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PREPARATION...FIT FOR HIS COMING

April 16, 2020 

Jesus is preparing a place...He is coming again!

John 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kpT0yf4YOI

HUMBLE OURSELVES!

March 26, 2020

2 Chronicles 7:13-15 New International Version (NIV)

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among My people, ¹⁴ if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ¹⁵ Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.”

HUMBLE OURSELVES!

I have been silent is sharing My Daily Delight with The Lord for the past two weeks for several reasons that don’t need explaining, but today my heart is stirred to appeal to God’s People.

 

The Scripture for today has been preached, shared, prayed, and proclaimed in many ways over the past few years as most Americans have been concerned about the condition of our country.  It seems that everyone has someone or something to blame for the condition we are in.  My dear fellow Christians, the blame falls on us!

LISTEN carefully to the Scripture that we have chosen for our solution.

Background:  Solomon has just finished building the Temple and his house and has offered sacrifices and prayed to God…and God answers:

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a temple for sacrifices.

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among My people, ¹⁴ if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ¹⁵ Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. ¹⁶ I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will always be there.

¹⁷ “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe My decrees and laws, ¹⁸ I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’

¹⁹ “But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, ²⁰ then I will uproot Israel from My land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for My Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. ²¹ This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ ²² People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”

This Scripture has to do with God’s People, the Israelites, and the Temple built to give God a place for His Spirit to dwell and His People to worship Him.  It is also about Solomon, the king.

For us to claim this Word and pray, we must associate ourselves as God’s People and recognize the fullness of these words.  This is God’s People in the Land He gave to them with blessings – the land of Israel.  God says:  “When disaster comes…”  it will be the result of turning from God and His instructions.  So, how do they get rid of the disastrous conditions of weather, pestilence and disease?   We say, seek God and pray!  Why do we choose to stop there and think that’s the solution?  God said:  “If MY People, which are called by MY Name, will HUMBLE themselves…”  We act like we are superior because we belong to God and it’s everyone else who is at fault!  God said, those who claim His Name are at fault and need to humble themselves and do 3 more things:  PRAY; SEEK HIS FACE; TURN FROM WICKED WAYS!  Are we, God’s People, doing this? Praying this way?  You know we have to do this in reverse – we have to turn around to face God and the only prayer He wants to hear is confession. 

THEN…He will HEAR…FORGIVE your SIN; and HEAL your Land…

THEN…His Eyes will be open and His Ears attentive to the PRAYERS offered in that Place (the Temple where sin offerings were made and worship from the heart of love for God),  

“I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will always be there.”

We hear the Heart of God!  What is it?  His People seeking Him with confession on their hearts and repentance to worship Him!

QUESTION ~ Where is the Temple of God today?  There isn’t one in Israel! 

IF you are one who truly bears the Name of God because of believing and receiving the Gospel of Jesus Christ, THEN…

My Dear Family of God, when are we going to fall on our face before God confessing our sin and rise up in humility and confess to the rest of the world; then STAND UNITED in PRAYER thanking God for healing our land and making HIS LOVE & PRESENCE A REALITY so that, the world may believe?

IMPRESSIONS FROM GENESIS

As I begin reading the Bible on a 90-Day Study with some other ladies, I looked back at some notes of the past and discovered this from another study.

Impressions from Genesis                                                                            Tuesday, January 4, 2011 12:03 PM

As I have read Genesis, I titled it "We Are Blessed!"

   

# 1 ~ God created...then blessed - then He said:  "Be fruitful and multiply..." (vs. 1:27; 5:1; 9:1)  We are blessed to be "fruitful and multiply" in God's Image and likeness. (See John 15 & Romans 8:29) 

*[Ladies note who did the fruit bearing!  It began with ONE Woman!  After woman was created God said His Creation was "very good!" - woman is His crowning joy and she is His partner in giving life (birth of mankind.)  We are specially created and dear to God's heart!]

     ~ The unrighteous die in the Flood.  Verse 9:1 Righteous Noah is blessed and told "to be fruitful and multiply." [Now it begins again with 4 Women doing the fruit bearing...giving life!]

*Another note:  Being "fruitful and multiplying" was instructed before sin entered and after the world was cleansed of unrighteous.  God intended the fruit and multiplying to be in His Image.  Look at John 15 and the Vine life and see how we are to bear fruit...more fruit...much fruit.  The Vine is Jesus Christ.  The branches are Believers.  The Fruit is the Image of Christ The Vine!  ALL is to glorify (reveal the Person, Power and Presence of God) The Father!

#2 ~ GOD created in His Image; in His Own Likeness!

Verse 5:3 - Adam had a son in his image (in his own likeness.)  This was Seth.

(Abel had been killed by Cain and Cain had been banished.)  This tells us something about Adam and his relationship to God.  Seth began the redemptive line leading to Christ.
I challenge to watch the redemptive line and who comprises it as you read through The Word!

The teacher in me can't help studying instead of just reading.  I share to be "fruitful and multiply" for His glory!

I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR IMPRESSIONS AND INSIGHTS AS YOU READ AND STUDY THE WORD...SHARE WITH US!

"You are My witnesses, declares the Lord, that I am God." Isaiah 43:12