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Sunday School Lesson – January 22, 2017 Praise for the Creator’s Wisdom

To follow along, visit your local Christian bookstore, and ask for the Bible Expositor and Illuminator

Time:  Unknown – Place: Palestine

Golden Text: “O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches” (Psalm 104:24).

Psalm 104 is a wisdom psalm, is also a creation psalm. It is a recasting of Genesis 1, a joyful celebration of the world as the creation of God. The poetry of the psalmists and the prophets often reflects upon God’s work in creation. The structure of the poem is praise for God’s work in creation. The creation of the heavens; the creation of the earth, the waters of blessings, the fullness of the earth the pattern of life, praise for God’s great creation. An acknowledgment that all life is dependent upon the Lord. Read More

Time to Pray

Heaven Father, God Almighty, we come before You in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We come with repenting hearts, we bow before You and ask for Your forgiveness for any sin or sins that we may have committed against You. Forgive us for being slothful in prayer, forgive us for having resentment in hearts. Oh God forgive us for every ungodly thought and behavior. We confess our sins before You and we ask it to be unto us as it is according to Your Word if we confess our sins, You are faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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The Ark

And she named the child Ichabod (Where Is the glory), saying the glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband – 1st Samuel 4:21).

The Philistines fought against Israel and thirty thousand footmen died, those who survived fled into their tent and the ark of God was taken. Eli who was a prophet was sitting by the city gate anxiously awaiting news of the battle when he heard that the ark had been taken he fell from off his seat backward and his neck broke. When his daughter-in-law, Phinehas wife heard about her husband and her father-in-law was dead she went into labor. As she was giving birth, she named the child Ichabod meaning “Where Is the glory”.    Read More