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Reading Psalms 87. The imagery of foreign and oppressive nations being counted as citizens of God\u2019s Holy city is prophetic. Reminiscent of the account in Acts 10 Peter\u2019s vision and God telling him not to call unclean what God has made clean. Being told to kill and eat was to prepare his mind to go to the gentiles and participate in what God was doing. the place where God's name would be known where everybody would come to worship. It was the place that the Lord picked for them to come and worship Him. He loves Jerusalem. It's this place dear to His heart that he establishes the place where his name would be known. It shows God's heart how He wanted everyone to know Him. Acts 11:15-18. \u201cWho am I to get in God's way?\u201d To receive something, I need to have my hands available to receive it. God\u2019s Holy Spirit is not a physical object that we're receiving. However, to receive the Holy Spirit, we must let go of our way, whatever selfish temperament we might be in. Being citizens of Jerusalem, it's our life source, our source of joy. We're left with this promise. And this image of the joy that comes from God that He gives to all his citizens of Jerusalem.