Blessed is He! 1/16-18

16 18 January 2017 Blessed is He – Manna by Dorothy Callies

Matthew 21:9 “Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.”

Song: In the Name of the Lord

There is strength in the name of the Lord;

There is power in the name of the Lord;

There is hope in the name of the Lord!

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.

(Lyrics & Music: Phill McHugh, Gloria Gaither, Sandi Patti Hellvering)

Good morning! For the morning devotion, this is the song that I remembered and searched for verse that comes with it. I was inspired to read the story of Jesus who rode upon the donkey.  When He came near to Jerusalem, the people followed Jesus and they cried out, “Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest” (Matt. 21:9).

“And when He was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee” (Matt. 21:10-11).  Here I was impressed that “all the city was moved.”

The shouting of people who cried out, ‘Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord,’ had reached the whole city of the people. Words spread fast to see “Who is this?” The people who followed Jesus introduced Him as the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee to the whole city, meaning the people within that city.

There was a great excitement that day and many came to see Jesus. As Jesus rode on the donkey, He came near to the temple of God.  He stopped there and got off the donkey. I assumed that He came to pray, but instead what did He found? Money changers and the seats of them that sold doves in the temple of God.

Where exactly? It was in the court of the Gentile where they pray in the Temple of God. Jesus was angry. He overthrew the tables of the money changers. Those who were selling doves and animals, He cast out all of them in the temple of God. (Matt. 21: 12).

Jesus said, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves” (Matt. 21:13).  Jesus did the cleansing of the Temple so that the Gentiles could have room to pray and to worship God. After the temple was cleansed, what was the next thing that happened?

Matthew 21:14 tells us that the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple; and Jesus healed them.  They felt free and came to Jesus in the court of Gentile and they received their healing. From this verse, I claimed the healing of Jesus upon us. The people and the children saw the wonderful things that He did. And the children were singing to Jesus in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David.”

After this was over, Jesus left Jerusalem and went to Bethany to rest. Simple story isn’t it? But it's a very powerful and inspiring story. 

May the Lord bless you!  

Dorothy