and love you also through the thanksgiving of others. I thank You and praise You that You are my joy and my strength. I thank You and praise You that there is no condemnation to those that are in Jesus Christ and thank You that Your grace is sufficient for Me. Keep me to stay faithful to You. I thank You, praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse}
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Isaiah 35:10
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