In Your Tabernacle

Revelation 21:3 states that at a future and permanent time "the Tabernacle of God is with men". 
This Tabernacle is Christ Jesus, God's Son. 





The Tabernacle of God stated as such in Revelation 21:3 is that same Tabernacle to which David referred in Psalm 61:4. 

I will abide in Your Tabernacle for ever: 

I will trust in the covert of your wings.

At both times, the word 'tabernacle' refers to a dwelling, a tent which can be seen from afar. These are not the only two verses, however, which mean tent or dwelling. 

In The Old Testament of The Bible the word 'tabernacle' with this meaning is referred to 182 times; in The New Testament, 15 times. Of these references, here are two more to think on:

>Psalm 27:5-6 "For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion, in the secret of His Tabernacle shall He hide me: He shall set me upon a Rock. And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in His Tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises unto The Lord."

>Hebrews 9:1-12 "But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of the building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us."

And while the word 'covert' may trip some up, it simply means 'hiding place, secret place, protection'. 

Se'lah is a musical pause, a suspension of music in between verses. 

A Shelter For Me-Psalm 61:3

As Christians, we know where to go when we are distressed: to God. Our Bibles tell us that God is many places of rest and hiding when the enemy of our souls comes against. Whether the enemy whispers in our ears that we are not enough, not worthy to be heard by God, we know that we are. When the enemy attacks us via the people we love, and who say they love us, but refuse to believe the Truth of The Word of God, we know we can run to God and He will comfort us. 

For Thou hast been a Shelter for me, and a 

Strong Tower from my enemy. 

Psalm 61:3

There is nowhere else we can go to hide, to recuperate. We are not running away from the fight, we are running to God that He might fight for us. These battles against the enemy cannot be won by sheer will power on our part. We must turn to God or we will lose the fight.

With God as our Shelter, we are covered above and below, on every corner and walled about. Psalm 32:1 "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." Romans 4:7 repeats this verse "Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered." We are in the secret place of The Most High God; we are in Jesus Christ. And having overcome the enemy of our souls by His Blood and His Resurrection, we know that we are safe and sound in Him. 

With God as our Strong Tower none can come against Him and win. Many have tried and still attempt to erase God and God's Word by eradicating His people and His Church. They will not succeed. Psalm 92:7-8 "When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish: it is that they should be destroyed for ever: But Thou,  LORD, art Most High for evermore." Revelation 1:18 "I AM He That Lives, and was dead; and, behold, I AM Alive For Evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and death." 

Why we would turn to anything man has to offer in this world when we can turn to God every single time for every little or huge thing that comes against us? Anything or anyone that is against any part of God's Word is against God, God's people and God's church.

Now is the time to fall on our knees, beg God's forgiveness, get renewed in The Spirit and tell this world in which we live that God Is Love; that God's Love was manifested in His only begotten Son Jesus Christ for the sins of the  whole world, not just a few. 

And remember, God is as close as the next breath of air we breathe, for with Christ living in us and we living in Him, we have become one in Spirit. We are an empowered Church and God will change the hearts of those who hear and believe. 

Psalm 61:2

I am being led through The Book of Psalms, deeply and thoroughly. Praying for God to use me according to His purpose and not mine, that He might be blessed. 
So ingrained in His Word shall I be that The Lord's prayer will be answered by my life. Not the example of prayer He gave, when asked how to pray, but the prayer Christ prayed in the garden just before He was arrested and crucified. He's making me perfect. 

God is leading me through His Word one verse at a time. Though I have read my Bible several times over and in a couple different versions (NIV, NKJV, Amplified, NASB), I always come back to the KJV. This is the Bible I love the best. And I want what God has for me in it. 

Regardless of what I have a few been studying , I am always being shown Names of The Lord, like this one here in Psalm 61:2. Isn't it lovely? 

Psalm 144:2

Today's Thought From
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My Goodness, and my Fortress; my High Tower, and my Deliverer; my Shield, and He in Whom I trust: Who subdues my people under me. Psalm 144:2

God's Names reveal God's character and everything we truly want to know about Him in His Word. 

And what is His Word? Jesus Christ. 

John 1:1 In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God. 

John 1:14 And The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of The Father), full of Grace and Truth. 

If you want to know God, you must first know Jesus Christ.

John 20:31 But these things are written, that you might believe that Jesus is The Christ, The Son of God, and that believing, you might have life through His Name.

Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon The Name of The Lord shall be saved. 

Psalm 144:1

As I study this verse, I am reminded of a conversation I had with Linda B before she passed away. She had asked me about altars and why we don't build them. I said that we carry our altars with us wherever we are. Our hands. When we bring our hands together and lock our fingers, whether prostrate or kneeling, then the 'altar' which we have put together is set before God. And that's when we lay our sacrifice across it and surrender such to God. 

Once we place our faith in God, it is with our hands and fingers that wars and battles are won. Our individual submission to God's will is not easy but a necessary action nonetheless. That's why it's called a sacrifice. We are giving up, surrendering, that which is precious to us and placing it on the altar to give it to God. That's where we lay ourselves, our families, our friends. Praying for their salvation, their baptism of The Holy Spirit, and that God would fill them also with a desire to know Him more and serve Him with joyful hearts and lips. 

With our hands we open our Bibles. With our fingers we turn the pages. With our hands upraised and our fingers stretched forth in worship. In agreement we reach across time and distance, standing together in spirit, agreeing by Amen, that God will accept our sacrifices and be blessed by our words and actions. 

"Blessed be The LORD my strength, which teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight." Psalm 144:1

Psalm 143

 Today's thoughts from Psalm 143 are a compilation of study from this past week and into this weekend. The mind is a hard thing to keep focused on any one train of thought at any given time, let alone trying to remain focused on the things which God is directing me to. I have so many trains of thought running through my mind that I feel as if I am the main railway branch by which many run, like in Thomas the Train, with all his friends.

So here goes Psalm 143

1. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness.
2. And enter not into judgment with Thy servant: for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified.

3. For the enemy  has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

5. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Thy works; I muse on the work of Thy hands.

6. I stretch forth my hands unto Thee: my soul thirsts after Thee, as a  thirsty land. Se'lah.
7. Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not Thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

8. Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindess in the morning; for in Thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto Thee.

9. Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto Thee to hide me.

10. Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my GOD: Thy Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

11. Quicken me, O LORD, for Thy Name's sake: for Thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

12. And of Thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am Thy servant.