DEEPER: SANTIFICATION

This year throughout Holy Week we are exploring the focus - Deeper, looking at the Hope of Glory - a passion for Jesus. Throughout this week we will be printing the study guides being used by members of this church throughout Holy Week and being used in our evening meditations:-

SANCTIFICATION: MY HOUSE WILL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER

Our main passage for study this week is Ezekiel 47, and this will be married together with words that Jesus spoke during this passion week. Today we also read Luke 19: 45 - 48

The picture of Ezekiel reflects for us the blessings that flow from The Temple, the place where God is. Easter reminds us that God is not hidden by a veil, and we do not need to go to a place to find God, God is among His people, and we are invited to experience Him in our everyday walk of life, and through all the experiences and

situations we will face. The picture of Ezekiel reflects that where the river flowed was life - even to the point of the dead sea, which is so salty that life does not exist there - but the Biblical passage reflects that God often seeks to bring life to those things which look finished with - dead and going nowhere. We have to find that starting point - and that starts with God. To go deeper with God, we need to know God and allow Him to lead and direct us. This is a place that is not just visited just once. This is a place we will need to continually come back to. And, its a place which cleans up the temple and which helps reflect who it is that resides and rules there. We need His sanctification, His Blessing, His Touch. We need to be saturaed with all He has for us, in order to be a reflective Temple of His Power and Glory

Spend sometime considering how this passage reflects your life, and where it is we are robbing God of what is that He wants us to be, and what He wants to do in and through us.