Wednesday, December 30, 2009
God is Good
3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear.In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran.His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. SelahHis brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels.He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations;then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was your anger against the rivers, or your indignation against the sea,when you rode on your horses, on your chariot of salvation?You stripped the sheath from your bow, calling for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on;the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed.You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Love and Peace
Habakkuk's Complaint
O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear?Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong?Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth.For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
The LORD's Answer
“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded.For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation,who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on.Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh.They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!”
Habakkuk's Second Complaint
Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die.O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong,why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net;he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet;for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?
2:1 I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower,and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith
And the LORD answered me:
“Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie.If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
“Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest.His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough.He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”
Woe to the Chaldeans
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,
“Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.
“Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
“Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them,for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
“What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies?For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise!Can this teach?Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”
Habakkuk's Prayer
3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.
O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear.In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran.His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. SelahHis brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels.He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations;then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was your anger against the rivers, or your indignation against the sea,when you rode on your horses, on your chariot of salvation?You stripped the sheath from your bow, calling for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on;the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed.You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. SelahYou pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.You trampled the sea with your horses, the surging of mighty waters.
I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound;rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me.Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.
O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear?Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong?Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth.For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
The LORD's Answer
“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded.For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation,who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on.Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh.They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!”
Habakkuk's Second Complaint
Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die.O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong,why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net;he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet;for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?
2:1 I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower,and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith
And the LORD answered me:
“Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie.If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
“Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest.His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough.He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”
Woe to the Chaldeans
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,
“Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.
“Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
“Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them,for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
“What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies?For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise!Can this teach?Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”
Habakkuk's Prayer
3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.
O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear.In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran.His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. SelahHis brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels.He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations;then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was your anger against the rivers, or your indignation against the sea,when you rode on your horses, on your chariot of salvation?You stripped the sheath from your bow, calling for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on;the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed.You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. SelahYou pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.You trampled the sea with your horses, the surging of mighty waters.
I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound;rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me.Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
TRAILS AND TEMPTATIONS
CONSIDER IT PURE JOY, MY BROTHERS, WHENEVER YOU FACE TRAILS OF MANY KINDS. BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH DEVELOPS PERSEVERANCE. PERSERANCE MUST FINISH ITS WORK SO THAT YOU MAY BE MATURE AND COMPLETE, NOT LACING ANYTHING.
OUR TRAILS ARE ONLY HEAR TO MAKE US STRONG AND NOT TO BREAK US DOWN. WE SHOULD HAVE FAITH AND LEARN TO CONTROL OUR TRAILS AND TEMTATIONS. AND DO NOT LET OUR THEM CONTROL US. WE SHOULD KEEP OUR FOCUS ON THE LORD, WHO IS THE MOST POWEFUL. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP US TO GO THROUGH IT; WITHOUT BEING FAITNTED. GOD WANT US TO BE STRONG. HE WANT US TO BE MATURE SO WE MAY HELP TO OTHERS. WE SHOULD CONSIDER BEING EXAMPLES TO OTHERS.
JAMES 1:2-4
OUR TRAILS ARE ONLY HEAR TO MAKE US STRONG AND NOT TO BREAK US DOWN. WE SHOULD HAVE FAITH AND LEARN TO CONTROL OUR TRAILS AND TEMTATIONS. AND DO NOT LET OUR THEM CONTROL US. WE SHOULD KEEP OUR FOCUS ON THE LORD, WHO IS THE MOST POWEFUL. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP US TO GO THROUGH IT; WITHOUT BEING FAITNTED. GOD WANT US TO BE STRONG. HE WANT US TO BE MATURE SO WE MAY HELP TO OTHERS. WE SHOULD CONSIDER BEING EXAMPLES TO OTHERS.PRAYER
FATHER, THANK YOU FOR BEING THE SAME,
LORD WE LOVE YOU AND WE ADORE YOU.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PROCTECTION AND LOVE.
WE KNOW THAT THROUGH OUR TRAILS AND TEMPERTATTION
YOU ARE THEIR WITH US CARRING US THROUGH IT ALL.
KEEP US FOCUS ON YOUR WORD AND YOUR WILL FOR OUR LIVES.
WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE TRAILS AND
TEMPERTATION IN THE WORLD.
WE WAND TO STAY IN YOUR WORDS ALL THE TIMES WITHOUT LOOKING BACK.
LORD YOU ALONE ARE WORTHY OF OUR PRAISES
IN JESUS NAME I PRAY AMEN.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
FRIENDS AND FELLOWSHIP
BE DEVOTED TO ONE ANOTHER IN BROTHERLY LOVE. HONOUR ONE ANOTHER ABOVE YOURSELVES. NEVER BE LACKING IN ZEAL, BUT KEEP YOUR SPIRITUAL FAVOR, SERVINT THE LORD. BE JOYFUL IN HOPE, PATIENT IN AFFLICTION, FAITHFUL IN PRAYER.
ROMANS 12:10-
PRAYER
HELP FATHER TO KEEP OYR EYES ON YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE WOTHY OF ALL OUR PRAYER. AMEN
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TAKE IT EASY (RELAX) IT IS GODS' TIMING
I KNOW WHO MY SAVIOR IS, AND I AM FEELING SAFE AND SECURE EACH DAY.
WILL YOU LET THE LORD AND SAVIOR TAKE CARE OF YOU IN ALL?
WILL YOU STOP WORRING ABOUT THE TROBLEM AND LET GOD DO IT?
GOD PROMISED US THAT HE WILL NEVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKEN US.
I KNOW I CAN TALK TO GOD ABOUT
ANYTHING AND IT EVEN BETTER, I CAN
TALK TO HIM ANYTIME OF THE DAY
OR NIGHT.
HE HEARS ALL OF OUR NEEDS AND CRIES ALL DAY LONG. WHATEVER WE ASK OF HIM HE WILL ANSWERER OUR PRAYER.
AND IF HE THINGS IT'S RIGHT FOR US HE WILL GRANTS IT ALL TO US.
GOD IS VERY PROTECTING OF HIS CHILDREN SO HE WILL NOT JUST GIVE US ANY OR ANY THING, HE GIVES THE BEST TO HIS CHILDREN. SO DO NOT GET DISAPPOINED IF THINGS DOES NOT GO YOUR WAY. REMEMBER WE ARE ON GOD TIMES.
Monday, December 7, 2009
A PRAYER
A PRAY FROM THE HEART PLEADING
FOR YOU HELP AND DIRECTION
LORD, GOD, FATHER, I WANT TO THANK YOU THIS MORNING FOR YOUR GOODNESS TOWARD ALL MEN KIND. YES LORD WE WANT TO SEE MORE OF YOUR PRESENCE IN OUR DAILY WORK FOR YOUR GLORY. .I LIFT UP THE BURDENS OF OUR CHURCH. YOU HAVE SEEN THE UP AND DOWN OF YOUR WORK IN YOUR HOUSE OF PEOPLE. WE ARE IN GREAT NEED OF YOUR HELP. OUR FINANCIALS ARE DOWN, YOUR PEOPLE ARE SICK, WEAK AND WEARY FOR YOU HELP AND GUIDANCE.
RESTORE US LORD RESTORE YOUR WORK IN US SO WE MAY CONTINUE TO DO YOUR WILLS. YOU HAVE BLESS US SO FAR, PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE TO US TO TARRY ON OUR OWN. IF WE ARE DOING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT YOUR WAY PLEASE TAKE IT AWAY SO WE MAY JUST DO YOUR WORK FOR THE REST OF OUR LIFE. WE WANT EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE FOR US AND WE DO NOT WANT ANYTHING TO CAUSE TO LOSE OUT ON OUR BLESSINGS. TODAY AND FOREVER BLESS US AND KEEP US FROM THE EVIL OF THIS WORLD. BLESS OUR CHURCH, THE PEOPLE, AND ALL WE WILL DO FOR YOU AND FOR YOU ALONE. THANKS YOU LORD, WE LOVE YOU AND BLESS YOUR NAME FOREVERAMEN.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD IN THESE DAYS
I AM IN AGREEMENT WITH THIS PRAYER. TO THE LORD ,FATHER, SAVOR, HEALER PROCTER, LEADER, AND MY KEEPER (GOOD). THIS IS WHO THE LORD IS TO ME AND ALL.Father, Mother, God,
Thank you for your presence during the hard and mean days.
For then we have you to lean upon.
Thank you for your presence during the bright and sunny days,
for then we can share that which we have with those who have less.
And thank you for your presence during the Holy Days, for then we are able to celebrate you and our families and our friends.
For those who have no voice,we ask you to speak.
For those who feel unworthy,
we ask you to pour your love out in waterfalls of tenderness.
For those who live in pain,we ask you to bathe them in the river of your healing.For those who are lonely, we ask you to keep them company.
For those who are depressed,we ask you to shower upon them the light of hope.
Dear Creator, You, the border less sea of substance
we ask you to give to all the world that which we need most—Peace, LOVE, FORGIVENESS
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AMEN.
BY: Maya Angelou
Saturday, December 5, 2009
He will not Forsaken us (Saints)
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Psalm 37:1-11
37:1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers!For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.
In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant
Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.
In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant
Friday, December 4, 2009
Silent
Proverbs 21:23-24
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
I AM NEVER ALONE
THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS, " AS A MOTHER COMFORTS HER CHILD, SO WILL I COMFORT YOU; AND YOU WILL BE COMFORTED OVER JERUSALEM.' WHEN YOU SEE THIS, YOUR HEART WILL REJOICE AND YOU WILL FLOURISH LIKE GRASS; THE HAND OF THE LORD WILL BE MADE KNOWN TO HIS SERVANT.
ISAIAH 66:13
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Paul Defends His Ministry
2 Corinthians 10 (Listen)
10:1 I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!— I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we. For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed. I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.” Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present. Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you. For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ. We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged, so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence. “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Rest and Wait, Saids The Lord
I am weak, Lord but I am moving.
I can talk to you anytime of the day or night
We have a close relationship
I can talk to you anytime of the day or night
We have a close relationshipWhen I call on you you lift me up
I feel so relax when you talk back to me
We do not have to seek any comfort in any one else because we are so well cover under the Lords love and grace Amen.
Monday, September 14, 2009
SURREND IT
HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE; UNDER GOD'S MIGHT HAND, THAT HE MAY LIFT YOU UP IN DUE TIME. 1 PETER 5:6
LORD, I SURREND ALL MY BAD BEHAVIOR, THE WAY I DO THING AND THE WAY I THINK I SURREND ALL TO YOU CHANGE ME, AND WASH ME IN YOUR BLOOD. LORD I WANT TO BE HUMBLE. I WANT TO HUMBLE MYSELF TO YOU OF THE UNIVERSE. I AM WILLING TO GIVE UP ALL OF MY DESIRES TO CHANGE OTHER AND I WILL WORK ON MYSELF. AMD I AM ASKING YOU TO CHANGE LORD. LORD I DO NOT WANT TO BE BACK IN MY OLD HABITS, I WANT TO CONTINUE IN MY JOURNEY OF EACH DAY NEW AND NEWER. I WILL RELY ON YOU, I WILL TRUST IN YOU LORD. TEACH ME LORD, I WANT TO BE HUMBLE IN ALL MY WAY OF DOING THNGS TO PLEASE YOU. I WILL BE HUMBLE IN ALL MY WAYS. AMEN.
ALLOWING GOD TO HELP US GROW AS HE SPEAKS THROUG OTHERS TO US.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
RENEWAL AND TRANFORMATION OF THE MIND, BODY, AND SOUL
SURRENDER ALL
HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE; UNDER GOD'S MIGHT HAND, THAT HE MAY LIFT YOU UP IN DUE TIME. 1PETER 5:6.
PRAYER
LORD, I SURRENDER ALL. MY BAD BEHAVIOR THE WAY I DO AND THE WAY I THINK. I SURRENDER ALL TO YOU CHANGE ME, AND WASH ME IN YOUR BLOOD. LORD I WANT TO BE HUMBLE. I WANT TO HUMBLE MYSELF TO YOU OF THE UNIVERSE I AM WILLING TO GIVE UP ALL MY DESIRE TO CHANGE OTHER AND WILL WORK ON MYSELF. I AM ASKING YOU TO CHANGE ME TO YOUR WILL. I DO NOT WANT TO BE BACK IN MY OLD HABIT, I WANT TO CONTINUE IN MY JOURNEY OF EACH DAY NEW AND NEWER. I WILL REPLY ON YOU FOR EVERTHING. I WILL TRUST IN YOU LORD. TEACH ME LORD. I WANT TO BE HUMBLE IN ALL MY WAYS; SUCH AS THE WAY I TALK AND THING, AND THE WAY I. AMEN.
ALLOWING GOD TO HELP ME GROW AS HE SPEAKS THROUGH OTHERS.
YOUR HAND MADE ME AND FORMED; GIVE ME
UNDERSTANDING TO LEARN YOUR COMMANDS.
PSALM 119:73
Thursday, September 10, 2009
I WILL DWELL IN THE HOU OF THE LORD
AS FOR GOD, HIS WAY IS PERFECT; THE WORD OF THE LORD IS FLAWLESS. HE IS A SHIELD FOR ALL WHO TAKE REFUGE IN HIM.
ONE THING I ASK OF THE LORD, TIS IS WHAT I SEEK:
JOHN 1:1
ONE THING I ASK OF THE LORD, TIS IS WHAT I SEEK:
THAT I MAY DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE HOUSE LORD
ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE, TO GAZE UPON THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD
AND SEEK HIM IN HIS TEMPLE.
PSALM 27:4
PRAYER
FATHERT, I WILL DWELL IN YOUR YOUR PATH
I WILL LISTEN TO YOUR CAMMANDSA AND I WILL ACT UPON THEM. I WILL BE PATIENT AND I WILL
SEEK YOU ALWAY IN THE MORNINGS AND IN THE EVENINGS
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE LOVING CARE AND PROTECTIONS
IN JESUS NAME I PRAY AMEN.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Giving Generously is Gods Plan
2 Corinthians 8:1-15
8:1 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.
I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”
8:1 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.
I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”
Monday, September 7, 2009
LOVE
Love does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness.
It does not rejoice at injustice and unfrighteousness, but rejoice when right and truth prevail.
Amen
1 Corinthians 13:6
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Many Deceivers
2 John 1:8
Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for
but that you may be rewarded fully.
Keep your eyes on the lord
Be focus and be obedience to his calling.
Whatever you start may sure you finish it
Find that one talent and work on it to give God the glory
that he deserved.
Also read 2 John
May god bless you as yuou read this book
and open up your understandings to his call
and message for your heart
Amen.
Amen
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Words Of The Wise
Proverbs 22:17-19 
Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge
Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you
if all of them are ready on your lips.
That your trust may be in the LORD
I have made them known to you today
even to you.
Prayer
The lord is my Shepperd
I will not be in want .
I will not be in want .
He will Supply all my need
Amen
Friday, September 4, 2009
God is King Over All
Psalm 47
47:1 Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham.For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!
God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham.For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Reconciliation
2 Corinthians 5:11-21
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Monday, August 31, 2009
The Resurrection of Christ
Corinthians 15:1-28
15:1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
The Resurrection of the Dead
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him.
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Rich And Poor
The Rich and Poor are Equal in the Eyes of God
Proverbs 22:2
Proverbs 22:2The rich and the poor have this in common: The Lord made them both.
Sharing
The rich should always look out for the poor, just as God bless them with all they have they too should be a great example to the poor, so the poor may have faith.
The rich should share their possessions with poor.
Selfishness will not make it in the kingdom of God.
PRAYER
May God bless the Poor and always provide for them
keep them safe in your arms from the danagers of the world
Lord feed the poor, clothes the poor, teach the poor, and give then understanding
and wisdoms. Lord help the rich and teach the rich to be sharing among your people. Teach them not to blame or to point fingers and help them to see the people through your eyes
In your son Jesus Name I pray
Amen.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Treating Foreigners Fairly
There is no Excuse for Mistreatment of Foreigners among you
Leviticus 19:33-34
The lord Told Moses: Do not mistreat foreigners who are living in your land. Treat them as you would a fellow Israelite, and love them as you love yourselves. Remeber that you were once foreigners in the land of Egyst.
I am the Lord Your God.
Friday, August 28, 2009
God Of All Comfort
2 Corinthians 1:1-11
Greeting
Greeting
1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.
For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
GOD TREATS US ALL THE SAME
Acts 10:34-36
Peter began to speak, I now realize that it is true
that God treats everyone on the same biasis.
Whoever fears God and does what is right is acceptable to him.
No matter what race he belongs to.
May God bless you all
Amen.
Monday, August 24, 2009
PRINCIPLE FOR MARRIAGES
1 Corinthians 7:1-24
7:1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
Live as You Are Called
7:1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
Live as You Are Called
Psalm 31:19-24
Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men;you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.I had said in my alarm, “I am cut off from your sight.”But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.I had said in my alarm, “I am cut off from your sight.”But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
Saturday, August 22, 2009
CONFESS
Ezra 10
10:1 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly. And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law. Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.” Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles. And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem, and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain. And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel. Now then make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.” Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said. But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter. Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.” Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter; and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles. And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem, and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain. And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel. Now then make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.” Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said. But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter. Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.” Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter; and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
Friday, August 21, 2009
BLESSED ARE THE FORGIVEN
Blessed Are the Forgiven
Psalms 32
Psalms 32
32:1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity;I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity;I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
PAY ATTENTION
Psalm 34:11-22
Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
LORD, FOR ME AND FOR ME ALONE
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
THE OBLIGATION OF THE COVENANT
“The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding, join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes. We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.
“We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law. We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD; also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor. And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse. For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.”
1 Corinthians 9:19-10:13
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly.
Monday, August 17, 2009
BE AWARE
1 Corinthians 10:14-11:2
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
Do All to the Glory of God
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
11:1 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
11:1 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Head Coverings
Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Fasting And Prayer for Proctection
Ezra 8:21-9"15
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
Priests to Guard Offerings
Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them. And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered. I weighed out into their hand 650 talents of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, and 100 talents of gold, 20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. And I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers. Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD.” So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way. We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days. On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui. The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.
At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD. They also delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God.
Priests to Guard Offerings
Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them. And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered. I weighed out into their hand 650 talents of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, and 100 talents of gold, 20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. And I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers. Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD.” So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way. We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days. On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui. The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.
At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD. They also delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Nehemiah's Prayer
“O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned. We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses. Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’ They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
Amen
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
MY PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU.
Warning Against Refusing God.
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.15 See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. Hebrew 12:14-15.
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.15 See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. Hebrew 12:14-15.
A Prayer
May the God of mercy be with us all through this time of trouble.
May have peace stay among us all so that we may see the glory
of the lord for every. We thanks you Lord for your for your
forgiveness among all men. I ask of you for peace for all men
Teach us to look to you for all over needs. Thanks Lord for your
Love to all men kind.
Amen.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Prayer
Heavenly Father, Lord and Savior,Jesus, how grateful and happy we are for those who roll up their sleeves and get involved in Kingdom work. They carry the burdens of those who are weighed down with pain from the past or presently pain. They pray people through to salvation. They visit the sick and imprisoned. They give generously of their resources, help and time. They take a stand for righteousness sake. They endure trial after trial, they fall and they give up and continue to lend a helping hand to the people around them. These fellow workers make the journey a little sweeter and a lot more enjoyable as we travel through to the other side. We give thanks for our fellow believers who come alongside us, and help us see you plans for our lives. We ask of you Lord to help these helper to say in your words and always show their love to other no matter what. And we give thanks for those whose kinship we feel through the daily encouragement. Bless our fellow workers in Your name, Lord Jesus, we pray. Amen.
Author, Shelly, and Unknown
Thursday, July 23, 2009
SOLOMON'S PRAYER OF DEDICATION
2 Chronicles 6:12-8:10
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven, and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart, who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day. Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’ Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.
“But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built! Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you, that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house, then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
“If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.
“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house, then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind, that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.
“Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house, hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
“If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near, yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you. Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
“And now arise, O LORD God, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.Let your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in your goodness.O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant.”
Fire from Heaven
7:1 As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house. When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.”
The Dedication of the Temple
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD. King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD—for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.
And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.
At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt. And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days. On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the LORD had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.
7:1 As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house. When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.”
The Dedication of the Temple
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD. King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD—for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.
And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.
At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt. And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days. On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the LORD had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.
If My People Pray
Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he successfully accomplished. Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules, then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’
“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.’”
Solomon's Accomplishments
8:1 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house, Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he successfully accomplished. Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules, then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’
“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.’”
Solomon's Accomplishments
8:1 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house, Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
A Prayer Gods People
"Jesus, I believe You are the Son of God and the Savior of the world.
Thank you for coming to Earth and dying so that I could have eternal life.
Please forgive all my sins.
I am going to follow You with my life now.
Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit and direct my steps.
In Jesus' name, Amen
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