Many great structures and monuments have arisen through the ages to the God of our Salvation and to our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ. Buildings with exquisite Design. Men and women have raised up structures that would be worthy of any substantial man or woman’s fancy. Relished and cherished have they been through the eyes of men, but that’s not what’s important when it comes to pleasing him.” If what I say, is not cherished in exactly the same way, then all other things, though they be dressed in bows, proceeding forth from kings, will wither away with no recognition, except, for the laud and praise of those peers who help bring them to fruition.” (Simple gift of prophecy found in 1Corinthians 12). Let’s build beautiful structures with elaborate designs but adore God’s word at the very same time.
Psalm 119:11 “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Would you like to see a glimmer of hope in the skies? Would you like to see beauty for ashes arise? Would you like to see the changing of the tide? Would you like to see truth and justice increase and not subside? Would you like to see the Almighty change lives? Would you like to see men freed from Satan’s lies? Would you take hold together with the cause of Christ? Would you submit yourself to His counsel that is right? Would you wait upon God both day and night? Then you will see the things you desire in your life.
Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
It Ministers Grace To Know That No One Has Had An Original Thought . We Got It From Others Who Got It From The Lord
I remember years ago when I listened to my mentor Kenneth Hagin, how he overcame the un-overcomeable. He told of his early years of the struggle he had with obedience to the word of God. You see he had a very serious incurable diseases. Kenneth Hagin had just given his heart to the Lord. He was bedfast and going the way that the doctors said. They gave him no hope and he would die before his sixteenth birthday. But when he was feeling good enough, they would prop the bible up before him and he said he would read through the New Testament since he didn’t have long to live. To summarize, there were two important scriptures that seem to stand up before him, one was Mark 11:24 which says what things so ever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you should have them. The second scripture was, cast all your cares upon the Lord for he cares for you 1 Peter 5:7. Well, his heart grasped the first scripture and he began to seek to put it into motion in his life. But when it came to that second scripture, when it speaks about not worrying, he began to cry. He said “Lord I’m lying here on the bed of affliction, having these heart attacks, trying my best to remain here, and you tell me not to worry?” Then grief turn to bitterness. He began to count all the people he knew that didn’t even live half as good as he did and they weren’t sick and they weren’t afflicted. And he cried and cried all day and all night until he said he had a dark brown headache. But once he got over that crying, that verse stood up before him again, casting all your care upon the Lord for he cares for you. And he said, “OK Lord I’m going to obey you I’m not gonna worry I know where I’m going when I die so I’m just gonna let her go. if I had these heart attacks, and I don’t wake up in the morning, I know where I will be.” But the Lord took his obedience and as he got rid of that fear, ( worry is fear), than his faith begin to take hold. He began to practice the word of God. Not only did God make him well, he made him whole and he had a family, and he raised up a great ministry, and many of us have been beneficiaries of his ministry. And as I quote him, he said, Friends, its God’s word acted upon that brings results. I will never forget the legacy that he left
God wants you to have that same legacy, act upon his word today.
(The Nations) refer to a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. Life hasn’t been to sweet for many. Third world countries have suffered tremendously, but for different reasons then the more advanced and highly sophisticated ones. As a matter of fact the more highly sophisticated nations sufferings stem from a different type of pressure. All suffering wether it is released into a highly advance culture or one that is not as developed originates from one regime, that men either refused to recognize or are unconcerned about. (One Other group exists. There are still those who have not had the Gospel preached to them and are made victims by the leaders of their nations due to the rejection of the Gospel.) What we must realize and not turn a deaf ear to is that there is a spiritual nation behind the nations. Their is an outlaw spiritual world which never ceases to manipulate the minds of those who refuse to honor God’s requirements. We even see this as men declare their faith, and say that Jesus is their Savior but refuse to serve him as Lord. ( We read in the Old Testament that judgement starts first of all with the house of God. Then Jesus reiterates this in the first few chapters of the book of Revelation and throughout the Gospels). God said, the nations, ( those who opened their doors), were to be impacted for good, by the standard that Jesus set forth, “Love one Another as I have Loved you”. And Praise be to God there are those who have followed more closely our Savior words and we see pockets of nationals enjoying the beauty of Salvation together with each other. But to those who have clung to their former preferences, before salvation, we see the suffering of many nations, and many rebellious to the Gospels because of these things. This has been a theme throughout history. Many followers of Christ continue to allow themselves to be subdued by their flesh and the devices of Satan. It’s a very sad picture for some who refuse to repent because when one refuses to do obey God’s word, they deceive their own heart. So wether he be a man of the cloth, or a lay-person, even though it appears that there are no consequences for the things they are doing, he or she will stand before God’s judgement seat and give an account for everything they have done in this life. He may reap what he sows in the next life if the believers aren’t compliant enough with the Holy Ghost now. Remember Ananias and Sapphira?
We pray for those who have felt the rejection of their brothers to continue to persevere. Think about Timothy in the early church. God has deemed that those who hold on to him without denouncing their faith, (having walked through the bitter cast systems orchestrated by Satan but carried out by men,) will be able to walk down the streets of the city and partake of the tree of life, who’s leaves are for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:8
down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nation
These are words of Jesus
Revelations 3: 11-13
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. 13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
The woman with the alabaster box took time to minister to the Lord. We can’t stop ministering to the Lord in turbulent times. They were getting ready to crucify Jesus, and life appeared to be soo uncertain as the days progressed. Now think about his ministry as things are transpiring today. He did what he did so that we could come through our trials and live. For through the years, he has been our help, our comfort, our strength, our wisdom, our joy, our peace, our preservation. Let’s not turn and become callous, through tribulations, but earnestly look at what he has done. Let’s minister to the Lord.
Mark 14:3-9 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. 4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? 5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. 6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. 7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. 8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. 9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
There are many extremes, where those in charge did not have the love of God flowing through them when they corrected the children. By the Grace of God, some of them were able to establish their own relationships with God and have been blessed by Him. Thank God for the riches of His Grace! But the children will go into captivity without any boundaries and Godly boundaries at that. Looking out across the land, we see many children who have lost their minds, so strung out on drugs and in violent altercations that are taking their young lives away. That’s not just poor children enfolded in destruction. Help for the children comes through repentance. This gives God the legal access to deal with their little wounded souls once again. If we repent and learn of God’s ways, then miracles can occur to bring them back. Christ has redeems us from the curse of the law if we will obey, but the curse remains in affect without remedy to those who refuse.
Num. 14:18 ‘The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation
There is help for the children. Think of your children, don’t get bitter at God, He is bound, that means he can’t do anything outside of His word in you.
God is a Love God, and he requires trust, or “Faith.” That’s what Faith is. When you were a baby, naturally your parents took care of you because you were helpless without your parents. A new born baby Christian is like this, provided there is proper nurturing of the more mature around them. But that baby Christian has an advantage if it cleaves to God in its infancy stage, for God can get that baby Christian to the right places if it will cleave to the God of love. The same God that saved can keep if he is trusted. Now, as a natural child grows and develops the trust for his parents, “talking about everything being equal,” the child trusts that parent because the parent has always taken care of him, or her. There is a solid trust and because of this there is a solid love. So when we talk about love and trusting God, if that baby Christian doesn’t cleave to God as a natural child does it natural parents, trust will break up.
Our Father God has said that there was an enemy out to stop us, and if we would keep close to Him in fellowship, and obedience to His word, then nothing could harm us. Our Faith or trust would be as the natural child’s toward his or her parents. Nothing in between, nothing to injure, because we stay in His arms through his word and fellowship. But there is GREAT MERCY.
If we have experienced great loss and tragic events, God is reaching out to us and showing us the way back into a secure place. Many years ago, I learned this lesson. God said to me, I will help you, I will build you back up, I will strengthen your mind, I will keep you. I will be with you in trouble, deliver and honor you. Once I was able to relax and trust him again, He has never ceased to fulfill those words in my life. God my Father is Gracious. He want to be gracious to you.
Dwelling in the secret place is a full commitment to diligence, let’s start again, let’s begin.
Psalms 91
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty
Would God ask us to do something he was unwilling to do himself? Think about this, Peter asked Jesus, “how many times shall my brother sin and I forgive him till seven times? Jesus answer was starting and astounding. Jesus reply was till 70 times 7 in a day Matthew 18:22, but wait a minute, you have to look at that in both directions. That means if you miss the mark and sin, how many times will God the father forgive you? Would he require something that he himself was unwilling to do? The answer is no. Take this to heart and go free. Don’t let the devil lie to you and say God will not forgive you anymore. Most of the time we’re in a growth process. No, go ahead and serve the Lord without that condemnation. ( there is another group of people that could care less, we are not talking about those who would play roulette with God.) You can jump forward, and get well and succeed if you never let this truth depart. What he did in the Old Testament, he does more through Jesus our Lord.
Psalms 103: 1-6
1 (A Psalm of David.) Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 6The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
1 John 1: 9 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
This brings to mind an illustration of a bird that was in a cage, he kept flying around trying to be released flying into to the bars repeatedly. Finally, out of exhaustion he fell to the bottom of the cage where he realize there was an opening and was able to escape. Some of you are trying so highly to get out of circumstances in a frenzied type way, ( this is a word for relief). Relax, humble yourself before the Lord and your eyes will be open to the route of your deliverance.
1 Peter 5:6,7 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
In the highways, across the seas, through the thoroughfares, In hamlets and cottages, in high places, seeking. Seeking for those who have arrayed themselves with garments of meekness and humbleness of heart, that we may bestow upon them the inheritance promised their fathers and show great mercy to their seed in their generation.
Psalms 37:11
“But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace
Matthew 5:5 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth ◄ 2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
