Nov 22, 2022
NEHEMIAH 3-4:
After Nehemiah’s wonderful prayer for
Jerusalem, more than three months went by before the king noticed
him looking sad. He says he had never before looked sad, so he must
have waited. God must have been in the timing, because the king
wonderfully agreed to help Nehemiah in every way. And the leaders
in Jerusalem also were enthusiastic in their acceptance of his
proposal to rebuild the walls.
ISAIAH 35:
Yesterday we heard that the land of Edom would
become an eternal wasteland and a home for owls and other
creatures. The land of Edom is in modern-day Jordan, and GoogleMap
almost nothing green in that whole area.
PHILIPPIANS 3:
Yesterday we heard Paul’s wonderful poem of
praise about Christ’s humility and subsequent exaltation to the
highest place.
And we heard this
promise:
Php. 2:13 GNT because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.
GNT Translation
note:
9 [PET And I just
want to remain joined as one with Him. The way I’m made right
before God is not based my efforts to obey the Law. Instead I am
made right in God’s sight only because of Christ! I fully believe
in what Christ has done, and through that belief alone I am made
right in God's sight.//GNT and be completely united with him. I no
longer have a righteousness of my own, the kind that is gained by
obeying the Law. I now have the righteousness that is given through
faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God and is based
on faith.]