Friday, September 18, 2015

Fri.’s Devo - Rebuilding the Temple

Read: Ezra 1-3
This book is the amazing power of God to move on the heart of a foreign unbelieving king. Cyrus was the king of Persia. The Jews had been brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar and held captive and now God has moved Cyrus’s heart to send Jews back to Jerusalem and rebuild it. And… he is funding it! Nothing is impossible with God. We are about to see things like this happen in America. God is going to turn over the wealth of the ungodly to the godly to do the work of the kingdom. Cyrus even gave them the vessels that had been taken from the temple. Talk about restoration! We are entering the year of Jubilee starting September 13th and the year of Jubilee is when everything is restored to the rightful owner. We are going to see things return that were stolen and doors open that have been locked shut. God is going to bless his people like never before because he wants to rebuild his temple in us for the Holy Spirit to dwell in.
When they asked for volunteers, 42,360 came forward to travel back to Jerusalem and restore it. They came with their talents and their gifts.
They gathered in the seventh month which would be Roshashana according to the religious calendar and offered sacrifices on the altar for their sins. Ten days later was the feast of Tabernacles and they kept that too. The next year they set up the foundation for the temple. They laid it with praise and worship. This is where we are in history. We are laying the foundation for the temple and it has to be laid with praise and worship. It said that the people that remembered the first temple cried because it was not like the old. This new church God is raising up is not going to look like the old and we just need to get over it! God is doing a work from the inside out, not the outside in. Sometimes it doesn’t look so nice on the outside but it is a much deeper work.
Lord, prepare our spirits to walk into this new season of restoration.

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