Good morning. Moses said, the Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed to everything He says to you. One of the things that the people asked John the Baptist was, are you the Prophet? This quote of Moses is why they were asking that. And it will be that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also announced these days. You don’t usually think of Samuel as being a prophet. However, it says that God did not let any of his words fail. It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Of course it is referring to Jesus as being the seed of Abraham. For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways. God first fulfilled His promise to Abraham. Jesus was sent to the lost children of Israel. It was a number of years after the resurrection that the Jews went to the Gentiles. Peter was the first, and he went to Cornelius – but it took a vision of God for him to do that. Even then they did not pursue the Gentiles; it was Paul who did that. Sometimes Christians forget just how blessed they are by being turned away from the wicked ways they had before they became Christians. And then there are some who seem to revel in just how bad they were before they became Christians. Father, go with the reader’s family and perform a miracle for them. Provide the wisdom, guidance, comfort, and money to help them in their time of need.

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