Tag Archive | Jerusalem

Come, Lord Jesus, Come

Oct11

This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord. For He looked down from His holy height;
From heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth, To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death, That men may tell of the name of the Lord in Zion And His praise in Jerusalem, When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
Psalms 102:18-22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.102.18-22.NASB1995

Thus says the Lord, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’
Zechariah 8:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/zec.8.3.NASB1995

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, And all the families of the nations will worship before You. For the kingdom is the Lord’s And He rules over the nations.
Psalms 22:27-28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.22.27-28.NASB1995

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities. The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, “Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts; I will also go.”
Zechariah 8:20-21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/zec.8.20-21.NASB1995

🌹So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.’
Zechariah 8:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/zec.8.22.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

The Temple

Aug13

For the disobedience of King David, God sent a plague upon the land.

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw and was sorry over the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now relax your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite.
Chronicles 21:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.21.15.NASB1995

Ornan the Jebusite’s threshing floor played an important site in history. An angel of the Lord was standing on this site ready to pour out destruction on Jerusalem. But God . . . in His mercy relented of the destruction to Jerusalem.

Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”
2 Samuel 24:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.24.17.NASB1995

Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Chronicles 21:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.21.18.NASB1995

David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the Lord had commanded.

Araunah (Ornan) looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah (Ornan) went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king. Then Araunah (Ornan) said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be held back from the people.” Araunah (Ornan) said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. Everything, O king, Araunah (Ornan) gives to the king.” And Araunah (Ornan) said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.”
However, the king said to Araunah (Ornan), “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing.”
2 Samuel 24:19-24a NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.24.19-24.NASB1995

There is a price to be paid for sin, no matter your stature in life. Jesus paid for our sin.

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the Lord was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.
2 Samuel 24:24b-25 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.24.24-25.NASB1995

This took place on the same site where

. . . Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite.
Chronicles 3:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ch.3.1.NASB1995

God has a plan. We may not know it but need to trust in His leading.

🌹At the site of God’s mercy and Solomon’s repentance, the temple of the Lord God was built.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Heavy Devotion

Apr17

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
Matthew 24:7-8 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.24.7-8.NASB1995

How much have we read about, seen, and/or experienced throughout history the fulfillment of the above Scriptures?

Are you keeping an eye on Israel and what’s happening there?

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.
Luke 21:20 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.21.20.NASB1995

Be alert. Be aware.

But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Luke 21:36 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.21.36.NASB1995

🌹So you also, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near.
Luke 21:31 NASB1995‬*
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.21.31.NASB1995

Christians around the world will also be persecuted. All those who stand with Israel.

“Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
Matthew 24:9 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.24.9.NASB1995

‭‭‭Like Paul, are you ready?

‭Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
Acts 21:13 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/act.21.13.NASB1995

🌹But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.
Matthew 24:13 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.24.13.NASB1995‭

The promised land is on the way for every believer who stands with God against the enemy of righteousness. God’s will be done.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

*Luke 21:21-24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.21.21.NASB1995

Your Will Be Done

Mar24

Jesus speaking with His disciples in Samaria:

Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
John 4:34 NASB

Jesus in Jerusalem:

“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 5:30 NASB

Jesus speaking to the people:

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 6:38 NASB

Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane

And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.” He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done.”
Matthew 26:39‭, ‬42 NASB

And He was saying, “Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.”
Mark 14:36 NASB

saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”
Luke 22:42 NASB

The Apostle Paul:

As we were staying there for some days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ” When we had heard this, we as well as the local residents began begging him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” And since he would not be persuaded, we fell silent, remarking, “The will of the Lord be done!”
Acts 21:10‭-‬14 NASB

Jesus sacrificed His life for the sake of  humanity.
Paul sacrificed his life for the sake of Christ. What are you willing to sacrifice for the sake of Christ?

🌹Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:10 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Pray For Peace

Jul16

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May they prosper who love you.
7 “May peace be within your walls,
And prosperity within your palaces.”
8 For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
I will now say, “May peace be within you.”
9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,

I will seek your good. — Psalm 122:6-9

Continually seeking Him,

Sharon

Jesus Is

Dec2

Now for several days he was with the disciples who were at Damascus, and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.” All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, “Is this not he who in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?” But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the Christ. — Acts 9:19-22

The power of Christ in us. He can transform anyone. No one is beyond His power to transform. No sin is beyond His power or compassion to forgive. Simply by humbly confessing Jesus Christ as the Son of God and admitting that it is really only Him who can give forgiveness and life.

Won’t you allow Jesus into your life and let Him transform you? You’ll never regret it.

Continually seeking Him,

Sharon