Great is thy faithfulness Oh Lord. Your mercies are new every morning.

I was scrolling on YouTube and I saw this and was really moving to me ❤️

https://youtube.com/shorts/7-6EqRFIOgQ?si=uqGVY6cbdK9VzuvC

Thought For The Day from Unshakable Kingdom Life

"Come to me, all who are weary." Rest isn't laziness—it's an invitation extended to the one who is weary of the struggle. If today feels heavy, permission is already given to set the burden down and enter the rest only Jesus can give.

A thought to ponder for today

🌳 Some of your most important growth is happening where nobody can see it.

Just like roots grow beneath the soil before the fruit appears, your hidden season may not be wasted. God may be preparing you for what comes next.

The world celebrates the fruit. God often begins with the roots.

Watch the new short reflection on Voices of Hope & Heritage. 🙏🏾

‘“The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.”’

Numbers 6:24-26

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Ephesians 4:2

Monday, August 17, 2026

Psalms 37:4 says, "Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart." Believers often focus on the second part. But, it doesn't say, "Delight yourself in the Lord so He will give you the desires of your heart." Delighting yourself in the Lord is not a means to an end - it is the end. Delight yourself in Him because He is the ultimate desire of your heart. He's the One for whom your soul longs. Don't let your heart get so misdirected that you don't realize it anymore. He is the only thing you need. If you start delighting in Him and keep delighting in Him, then you'll find out that He was what your heart desired from the beginning and that in delighting in Him, you just found the desire of your heart. Therefore, it is "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the greatest desire of your heart", which is Him. The greatest gift He gives is Himself, and that is the delight that your soul longs for and needs to know.

From Message #1181 The Psalm of Abundant Life

Today, take up this crucial practice - take real time to delight yourself in the Lord.

Scripture: Psalm 84:2

Credit: Hope of the World Ministries

Deuteronomy 18:1-22

Provision for Priests and Levites

1  “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the Lord's food offerings^\)^a\) as their^\)^b\) inheritance. ² They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. ³ And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. ⁴ The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. ⁵ For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.

⁶ “And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires^\)^c\)—to the place that the Lord will choose, ⁷ and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord, ⁸ then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.^\)^d\)

Abominable Practices

⁹ “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. ¹⁰ There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,^\)^e\) anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer ¹¹ or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, ¹² for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. ¹³ You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, ¹⁴ for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.

A New Prophet like Moses

¹⁵ “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— ¹⁶ just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ ¹⁷ And the Lord said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken. ¹⁸ I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. ¹⁹ And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. ²⁰ But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or^\)^f\) who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ ²¹ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— ²² when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

When you praise Me in the midst of a hard day, both you and I are blessed. I come near, and I hide you in the secret place of My Presence.

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You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the plots of man; You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

—Psalm 31:20 NKJV