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What are the 3 things God wants us to do?

3 Things God Calls Us To Do Today Love Him with all of our hearts. ( Matt 22:37) a. How do I love God with all of my heart, soul, and mind today? Love our neighbors as ourselves (Matt 22:39) a. How do I love my neighbor as much as I love myself? ... Make disciples of all nations. ( Matt 28:19)

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Maybe you feel like I do….all the emotions, all the thoughts, all the questions. It’s easy to feel out of control and begin to vacillate between hopefulness and hopelessness within any given hour. This season is hard. We are not in control and we are being reminded of that. Lately I’ve been looking to my phone for hope rather than a Sovereign God who knows what’s going on today, tomorrow, and a year from now. Our God gives permission for this kind of warfare with the promise that He will use it for good for those who love Him (Romans 8:28). The other day I was talking to a mentor of mine and shared my heart with him. My concerns, my questions, my fears of the future of our country and our world. I was overwhelmed with being overwhelmed.

His answer was so simple.

“Make disciples Leigh.”

I paused in silence, nodding, as the realization hit.

Depression, fear, and anxiety have been guests in our house for months now. But my friend simplified it in the most profound way – the way God does. God did not put the global direction of the world on our shoulders to bear. He has the whole world in His hands, and our part in all of it is pretty simple – be obedient to His commands, He’ll handle the rest. He put the calling on our lives to do the following things, and these things should be our top three things on our to do list on any given day in 2020.

1. Love Him with all of our hearts. (Matt 22:37)

a. How do I love God with all of my heart, soul, and mind today?

2. Love our neighbors as ourselves (Matt 22:39)

a. How do I love my neighbor as much as I love myself? How do I meet their needs like I would want someone to meet mine, even if we disagree?

3. Make disciples of all nations. (Matt 28:19)

a. How can I be a light to someone today? How can I encourage someone today through God’s word?

When we make the decision to stay committed to these three things, we give up our attempt to control our circumstances and stay focused on Him, allowing Him to do the work through us. We can exhaust ourselves trying to control all of this, but it’s a hamster wheel – because God holds the entire galaxy in His hands.

Maybe this season is to guide us to remember the magnitude of His power and His sovereignty?

Ultimately, as believers and followers of Jesus, we give Him the reigns, we stay rooted (John 15), and allow Him to do the work through us. But that requires us to give up control, and that’s the warfare we face every day. © 2020 Leigh Anderson. Used with permission. Leigh is a speaker, blogger and founder of Be Still Mama Ministries.

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What foods does Jesus Eat?

What did Jesus eat on a typical day? The short answer: a lot of bread. Bread was a staple in the typical daily diet in the first-century Greco-Roman world, supplemented with limited amounts of local fruits and vegetables, oil, and salt. Bread in first-century Galilee would have been made with wheat or barley flour.

The gospel accounts tell us that Jesus and his disciples ate bread and drank wine at the Last Supper. However, bread and wine probably weren’t the only things on the table. The Last Supper may have been a Passover meal. Passover is when Jews remember their exodus from Egypt. The gospels of Mark, Luke, and Matthew place the meal during the Jewish Passover on the day of Unleavened Bread.* This is the first day of the seven-day Passover celebration. On this day, Jews traditionally traveled to the temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice a Passover lamb. Today, this day of Passover is celebrated in Judaism with the Seder supper. The modern Seder tradition didn’t emerge until the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D., but Jews in Jesus’s time did share in a Passover meal after making their temple sacrifice. It wouldn’t have looked like a modern Seder, and the historical record of the Passover meal before the Seder tradition is less detailed. But we do know that the Passover meal would have included unleavened bread and likely a roast lamb. So if the Last Supper was a Passover meal, we can probably place those two foods on the table. For a fuller menu, we have to do a bit of guesswork. But in 2016, two Italian archaeologists published a study on what was eaten at the Last Supper that included a reconstructed menu. The two archaeologists drew from Bible verses, Jewish texts, ancient Roman literature, and archaeological data to learn about what people ate in Jerusalem during the first century A.D. Based on their research, they hypothesized that the menu for the Last Supper would have featured bean stew, lamb, bitter herbs, fish sauce, unleavened bread, dates, and aromatized wine.

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