Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Psalm 119:97-105.

Tap here for a video meditation on Psalm 119:97-120.

Beneath the word for statutes (in Hebrew, choq), lies the root meaning, “to engrave.” It refers to written or engraved enactments, decrees, or prescriptions. It is also used for the written deed for lands, which defines official boundaries.

If it were not for the afflictions of the psalmist, he might not have learned God’s statutes more deeply. Put the written words of the Lord between you and your suffering. What are the official decrees that God has for you— the prescription that God wants you to take so that sickness and suffering retreat from the borders of your life? Since this refers to things written, let the Lord teach you in your journal the steps to take for your total healing and happiness.

Look into The Twelve Steps in Alcoholics Anonymous for decrees that God uses to bring healing to millions of addicted persons.

Psalm 119:97-120

Bible Breath example: Your words sweeter than honey.

During the Easter Season this year we read Psalm 119 which has 176 verses.

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Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Nehemiah 5:1-13.

Nehemiah demonstrates the power of symbolic gesture in expressing outrage at the usury Jews exacted against one another. Sense the movement of the great qualities of this leader—humility, solidarity, and shrewdness in discerning plots of evil against him. At each moment of a crisis, Nehemiah turns to the Lord in prayer, shaking out his soul in the Lord’s presence, loosening any angers or fears, freeing the energies of devotion to the Lord in fulfilling the mission that “God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem” (2:12).

What are the emotions that lurk inside of you that tend to make you spiritually paralyzed? Shake out your soul before the Lord in prayer. Face opposition from within and without that would have you give up on the work that the Lord has put into your hands.

Nehemiah 5—7

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Example: Shaking out my soul in prayer 5:13

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the Easter Season this year we read Easter: Prov 24 -26; Nehemiah.

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Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Ezekiel 43:1-5.

The word orientation comes from the Latin root meaning to rise—the place of the rising sun. The east is a symbol of hope, of resurrection. Ancient Christian churches were oriented with the altar facing east.

In Ezekiel’s vision of the mystical temple, the doorway faces east, the glory of the Lord entering from the place of the new day. Feel the glory of the resurrection bathing you as you enter into the vision of the temple. Sense the presence of the altar in the depths of your soul as the very center of the temple-body of Jesus within whom you dwell.

All the details of these chapters have one purpose—immersion in the Holy. We become spiritually disoriented in life when we lose that deep, inner spiritual sense of God’s presence and holiness. The Lord offers it to you once again. Surrender to glory in these final weeks of the Easter Season.

Ezekiel 43—44

Mondays are dedicated to the reading of the Hebrew Prophets.
In the Easter Season this year we read Ezekiel 33—48.

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Example: Earth shining with Your glory 43:2

For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook.  You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information.