Monday November 5, 2012

Weekly Challenge

At every meal you have this week, resolve to praise God and thank God for all His blessings and provisions. Try to praise God before every single meal this week.

 

Read Leviticus 23-34-36

 

Each year we look forward to Christmas. It’s not always in anticipation of celebrating Messiah’s birth either. The world stops at Christmas time and starts to celebrate. This celebrating and rejoicing has much in common with the Feast of Booths.

 

The final feast mentioned in Leviticus 23 is the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles, as it’s sometimes called. It’s a harvest festival also called the Feast of the Ingathering. It’s referred to in Hebrew as z’man simkhateinu - the season of our rejoicing. Seven days of continual rejoicing are followed by an 8th day solemn assembly.

 

The Feast of Booths became the culmination of the Biblical calendar because of its position at the end of the year and the final feast in much the same way that Christmas has become the culmination of the year for many westerners (though many don’t celebrate the birth of Messiah, they still celebrate and look forward to this time of year).  By the time King Solomon ascended to the throne the Feast of Booths had simply become known as The Feast. See 1 Kings 8:2, 65.

 

As a harvest festival where crops were gathered in, it’s understandable that this festival reminds people of God’s wonderful provision for their lives and prophetically points forward to the end time harvest where God will gather in the people and provide eternally for them. Stay tuned for more throughout the week.

 

Prayer:

Write down your prayer points in the space provided. Use today’s reading to help you get ideas.

 

Adoration:

 

 

Confession:

 

 

Thanks:

 

 

Supplication:

¥ Pray that God would be leading and guiding the leadership in your congregation. Pray for the Session, the Committee of Management and other groups or committees that lead. Pray for each one specifically.

¥ Pray that God would make fellowship in your church this week so rich and so powerful that others are drawn into Christ and non believers willingly confess Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.

 

My Additional Prayer Points.

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