Psalm 13:1-2
“How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?”
Four times the Psalmist cried out;
HOW LONG?
~ Will You forget me? For ever?
~ Will You hide Your face from me?
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Romans: 3. 18.
Why is sin acceptable today? What happened to moral judgment, common sense, manners, right and wrong? We have taken the wrong road, we are in a downward spiral.
Why? “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
” I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.” (Verses from Psalm 4)
David would encourage himself in the Lord in times of trouble.
One way for us to do that is to have scripture implanted in our hearts and minds. This only comes from memorization, meditation and action. To know the Lord we must know His Word and walk in it.
Then you can lay down in peace and sleep, knowing the Lord is keeping you safe.
“But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.”
Are you set apart, godly? Does the Lord hear your call? Do your prayers reach the highest heavens? Do you listen and wait for His answer? Do you accept the judgements, answers to your calls?
“Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.”
Is the joy of the Lord a growing fruit in your life?
Gladness isn’t about a smile on your face or a bounce in your step. It is a place of Faith, (to do His will). Wisdom, (to understand His will). Knowledge, (to know how to do His will).
Gladness, (is ours in His service).
That is where I was. A drunkerd, pot head, a man actively seeking comfort from married women. A mouth unfit for civil society. (All things that seem to be accepted today).
When I was young and stupid, I was young and stupid.
Isaiah 26:3
King James Version (KJV)
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
Do you really trust the Lord? Are you concerned, worried, wondering who, what, when, where, how?
Psalm 16:11
King James Version (KJV)
“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.”
I believe this and feel, I live this. I am not always smiling or happy but the joy of Salvation is in my heart. I have no fear of this life, I try not to have concerns about money or health issues. “The Lord is my Shepherd and I shall not want. ”
I have experienced the Lords supply many times in my walk with Him. He doesn’t always meet my time table but He always comes through.
Romans 12:3. Tells us God gives everyone a Measure of Faith. We choose to activate it when we repent, confess and accept Jesus as both Lord and Savior.
Then it is up to us to increase, to build up the Faith we have received. We do this by reading the Word, by stepping out in that Faith, sharing the Love and Grace, (Gods unmerited Forgiveness and Favor, Salvation).
James 2:26
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
For Faith is not passive but demands action.
Jude 1:20
King James Version (KJV)
“But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”
Praying in the Holy Ghost or Spirit, that my friend is Praying in Tongues. ..This is where being Filled with the Spirit comes in.
The Lord doesn’t appear to give a measure of the Holy Spirit : He certainly filled Jesus.
John 3:34
King James Version (KJV)
“For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.”
When we receive the Lord we receive the Spirit in Full, someone came up with what we have called the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
I have thought of it this way for over 30 years, the Baptism of the Spirit as a second blessing. An immersion into and of Gods Spirit.
Always hearing those who don’t speak in tongues arguing, if I didn’t have the Holy Spirit, I couldn’t have been saved.
Peter and Paul both asked: “Have you received the Holy Spirit since you’ve believed? “
They then prayed :
Acts 2:4
King James Version (KJV)
“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
Some point out speaking in tongues is not always mentioned, true; but it is not ruled out either.
Paul encouraged us to be filled with the Spirit :
What have we done?
Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:
These words from Isaiah 9, apply to our Churches today. So many Churches, reverential, solemn, ritualistic, formal. Hymns, music so wordy no one knows what it means.
Romans 12:3
King James Version (KJV)
” For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”
Have you ever noticed, That God gives us all a measure of faith But fills us with the Holy Spirit.
What’s that all about?
What seek ye?
What is your desire? What are your hopes? What are your dreams? What is it you seek?
Is it money, power or love? Is it peace, prosperity or purpose?
We are all seeking something, it’s elusive, it’s something we just cannot see, something that we desperately need. It is something we do not understand.
Do you think of your church as a hospital, where the sick and hurting come to heal? That’s how alot of people think.
It explains why so many continue hurting, they never seem to heal, they are continually recovering. Never getting better.
If you check my archives, you will see I have written of this before. That is why you see “The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station”.
I found some new wrinkles. Continue reading
I’ve been feeling forgotten, the Lord has been distant, uncaring, I ‘ve prayed for nought. No answer, silence, is the Lord taking a walk?
Maybe He is napping? Mayhaps He has taken His hand off the tiller of my life?
I have been floundering, sinking, lost in the storm.
” at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, ” 2 Samuel 11
The story of Davids fall and our fall also.
Instead of leading his people in battle, the king is relaxing on his couch. Going to his roof, looking about for something to interest him.
When we are looking for something, rather than doing what we should, the Devil is always willing to provide.
Are any beyond this temptation? Continue reading
How long, oh Lord? How long will the heavens be as brass? How long will You ignore me?
Hide not Your face, Let your peace and joy fill my heart. Answer my plea.
You are my shepherd, I shall not want. Those are your words, Lord.
Your word is truth. You are not a man that you should lie.
Thank you lord, for the answers I do not yet see. I Love You Jesus.
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Last Tuesday in our mens meeting, both of these phrases were mentioned. “By this I know and I am fully persuaded.”
They are both found in Scripture.
By this I know :
* The word of the Lord in your mouth is true. Her son was raised from the dead. (1 Kings 17)
By this I know :
* That you love me, because my enemy did not triumph over me. (Psalm 41)
By this I know:
* When I cry unto you, my enemies turn away, because you are for me. (Psalm 56)
I am fully persuaded :
* That what you have promised, will be done.
(Romans 4)
Do you know? Are you fully persuaded?
The writer of Proverbs says, let thine heart. Let thine heart, sounds like something our heart desires to do, that we need to let it do.
I believe this to be true. All of mankind is seeking and searching for something bigger than themselves. Some look for it in science, some look for it in false religions and some find it in Christ.
In Proverbs three, the writer said: ” <strong>My son forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments.”
1 Samuel 2:35
King James Version (KJV)
35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
What is a faithful priest?
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My Pastor Davis Jones opened my eyes this AM. He noted the Scriptures; I am expounding on that Revelation. For the thirty five years I have been saved I have believed man is made in the image of God. In Genesis we find that Adam was made in Gods image
Then Adam sinned; This caused a Spiritual death. He was no longer immortal and became Adam the sinner man.
Understand before they sinned, Adam and Eve had free access to and could freely eat of the Tree of Life. Until sin there was no death. After sin Adam lives eight or nine hundred years before physical death but Spiritual death was immediate.
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
God kicked them out of the garden so they couldn’t partake of Tree of Life, after they had sinned and had eaten of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil.
So now we get to the meat of the matter:
Genesis 4:25-26
“And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.”
If we stop there we understand all Adams children were made in the image of God. The next chapter should cause us to reconsider.
Gen 5:3
“And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:”
Adam begat a son in his own likeness and image. Since the fall the Holy Spirit would come upon individuals as He willed. Man was appointed a day to be born and a day to die physically. The Holy Spirit came upon the worthy (Moses, Joshua, David ), and the unworthy (Samson, Saul), alike, according to his work and will.
After Jesus, it was promised that the Holy Spirit would live within, giving us once again eternal life. So the children that are born to Spirit Filled Believers, (all who except Christ as Lord have a measure of the Spirit ), are born in the image of our heavenly Father and therefore fall under the protection of:
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;”
Now does this mean Children of Christian parents have a free ticket to heaven? NO.
Exodus 34:7
“Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”<
The sins on the unrepentant fathers is passed dowto the third and forth generation. The child born of Christian parents has a leg up. The Lord shows Mercy,forgives iniquity and transgression (original sin?), until sin, rebellion enters their lives.
To me that means babies that die of Christians are with the Lord. Our Children that stay in the Ark of our covering, will be blessed by the Lord. They will have to make the decision to Follow the Lord but will not have to hit bottom to realize the need of Salvation.
Please look up “Your God is too small”, ” How big is your God” and “Who than shall be saved?” in my archives for Scripture.
Our Children are truly blessed. I believe the Word of God and the examples we find of Gods mercy and grace.
Life was great, I was drinking coffee out of my favorite cup. It was a gift from my daughter on her trip to Minnesota, uff da, is a Norwegian expression, it means oh my, or shucks, or even oot oh.
I have several uff da cups, every time my wife or daughter go to Minnesota, they get me a new one.
This was the first one that was made as a deformed Cup.
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