December 4: Genesis 18:14; Job 5:8; Psalm 37:5; Psalm 116:1–2; Isaiah 37:14–15; Isaiah 65:24; Philippians 4:6; James 5:16; 1 Peter 5:7; Exodus 30:18–21; Job 19:26–27; Habakkuk 1:13; Romans 12:1; 1 Corinthians 3:17; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Hebrews 10:22; Revelation 21:27 - a podcast by Crossway

“I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause.”

“Is anything too hard for the Lord?”—Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.—Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.—Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord.

“Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.”—The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Genesis 18:14(Listen)

14 Is anything too hard¹for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”

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Job 5:8(Listen)

8   “As for me, I would seek God,
    and to God would I commit my cause,

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Psalm 37:5(Listen)

5   Commit your way to the LORD;
    trust in him, and he will act.

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Psalm 116:1–2(Listen)

I Love theLord

116   I love the LORD, because he has heard
    my voice and my pleas for mercy.
2   Because he inclined his ear to me,
    therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

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Isaiah 37:14–15(Listen)

Hezekiah’s Prayer for Deliverance

14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:

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Isaiah 65:24(Listen)

24   Before they call I will answer;
    while they are yet speaking I will hear.

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Philippians 4:6(Listen)

6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

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James 5:16(Listen)

16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.¹

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1 Peter 5:7(Listen)

7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

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Our bodies washed with pure water.

“You shall… make a basin of bronze…. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it, with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet. When they go into the tent of meeting,… they shall wash with water, so that they may not die. They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die.”—Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you.—If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

“In my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.”—But nothing unclean will ever enter it.—You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong.—I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Exodus 30:18–21(Listen)

18 “You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it,19 with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.20 When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn a food offering¹to the LORD, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die.21 They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his offspring throughout their generations.”

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Job 19:26–27(Listen)

26   And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
    yet in¹my flesh I shall see God,
27   whom I shall see for myself,
    and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
    My heart faints within me!

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Habakkuk 1:13(Listen)

13   You who are of purer eyes than to see evil
    and cannot look at wrong,
  why do you idly look at traitors
    and remain silent when the wicked swallows up
    the man more righteous than he?

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Romans 12:1(Listen)

A Living Sacrifice

12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers,¹by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.²

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1 Corinthians 3:17(Listen)

17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

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1 Corinthians 6:19(Listen)

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

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Hebrews 10:22(Listen)

22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

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Revelation 21:27(Listen)

27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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