PROMISE 50 – KNOWLEDGE OF GOD'S WORD

"For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; that the generation to come my know them, the children who were born, that they may arise and declare them to their children."-Psalm 78:5 – 6

The word translated "law" in this passage is the Hebrew word torah. This is actually a name for the first five books of the Bible; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These foundational books contain much more of the law (a list of commandments from God). They are full of faith – building stories, wonderful revelations of the character of God, and prophetic glimpses of what is yet to come. We have more than five books in the Bible now; we have sixty – six. And how much more valuable is this treasure today, especially those books revealing the life of Jesus and the glory of the new covenant!
It is very important that this knowledge being parted to the next generation. We cannot keep it to ourselves. Thank God for those who diligently watched over the preservation of gods word in centuries past – such as the scribes of old who carefully can wrote God's word one copy at a time, or more recent heroes such as John Wycliffe and William Tyndale, who first dared to translate the Bible from Latin into English, the language of the common people. Tyndale was martyred for his "crime". May we value the price that others have paid, cherish God's word, promote it in all we do, preserve its values, and pass this holy responsibility onto our seed – that the work of God might continue in the earth.

PRAYER DECLARATION

LORD GOD, YOUR WORD IS A LAMP UNTO OUR FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO OUR PATH. THIS IS SUCH A DARK WORLD, FULL OF DECEPTION AND DEATH. THERE ARE NO SURVIVORS HERE EXCEPT THOSE TO DISCOVER YOUR TRUTH AND LIVE IN IT. HELP ME TO TRANSFER TO MY OFFSPRING THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF YOUR WORD, AND AWAKEN IN JOSHUA AND MIKAYLA A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF TRUTH AND A STRONG APPRECIATION OF ITS VALUE. HELP ME TO LIVE YOUR WORD BEFORE MY CHILDREN SO THAT THEY RECEIVE AN LIVING EXAMPLE OF HOW THE WORD OF GOD SHOULD MOLD OUR LIVES. THEN EMPOWER JOSHUA AND MKAYLA TO WALK IN MY FOOTSTEPS AND BE A TESTIMONY OF TRUTH TO THE NEXT GENERATION. IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN (LET IT BE SO)!