Today Our Daily Bread Micah 4 ++

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Micah 4:1-13
The LORD's Future Reign
1In the last days, the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem will become the most important place on earth. People from all over the world will go there to worship. 2Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Temple of the God of Israel. F16 There he will teach us his ways, so that we may obey him." For in those days the LORD's teaching and his word will go out from Jerusalem.
3The LORD will settle international disputes. All the nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. All wars will stop, and military training will come to an end. 4Everyone will live quietly in their own homes in peace and prosperity, for there will be nothing to fear. The LORD Almighty has promised this! 5Even though the nations around us worship idols, we will follow the LORD our God forever and ever.
Israel's Return from Exile
6"In that coming day," says the LORD, "I will gather together my people who are lame, who have been exiles, filled with grief. 7They are weak and far from home, but I will make them strong again, a mighty nation. Then I, the LORD, will rule from Jerusalem F17 as their king forever."
8As for you, O Jerusalem, the citadel of God's people, your royal might and power will come back to you again. The kingship will be restored to my precious Jerusalem. 9But why are you now screaming in terror? Have you no king to lead you? He is dead! Have you no wise people to counsel you? All are gone! Pain has gripped you like it does a woman in labor. 10Writhe and groan in terrible pain, you people of Jerusalem, F18 for you must leave this city to live in the open fields. You will soon be sent into exile in distant Babylon. But the LORD will rescue you there; he will redeem you from the grip of your enemies.
11True, many nations have gathered together against you, calling for your blood, eager to gloat over your destruction. 12But they do not know the LORD's thoughts or understand his plan. These nations don't know that he is gathering them together to be beaten and trampled like bundles of grain on a threshing floor.
13"Rise up and destroy the nations, O Jerusalem!" F19 says the LORD. "For I will give you iron horns and bronze hooves, so you can trample many nations to pieces. Then you will give all the wealth they acquired as offerings to me, the Lord of all the earth."
FOOTNOTES:F16: Hebrew of Jacob. F17: Hebrew Mount Zion. F18: Hebrew O daughter of Zion. F19: Hebrew "Rise up and thresh, O daughter of Zion."
~Lena’s Journalin’~
The Temple of the Lord, who’s we are. We are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, as God breathed inside of man His Spirit, so God has breathed inside of man the Spirit of Christ Jesus, the new life of Christ. Receive ye, the (Holy) Spirit, the Spirit of the new man. Adam received the Spirit of God his Father. He breathed in that life, and that life was compromised by sin. In the OT the presence of God which was grieved by Adam’s sin, was being represented towards restoration and redefinition in tents and in tabemacles.
Man was being shown his need for it’s restoration in his life. The Lord wanted man to know his great need for the indwelling of that Holy spirit. It was hard carrying the presence of God from place to place and it took years upon years to plan for and build a place for the Spirit of the Lord to dwell. All of that work, though to make a place for God, was put together by man. Yet Man was fashioned together by God. God wanted to dwell in Temples made without human hands, Temples that went everywhere all the time, they moved, they lived, they had being, and when He moves in, voila, the House of God the Temple of God is set up there!
He didn’t only want to be in one place in the earth, where man would have to journey and only be able to visit there or send someone else to be there for him. God wanted to move around from place to place on earth. God wanted to be everywhere that man was at all times. Not following man, but leading him. Mark 14:58 speaks of this temple made without human hands. It did not mean a magical temple that would appear on the earth designed by God, it meant what is already here designed by God, a living body, a living church, a living sanctuary, where man does not only go into and come out of God’s presence, visiting God’s house once in awhile, to appease some guilt man has, or to see if God cares when we are really down or crushed. God has desired to have dwelling places on earth.
Now this may pinch some religious thoughts, but that’s ok.
Do you remember when Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you? And in my Father’s house are many mansions? Read Mark 14:58 where He says, within 3 days I will build another temple made without hands. What, or rather, who is He speaking of? Human’s whom He has saved, who He died for to pay their mortgage, so He could come move into the house!
Humans who were imperfect, loaded down with sin, shame, guilt and every other defilement. Those who through His death, through His blood would be made whole, be sanctified, not because of their own perfections, but because of His! His blood was taken into God inside of the Holy of Holy place, spread out on the mercy seat to sanctify all who would ever believe on Him from that time on. In those 3 days, He was making a HOUSE, ONE house, for Him to dwell in at all times everywhere. That’s me, that’s you, if we so choose to be.
Behold He stands at the door and knocks. What door? We say the door of our hearts and maybe that is right. Because we are the temple He desires to come into and live inside of. We are a continual place of worship. We are the moving breathing house of God!
Notice His warfare is waged through peace and through bringing others to become Temples of God. Harvesters bring others into being houses of God. Warriors who fight others do not. Peacemakers do.
Lay down your weapons of war and make peace. Stop fighting and start harvesting. This is what the Lord will do in us when we allow Him to stay, not only visit, but stay.
Warriors are trying to gain their own territory and hold on to it, Peacemakers are establishing His and He will establish theirs!
It’s about the King, His domain, His dominion beginning in me. It is about His Kingdom, His rule, His authority. What can I do to bring this about in me? To allow Him to rule here first, to love here first, to live here as He wishes to live, first?
There’s a song, “Come Live in Me, All My life Take over, Come breathe in me and I will rise on eagle’s wings…” Why does the Bible always talk about ascending, rising up etc? Because we get so caught up in our own kingdom’s being established we can’t seem to see beyond our noses on our faces.
We’ve got to get a greater view as He has and see what in the world we are here for, then do something about it. Let Him in!
One great deception the Body of Christ and the religious church is under if they do not come up higher, is that we hear and then hear and then hear some more, we even act as though we like hearing, but we are deceived if we do not do what we hear. We wonder why we are living in all kinds of problems. The “disservice” of disobedience is upon us, for hearing and not doing!
It is time to not only do the word of God, but to let Him move in permanently and Be the word of God made flesh!

Proverbs 27:17-19
17 You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another. 18 If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored. 19 Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
Psalm 122:1
1 When they said, "Let's go to the house of God," my heart leaped for joy.


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