Saturday, March 29, 2014

Set Apart

Our God has established His ways in His creation. What God has ordained to happen will happen. This includes the blessing He has for us His people. God has established praise and worship to be instruments for our freedom. The psalmist talks about how certain days are set apart.

Psalms 81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

Here we see that there is a time to blow the trumpet, and that there is an appointed feast day. He also talks about how God delivered them from slave labor in Egypt. Mixed in the midst of it all is praise.

Psalms 126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.
3 The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

God always returns His people to Himself. We are all headed toward God’s rest one day. In the mean timme, we have the sabbath and more in God’s ways to keep us to the end.

Prayer
Father, we exalt and praise You. Thank You for Your sabbath. Thank You for Your appointed feast days. We seek Your face and want to walk in Your ways. Please teach us to do this. Please send Your healing, Your deliverance, and Your provision today. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. Amen.