Daily Bread 3/2/2024

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    Daily Bread – March 2, 2024 (The Seventh Day – Genesis 2:1-3) Psalms 63:2 – To see Your power and Your glory, so as I have seen You in the sanctuary. Seeing The Glory & Power Of God The glory and power of God is more than can be comprehended, but we are able to at least in part appreciate the magnitude of the glory and power when we consider those Scriptures describing it. When the glory and power of God were displayed, the greatest empire in the world was overthrown through the actions of one man (Numbers 14:22). The glory and power of God were witnessed by signs, wonders, and miracles in the wilderness for 40 years. His glory was manifested in His presence with the cloud of glory which led Israel through the wilderness (Exodus 24:16-17, 40:34-35; Deuteronomy 5:24). The glory and power of God were revealed when the house of the Lord was built by Solomon (1 Kings 8:11). It was manifested when Isaiah was commissioned to represent God to Israel (Isaiah 6:1-5). The glory of God was displayed to the prophet Ezekiel, showing His unlimited glory and power affecting every change throughout the governments of the world and the events of time (Ezekiel 1:28, 3:12,23, 9:3, 10:4,19). Yet, when God was made flesh and stepped into this world as the Savior, the glory and power of God were seen being manifested through mortal man – beyond anything that had been witnessed at any other time. He turned the water into wine, He was Master of the wind and waves, and He showed the fullness and splendor of the glory and power of God tabernacling as a man. Every miracle, every healing, and every time a devil was cast out, the glory and power of God were revealed. By holding onto things which cannot satisfy, many have refused the things which God would have given. The world is a wilderness in which there is no water, but only vexation of spirit and vanities. The world is a mirage that appears to be a well-watered land, but has only desolation and destruction. Everything within its satanic realm will deprive those who drink of its bitter waters of any thirst for God. When the heart has not been set upon the Lord, the people of God become like those described by Jeremiah: they came to the wells to draw water and found none; they returned with empty vessels and were ashamed and confounded (Jeremiah 14:3). You cannot drink from the cisterns of the world and its self-interest and of the cisterns of the Spirit at the same time. Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen