Daily Bread
Acts 10:36 "The word that was sent to the sons of Israel announcing peace through Jesus Christ who is Lord of all."
The Hebrew word 'shalom' (peace) is far more than just a Hebrew way of saying hello. The expression declares a state of plenty and wellbeing and includes security, empowerment, and prosperity. When God's people walk inobedience to Him they enjoy His blessings and their "peace is like a river, and their righteousness as the waves of the sea" (Isaiah 48:18). Peace speaks of the fellowship and communion that God's people enjoy with Him exemplified in the Peace offerings (Exodus 20:24; Leviticus 3). God both secured Gideon's life and empowered Him with the words "Peace to you" insomuch that Gideon built an altar and called it YHWH is the source of our peace (Judges 6:23-24). God's peace is a "covenant of peace" that causes the wild beast to leave, brings safety in the wilderness, makes His people and their dwelling a blessing, results in showers of blessings which causes the trees to produce fruit and the earth to produce a harvest, it breaks the yoke of slavery and oppression giving God's people the dominion over all other powers (Ezekiel 34:25-29; Leviticus 26:6; Numbers 25:12). The peace that God gives is part of His armor and one of the benefits of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 6:15; Gal 5:22). This peace comes to us through Jesus Christ who has removed the offence and disobedience and bestowed all theblessing of God upon us.
Blessings
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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