S2:224 Ezra 7-8

Join The Journey

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

5 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Ezra knew God's Word, he tried to do things God's way, and he worked to help others stay aligned with God's will. In today’s episode, Emma Dotter highlights Ezra 7:10 and gives context for its significance.

Additional Scripture used in this Podcast:
Hebrews 4:12 - God's Word is living and active
John 1:1-4 - Life in the Word of God

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together.
0:05.8	We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's word, and builds your faith.
0:12.2	This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.
0:16.8	Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Ezra 7 and 8, and if you haven't already, go ahead and pause the podcast, read the chapters for yourself first. But more specifically, in today's episode, we will be focusing on chapter 7, verse 10. Before we do that, however, I have two quick announcements. The first is that we are well on our way to having 1,000
0:38.3	podcast reviews by the end of January. Thank you so much to those of you who have left
0:43.1	reviews, and we look forward to reading your feedback. Thanks. The second announcement is that
0:48.1	on December 3rd, we are having a prayer gathering for join the journey at Watermark
0:52.0	Dallas in the chapel at 5.30 p.m. December 3rd, 530 p.m.
0:57.8	In short, we are taking over the normal watermark prayer service and would love to see you there.
1:03.4	I'm really excited for this gathering because the journey staff team and I will get to meet a lot of you
1:08.4	listeners in person, which is super fun because you all get to hear my voice all the time.
1:12.7	And I will finally get to hear yours as we pray together celebrating all God has done through Join the Journey this year and expectantly ask him to move through Join the Journey in 2024.
1:23.3	We'll put all the prayer gathering details in the episode description.
1:26.2	And we would love nothing more than to see you there and meet you.
1:30.4	And even if you don't go to watermark, you're invited.
1:33.0	But all that said, today we are in Ezra 7, looking at one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible.
1:39.3	Ezra 7.10.
1:41.1	Before we read it, I got to set the scene.
1:43.9	We've got to remember that the first wave of
1:46.3	Israelites have already returned home from exile. And why were they in exile? Well, the answer,
1:51.8	in simplest form is simply that God's people ignored God's instruction. God's people ignored
1:58.8	God's instruction, and the implications of that choice caught up to them.
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