The Lord’s promise to His people is that He will never forsake or fail us.
God’s people are encouraged that the Lord’s presence will never leave noir forsake them. What an encouragement throughout the year the Lord’s presence goes with us day by day.
The Lord purpose for His people is that they go forward and enter into blessing knowing that He goes with and before us to bless.
As Moses the man of God prepares the children of Israel to enter the promised land, and to go forward he encourages them the Lord goes before His people. In this new year as we take our journey onward the Lord goes before His people.
When a person dies, death is not the end. A person will either enter into heaven to praise Christ, or be cast into hell to be judged by Christ for their sin in rejecting Him as Saviour.
There are mang things in life that we try to escape from, however there is one truth than none can escape from and that is it is appointed unto men once to die. Death is definite and real, however, Christ by His death had provided eternal salvation for al who trust in Him, that when death comes, the Christian enters heaven, whereas the rejector is cast into eternal punishment.
There are many appointments that are made for us while most are kept some are cancelled, forgotten or postponed. However, there is one appointment for ever person that will never be cancelled, forgotten, late or postponed rather it is settled, it is appointed unto men once to die. The day of our death is divinely appointed. We must be prepared for death by having Christ as our only Saviour.
Anna’s having seen the promised Saviour, departed from the house of God rejoicing and she told others about Christ and the redemption found only in Him.
As Anna worshipped to the Lord was persistent because night and day she came into the temple the house of God to fast and pray waiting for the promised Saviour to come.
The Ministry of Emmanuel is to save and comfort His people by coming into this world to honour God by living, dying and rising again for sinners He came to save.
As Elijah’s prays He uses the name LORD GOD, a name that God choose to reveal Himself as the God who keeps His promises. Every believer has this assurance and confidence that God keeps His promises.
The sacrifice offered on the altar of the Lord was offered at the time of the evening sacrifice, which was given by God to Moses in the building of the tabernacle. However, the time of the evening sacrifice was also the time Christ was sacrificed on the cross. Elijah’s sacrifice was offered by faith as the same time Christ offered Himself.
On Mt Carmel. The prophet Elijah approach God in prayer on the basis of sacrifice accepted by God to symbolically teach that sinners can only approach God and find acceptance with God on the basis of sacrifice that He accepts who is the Lord Jesus Christ. To make any other approach to God is to be rejected.
The contents of the altar was an animal sacrifice and water. The animal given for sacrifice followed the pattern laid down in Leviticus to teach that God will only be pleased to forgive sin on the basis of sacrifice that He accepts. The water poured over the wood, sacrifice and ground, taught the people that God answers without the intervention of man, meaning forgiveness of sin is by God alone not man’s influence.
The altar was made form twelves stones to symbolise the 12 sons, tribes of Israel. Though the nation or tribes where divided, yet Elijah shows that in Christ there is forgiveness, there is only one Saviour of sinners and only one way to worship God, by faith in the promised Saviour Jesus Christ.
