The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. (Deut 30:6)

Moses declared that God would circumcise the Jewish nation in the heart!
- This has never before happened in their history, but will happen when they accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah, King & High Priest.
- Circumcision of the flesh was always intended as an outward sign of an inner condition.
- Man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart. (1 Sam 16:7)

Prayer: Gracious Heavenly Father, please hasten the day when your people Israel will accept your Son as their Messiah, King & High Priest … for the day when You will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. In His name. Amen.

Supporting Verses: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Rom 2:28-29)

Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors… For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. (Matt 6:12,14-15 NIV)

- The King declares that entrance into His Kingdom is conditional upon forgiveness.
- If we cannot forgive from the heart, we will not be forgiven by our Heavenly Father.
- His decree is absolutely fair:  As we forgive others – He forgives us. We decide!
- The only way that God can forgive our sins, is through Jesus Christ our Lord and savior.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, Please relieve me from the burden of being unforgiving. Help me to forgive from my heart, even as I wish to be forgiven through Your Son. In His Name.  Amen.

Supporting verses: … know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins . (Mt 9:6)
So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts. (Mt 18:35)

Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. (Eccl 1:4 NIV)

Wise King Solomon teaches us that:

- Whilst mortal people are transient, the earth remains forever.
- What’s more, the earth will be inhabited with immortal people forever.
- God did not create this world in vain, simply to destroy it….
- He created it to be shared by all those who glorify Him and His Son now.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank you for the most beautiful planet in the universe and for the promise of it’s glorious restoration by your Son…forever!  In His holy name. Amen.

Supporting Verse: For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God,  Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “ I am the LORD, and there is no other.. (Isa 45:18 New KJV)

And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. (Lk 23:38)

- There was no mistaken identity, no ambiguity…. the sign over the crown of thorns jammed onto his bleeding head was clearly written!
- This is Jesus of Nazareth, the KING OF THE JEWS. (Jn 19:19).
- This is the ‘lamb slain from the foundation of the world’. (Rev 13:8)
- The Passover lamb, in whom there was no blemish. (1 Cor 5:7)
- The perfect ‘moral’ offering that God required. (Heb 10:4)

Prayer: Heavenly Father, as the world celebrates ‘Easter’ in their own way, help me to celebrate the death Jesus in the way that He instructed …. in remembering Him in the simple humble tokens of bread and wine. In His holy Name. Amen.

Supporting Verses: And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he (Pilate )saith unto the Jews,”Behold your King!” But they cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him”. Pilate saith unto them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!” (Jn 19:14-15)

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. (Matt 24:45-47 NIV)

- When the King returns He will reward all His faithful & wise servants.
- Those servants will be active doing the King’s service whenever He returns.
- Doing means serving others because of their King’s example.
- He will reward them by putting them in charge of ‘all his goods’ for 1000 years.

Prayer: Gracious Father, Help me to have the wisdom do the things that will be pleasing to Your Son now, so that at His coming I might find favour in His sight. In His precious Name. Amen.

Supporting verse: You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth. (Rev 5:10 NIV) ….and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Rev 20:4

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass. (Zech 9:9)

- Here is the day of great rejoicing for all believers of every age, whose hope lies in the King of Israel!
- He is just, humble and he brings salvation.
- His first triumphal entry was made in preparation for His victory over self-will.
- His second triumphal entry will be in preparation for His victory over the world!

Prayer: Heavenly Father, Hasten the day of your Son’s triumphal entry into Your holy city, Jerusalem. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Supporting verses: Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass…when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took the branches of the palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried out, Hosanna: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel. (Matt 21:5)

And again Jesus said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. (Lk 13:20-21)

- When baking, all you need is ‘a little leaven’ to influence ‘the whole loaf’’-  for good or for bad. (Gal 5:9)
- ‘Good leaven’ refers to the spreading influence of the gospel of the Kingdom of God.
- The ‘three measures’ indicates that the meal was to be a fellowship meal…the Kingdom will be shared between God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ and the saints. (Gen 18:6)
- The final effects of the gospel are hidden from our sight until all those that are being saved are converted in their hearts, and submit to the King.

Prayer: Gracious Father in Heaven, I believe your gospel message is working in the hearts of men and women all over the world in order to bring about the great day of righteousness and peace that we all so long for. Hasten that day…in Jesus name, amen.

Supporting Verses: And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. (Gen 18:6)

But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. (Num 14:21)

- God Almighty is a living God.
- The whole world is destined to be filled with His glory.
- God’s glory is primarily concerned with His character. (His goodness, grace & mercy Ex 33:18-19)
- When God’s Kingdom is established on earth, all the peoples of the earth
will ultimately emulate God’s character and so fill it with His glory.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, maker of heaven & earth – the only true and living God, I praise you for sending Jesus to show me your amazing goodness, grace and mercy, and I pray for the day when He will return to help us fill this wonderful world with Your eternal glory. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Supporting verses: And the Word (Jesus) was made 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. (Jn 1:14)

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder… of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end… (Isa 9:6-7 KJV)

Once we have been baptized into the saving Name of Jesus:
- We are The Divine Government in waiting.
- Everything we do to further the cause of our King now, will hasten His return in the future!
- ‘As God is not slack concerning His promise’…we should not be slack in whatever the King asks us to do….
- It may not be some great thing…it might just be, visiting the fatherless and the widow, and keeping ourselves unspotted from the world.

Prayer: Gracious Father, Thank you for the revelation of yourself in the face of Christ Jesus my Lord, and for calling me to your service now, and in the age to come. In His Name. Amen.

Supporting verse: “… if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!” (2 Kings 5:13 NIV)

Even when fools rule, God is in control.In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead. When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.” Acts 17:30-32 (Today’s NIV)

- God never held ignorance in high esteem, He therefore commands repentance.
- God has appointed His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ to judge the world with divine justice.
- God has proved that He is serious about our attitude, by raising His Son from the dead.
- We too can respond to this news in three ways. Negatively (by sneering) or procrastinating (by just thinking about it) or by action (by believing & repenting).

Prayer: Heavenly Father, Now that I know, help me be serious about changing my attitude of negativity or lukewarm ness  to one of humility, faith and love. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Supporting Verses: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee… (Hos 4:6)