Heralds Digest

  “For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:” ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭78:5‬ ‭KJV‬‬ Thoughtless testimonies can be faked, packaged and presented to people in the public for several reasons; but children at home need more than rhetoric and talks to believe in the manifestation of God. Even when parents appear to honestly believe in the goodness of God, children need a consistent demonstration of this goodness in the life and action of their parents in order to validate the claim. Unfortunately, believers’ children are often disappointed by their parents’ hypocritical faking of God’s goodness, clouded with frequent expressions of gloominess and dissatisfaction. Likewise, people in every believer’s life are in urgent need of authenticity as regards the subject of faith and an absolute confidence in the goodness and faithfulness of God, even when certain expectations appear unsatisfied. T...

  “For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭78:5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/psa.78.5.nkjv If the responsibility of training our children in the way of the Lord is limited to the exposition of moral knowledge at home and in schools, there is no doubt that Israel should had the best standard and would have passed the test. There has always been a problem with the human efforts of adopting the divine establishment of good and godly testimony from one generation to the next generation. When God established His testimony in Jacob, He worked on Jacob and walked him into a personal and intimate experience, above the knowledge of the letters of His words. Similar experiences were noted in the life and ministry of all of bible characters. Unfortunately, when a believer refutes in styles a practical working experience with God, he cannot be qualified as a tru...

http://bible.us/psa78.71-72.nkjv From following the ewes that had young He brought him, To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance. So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. One of the greatest heritage of those who have found or grew in grace in the fast outgoing year is the attainment of integrity in the pursuit of family, ministry, professional and social business. Being in possession of honest character, there is no fear of shame in the achievement of all those who have integrity of heart. They are convinced that God is the ultimate Rewarder of the Righteous. ‎Unfortunately, the reward of integrity is often appeared to skew toward the interest of God rather than man. For example, God rewarded the integrity in the heart of David while shepherding ewes with a call to shepherd Jacob; which are His (and not necessarily David's) people and inheritance. Had he not weighed the prospect of holy her...