I had heard that recently, and wondered if we ever give thought to those around us, and if they are still growing and changing. You know the adults we have known for years, are they still growing?
My thoughts of course are on those who have the Lord as Savior.
We are to be committed to life long change and that is by seeing we grow in the Word of God and in prayer.
Change will always come, and are we equipped to take the next step into tomorrow?
Back to the baby issue now. People are excited to see the baby's first step and to hear their first verbal sound. Although both parents would quip that the baby just said "mommy" or "daddy"and they speak at the same time. A laughable moment maybe, but do we as the disciples of Jesus continue to grow up.
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Samuel 2:18-21………..18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, even as a child,
wearing a linen ephod. 19 Moreover his mother used to make him a little robe,
and bring it to him year by year when she came up with her husband to offer the
yearly sacrifice. 20 And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say,
"The LORD give you descendants from this woman for the loan that was lent
to the LORD." Then they would go to their own home. 21 And the LORD
visited Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters.
Meanwhile the child Samuel grew before the LORD. NKJV
You remember Hannah, right? She was the woman who shared her husband with another woman. Elkanah had two wives. But he was very loving and caring toward Hannah. In all this tribulation that only a man could invite into his home, surely Hannah stood by the grace of God to see the victory.
She was the woman who had no children as her womb was closed. Now for whatever reason, certainly Hannah did not linger on the abusive words that Peninnah had probably spoken to her about her inability to have children. Yet, Hannah kept her focus on the Lord in prayer. It was in 1 Samuel 1:10 that Hannah prayed to the Lord.
Moving on in the scripture we find that Samuel ministered before the LORD. Even as a child, he came to learn the life of a priest before the Lord. His mother Hannah continued to make robes for him to wear. Year after year, she would make a new robe for him to wear. She gave her first child to the Lord, and she continued to show her love and compassion as the caring mother.
Each time Hannah made the trip to Shiloh, Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife Hannah. "The LORD give you descendants from this woman for the loan that was lent to the LORD." That loan was of course Samuel. And the scripture tells us he grew before the LORD.
Are we like Hannah and ready to keep "our cool" when abusive words come to us? What if someone does not like you at school or work? In studying this scripture, I always wonder how Hannah kept "her cool" when knowing her husband invited another woman into their home. I wonder how she slept at night and worked throughout the day to see this "other woman and her children thriving" and Hannah had only her husband. Did Hannah have a "dream" for the future? Did she see her life different and a life filled with children and laughter? Yet, Hannah kept her focus on the Lord! Do we do as much in situations that arise? Do we keep our eyes on the Lord of glory and expect a victory when all hell seems to break loose against us?
Do we continue to make a commitment to the Lord for His goodness and His word of power for our lives or do we retreat to compete for that recliner in the family room that we regard as "our comfort zone"?
Do we seek out our own plan, and keep the T.V. in eye view so we do not make any decisions for change that we must make?
I write to say, you are not the only one who must make changes. We all have to keep to the right course to end up where we are going on this journey.
I think of those who fly planes. They must make a flight plan and set the right course. While in the air they must be periodically keeping eye on the planes course and continually adjust the course to keep going in the same direction. We too must keep our course set. We must keep the course the Lord has set before us. We just need to ask Him about keeping us on the course of life and not that of destruction.
It will always come back to our abiding to His will for us. WE MUST ALWAYS KNOW OUR POSITION!
GOD, WHAT IS THE RIGHT COURSE ADJUSTMENT FOR US TODAY? WE DESIRE TO BE POSITIONED IN YOU!
SET YOUR COURSE WITH THOSE WHO WILL SEE THE POTENTIAL IN YOU.
PURSUE PEOPLE WHO SEE WHERE YOU ARE GOING AND NOT FROM WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
WHAT ASSOCIATIONS DO WE NEED TO CHANGE?
FIND THOSE WHO WILL ENCOURAGE YOU ALONG THE WAY! THEY WILL BE THOSE WHO ALWAYS SEND YOU ON YOUR WAY WITH WORDS THAT PRODUCE LIFE IN YOU.
LEAVE THE DEAD BEHIND, SEEK THE LAND OF THE LIVING AND RUN WITH THE "DREAM" THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU!
Father, today I pray for those who read this to have the purpose right before their eyes. I pray that they will see and know without a doubt YOU are in their midst. I pray these will have the right people surround them and speak encouragement and life. I pray that YOU our Father God will send intercessors into their lives. I ask for helpers for each of these people, those who will willingly come alongside them and walk this life journey with them.
Father, You are the strategic God and I ask YOU to strategically align each one praying this with the right people so they might move fully into the right thing YOU have planned for them from the foundation of the world.
Today, Lord, I believe each of these are those willing to continue to grow and become those world changers and history makers. I come against any plan of the enemy to distract and deter them from YOUR plan for them. I plead the Blood of Jesus over the portals of their minds, their wills and their emotions. I plead the Blood of Jesus over their walk with YOU and that they hear YOU guide them by the still small voice. Lord show them the great books, the great songs, the great sermons that are in them even now. And we give YOU glory and praise on this journey of life as we grow beginning those who YOU meant us to be in Jesus' name. Amen.
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