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Tuesday 4th March 2025

“Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? ⁵We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; ⁶but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” ⁷Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. ⁸The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil. ⁹And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. ¹⁰Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased. ” Numbers 11:4-10 NKJV

God and Lord,

I had not really paid much attention to this particular moan before. Now I read it again I notice it is the mixed multitude who had followed them from Egypt who started it all off. They were the ones who went about raving over the memories of cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic! Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families. It had spread.

The children of Israel did not stand in faith or give testimony or speak of gratitude for the miraculous manna in the wilderness. Which they did not have to plant, tend and look after. No, they listened and swallowed the half truth. They ate well but did not have what they used to grow.

Perhaps there are times when we should not listen to the mixed multitude who cannot see from Your perspective and sometimes are led by their own discontent. And perhaps we need to see when we are complaining and have neglected to see Your provision because we are in a transient place.

You gave us permission to ask in prayer (Matthew 7:7) seek and knock. But it does not say you are Santa Claus or that we can then join in with all the complainers. The mixed multitude cannot see that You are Lord even when men are waring against each other and the news is bad. We cannot deny it, but help us keep Your perspective. You are Lord of all. We cannot see all. Are we discontent with the Saviours love and daily leading? Keep us looking to You the pioneer and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).

In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Worship Tuesday 4th March 2025
I love this song. When I am bombarded by other views, and there is always something to be negative about- it helps me get perspective.

When this life of trials test my faith
I set my hope on Jesus
When the questions come and doubts remain
I set my hope on Jesus
For the deepest wounds that time won’t heal
There’s a joy that runs still deeper
There’s a truth that’s more than all I feel
I set my hope on Jesus

I set my hope on Jesus
My rock, my only trust
Who set His heart upon me first
I set my hope on Jesus

Though I falter in this war with sin
I set my hope on Jesus
When I fail the fight and sink within
I set my hope on Jesus
Though the shame would drown me in its sea
And I dread the waves of justice
I will cast my life on Calvary
I set my hope on Jesus

Chorus

Though the world called me to leave my Lord
I set my hope on Jesus
Though it offer all its vain rewards
I set my hope on Jesus
Though this heart of mine is prone to stray
Give me grace enough to finish
‘Til I worship on that final day
I set my hope on Jesus

Chorus

Lyrics: Matt Boswell / Matt Papa / Keith Getty

Monday 3rd March 2025

“So Moses and Aaron called together these chosen leaders, ¹⁸and they assembled the whole community of Israel on that very day. All the people were registered according to their ancestry by their clans and families. The men of Israel who were twenty years old or older were listed one by one, ¹⁹just as the Lord had commanded Moses. So Moses recorded their names in the wilderness of Sinai.” Numbers 1:17-19 NLT

“Then the Lord gave these instructions to Moses and Aaron: ²“When the Israelites set up camp, each tribe will be assigned its own area. The tribal divisions will camp beneath their family banners on all four sides of the Tabernacle, but at some distance from it.” Numbers 2:1-2 NLT

God of order,

Right from the beginning of the history of man You created order. The Holy Spirit hovered above a formless, dark and empty earth and day by day it became ordered and took form.

Here in numbers at the outset we see You showing Moses how to order this people so everyone could live at peace and know the plan. With the Tabernacle, the symbol of Your presence, right in the centre. And when they moved there would be no accidents no rushing to get out first. All was ordered.

Sometimes we would pray that life could be like that. Ordered, orderly predictable. To know our place and our time to move and our time to remain. But You did not make life predictable or drab or boring. It is full of blessings and You, God turning up unexpectedly, if we would look. It can be hard and then You hold us up and even carry us. Sometimes You comfort us through as a parent comforts a child. I have known many occasions when in disorder You have been there bringing me through lifes mess.

Order our steps Lord. Bring us to times when we can be in the right place at the right time. And help us keep You in the centre. We need Your order, keeping us through the mess life can be!

In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Worship Monday 3rd March 2025
Verse four . . .

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
forgive our foolish ways;
re-clothe us in our rightful mind,
in purer lives thy service find,
in deeper reverence praise.

2 In simple trust like theirs who heard,
beside the Syrian sea,
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word
rise up and follow thee.

3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love!

4 Drop thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of thy peace.

5 Breathe through the heats of our desire
thy coolness and thy balm;
let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still small voice of calm.

Lyrics: John Greenleaf Whittier

Sunday 2nd March 2025

“And the Lord said to Moses, ³⁴“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. Begin celebrating the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day of the appointed month—five days after the Day of Atonement. This festival to the Lord will last for seven days. ³⁵On the first day of the festival you must proclaim an official day for holy assembly, when you do no ordinary work. ³⁶ For seven days you must present special gifts to the Lord. The eighth day is another holy day on which you present your special gifts to the Lord.” Leviticus 23:33-36 NLT

Jehovah Jireh, Our great Provider,

Five days after the Day of Atonement Lord you inaugurated the festival week of living in home made shelters and spending time with family and friends. Celebrating You as Jehovah Jireh, the “Lord who Provides”, who gave mana and water, a pillar of light and a pillar of fire and all the children of Israel needed to reach the promised land.

Later in Solomon’s time many would make pilgrimage to Jerusalem for this festival and look ahead to when the promised Messiah would come. Solomon prayed for the newly built Temple in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 6), that all the foreigners would hear about You, God and come to worship too. Jesus prophetically stood, on the last greatest day of this festival, and invited those who were thirst to come to him to drink.

We thank You that You, God are our provider still today. Your love remains the same. You are Messiah, Saviour. We too look to the future when You will come again and all will be changed. As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:52 in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet the dead shall be raised and we shall be changed. Our promised land, the new heaven and new earth will be just as real. (Revelation 21:1). It will not be ethereal. But with no pain, sin or evil. We cannot understand all of Revelation Lord but we know the ending. Give us a glimpse of heaven.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Worship Sunday 2nd March 2025

I can only imagine
What it will be like
When I walk by Your side
I can only imagine
What my eyes would see
When Your face is before me
I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for You Jesus
Or in awe of You be still?
Will I stand in Your presence
Or to my knees, will I fall?
Will I sing hallelujah?
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine
I can only imagine

I can only imagine
When that day comes
And I find myself
Standing in the Son
I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever, forever worship You
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine

Chorus

I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever, forever worship You
I can only imagine

Lyrics: Bart Millard