SCRIPTURE: Exodus (NIV) 16:35 The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
Acts (NIV) 2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to breaking of bread and to prayer … 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.
OBSERVATION: God has designed that we have a daily relationship with Him. As the children of Israel came out of Egypt, they depended on God for their daily food. God was faithful to provide a day’s measure of food each day for six week days and two measures on the sixth day (none on the seventh.)
And when the church was born on the day of Pentecost it became their practice to join daily for teaching and fellowship. (Copies of the scriptures were not available in their homes.)
APPLICATION: God has generously supplied many copies of the scriptures in many forms for me to study. For the last 15 years God has assigned me to write a short daily thought (SOAP) about something in God’s Word.
Recently it has come to my attention that some SOAPs are being distributed in places where some people do not have their own Bible, and/or cannot read. What an opportunity for a special ministry!!! If there are such people in your area, invite friends to your home to listen to you (or a guest) read the Bible for 15 or 30 minutes every day or once a week. You do not need to be a teacher, let the Word speak for itself. You might ask your pastor for a passage to be read. He might give you one that goes along with his sermon.
PRAYER: Lord, use us to spread Your Word. May our lives make the Word attractive. May our actions show we honor Your Word. Use us for your glory. In Your Name we pray, Amen.
Pastor Leon
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