Exodus 37 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Exodus 37.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/exo/37/1/s_87001

Meditate on verse 2.

 

And he overlaid it with pure

 gold inside and out

and made a gold molding

 for it all around.

 

The LORD must really like gold.  Eighty-eight verses in Exodus contain the word “gold.”  When the children of Israel left Egypt, God caused the Egyptians to give them their gold (Exodus 12:35-36).  This plundered gold was purified and used to overlay the LORD’s tabernacle and its furnishings because this was the place where God dwelled among His people.  He surrounded Himself with pure gold.

Interestingly, there are two things more precious to God than pure gold: the proof of your faith and the blood of His Son.

The proof of your faith, being more

precious than gold …

may be found to result in praise

and glory and honor at the revelation

of Jesus Christ. You were not redeemed with

perishable things like silver and gold

 from your futile way of life…but with

 precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished

and spotless, the blood of Christ.

—1Peter 1:7, 18-19

 

As a Christian, you are now the temple of the Holy Spirit, the place where God dwells.  You were bought with a price worth more than all the pure gold in the world, the blood of Christ (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

Use the words from Exodus 37:29 to dedicate yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman to the LORD (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, do the work of a perfumer

 in ______________ and me.

Pour Your holy anointing oil on us.

May our lives be a pure, fragrant

 incense of Your work in us.

Because of You, Jesus~”

 

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell