Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
September 08, 2023: SOAP #5027: Jeremiah 42-44; Psalm 48; Revelation 13

SCRIPTURE:  Psalm (NIV) 48:10 Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.

OBSERVATION:  How appropriate that the praise of the creator of the earth should reach “to the ends of the earth.”  

In the days this psalm was written, there were many reasons for the people of Israel to praise God.  For creation, for God’s call to Abraham, for God using Moses to free them from Egypt, for the Law and sacrifices and feasts, for the Kingdom of Israel. 

But today there is another reason that the praise of God should reach every person on the whole earth.    It is that God sent His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life!  (John 3:16) Everybody ought to know!!!  

APPLICATION:  Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would give us power to be witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and “to the ends of the earth!”  (Acts 1:8)

From some point on the earth, my town would be considered “the end of the earth.”  From some point on the earth, your town would be considered “the end of the earth.”  So, if everyone will allow the Holy Spirit to fill and use them, we can reach “the ends of the earth!”  

PRAYER:  Holy Spirit, as you did in Acts 1 and 2, fill us, and overflow us.  Make our live so full of you that we cannot help but be witnesses for Jesus.   In His Name and For His Glory we pray.  Amen

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