In Genesis35vs1, God said to jacob ''Go up to Bethel and settle there and build an alter there to God ,who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother''
For jacob bethel ,has become the place of revelation, the place of sure promise,
the place of experience and encounter,the place of intimacy. But jacob like many of us leave bethel and return once in a while as a memorial that we visit.
God never intended bethel to be solely for pilgrimage, He wanted it to be a place of permanent abode. In verse7,jacob called it EL Bethel which literally means 'God's house of God'. Bethel was not jacob's discovery,it was God's. For God was already waiting for jacob when he got there,with ladder ascending and descending to and from heaven. when jacob got there God now revealed Himself to him.
This tells us that geography should be taken out of our prayer life.For bethel is much more than geography, it is the very Presence of God revealed .when we encounter His Presence we can say with Elijah in our prayers,'God before whom i stand-----' Every believer must have a bethel experience as we depend upon Him to give us an El bethel,the house that God builds Himself,the very place of His Holy Presence.
You do not visit bethel,you dwell there and build an alter.Jacob had left and so much evil happened to Him,because he had left the place of God's protective presence This year let's endeavor to dwell at bethel and it shall be well us
Apart from protection,we are bold and confident when we pray at bethel,knowing that our petition will be granted. This year ,the first prayer request should be for God to build us ,an Elbethel,so we can worship Him.
For jacob bethel ,has become the place of revelation, the place of sure promise,
the place of experience and encounter,the place of intimacy. But jacob like many of us leave bethel and return once in a while as a memorial that we visit.
God never intended bethel to be solely for pilgrimage, He wanted it to be a place of permanent abode. In verse7,jacob called it EL Bethel which literally means 'God's house of God'. Bethel was not jacob's discovery,it was God's. For God was already waiting for jacob when he got there,with ladder ascending and descending to and from heaven. when jacob got there God now revealed Himself to him.
This tells us that geography should be taken out of our prayer life.For bethel is much more than geography, it is the very Presence of God revealed .when we encounter His Presence we can say with Elijah in our prayers,'God before whom i stand-----' Every believer must have a bethel experience as we depend upon Him to give us an El bethel,the house that God builds Himself,the very place of His Holy Presence.
You do not visit bethel,you dwell there and build an alter.Jacob had left and so much evil happened to Him,because he had left the place of God's protective presence This year let's endeavor to dwell at bethel and it shall be well us
Apart from protection,we are bold and confident when we pray at bethel,knowing that our petition will be granted. This year ,the first prayer request should be for God to build us ,an Elbethel,so we can worship Him.
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