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Psa 78:1-24

Prov 16:1-15

Luke 4:13-44

Gal 3

Psa 78:18 & 19, “They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved. They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?

Dear brothers and sisters,

Loving greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Today let us see about the Israelites doubting and willfully putting God to the test by demanding the food they craved when they walked in the wilderness. We can learn many things out of it. The scripture says we did not choose him but it is God who chosen us as in John 15th chapter we read. We are his chosen Israelites today. The Israelites were having the carnal mind in the same way we also should not have carnal mind the fleshy thoughts not the spiritual mind as in Romans 8th chapter, they went always by their flesh not by spirit.

What all they did against the lord and tested Him in the wilderness?
1. They tested God for the food they craved for. And spoke against God that “Can God spread a table in the desert?
2. Psa 78:22 for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance. (we must always trust God who is our creator, deliverer and maker)
3. Psa 78:10 they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law. (we must carefully follow the gods commandment as in Due 6:25)
4. Psa 78:11 They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them. (We should not forget what God has done in our past we must always remember the God who has lifted us and brought us up in our life)
5. Psa 78:12, He did miracles in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. (do not forget the past miracles which God did in our life and crave for new miracles and speak against God)
6. Psa 78:13, He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall. (Like a father he carried us upon him in times of our troubles he helped us to cross the river Jordan and red sea in our life and the wall of Jericho.)
7. Psa 78:14, He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night. (he released us from the clutches of Satan and protected us let us not for get that)
8. Psa 78:15, He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
9. Psa 78:16, he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers. (he has anointed us by his anointing which is the Holy spirit who leads us into all truths)
10. Psa 78:17, But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High. (do not sin against god, rebellious is also a sin it leads us away from the Lord)

The bible says man shall not live by bread alone but by the words come from the mouth of the Lord. The Lord was leading them wonderfully in the wilderness by feeding them with “Manna” but they were not satisfied with that. Psa 78:23, “Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens.” Also in Psa 78:24, “he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.”

May the Lord help each one of us to follow the Lord carefully and not to sin against him by testing God, speaking against God and being rebellious against God, which the Israelites did let us not repeat in our life and not greave the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Mrs. Ebun Jasperin Marcus.

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Prov 16:3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.

Psa 78:24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.

(Deu 9:7 NIV) Remember this and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the desert. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
(Deu 9:24 NIV) You have been rebellious against the LORD ever since I have known you.
(Deu 31:27 NIV) For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!
(1 Sam 20:30 NIV) Saul's anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you.

Belgium

1 The slow, but steady growth of the small evangelical witness
2 Flemish areas have long had far fewer Evangelicals than the French-speaking south, but in the last 10 years have had the greater growth
3 A growing mutual respect between historical Protestants and evangelical networks
Challenges for Prayer
1 Belgium is a deeply divided nation
2 The Protestant Church is only now recovering from the destruction of its 600 congregations by the Spanish Inquisition
3 The population is culturally Catholic but rapidly secularizing
4 The nation was shocked in the 1990s by the exposure of murderous paedophile rings, some with Satanist practices
5 Protestantism has hardly grown over the past 30 years
a) The division between the EPUB and evangelical networks was heightened by the former’s efforts to claim to speak at government level for all Protestants
b) The strengthening of fellowship and ministry links between denominations
6 The lack of Belgian, and especially Flemish, Christian workers and pastors is crippling
7 Vision for growth
a) Of Flanders’ 308 administrative districts, 116 had no evangelical witness
b) Of Wallonia’s 281 administrative districts, 168 had no evangelical witness
8 Goals for achievement by the year 2015
a) Increase Francophone churches
b) Increase Flemish churches
c) In 2000, the Flemish Pentecostal churches (VVP) launched the vision of planting 120 churches
d) BEM’s ongoing vision for distributing gospel packets with a personal explanation
9 Specific outreach challenges:
a) Belgium, as a nation, is spiritually one of the neediest countries in Europe
b) The provinces with the greatest need — Flemish Brabant and East Flanders, also the Francophone Liège, Namur and Luxembourg
c) Brussels is a strategic city
d) Antwerp has only 40 or so evangelical congregations
e) North Africans (predominantly Moroccan) have increased through legal and illegal immigration
f) Turks and Kurds have proved hard to reach
g) The German-speaking cantons on the eastern border were neglected by Evangelicals until recently
h) The student population of 135,000 in 17 universities and colleges
10 Christian media ministries
a) Christian literature
b) Christian bookstores
c) Christian radio and TV