PARAGRAPH DIVISIONS OF MODERN TRANSLATIONS

READING CYCLE THREE (see "Guide to Good Bible Reading")

FOLLOWING THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR'S INTENT AT PARAGRAPH LEVEL

This is a study guide commentary, which means that you are responsible for your own interpretation of the Bible. Each of us must walk in the light we have. You, the Bible, and the Holy Spirit are priority in interpretation. You must not relinquish this to a commentator.

Read the chapter in one sitting. Identify the subjects (reading cycle #3). Compare your subject divisions with the five translations above. Paragraphing is not inspired, but it is the key to following the original author's intent, which is the heart of interpretation. Every paragraph has one and only one subject.

1. First paragraph

2. Second paragraph

3. Third paragraph

4. Etc.

WORD AND PHRASE STUDY

NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: 47:1-2
 ¹Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, water was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar. ²He brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate by way of the gate that faces east. And behold, water was trickling from the south side.

47:1 "water was flowing" For desert people water was a sign of God's blessing and presence (i.e., Joel 3:18). The eschatological sense is present in Zech. 13:1 and 14:8. It is used by John in Rev. 22:1,17. The covenant promises of Deuteronomy 27-30 have become a reality!

This is metaphorical (cf. Ps. 46:4; 65:9) and not meant to be taken literally. It conveys

1. original creation

2. Eden

3. covenant promises

NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: 47:3-12
 ³When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he led me through the water, water reaching the ankles. ⁴Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the loins. ⁵Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not ford, for the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a river that could not be forded. ⁶He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he brought me back to the bank of the river. ⁷Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river there were very many trees on the one side and on the other. ⁸Then he said to me, "These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah; then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters of the sea become fresh. ⁹It will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there and the others become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes. ¹⁰And it will come about that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many. ¹¹But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt. ¹²By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing."

47:3 "the man" This is the angel of 40:3. This measuring angel is also mentioned by John in Revelation 21.

47:7 "many trees on the one side and the other" This is a metaphor of fertility (cf. v. 12). This is another metaphor used by John in Revelation 22.

47:8 Many commentators have asserted that the verse refers to a miraculous change of saltwater to fresh water, but it seems to me that it refers to the abundance of waters which fills up the Arabah depression and overflows it.

NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: 47:13-14
 ¹³Thus says the Lord God, "This shall be the boundary by which you shall divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions. ¹⁴You shall divide it for an inheritance, each one equally with the other; for I swore to give it to your forefathers, and this land shall fall to you as an inheritance.

47:13 This is the beginning of the reallocation of the land (i.e., Joshua 12-23).

47:14 "each one equally" In Joshua the land was divided according to the size of the individual tribes.

▣ "for I swore to give it to your forefathers" This reflects the promises to the Patriarchs beginning in Genesis 12 and 15.

NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: 47:15-17
 ¹⁵"This shall be the boundary of the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad; ¹⁶Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. ¹⁷The boundary shall extend from the sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

47:15-20 The southern boundaries are close to Joshua' boundaries (cf. Num. 34:1-12) and the kingdoms of David and Solomon, but the northern part is expanded northward and eastward as far as Hamath and including most of Syria.

NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: 47:18
 ¹⁸"The east side, from between Hauran, Damascus, Gilead and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: 47:19
 ¹⁹"The south side toward the south shall extend from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt and to the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the south.

NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: 47:20
 ²⁰"The west side shall be the Great Sea, from the south border to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This is the west side.

NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: 47:21-23
 ²¹"So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. ²²You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the aliens who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. ²³And in the tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall give him his inheritance," declares the Lord God.

47:22 "aliens" This is the one section of the book that seems to be inclusive instead of exclusive. This is similar to Isa. 56:3-8 and follows the pattern of Lev. 24:22 and Num. 15:29.

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Pernahkan Anda bermaksud pergi ke pertemuan namun ternyata Anda salah alamat? Maksudku, pernahkah Anda berdiri di depan pintu rumah seseorang, membukanya, tanpa rasa bersalah masuk ke dalam hanya untuk mengetahui – bercampur rasa takut- tanpa sadar salah masuk rumah? Bisakah Anda bayangkan bagaimana perasaan tuan rumah saat mereka pasrah melihat orang asing dengan santai dan tenang, tanpa rasa bersalah terganggu masuk ke rumahnya? Bisakah Anda bayangkan betapa merahnya pipimu saat menyadari keadaan yang sesungguhnya?

Baiklah...gereja kami mengadakan jam doa setiap minggu. Jam doa dimulai pada pukul 6 pagi setiap hari Senin di salah satu rumah pengurus gereja. Saat itu pukul 6 pagi di Kanada hari masih gelap (setidaknya sampai bulan Maret). Walaupun begitu, salah seorang teman pergi ke jam doa tersebut, dia sudah pernah ke rumah itu walaupun bisa dihitung dengan jari. Rumah itu terletak di sebuah tempat dimana ada beberapa rumah mempunyai model yang sama. Saat dia tiba pada pukul 5.50 pagi dia memarkirkan mobilnya, keluar, menggosok-gosok matanya yang lelah dan mengantuk, tersandung gundukan salju dan terus melangkah di jalan setapak halaman.

Kemungkinan ada beberapa detail ceritaku ini yang tidak sama persis, tetapi pada dasarnya kejadian itu seperti berikut ini: Temanku menegaskan dia ingat ada mobil yang terlihat berbeda di halaman. Petunjuk #1. “Wow,”katanya pada diri sendiri, “Jordy pastilah membeli mobil baru.” Kemudian dia memperhatikan pintu garasi. Di bawah sinar pagi dia menyadari bahwa warna pintu garasi juga beda! Petunjuk #2, “ya ampun,” omelnya lagi, “Jordy pastilah mengecat pintu garasinya minggu ini! Dia sangat sibuk!” Saat dia melewati garasi dia melihat-lihat sekitar pintu depan dan mencatat bahwa terlihat beda juga. Petunjuk #3. Membuka pintu (tentunya tanpa mengetuk dulu) dan masuk ke teras, dia mencatat dengan agak cerdik bahwa teras juga beda. Petunjuk #4. Setelah melewatkan semua petunjuk ini, termasuk cat yang berbeda dan pajangan gambar di dinding, dia melanjutkan ke petunjuk #bagaimana dengan dapur .. seseorang yang sedang memakai mantel mandi, melotot padanya! Saat itulah mimpinya buyar dan mimpi buruk dimulai. Saya harus mengakui ... ketika mendengar cerita ini saya tidak pernah tertawa sekeras itu sepanjang hidupku!

Kadang-kadang, tidak masalah betapa banyaknya petunjuk berlawanan yang telah diberikan kepada kita, kita masih saja bertahan untuk mempercayai hal yang salah. Dalam budaya saat ini, walaupun Tuhan sudah memberikan banyak petunjuk, kita tetap bertahan dalam keyakinan bahwa Dia tidak ada. Dengan keyakinan absolut bahwa kita membaca “fakta” dengan benar. Padahal kita salah. Masalahnya bukan karena kurangnya petunjuk; persediaan petunjuk selalu banyak sesuai permintaan dunia ini.

Faktanya, kita hidup di jaman dimana informasi sangat banyak, dua kali lipat, bahkan tiga kali lipat petunjuk dalam satu kedipan mata. Setengah waktu yang dihabiskan setiap gelar sarjana sekarang untuk menulis paper hampir sia-sia. Tetapi, orang-orang sekarang kelihatannya lebih bingung dibanding jaman sebelumnya tentang pertanyaan-pertanyaan penting. “Apakah kebahagiaan?” “Apa artinya?” “Mengapakah saya mengandalkan materi?” dan, yang paling penting dari semuanya, “Apakah Tuhan ada?” sepertinya kita membangun sebuah dunia otomatis dimana kita tidak berperan karena kita, dengan sifat alamiah, bukanlah mesin! Dan sepertinya Tuhan juga tidak berperan di dunia ini.

Contohnya ilmu pengetahuan. Beberapa ilmuwan memperdebatkan kalau saat ini hanyalah awal dari ledakan ilmu pengetahuan, dengan kata lain, kita berada pada masa-masa awal kebanjiran petunjuk dari Tuhan, yang akan menunjukkan jalan kita. Tentu saja, banyak ilmuwan itu tidak percaya Tuhan melakukan segalanya dengan petunjuk, tetapi itulah poin dari ceritaku di atas.

Meskipun demikian, dalam banyak hal dan dibandingkan dengan tahun terakhir, bidang astrofisika dan matematika-dua bidang yang terhubung dengan erat, satu dengan yang lainnya-menunjukkan kemajuan yang pesat dalam petunjuk ilmiah yang berubah dari model evolusioner menuju desainer.

Pada umumnya astrofisikawan sekarang sepakat bahwa pusat alam semesta yang sebenarnya tidak dapat diketahui, namun dunia memiliki awal yang nyata dan terbatas. Hal ini disebabkan sejumlah besar penelitian inovatif Albert Einstein, fisikawan Jerman terkenal dan teori relativitas umum dan khusus. Kemudian fisikawan seperti Stephen Hawking mengembangkan persamaan Einstein tidak hanya memasukkan materi dan energi, tetapi juga ruang dan waktu. Jadi Einstein membuka pintu dan membuka jalan bagi studi teori medan terpadu.

Studi baru-baru ini yang dilakukan pada akhir tahun 1990 menunjukkan bahwa empat kekuatan fisika (yaitu electromagnetik, kekuatan nuklir kuat dan lemah, dan gravitasi) dapat disatukan. Pada awalnya, teori supersymmetry menunjukkan elektromagnetik dan kekuatan nuklir kuat dan lemah dapat disatukan. Studi tersebut tidak memasukkan gravitasi untuk diintegrasikan ke dalam model. Hal ini terjadi pada tahun 1994, ketika terobosan dalam matematika dan ilmu pengetahuan, gravitasi ditambahkan ke teori medan terpadu dengan cara yang konsisten. Salah satu kemajuan yang paling signifikan dalam pemikiran yang membuat penemuan ini mungkin adalah ide tentang kemungkinan adanya dimensi yang lebih banyak daripada empat dimensi yang telah ada. Teori terpadu dengan pemahamannya dari “rangkaian” dan “lubang hitam bermassa” masuk akal dalam alam sepuluh dimensi.¹

Teologis terkenal/dokter albert Schweitzer membuat kesimpulan mengenai situasi kita dengan sangat baik: “saat kita memperoleh pengetahuan, semua hal tidak menjadi lebih mudah dipahami, tetapi lebih misterius.” Lebih sedikit pernyataan membuktikan lebih sedikit ramalan.

Jadi masalahnya bukanlah kekurangan petunjuk tentang keberadaan Tuhan. Tetapi, semua hal, tidak diragukan lagi akan menyebabkan kebingungan sampai kita menyadari telah membaca petunjuk yang salah sehingga kita berada di jalan yang salah ke rumah yang salah. Berbagai aliran ateisme didukung karena mereka oleh beberapa versi evolusi (dan alasan lainnya) akan selalu membawa kita ke alamat yang salah. Saatnya bangun dari mimpi, jangan sampai berubah menjadi mimpi buruk!

Menurutku kita meletakkan Tuhan di antara sebuah batu dan tempat yang sulit. Jika Dia muncul dengan penampilan yang mempesona (dan itu pasti akan terjadi suatu hari nanti ), kita akan berteriak: “tidak adil!” “tidak adil!” “Dia memaksa kita!” tetapi saat Dia memberikan petunjuk di sini, di sana, dan di mana saja, kita menjerit: “informasinya terlalu sedikit Tuhan!” “informasinya kurang!” Saya mulai bertanya-tanya, dalam kasus temanku yang pergi ke jam doa, masalahnya bukanlah kualitas dan banyaknya pertanda, tetapi masalahnya adalah kita!

Sekarang saya menyadari bahwa ada perbedaan di antara aliran ketuhanan dasar, aliran kekristenan, dan keyakinan bahwa Allah dengan jelas telah menyatakan diriNya di dalam dan melalui Yesus Kristus. Tetapi jika Anda adalah salah satu dari orang-orang yang percaya bahwa ada banyak petunjuk, karena itu, jangan biarkan orang-orang yang tidak percaya mencabut imanmu kepada Tuhan.

Selanjutnya, jika Anda percaya pada Tuhan, Satu-satunya dan hanya Dia Yang Mahatinggi yang menciptakan seluruh alam semesta, maka saya mendorong Anda untuk mempertimbangkan pengenalan akan Yesus Kristus. Untuk sementara “mengenal Allah melalui ciptaannya” adalah langkah awal dari perjalanan yang menakjubkan, Anda hanya setengah perjalanan di sana. Anda membutuhkan penerbangan yang membawa Anda semua menuju ke kota suci.

Sekali lagi, kita belajar tentang kuasa Allah, hikmat, dan kecukupan diri dalam ciptaan, meskipun begitu kita juga belajar tentang kasihNya, belas kasih, dan kasih karunia melalui Yesus Kristus (kebaikanNya, salib dan kebangkitanNya) – dua hal, sebagaimana, menurut cerita Allah yang mengagumkan tentang diri-Nya dan ciptaan-Nya. Ketika Allah memberikan kedua hal itu bagi kita, selaput di mata kita terbuka dan visi 3-Dimensi dipulihkan. Allah yang saya lihat melalui ciptaanNya adalah juga Allah yang mati dan bangkit kembali ... dan sekarang wajahnya saya lihat di dalam Yesus.

Yesus memperkenalkan dirinya sebagai Allah, menerima pujian sebagai Allah, dan juga melakukan pekerjaan-pekerjaan Allah. Dari ciptaanNya kita belajar kuasa Allah, tetapi dalam Yesus kita belajar bahwa Tuhan memiliki wajah dan sebuah nama. Singkatnya, kita belajar bahwa Dia selalu memikirkan kita dan karenanya Dia ingin kita mengenalNya, bahkan sampai ke titik dimana Dia memberikan hidupNya untuk menyelamatkan orang-orang yang kita kasihi.

Apakah Anda mau mengambil resiko dan mengejar sebuah hubungan dengan sang Pencipta melalui Yesus Kristus? Yesus berkata. “Datanglah kepadaKu semua yang lelah dan berbeban berat dan Aku akan memberikan kelegaan kepadaMu” (Matius 11:28). Dia juga mengatakan, “Akulah jalan, dan kebenaran dan hidup. Tidak seorangpun yang sampai kepada Bapa kalau tidak melalui Aku”(Yoh 14:6). Sekarang saatnya untuk memutuskan membaca petunjuk dengan benar dan menemukan rumah yang tepat. Dia menunggu disana...

¹ See Hugh Ross, Beyond the Cosmos, rev. ed. (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 1999), 27-46.

Earlier this week, everyone was out of the office and I had oportunity to talk to a blind person who was trying to use our site. She wanted to read the bible and was having problems using our NETBible on line Bible Study tool. http://netbible.org Our page is not designed for blind users. Her text to speech program was reading every link across the page from top to bottom. I had her turn up the volume so I could hear the program as I watch my screen and  it read Matt 1. It got caught up reading all the links in the discovery box. I said this is no good.. We need to redesign our pages to be handicap friendly. (if you can help on this send us a note.  After I got off the phone I asked our techies what we had that might help and I was reminded that our iphone bible reader might be just what she needed as it has a simple interface. http://www.enetbible.com/ . I sent her a link to it earlier today and I just got an email from her that  I wanted to share it with you so you can get some understanding of what your donations provide.

Tonight I got back to that web site you sent me. It is absolutely beautiful. I visited Ecclesiastes 7 and Psalm 1. I was blown away for it told me the verses and also had links that I could go to and hear great notes concerning the scriptural text. It is great and I thank you so very much. At first it would not allow me to save it in my favorites due to the slashes and all, but my sister told me to go to eye phone and that did the trick. I am very ignorant about the internet and how to navigate. The over abundance of words overwhelm me and i want to give up. I know there is a better way to do all this, and possibly I will learn it sometime. Anyway, I have this and this may be about all I desire other than Bible.org and reading the articles. I saw that there is one by Kirby Anderson that I had not noticed before today. May the Lord be refreshment to you for your work has certainly refreshed me.

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In This Issue:
- March Spotlight: Pastors  and Teachers who use the NETBible
- Pastor of the month:
- Ministry updates from around the world
- Financial Update
- Social Networking Initiatives
- Praises and Prayer
 

March Spotlight

This month we want to shine the spotlight those pastors and teachers who use the NETBible for sermon preparation and teaching. One of our major goals at bible.org is to produce material that helps pastor’s as well as teachers in understanding God’s truths so they can accurately teach it to their congregations. This starts with the NETBible which is the only Bible that explains itself and provides the reasons why the translators chose the English words they did to communicate God’s truths to mankind. In addition to the NETBible, we want to present “trustworthy” study materials and tools that help every Christian attain the skills “to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately” (2 Tim 2:15)

In 2010 we want to help the unchurched and new people moving into an area find a church to minster to them. A project that is being undertaken is to develop a web page that shows where our bible.org users attend (Red Pin) and within that group, highlight those churches whose pastor(s) teach from the NETBible.(Bible icon)  
Click map for larger picture. If you want your church location included on the map make sure your church location is included in your profile and if your pastor teaches from the NETBible ask him to indicate that in his profile and to join our pastors teaching from the NETBible group where we will highlight your church and link to his sermons. We are encouraged as we continue our work to help pastors as we have 1270 Pastors already registered on bible.org. We are looking for more of “you” to post your sermons, outlines, podcasts, etc. We understand that many of you are overly extended but what a delight if your church and people in your area could come to users.bible .org and find your work published for the entire world to see and read! What a neat entrance into the way of visitors who are vacationing and new people to find a doctrinally sound church.

We would love to encourage you this month and look forward to our intereactions with you on the pastor page

1.      Pastors: we need some input! Please take this short survey (link here to the survey).

2.       If you have further thoughts, send us a note.

3.       Pastors: Here’s the challenge for March: would you like a gift for your church library? Send us a snippet of “why and how you use the NETBible” for your sermon preparation or teaching.  The Pastor who sends us the most creative entry wins a prize for their church library. Send all entries to SonShine.

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Pastor of the Month: Pastor Jeff Miller; Trinity Bible Church, Richardson, TX whose mission statement reads: “We seek to fulfill our vision by equipping followers of Jesus Christ to live Biblically in outreach, in corporate and personal worship, and in life-changing relationships." Pastor Jeff invited Bible.org to Trinity just before Christmas to have a “Christmas Shop” so that his church members could purchase the Hardback Reader’s Edition for the church pews. In addition, other Bibles and store products were for sale as well. Trinity Members went above and beyond the call! They purchased 147 Bibles for their church. What a delight to enter their sanctuary and see the binding of the Reader’s Editions in each pew rack. Pastor Jeff uses the NETBible as his teaching tool. Check out his many articles on bible.org. Jeff just recently finished a series on Hebrews and on Sunday, Feb 28 selected church members recited the entire book of Hebrews from memory. PTL, What an undertaking!

Updates

• Ministry UPDATES FROM AROUND THE WORLD-

  It is always exciting to open our inbox from emails sent to “Tell us How Bible.org has Blessed You” and read what God is doing in the lives of our donors, our readers, and our followers on Facebook (posted as received; links added by staff)

1. Re: http://netbible.org  I just opened it and it's awesome and i promise i will tell every one i know about it! even though it's a gem and i don't want to :) You know when you find some thing sweet you really don't want people to know but the right thing is to share it.   I was looking for a reference support bible program with this much information, etc. Nice job to all who are involved in creating the Bible search program. I can say much much more, but i will stop here How do i buy it - the full version?

2. Thank you so much for the word doc download of the messianic prophecies.  It is great way I can forward to many who are searching for proof that Jesus is the Messiah!

3. thank you for having the guts to print the facts about Heaven and Hell with support directly from the scriptures. You blessed me with the knowledge of exactly where my long-held beliefs came from. Also provided me with the needed verses to debate with my cousin, who believes in permanent bodily death until the resurrection, and that we have no soul.

4- The Soccer World Cup is in South Africa this year, Pray for Komatie as he leads his church in the preparation of tracts to be ready in different languages to be placed in guest houses and elsewhere using the NETBible and our http://bible.org/article/gods-plan-salvation tract.

From Facebook Fans after we posted the note on Komatie’s prayer request: A poster said: Africa will be saved! the world will be saved!!

Another posted: Hola Mzansi (South Africa). God has already gone before Komatie to bring people into His kingdom.

Financial Update

2009 totals

Jan 2010

Actual Expense

243,768

15,688

Actual Donations

127,053

4,272

Shortfall

(116,714)

(11,416)

2009-Jan 2010 shortfall

(128,130)

 We praise God for the end of year giving. It took our deficit from 158k in October to 116k for the whole of 2009. As you can see from the chart on the left January giving was 11k short of expenses. We have been praying how we can get to a place where we are not running deficits every month. We had hoped that we would have our planning activities completed this month so we could share our plans to restart development on the NETBible learning environment and expand a China NETBible project. However, the short month and day job pressures have caused a delay. Hopefully next month we can share our 2010 plans and budget needs

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Social Networking Initiatives (helping the church win the relationship war for the next generation.)

• From the Users Site
  1- We love it when God answers our heart’s desires! God has touched the hearts of two individuals who will be heading up the new Group on Users for Evangelism which at present is called the W.E.C. (Web Evangelism Café) Join the group and post your ideas.
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•  Facebook Praise: .  Currently we now have nearly 7400 active followers! Up from 4000 last month. Our prayer is that our presence on Facebook will encourage Christians to practice ministry with one-another as they take up hurting people’s needs in prayer and sharing. If you have not joined Facebook yet you are missing an exciting section each day. http://www.facebook.com/bible.org

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• Blog News: To see the latest Blogs click on the Blog Posts tab on the home page for the latest blogs  

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PRAISES AND PRAYER

PRAYER: Our March focus is Missionaries: Last month we said we would give you some hints on how to pray for our dear sisters and brothers both here and abroad. (Ex 17:12) Aaron and Hur supported the arms of Moses in the battle against the Amalekites and prayer is the way you can support the tired arms of the missionaries. Pray specifically, systematically, steadfastly, “saturation praying” (cover many aspects briefly), authoritatively as many missionaries serve in difficult places around the world.  (Num 10:35- 36) “enemies would scatter, those who hate Your name would flee” and God’s presence be seen in their lives. Here are a few ideas and we welcome any others as well.

A weekly plan: The “S-E-V-E-N’S”

Sunday         S = Sabbath solitude, spiritual meditation, study, stewardship

Monday         E = Expediency, excellence, encouragement, energy, etiquette, education

Tuesday       V = Victory over satanic “Deadly D’s” (ex. discouragement, distraction, depression),

Wednesday E = Evangelistic Opportunities; Endurance (language, customs, climate, foods),

Thursday      N = Nurturing the Needy

Friday            ’ = Harmony: team members, family members, favor with officials

 Saturday     S =  Seek; Send; Support, Safety,

 PRAISES  1-  Ps 113:1 says Praise the Lord! Praise, you servants of the Lord, Praise the name of the Lord!  How marvelous is our God.  

                  2- We have over 400 people who are doing a daily Bible reading by email. You can join them and select one of 4 plans; from a read the bible through in a year, a New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs plan and a chronological reading plan.  

PRAYER: Num 10:35- 36 :  Each week we send out a prayer log. If you would like to join the journey in prayer for the many who are on our hearts, send SONSHINE a note and she will add you to the list. Please pray the “4S-A’s” (systematically, specifically, steadfastly, saturating and authoritatively): the activities of bible.org; continued prayer for the finances; for the users.bible.org page to be successful; for pastors and teachers who are faithful in teaching the Word, for all who come to visit bible.org seeking HIM, for time for the staff to enter a time of prayer;  and lastly for all of us that we be holy as God is holy, for mighty  wisdom. and God’s protection over bible.or

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