God Will Meet Your Every Need When Appears Impossible Exodus 16:21.
Exodus 16:21
21 Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.
There will be seasons in your life when you are in a waiting stage. The promise has been made but you must travel through a wilderness period. It is, while you wait, that God will prove Himself a provider. Though you will not see how, the Lord will meet your daily needs. Rejoice, as you appreciate the manna blessing.
Everything you want to know in life is in the Bible. As having my Christian roots in Catholicism, I did not know the Sign of the Cross was referenced in the Bible. Yes, I still bow my head when the name of Jesus is said. I never take Holy Communion in my hand. I am old school. But I never learned the Bible in nine years of Catholic School. Not until I went to a Baptist women Bible Study did I understand what the Bible means. Wow, I am just learning after 6 decades of life.
Pray continually, Paul urged the Thessalonians. The early church fathers took this one step further: continually make the sign of the cross.
“In all our travels and movements, in all our coming in and going out, in putting on our shoes, at the bath, at the table, in lighting our candles, in lying down, in sitting down, whatever employment occupies us, we mark our foreheads with the sign of the cross,” wrote Tertullian at the turn of the third century, A.D. In the fourth century, St. John Chrysostom (apparently anticipating an American Express slogan) wrote, “never leave home without making the sign of the cross.”
Andreopoulos and Ghezzi find in the sign of the cross a symbol of baptism, protection, profession of faith, defiance of the Devil, invocation of God’s power, solidarity with the church, and a rebuke of self-indulgence—to name a few.
The origins of the sign are unknown; as Andreopoulos points out: “our information is sparse because this ancient practice emerged naturally, as something that made sense to most Christians.” The earliest descriptions, such as Tertullian’s, indicate that the cross was made with one finger—probably the thumb—on the forehead in the shape of a Hebrew T or a Greek X, letters that stood for names of God and Christ. Presumably, early Christians were taking their cues from passages in Genesis 4:15, Ezekiel 9:4, and Revelation 14:1 and 22:4 that describe a mark on the forehead as a sign of God’s claim on a person.
“The spiritual weight of the sign has always been the same,” Andreopoulos writes. “In texts from Tertullian and Origen to Kosmas and Aitolos, it is a blessing, a prayer, a proclamation of the Christian identity, a living mystery, and an acceptance of the role that God has given us.”
“Whether I sign myself silently or with the invocation [of ‘in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit’],” writes Ghezzi, “it helps me to look beyond the mundane things I have to do every day … and focus on God and on the greater part of reality, the part that is spiritual and invisible.”
Leviticus 14: 33-42, 1 Corinthians 5:6-8: Is Your Home Clean for The Word of God?
Leviticus 14: 33-42 ESV
33 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,34 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land,35 the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.’36 The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.37 He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,38 the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.39 On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mold has spread on the walls,40 he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.41 He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the town.42 Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Is you house ready for the Word of God at anytime?
I therefore claim this place as a place of Christian spiritual safety and protection.
I bless this place with my mouth, my heart and my mind in the name of my God; Jesus Christ.
I ask You Lord Jesus Christ to secure your blessing and spiritual protection while we (your Christians) stay and live here.
Please clean it with Your Holy Blood,
and let it be made as new for me (and my family).
Let only your Holy Spirit and Holy Angels of Heaven be here with us!
I choose to have faith in your power Jesus,
the same power that saved my soul!
I love you Jesus:
Amen!
All Souls Day is a holy day set aside for honoring the dead. According to Catholic belief, the soul of a person who dies can go to one of three places. The first is heaven, where a person who dies in a state of perfect grace and communion with God goes. The second is hell, where those who die in a state of mortal sin are naturally condemned by their choice. The intermediate option is purgatory, which is thought to be where most people, free of mortal sin, but still in a state of lesser (venial) sin, must go.
Consistent with these teachings and traditions, Catholics believe that through the prayers of the faithful on Earth, the dead are cleansed of their sins so they may enter into heaven.
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