MY HOUSE WILL BE
Keywords 21:13
"It is written," he said to them, " 'My
house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a 'den of
robbers.'"
1. In the temple courts, Jesus saw people buy and sell
bleating animals and exchange money. The place of prayer and worship became
like a busy shopping mall. No one was focused on God. Indignant, Jesus drove
them out and overturned their tables and benches. The temple should be a house
of prayer. It should be a place where people could meet God through prayer and
receive his forgiveness, spiritual healing, and direction. But they made it a
den of robbers by cluttering up their hearts with busyness and sin. When the
temple was cleared and restored through Jesus, the blind and lame came to the
temple and received God’s healing mercy.
Children praised the Lord. We believers are now God’s temple in Jesus (Eph 2:21-22). God’s temple is also a community of believers where people
receive God’s healing mercy, praise God, and serve his life-giving
work together. To maintain God’s house as it
should be, we need to keep cleansing our hearts that can be easily corrupted by
earthly activities.
2. Jesus
cursed a fruitless fig tree which withered immediately to teach the power of
faith to his disciples. If we have faith without doubt and pray to God, he will
move even a mountain-like problem for us.
Prayer Dear Lord,
cleanse my heart to be your house so that you may dwell in me and I may bear
fruit by faith and prayer.
One Word God’s house is
in us
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