Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? (Psalm 24:3).

The Hill of the Lord

As we have determined earlier, when we are in Christ in God, we are in a place of safety. Not only are we in a place of safety, we are in a place where we can clearly see the enemy and mitigate against all his plans. This is why the psalmist describes the Lord as the ‘strong tower’ or the ‘hill’ or the ‘place of refuge’. And we cannot get to this place just like that. 

There must of necessity be a cleansing. ‘Only those who have clean hands and pure hearts, who have not lifted up their souls to what is false, and do not swear deceitfully’, can ascend into the hill of the Lord.

For all of us to gain protection that comes from the Lord, so that he can be our hiding place or our shelter, we must divest ourselves of the things that sully our hands and our hearts. Things like, malice, rage, anger, deceit and falsehood.  Then and only then can we say like the psalmist to ourselves, ‘lift up your heads o gates and doors and let the king of glory come in.’

Today for us to become clean we need to ensure that we are washed in the precious blood of Jesus. This is achieved by washing ourselves with the word and following what the Holy Spirit directs us to do!

Read Psalm 24