The 8 Minute Devotion

The sixth dwelling place in our series is the Church - the "called out" ones who comprise the Body of Christ! Join Pastor Cameron for today's podcast, as we realize the tremendous blessing of living in the Church Age, where God lives among His people.

On today's podcast, Pastor Cameron shares a final lesson from Herod's temple - the veil in the temple was torn immediately after Jesus' crucifixion. This shows us that the way into God's very presence was forever opened through the death of Jesus!

Jesus declared that His followers would have a river of living water flowing out of them. As one of His dwelling places, every where we go we can carry the life and presence of God - join Pastor Cameron as we see this on today's podcast.

The most important quality to be God's dwelling place is prayer - Jesus said His house must be a house of prayer for all nations. Join Pastor Cameron as he reminds us of this seminal importance of prayer on today's podcast.

Pastor Cameron begins looking at our fifth dwelling place, Herod's temple. We see that Herod build this temple with bad motivations and looking for self-glory, yet God overcame that to make this temple that Jesus Himself walked in on earth!

Although the Restoration Temple paled in comparison to Solomon's, the prophet Haggai declared the glory of this temple would be greater than that of the former. God always saves the best for last, as Pastor Cameron shares on today's episode - the glory that is coming is greater than that which is lost!

On today's podcast, Pastor Cameron discusses the importance of the prophetic. It was the words of Haggai and Zechariah that encouraged the Jews to overcome opposition and complete the work God had called them to do, and we still need to be reminded that it's not by might or power, but by God's Spirit that we can be successful.

Opposition arose to the Jews as the attempted to rebuild the temple - in the face of this conflict, they stopped building and grew complacent. Join Pastor Cameron for today's podcast, as he reminds us we must be willing to continue building a dwelling place for God in the face of opposition.

The first thing the Jews did upon returning to Jerusalem was to rebuild the altar - this reminds us of the need to keep prayer and worship as the first priority in all of our service to the Lord. Pastor Cameron encourages us to make prayer the foundation of our personal life, family, and ministry.

Pastor Cameron begins discussing the Restoration Temple, seeing that those who returned to Jerusalem had their spirits stirred up by God. They didn't go simply of their own initiative, but responded to God's call - to be His dwelling place we must always ask Him to stir our hearts and draw us to Himself.