Prayer: Father, nations have plotted and conspired against Your covenant people throughout history and today is no exception. I know You protect Your people and You bless those who bless Israel. Amen.
Reading: Psalm 83 key: vs. 3-6
3 For look, Your enemies make an uproar.
Those who hate You lift up their head.
4 They make a shrewd plot against Your people,
conspiring against Your treasured ones.
5 “Come,” they say, “let’s wipe them out as a nation!
Let Israel’s name be remembered no more!”
6 For with one mind they plot together.
Against You do they make a covenant.
Attention: Even Christians do not understand God’s covenant relationship with Israel because they do not read the Old Testament. It boggles my mind how some extract portions of the Bible so that they can claim the Bible supports their narrative. I pray for an awakening among Christians. Open the eyes of their heart.
Nations have conspired for millennia against Israel and an incredibly small area of land given to them by God. This is what the book of Joshua is all about. God’s covenant people were given a “Promised Land” which were promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (his name was changed by God to Israel) whose descendants, his sons, became the tribes or nations of Israel. Interestingly, the dispute over Israel and in particular, Jerusalem, stem from the battle over which son of Abraham (Ishmael or Isaac) the rights to the land transfer to. Traditionally, the rights transferred to the physically first born or Ishmael. By sleeping with his wife’s maid servant (Hagar), Abraham never knew the ongoing turmoil he created. The dispute is over the one who has rights to claim the land, the first physically born or to the Chosen or Promised son, Isaac. Ismael is the father of the Islamic nations. Understand the heritage and the Scriptures, and you understand the dispute. It is a spiritual dispute between heritage by physical or spiritual inheritance.
Your support of Israel depends on your allegiance to Adonai and your understanding of Scripture. God gave a promise to those who bless Israel (Genesis 12:1-3), and to Noah (Genesis 9:11-17), Abraham (Genesis 17:7-8), David (2 Samuel 7:16) and us (Hebrews 13:20), God uses words like “everlasting covenant”, “perpetual”, and “established forever.” How long is God’s covenant word good for? Forever!
Action: I choose to bless those who God has chosen as His covenant people.
Yield: I choose to yield to Scripture and bless who God blesses.
Engage: I am engaged with God when I bless who He blesses.
Relationship: I am in full relationship with Adonai when I bless who He blesses.
Prayer: Father, how can it be any other way than Yours. You tell us who You have chosen. Abraham created an historical mess when he compromised from Your plan. We also do so when we do not follow Your plan. Help me to repent and yield to Your ways and Your plan. Amen.
Memory Verse: Genesis 12:3
3 My desire is to bless those who bless you,
but whoever curses you I will curse,
and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.
Music Video: Michael W Smith – Forever God is Faithful w/lyrics, Everlasting God by Lincoln Brewster
Remember, “Abide in Jesus, today!”