Gods Sign Post - EP 590 - Rewards of Faithfulness - 3/12/2025

A daily bible study to draw us closer in our relationship with GOD through our Savior Jesus Christ in prayer and reading the word of GOD.
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365 Devotions on the Power of Prayer:
Luke 10:25, 27 NKJV
25) And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
27) So he answered and said, “ ‘you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ “
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Luke 10:25, 27 NIV
25) On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
27) He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
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Life Lessons from Esther
Lesson #12 - Rewards of Faithfulness
Esther 8:1-17
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Further Reading:
To Complete Esther during this six-part study, read Esther 8:1-10:3.
For more Bible passages on the rewards of faithfulness, read Genesis 15:1; Proverbs 11:18-19; Matthew 16:24-27; Colossians 3:23-25; 2 Timothy 4:6-8; James 1:9-12; 1 Peter 5:2-4; and Revelation 22:12-17.
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PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD:
Week #20: Maon, Machseh, Magen, Metsuda, Migdal-Oz - DWELLING PLACE, REFUGE, SHIELD, FORTRESS, STRONG TOWER
Key Scripture’s : Psalm 91:1-16
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Understanding the Name:
The Hebrew Scriptures reveal a God who dwells with his people — first in a tent in the wilderness and then in the Jerusalem temple. The New Testament takes this idea of God’s dwelling place on earth a giant step farther by revealing a God who wants to dwell not merely with his people but within his people. Occasionally, Scripture reverses this imagery in a wonderful way by picturing God himself as our Dwelling Place or Maon (ma-OHN).
Closely allied to this image of Dwelling Place is the idea of God as our Refuge or Machseh (mach - SEH) He is pictured as one to whom we can run for safety and security. The word “refuge” also appears in the Hebrew Scriptures in connection to Israel’s “cities of refuge” (the Hebrew word in this instance is miqlat), where people could flee for safety if they had accidentally killed someone. These cities were strategically located so that anyone in Israel was within a day’s journey of one. A shield or Magen (ma - GAIN) is another image of God’s protecting care. Ancient shields were often made of layered cowhide and were used in situations of close combat as well as to protect soldiers from rocks hurled from city walls.

In biblical times, some cities were enclosed by walls, twenty-five feet high and fifteen to twenty-five feet thick. Farmers worked in the fields by day and then retreated within the city walls at night for protection. Large, fortified cities also contained strongholds of strong towers that provided additional defense should the city’s outer walls be breached. Like the other terms already mentioned, God is compared to a fortress of Metsuda (me-tsu-DAH) and to a strong tower or Migdal-OHZ (mig-dal OHZ)