The Unadorned Word: Recent Episodes
RosieG
The Bible has changed my life in so many ways. Once I believed in Jesus it suddenly all made sense. But its not only my life, the bible has changed thousands of lives across the globe and those lives have impacted and changed their worlds. Your life can change, you were born to impact and change this world for good. Find out how here
Most of us care about our families and our lives. We want to live good productive and healthy lives. We do have a problem that makes it difficult sometimes. How do we deal with the problem of our human nature?
What sets us apart? Leviticus is about separation. A separate sacred space. A separate sacred people.
Building the tabernacle created sacred space. The laws and rituals created sacred people. Separate from other nations. A sacred people who took care of the poor and the stranger called to treat them with integrity.
Sacred space, sacred people and a safe place.
Our homes, our workplaces, our communities, are they safe spaces? It's up to us to create them that way. Treat people with respect and honour. It is not only the right thing to do; it creates safe homes, great workplaces and safe communities.
As believers, we are sacred space, sacred people called to be a safe place.
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When Jesus came. The first century Israelite knew so clearly what he was bringing was so different. Jesus was forgiving people and releasing them from deep moral failure. This was something that had never been done before. This was life changing.
Forgiveness is available to everyone for God is not willing that anyone should perish.
I am so excited for Leviticus. Inside this book are jewels, that will call you into desiring God's presence more and more. Listen to Leviticus and increase your desire to enter into "sacred space"
Living the milk and honey life.
It Is Finished.
Exodus 40:34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
It is finished.
The master craftsmen have finished, and laid down their tools. The Artisans have completed their tasks. The labourers are gone back to their tents.
Everything is finished. All the work has been done just as the Lord commanded Moses.
This is now "Sacred Space" on the earth. A space where ordinary men and women could come and enter into God's presence.
"I will do the very thing you have asked"
This is what God said to Moses. Let the profundity of this sink into your hearts. God is ready to start again, this time with Moses.
We are privy to the most intimate conversation between Moses and God.
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Moses prevailed upon the Lord and the Lord changed his mind.
God will change his mind. God will do things differently when we ask. Prayer, intercession for ourselves and others is time well spent. Milk and Honey people are not fatalists saying "what will be, will be"
They are those who prevail on God to bring change, to save lives, to give a hope and a future.
What has God called you too. Bezalel and Oholiab were filled with the Spirit of God. Given skill, ability, knowledge in all kinds of craft.
We often think a calling is traditional ministry, But God calls us to many different kinds of work. Arts, crafts, business, trades, retail. The gifts and callings of God are irrevocable. Romans 11:29. fulfilling our callings is our spiritual act of worship. No matter where you are, or what your doing seek to worship God with the work you do.
Getting an understanding of Exodus helps us get an understanding of what Jesus has done in our life. The Israelite's were taken out of the physical land of slavery, and into the promised land. The Land of milk and honey, the land of risk and responsibility.
Jesus death took us from a spiritual bondage and placed us into The Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom where God dwells within us and writes his laws on our hearts.
Living the Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.
God's promise is the blessing reaches a 1000 generations. How does that happen?
When we choose to live the milk and honey life. Choosing the good, choosing life. We change our families, our communities, our businesses, our nations and our world.
Each one of us has a sphere of influence. How we live in that sphere determines what happens in the lives of those within our sphere, whether we impact them for good or for evil. Be an impact for good, Trust God, choose the good and radiate blessing throughout your sphere.
Living the milk and honey life, the life of risk and responsibility.
In his unfailing love God leads us.
Leaving our old life, going through a time of desert life. We can stop trusting, become fearful. But Gods promise is true.
Much of life right now is very uncertain. Work, business, families, our every day routines and habits are going through a time of upheaval. Our whole world is going through massive social change. No one knows how our world will come through this time.
But remember this. In his unfailing love God leads us. Out of Egypt, away from our old life. Through the desert and into the Kingdom of Heaven the land of milk and honey.
You can trust in his unfailing love for your own life, for your work, business, family. Even for this whole world.
Remember John 3:16 For God so loved the world he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall have eternal life💚💚 and trust in his unfailing love to lead you.
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Living the Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.
Living the milk and honey life is the life of risk and responsibility. It takes responsibility to get milk from cows. AND it takes risk to get honey from bees.
How do you live the milk and honey life? The milk and honey life is the life lived well, the life lived in the promised land.
Living the milk and honey life, the life of risk as and responsibility.
Have you ever wondered why bad things happened? Have you ever faced opposition when you were trying to do something good.
Have you ever thought if God brings good out of everything did he cause the bad.
Listen to episode 32 and hear how God has a promised land for you.
The Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.
Drawing Moses out of the water meant going against what was done, the law, her Father, the easy life.
Memory from Malawi acted in compassion for herself and the other girls her age. Her stand changed lives in her country, changed laws and is transforming culture.
Compassion transforms our world.
https://www.compassion.com.au/
The Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.
When Zacceaus hid in the tree. He had one thought. He wanted to see Jesus. His past was a life of underhand deals, bribery and extortion. His future was a life integrity a generous life, a free life.
What changed?
Living the milk and honey life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.
Matthew Maury the Father of modern oceanography. Lived the life of risk and responsibility. Psalm 8:8 encouraged him to find the paths the sea.
His studies to find those paths filled his life. From his first voyage around the world to his death at 67 years old. He studied weather, astronomy, tides and currents discovering the paths in the sea he had heard about in childhood.
A bible verse led to a life long career that still benefits the whole world.
Anger is an emotion. Like all emotions it is intrinsically neither good nor bad. In Psalm 4 we see David take his anger from a place of risk to a place of rest.
Listen to the podcast to find out how he does that.
The Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.
Fear paralyses. Trust makes a way where there is no way.
David wrote this Psalm when he fled from his son Absalom who was attempting to usurp him. You can read the full story in 2 Samuel 15 - 20. It's an incredible story of leadership that trusts God. In it David epitomises the New Testament quote Be wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove. (Matt 10)
1 John 4:18 tells us perfect love casts out all fear. David on the run, slept and woke refreshed. Saying "I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side"
Living the Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.
When we plant our roots deep into the Word of God and meditate on it. We grow strong like a tree planted by a streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither - whatever they do prospers.
Be like a tree, plant your life deep into the Word of God.
Psalm 1 one of my life scriptures.
From the first chapter to the final one. The promise is there God is with us always, and as Matthew reveals to us how to live the Christian Life. We know absolutely its possible. Because with God nothing is impossible to us for He is with us always.
2 people, 2 very different outcomes. One listened carefully understood, and acted. The other listened to everything through the filter of what they wanted. One life was saved. One life destroyed.
Milk and honey people listen, think, serve.