IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.GENESIS 35:1 & 2 -GOD SAID TO JACOB,”ARISE GO UPTO BETHEL AND DWELL THERE. MAKE AN ALTAR THERE TO THE GOD WHO APPEARED TO YOU WHEN YOU FLED FROM YOUR BROTHER ESAU.”SO JACOB SAID TO HIS HOUSEHOLD AND TO ALL WHO WERE WITH HIM,”PUT AWAY THE FOREIGN GODS THAT ARE AMONG YOU AND PURIFY YOURSELVES AND CHANGE YOUR GARMENTS.”
WE SEE HERE GOD ORDERING JACOB TO GO TO BETHEL, AND JACOB AT ONCE OBEYS WITHOUT HESITATION, NOW GOD ALSO REMINDS HIM OF A PROMISE JACOB HAD MADE WHEN HE LEFT BEERSHEBA ON HIS WAY TO HARAN BEING TIRED HE HAD USED A STONE TO LAY HIS HEAD ON, AND WHEN HE AWOKE REMEMBERING THE DREAM HE HAD, AND PLACING THE STONE, HE SAID IF, HE RETURNED TO THE PLACE IN PEACE, DOING WELL.THIS STONE WOULD BE THE HOUSE OF GOD.
NOW GOD HAD DONE HIS PART BY MAKING JACOB WEALTHY, BUT IT SEEMS JACOB HAD FORGOTTEN HIS PROMISE TO GOD, WHEN REMINDED, JACOB DIDN’T HESITATE TO OBEY AND IN DOING SO ALL THE IDOLS THAT HE HAD CARRIED FROM HIS FATHER IN LAWS HOUSE WERE DESTROYED AND AS PROMISED HE BUILT AN ALTAR FOR GOD.
REGULAR WASHING OF CLOTHES AND BEDDING, HELPS TO REMOVE ANTI BACTERIA, DIRT, FLEAS, MITES AND OTHER IRRITANTS OR INFECTION. WHEN WE WASH OUR CLOTHES AND BEDDING REGULARLY WE REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, THIS IS DONE PHYSICALLY WHERE WE ARE KEEN TO HAVE CLEANLINESS AROUND US, WHAT ABOUT SPIRITUALLY, WHICH IS MUCH MORE VALUABLE THAN THE PHYSICAL.
WHAT ABOUT THE DIRT ACCUMULATED IN OUR SOUL,THE MOST IMPORTANT GARMENT WHICH NEEDS PURIFICATION OF SINS AND EVIL THAT HAS MADE IT SORDID AND FILTHY, CLEANSING OF OUR SOUL IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR SURROUNDINGS, IF ONE IS CLEAN IN THE SOUL EVERYTHING AROUND WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE CLEANSED, CAUSE THE BEAUTY AND THE AROMA THAT YOU SPREAD THROUGH YOUR CLEANSED SOUL WHICH IS NOW FILLED WITH THE WORD OF GOD, THIS WILL ATTRACT ANGELS WHO WILL HELP YOU IN ALL YOUR PHYSICAL WORK AND NOT ONLY THAT. NOW YOU WILL BE READY WHEN JESUS ARRIVES TO TAKE HIS BRIDE HOME.
PRAYER:
FATHER GOD MAY I BE CONSCIOUS OF MY SPIRITUAL LIFE, MAY I NOT NEGLECT IT AND DESTROY IT MAY I ALWAYS BE ATTUNED TO THE VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS PROMPTINGS WHERE MY LIFE IS CONCERNED , MAY I WALK IN OBEDIENCE THAT I MAY NOT BE LEFT BACK WHEN JESUS COMES AND GO HOME TO MY HEAVENLY ABODE IN JOY AND HAPPINESS. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY AMEN AMEN AND AMEN.
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