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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER">“<font size="3"><b>TWO
ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font size="3"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>JAN
20 - PSALM 90-106 - WANDERING AND NUMBERS</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>1.
90:12 (90) ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS. “So teach us to number our
days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom” (ASV '01). </b><span style="">We
bless You Father, for Moses, the servant of God; and for his prayer
as the noble man of God. Write deep on our hearts the shortness of
our days, and the wisdom of turning them over to You! We submit to
You in obedience of faith! </span><b><i>Hallowed be Your Name!</i></b></p>
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<b>2. 91:14 (91) TRIUNITY OF THE GODHEAD SPEAKS. “Because he has
set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on
high, because he has known my name.” </b><span style="">The
Spirit's testimony: 91:1; Messiah's testimony: 91:2-13; testimony
confirmed by God: 91:14-16. Father, we treasure the confirmation of
Your words concerning Your Pre-incarnate Son! </span><b><i>Your
:kingdom come!</i></b></p>
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<b>3. 94:12 (92-94) BLESSEDNESS OF CORRECTION. “Blessed is the
man whom You do chasten, O Jehovah, and teaches out of Your law
(Torah).” </b><span style="">We count it all
joy Father, when we fall into many testings. We recognize that they
come as discipline from Your hand, because You love us! Even so
Father, for so it seems good in Your sight! </span><b><i>Your :will
be done, As in heaven, so on earth!</i></b></p>
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<b>4. 95:7b-8 (95-100) REST ANTICIPATED. “Today, oh that you
would hear his voice! <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">8</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
Harden not your heart, as at Meribah (strife), As in the day of
Massah (temptation) in the wilderness.” </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">O
Father, let us profit in the fear of Jehovah from the rebellion of
Israel of old. We would enter into Your full rest, sitting with You
on Your throne in the Holy of Holies. Let Your words lead us into the
spirit of forgiveness. We remember Corrie ten Boom. </span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Our
:daily bread give us this day!</i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">5. 103:7 (101-104) GOD OF
CREATION. “Jehovah made known his ways unto Moses, His doings unto
the children of Israel.” </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">Ah,
Jehovah Father, You Who have created all things, may we know You not
only by Your acts, but like Moses, may we know Your ways and purposes
before they come to pass! We would call the things that are not as
though they were (Romans 4:17)! </span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>
And forgive us our :debts, as we also have forgiven our :debtors!</i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">6. 105:8 (105) GOD
REMEMBERS HIS COVENANT. “Jehovah has remembered his covenant for
ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations.” </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">You
are a covenant-keeping God, O Father! You blessed Israel even whey
they were stiff-necked and stubborn, because of Your word to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. We as Gentiles grafted into the olive tree root, are
also blessed in Abraham. </span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>And
bring us not into temptation!</i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">7. 106:45 (106) WRATH
TEMPERED WITH MERCY. “And Jehovah remembered for them His
covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his
lovingkindnesses.” </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">
The grace and covenant love of God on the behalf of His people is
“Chesed!” Father, we see such longsuffering from Your heart on
our behalf. Again, Your Covenant accepted by Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, binds You to us! </span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>But
deliver us from the evil one.</i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>NOTE</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
106:13-15 (106) “Israel soon forgot his works; They did not wait
for His counsel, </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">14</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the
desert. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">15</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>And he gave
them their request, But sent leanness into their soul</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.”
</span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">O
Father, teach us the foolishness of lusting after our own ways. May
we profit from Israel's history. You have given us in the Church -
the Old Testament - full of examples and lessons</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
- </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">especially
what </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">not</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
to do! What a treasure-trove indeed are those 39 books! Fully two
thirds of our New Covenant for the Church is either direct quotations
or references to the Old Covenant. There is no way we can fully
understand the New Testament, except we immerse ourselves in the
preceding Covenant.</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Psalm 90 is one of the two
psalms of Moses in this book. It is </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>rich</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
in practical lessons, not least of which is its exhortation for us to
fix our attention on the </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>shortness</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of our lives down here! Our 70-90 years are but a short prelude and
preparation for </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>all</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of Eternity. How foolish on our part to live in the light </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>only</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of these few brief years, when all of eternity faces us. “With
Eternity's Values in View” should be our continual watch-word down
here.</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">For
- as Agnes Springer has well put it in her book “Intra Muros” -
revised to “Within Heaven's Gates” - our two lives are </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>one</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">!
If we wisely make Jesus - God's only-begotten Son our Savior, Lord
and Redeemer - then we step from this life directly into Heaven! No
soul-sleep at all!</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
if we foolishly neglect life's wisest lessons - then like the rich
man in Jesus' story with Lazarus - we face the unimaginable torment
there described by our Lord. And when Jesus mentions names in a story
- it is no longer a parable - </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>it
is the truth</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">!
And listen not to the modernists who claim Jesus was but a child of
his times, and of course didn't really know what he was talking
about! Imagine their fright and shock when they stand before Him at
the Great White Throne Judgment - to answer for their crassly
ignorant judgments in this life. Unfortunately, many foolish
listeners - have listened and followed the blind teachings of the
blind.</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The 17 Psalms of this day's
devotional reading link up with the Book of Numbers - the Book
recording the 40 year wandering of Israel in the Wilderness after
their supernatural escape from Egypt. This book of Numbers was the
favorite for one of my friends from Alberta, Canada. Perhaps it was
because so many valuable lessons are contained in the fourth book of
Moses. And think not to make the “Documentary Hypothesis” of
Modernistic so-called scholars a true interpretation! Jesus accorded
Moses with the authorship of these first 5 books of the Torah - the
Pentateuch in Christian circles.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">God's Bible Numerics as
discovered by Russian Ivan Panin in 1890 - completely overrules such
a false hypothesis. </font>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Blessings on each one of us as
we glean rich insights from these 17 Psalms and the Book of Numbers.
J.A.Watt</font></p>
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