As of  8:15pm on Thursday Night I have received and exactly total of O (that’s  ZERO answers) to the Home Work questions.

Maybe you lost them? or put them down and forgot to pick them back up? Or Miss Honey got it, Or you cleaned your room and accidentally threw it out.  Whoa, lets not get carried away…

So just in case, here they are again; ( and Yes I Want Them Done! – sooner rather than later)

Bible Home Work – All about Moses A question a day all week long home work assignment

Events in Moses life – time to learn and do some research – Turn in each day on my desk with a print out or send me and e-mail.

Monday Question – What did Moses learn while a prince in Egypt?

Tuesday Question – What where the names of Moses sons, how many and what did they do in their lives?

Wednesday Question – Why was God going to kill Moses on the way to Egypt, right after He sent him to go there?

Thursday Question – Who was in Moses family, Mother, Father, Brother and Sister. Names and what did they do to help him.

Friday Question – Was Moses married to someone other than Jethro’s daughter, Zipporah

Saturday Question – Is to come with a question about Moses for me. (make sure you have an answer)

The Spiritual Discipline of Fasting
ACTS 13:1-3 

Fasting has two important components. One is abstention from food or activities, which eliminates distractions. The other is undivided attention on God, which allows connection with Him on a deeper level.

Daniel was living under captivity in Babylon when he read God’s promise to free the Israelites after a certain period of time. He earnestly sought the Lord by means of prayer and fasting (Dan. 9:2-3). Then through the angel Gabriel, God gave the young man greater understanding of what He had previously pledged.

Scripture has other examples as well. When King Jehoshaphat learned that a powerful army was on the offensive, he called for all Judah to come together and fast (2 Chron. 20:1-4). God gave encouragement and strength for the future. Fasting was also part of the early church’s preparation for choosing its first missionaries. The Holy Spirit directed the commissioning of Barnabas and Saul for the work (Acts 13:2).

Fasting does not bring us a quicker answer from God or persuade Him to follow our plan. Instead, it prepares us to see our situation through His eyes and to act on what we learn. At times I have sought the Lord to get His assessment of how I am doing. This discipline has helped me gain His perspective on my life and work.

Fasting involves a strong desire to hear from God, a period of time to connect with Him, and a willingness to abstain from food or some activity. If the idea intimidates you, remember its purpose is preparation so we might draw closer to God and receive His encouragement and direction

Rejoice in God’s Attributes    –    Let Israel be glad in his maker.

Psalms 149:2

Rejoice, believer, but take care that your gladness has its spring in the Lord. You have much cause for gladness in God, for you can sing with David, “God my exceeding joy.”1 Be glad that the Lord reigns, that Jehovah is King! Rejoice that He sits on the throne and rules all things!

Every attribute of God should become a fresh ray in the sunlight of our gladness. The fact that He is wise should make us glad, knowing as we do our own foolishness. That He is mighty should cause us who tremble in our weakness to rejoice. That He is everlasting should always be a theme of joy when we know that we wither like grass. That He is unchanging should provide a perpetual song, for we change every hour. That He is full of grace, that He is overflowing with it, and that this grace in covenant He has given to us, that it is ours to cleanse us, ours to keep us, ours to sanctify us, ours to perfect us, ours to bring us to glory-all this should serve to make us glad in Him.

This gladness in God is like a deep river. So far we have only touched its edge; we know a little of its clear sweet, heavenly streams, but further on the depth is greater, and the current more powerful in its joy.

The Christian feels that he may delight himself not only in what God is, but also in all that God has done in the past. The Psalms show us that God’s people in olden times were keen to make much of God’s actions and to have a song concerning each of them. So let God’s people now rehearse the deeds of the Lord! Let them tell of His mighty acts and “sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously.”2 Let them never cease to sing, for as new mercies flow to them day by day, so their gladness in the Lord’s loving acts of providence and grace should display itself in continued thanksgiving.

Be glad, children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God.

1Psalm 43:4

2Exodus 15:1

The family reading plan for

September 22, 2011

2 Samuel 18 | 2 Corinthians 11