Thank you for joining me as we learn about the connection between Passover, First Fruits, Shavuot (pronounced shav-oo-oat) and Pentecost. As part of understanding and observing the festivals that God has appointed for us to observe, we count the Omer (pronounced oh-mare) today and then have our daily Bible reading session!
Here is the link for a downloadable devotional if you would like to count the Omer for yourself. It has been put out by the Messianic Jewish Congregation Shoresh David in Florida: https://www.shoreshdavid.org/download/counting-the-omer-booklet/
Today's reading covers 2 Chronicles Chapters 19 and 20. We will read about King Jehoshaphat returning home to Judah after fighting a joint battle with King Ahab of Israel to attempt to reclaim the city of Ramoth from the king of Aram. Upon his return to Judah he will be met with admonishment from Jehu, the prophet, who told King Jehoshaphat he should not be making deals with or working with Israel, who is not obeying or loving God. We will see Jehoshaphat seeking God when Judah is threatened by a large enemy force and God winning the battle for His people. In our discussion today we will talk about the mathematical Order of Operations and see how it directly relates to our spiritual life. Much like a young child, we often want to do everything ourselves, saying, "I do! I do!" when we should really be asking God for his direction, first. In the same way that we can sometimes look at a math problem by seeing the answer and then working backward to figure out how to get the right answer, we need to look at today's reading and see that the "answer" is winning the battle and the proper order of operations is to first, ask God for His direction, second, obey, and this equals winning the battle! We need to remember not to try to do even "little" things by ourselves without consulting God, because this is not the proper order of operations for life! We need to remember that if it is God's will, we will be successful and if it is NOT God's will, we will fail, much the same way that King Jehoshaphat made ANOTHER deal with Israel to build ships with them, and God destroyed them because He had already told King Jehoshaphat NOT to deal directly with Israel!
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