Sunlight, electric light, candlelight, lights which are generated by batteries… lights of the night sky. Light is important in many ways and God used a lampstand in His tabernacle… light is also important to God, for God is Light. First the LORD God’s purpose was to show His people His Messiah. One way He did […]
Text messaging, Twitter, Facebook, messages left on your phone, messages sent through e-mail and snail mail. Messages are important to send and receive. Do you read them when you get them? The LORD God sends you and me messages. He does it through His word, the holy Bible. He does it through His children, believers […]
What is important to God should be very important to us. God gave Moses the blueprints and patterns for the tabernacle and all its furnishings and the priestly garments. He provided the materials for all of these things, before the sons of Israel left Egypt! They asked their taskmasters and other Egyptians for various items […]
How do you explain something to a small child or someone from another culture who cannot understand your language? One way is through pictures. God used “pictures” of His Anointed One, the Messiah in the construction of the tabernacle and all its furnishings to explain His Messiah, Jesus. Rituals in the Old Testament are, most […]
What are your life goals? For what are you working – so hard? Do you need to change your motives, do I? Do we need to re-think the reasons for working? Here are a few reasons you may be working: To put food on the table To buy “stuff” To save money for hard times […]
Problems, hard circumstances, difficult and pain-filled afflictions are realities in many lives. Perhaps you are in such a place in your life. Thinking about the world we live in, there are people who want to radically change, and get rid of: Christian thought, Christian morals, Christian beliefs. In the past, historically, when this has happened […]
God’s mercy is God’s compassion at work – – – for you! The LORD God gave Moses instructions, the pattern for the ark of the covenant. On top of the ark would be the mercy seat. Moses was given a detailed pattern for the mercy seat in Exodus 25:17-22. The dimensions were given and a […]
When you have a project in mind, how far in advance do you make preparations? Some will prepare as much as possible as soon as possible. Others will wait… and wait. God prepares well in advance for His purposes to be accomplished. Sometimes we can see it years in advance. God’s preparations are thorough. Moses […]
Generosity gives what you have… Generosity does not give what you don’t have or own. Generosity honors the LORD when given from a willing and generous heart. Remember this: “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7Each man should give what he has decided in his heart […]
Moses was called by God to go up the mountain to meet with God Himself. Then Moses waited… and waited. Exodus 24:12a One day, then two, three, four, five, six days and still God did not speak. Moses knew he was called by God to go up that mountain at that time. He also knew […]