Proximidade
Deus é próximo dos que o buscam. Ele não é um Deus distante, mas presente, íntimo e acessível a todo o que o invoca com sinceridade de coração.
Buscar a presença de Deus
A Bíblia nos exorta a buscar a face do Senhor continuamente. Quem se aproxima dele encontra plenitude de alegria e delícias perpétuas.
Make supplication to Yahweh and his might;
seek his face continually.
Seek Yahweh and his strength;
seek his face continually!
Seek Yahweh while he lets himself be found;
call him while he is near.
One thing I have asked from Yahweh;
it I will seek:
that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of Yahweh,
and to consider his temple.
Because better is a day in your courtyards
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
You will make known to me the path of life.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
At your right hand are pleasures forever.
Deus está perto
O Senhor está perto dos que o invocam, dos quebrantados de coração e dos que clamam por socorro. Sua presença nos sustenta.
They cry out and Yahweh hears
and delivers them from all of their troubles.
Yahweh is near to those who are heartbroken
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Let your gentleness be made known to all people. The Lord is near.
But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ.
Surely goodness and loyal love will pursue me
all the days of my life,
and I will stay in the house of Yahweh
for a very long time.
A presença que nunca abandona
Deus promete nunca nos deixar. Ele permanece fiel, está conosco em todo tempo e envia o Espírito para habitar em nossos corações.
"I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors, and may he not leave us or abandon us,
But in your great compassions you did not put an end to them, and you did not abandon them. For you are a gracious and compassionate God.
Final Greeting and Benediction
Now may the Lord of peace himself grant you peace through everything in every way. May the Lord be with all of you.
Final Greetings and Benediction
Finally, brothers, rejoice, be restored, be encouraged, be in agreement, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
By this we know that we reside in him and he in us: that he has given us of his Spirit.
No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father—that one has made him known.
The Shining Face of Moses
And he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights. He ate no food and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.
and heal the sick in it, and say to them, "The kingdom of God has come near to you."
Asa’s Religious Reforms
Now Azariah the son of Oded—the Spirit of God came upon him. And he went out before Asa and said to him, "Hear me, O Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him. And if you will seek him he will be found by you. But if you forsake him he will forsake you. Now Israel has been without the true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without law, but at its trouble he returned to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They sought him, and he was found by them. And in those times there was no peace for the one going out and the one coming in, for great tumults were upon all the inhabitants of the lands. Nation was crushed by nation, and city was against city, for God threw them into confusion by all sorts of trouble. But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."
And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the vile idols from all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was in front of the portico of Yahweh.
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those sojourning with them, from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for many had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him. And they were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. And they sacrificed to Yahweh on that day from the war booty they brought back: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. And they entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their inmost being,but all who will not seek Yahweh the God of Israel should be killed, from young to old, from men to women. And they took an oath to Yahweh with a great voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with horns. And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they swore with all their heart. And they sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and Yahweh gave rest to them all around.
And also Maacah, the mother of Asa, the king removed her from being queen, because she had made a repulsive image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her repulsive image, and he crushed and burned it at the Wadi Kidron. But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was fully devoted all his days. And he brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects into the house of God—silver and gold and vessels. And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.
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