What boundaries have we put into place around our families, our grand-children (future grand-children), our spouses, our homes, our jobs and even around that future college for your child or children to attend when they leave home?
Is there even a fence placed, to keep the evil away, and the good, the blessings of God to come continually to our children? The adversary, the devil, desires to take the youth out by the hundreds, and what are we doing as the family of God to stop it? Have we ever considered what waits on the street corner for your son or daughter or your neighbors daughter or sons' walk or how about the places only the youth provide the numbers for a filled event that you have no desire to know or understand or even attend yourself? Your answer of yes to such things can bring them into the wrong thing!
Our prayers can certainly put a boundary for them to be stopped in Jesus name that would be a consistent harm to our children or grand-children or even for a friend in the Lord.
We may have a friend, or friends or neighbors who have no protection. Their parents never gave them that protection. They possibly knew not the Lord or had the revelation of placing some protection around them.
Proverbs 24 tells us something of a broken down wall!
Proverbs 24:30-34
30 I went past the field of the sluggard,
past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
31 thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins.
32 I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest--
34 and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man. NIV
What if we keep putting off our prayer time, what if we put off confessing God's Word of strength and power around that friend, that family member, or how about our spouse? For that slumber time away from God is poverty in your spiritual land and causes a scarcity...........it is a place of "lack", it is hunger, and it is void of life. That means everything around you is tending or leaning towards decay, brokeness, destruction, and weeds!
The Amplified Bible says this:
Proverbs 24:30-34 I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. 31 And, behold, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles were covering its face, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I beheld and considered it well; I looked and received instruction. 33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep-----34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
That which is "in ruins" is the broken down.....and....will continue to break down with no kind of secure wall for safety around them, when we do not place that Word of God around our children, families or that which we need a boundary around. Some seem so complacent about the Word of God and applying it to their lives and I am NOT sure why they appear so lax with it! For God's Word is power unto life. It is power that overcame the devil, but rarely hear it spoken. We speak it in our home! We have praise and worship toward God going and shut off the outside "noises".
Interesting about that phrase of the ground covered with weeds.......that which keeps producing weeds till it covers the face of the ground. And who likes weeds? If you have ever cared for a yard, then you know what I am speaking of, but if not, then you may want to pass over this. BUT this is important and to know what to do for that weed "problem". Are there any thorns that we might be planting in a child's life that we should not be doing? What about an adult child..........yes that grown up person who has a family of their own? What are the "thorns"?
Well, it looks like: knotty, complicated, the ticklish, the troublesome, the annoying, the barbed.
The "thorny" become the difficult to handle! They are the "easily irritated: and will go on the attack on another sibling, a friend or even a parent. Yes, they are thorny! They become the difficult, but very changeable. They can be the unreliable and the erratic in their doing of things.
And yes, everyone gets stuck by their personality. But God wants our place like " a garden: where His peace resides. So who is tending the child's/children's garden? Who is looking over them in prayer for the "hedge of protection" to be in place? Who is asking God for help in this serious situation of a person's life?
Well, it looks like: knotty, complicated, the ticklish, the troublesome, the annoying, the barbed.
The "thorny" become the difficult to handle! They are the "easily irritated: and will go on the attack on another sibling, a friend or even a parent. Yes, they are thorny! They become the difficult, but very changeable. They can be the unreliable and the erratic in their doing of things.
And yes, everyone gets stuck by their personality. But God wants our place like " a garden: where His peace resides. So who is tending the child's/children's garden? Who is looking over them in prayer for the "hedge of protection" to be in place? Who is asking God for help in this serious situation of a person's life?
Where do we take our child or children and let them have a hey day with those who may the "ones planting the thorns in their lives? What about that place you let them "run" to have some kind of fun, and so they can run off some of that extra energy, yet they come home a little bit more thorny than when they left? They become more erratic and more flighty, any which way that the wind will blow, they seem to go.
thorn: OT....7057......quimmowsh (kim-moshe').........to sting........prickly
in KJV...nettle.....7063
that wall (2040) is broken down.......in ruins
So today is a good time to start placing that "hedge" of protection around them............yes, time to pray and profess the Word that will guard them or even that job you have! What about a ministry where you do something, and your body has been abused by outside forces you did not expect?
Job 1:9-22
9 "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied. 10 "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face."
12 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger."
Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
13 One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15 and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
18 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said:
"Naked I came from my mother's womb,
and naked I will depart.
The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;
may the name of the LORD be praised."
22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing. NIV
The devil can certainly see when there is a hedge of protection around you and yours. He can also know and see for himself when you have not done it. But I remind you that in Job's situation, the protection was still there. And the devil was mad. But Job still worshiped God. Job still spoke and remained. Job had four people to show up at his door. And they each had something to speak about him and his situation!
Let's remember that the devil cannot be everywhere at all times like God is, but he does have his co-hort's in crime and he tries his best with his thousands of years experience to defeat you. But we remind him of the Blood of the Lamb that was spent, poured out for people God loved. Yes the Blood given for many who did not believe in Jesus, did not like His speaking, His truth and shunned Him in every way and in many ways!
Let's remember that the devil cannot be everywhere at all times like God is, but he does have his co-hort's in crime and he tries his best with his thousands of years experience to defeat you. But we remind him of the Blood of the Lamb that was spent, poured out for people God loved. Yes the Blood given for many who did not believe in Jesus, did not like His speaking, His truth and shunned Him in every way and in many ways!
Surely we do not want to shun our children or friends, whatever age they may be, nor do we desire to shun our spouses, or our neighbors when we see them being beaten down by the enemy. Our prayers matter much. The prayers of the righteous will avail much power. So will we do it, and see that hedge come up around them or will we wait till the "trouble" really comes, and then our words with no faith will fall on deaf ears?
God will hear when we are "the humble". God will answer those who have sought Him, believe His goodness for others and He will move when the "tears" are those from the man or woman of humility whose entire trust is in God and Him Alone!
And the enemy will attack when he sees something "big" about to happen to you or your loved one.
In the blog High Risk!...I wrote about when the trial comes, and at the midnight hour what will be your confession and who will you trust, for it will surely come!
It is coming on a year now since that midnight word........and which the enemy spoke in March 2015. I am still here. I am strong, I am the "soaring". I had many speaking this over me and I am the thriving not just the surviving to see another day. I am still praying and seeking His purpose for me that is of the good and that which compels me to grow more in HIM, to take the land and prevail for He is with me to be the "victorious". And I believe that for all who read this and are in a trial or tribulation.
God will hear when we are "the humble". God will answer those who have sought Him, believe His goodness for others and He will move when the "tears" are those from the man or woman of humility whose entire trust is in God and Him Alone!
And the enemy will attack when he sees something "big" about to happen to you or your loved one.
In the blog High Risk!...I wrote about when the trial comes, and at the midnight hour what will be your confession and who will you trust, for it will surely come!
It is coming on a year now since that midnight word........and which the enemy spoke in March 2015. I am still here. I am strong, I am the "soaring". I had many speaking this over me and I am the thriving not just the surviving to see another day. I am still praying and seeking His purpose for me that is of the good and that which compels me to grow more in HIM, to take the land and prevail for He is with me to be the "victorious". And I believe that for all who read this and are in a trial or tribulation.
From reading from Job 1 we find Job bombarded by many messengers. Each gave a word of loss, and discouragement. He lost his livelihood, his servants, his children. All were gone in a short amount of time. Now this is some kind of circumstance.........and certainly God has shown many things from His Word.
Four people showed up in the life of Job when all hell was raging against him. His wife even told him to curse God and die. Elihu, the true friend came with wisdom of God, and for the other three friends: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naanmathite, well, we find God's thought for them. Here below we see the account of all which came down to God answering.
Four people showed up in the life of Job when all hell was raging against him. His wife even told him to curse God and die. Elihu, the true friend came with wisdom of God, and for the other three friends: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naanmathite, well, we find God's thought for them. Here below we see the account of all which came down to God answering.
Job 42:7-17
7 After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has." 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
12 The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so he died, old and full of years. NIV
Job had much delivered to him. And he certainly was surrounded by those who like "to gab". But truth should ring out. And who or what person do we allow to surround us?
Job had much delivered to him. And he certainly was surrounded by those who like "to gab". But truth should ring out. And who or what person do we allow to surround us?
I would rather be the "the true friend" delivering what God had determined for the one in "the storm", the one who is bombarded by destruction of the devil. STORMS COME!
But Shelley, we have the grace of God and His mercy. We surely do, but the enemy is alive and well.............and he is also the very old, the very ugly, and the very weak.........because we are to give no place to him. We are to guard our mouths and speak only what God desires us to speak. It is to be truth in HIM and in HIS Word.
But Shelley, we have the grace of God and His mercy. We surely do, but the enemy is alive and well.............and he is also the very old, the very ugly, and the very weak.........because we are to give no place to him. We are to guard our mouths and speak only what God desires us to speak. It is to be truth in HIM and in HIS Word.
What we believe, trust in and declare will determine how we act in a "storm" in that of which Job faced. Surely we believe all to be " of the good" with no problems, but it is always best to keep watch and pray!
So that whatever tomorrow may hold, we can stand knowing we spoke God's Word over them, that will hold them in place much like the earth is held in space and the Light of God will shine on their hearts to reveal life that comes from Him and continue to show them the way "home". The journey is marked with some hardship, just ask Paul the Apostle. But it is in our repetition of God's Word, expanding our faith into the perfect will of God, we see the hedge placed and enforced.........being made stronger and stronger. May our family members keep rhythm to the beat of God's Word that is of power, is prayer that seeks His covering and is in the persistence like Christ.
The horizon we seek for our loved ones is the one that looks beyond time. It looks into eternity and what God has purposed for "that loved one". It is what God has for them that give ways to life with a beat, a rhythm in God that will vibrate, and bring influence toward the things of God and away from the broken, the torn down, and the disaster of storms.
They will surely come if you live a full, long life on this planet called earth, but our focus is to be in the "eternity" of God and HOW do we fare in our department of faith! Is it that hall " of faith" that which keeps lengthening or is it a 3' x 5' space we stand?
BUT storms come to those even of the "faith". Storms come and how we walk through is determined what we have believed and where our trust resides.
2 Thessalonians 3:1-5
3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you, 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, both that you do and will do the things we command you. 5 Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ. NKJV
Today, I pray and hope you will stand with me for those who are our grand-children, children, friends like our young friend Daniel, and many who have faces, but we know not their names. Pray with me for the countless teens who have been thrown to the curb, thrown out from family homes, family relationships, and brought to the lowest place of no value. For God surely values those created in His image. He values life.........and life everlasting, filled with abundance of good that comes from Him!
Father, we pray today that the word of the Lord runs swiftly and be glorified and that those we are believing for today, all the teens abandoned, those Daniels who do not understand that which has come upon them, but knows God.............these we pray that they are delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for not all have faith. But YOU Lord are the faithful who will establish them and guard these teens, our friend like Daniel.........those who have the call and to be a mouthpiece for God through their music, and for those who have run from God! Our confidence is in God the Lord and that which concerns those we pray, that they do and will do the things God has given them to do. May the Lord direct their hearts, these we cherish, these our future, into His LOVE and into the PATIENCE OF CHRIST.
So that whatever tomorrow may hold, we can stand knowing we spoke God's Word over them, that will hold them in place much like the earth is held in space and the Light of God will shine on their hearts to reveal life that comes from Him and continue to show them the way "home". The journey is marked with some hardship, just ask Paul the Apostle. But it is in our repetition of God's Word, expanding our faith into the perfect will of God, we see the hedge placed and enforced.........being made stronger and stronger. May our family members keep rhythm to the beat of God's Word that is of power, is prayer that seeks His covering and is in the persistence like Christ.
The horizon we seek for our loved ones is the one that looks beyond time. It looks into eternity and what God has purposed for "that loved one". It is what God has for them that give ways to life with a beat, a rhythm in God that will vibrate, and bring influence toward the things of God and away from the broken, the torn down, and the disaster of storms.
They will surely come if you live a full, long life on this planet called earth, but our focus is to be in the "eternity" of God and HOW do we fare in our department of faith! Is it that hall " of faith" that which keeps lengthening or is it a 3' x 5' space we stand?
BUT storms come to those even of the "faith". Storms come and how we walk through is determined what we have believed and where our trust resides.
2 Thessalonians 3:1-5
3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you, 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, both that you do and will do the things we command you. 5 Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ. NKJV
Today, I pray and hope you will stand with me for those who are our grand-children, children, friends like our young friend Daniel, and many who have faces, but we know not their names. Pray with me for the countless teens who have been thrown to the curb, thrown out from family homes, family relationships, and brought to the lowest place of no value. For God surely values those created in His image. He values life.........and life everlasting, filled with abundance of good that comes from Him!
Father, we pray today that the word of the Lord runs swiftly and be glorified and that those we are believing for today, all the teens abandoned, those Daniels who do not understand that which has come upon them, but knows God.............these we pray that they are delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for not all have faith. But YOU Lord are the faithful who will establish them and guard these teens, our friend like Daniel.........those who have the call and to be a mouthpiece for God through their music, and for those who have run from God! Our confidence is in God the Lord and that which concerns those we pray, that they do and will do the things God has given them to do. May the Lord direct their hearts, these we cherish, these our future, into His LOVE and into the PATIENCE OF CHRIST.
Show us those whose walls are down, and in ruins. Our desire is to reach out and touch lives in our prayer time. We choose to be those who will be salt to those in pain and in much anguish. If our paths cross their paths Lord, may we have the ability to give them the truth they need and may they be embraced by Your Love. Father, Your Word is true and we hold it up, yes, confess it over our loved ones today. In their time of need, may they have the grace to help in their time of need. For whatever trials and tribulations, take away the weight of it Lord. Please! Strengthen hearts for any battles ahead, and give patience for them and us as we wait on You.
This journey is for an eternity, for those who have entered Your kingdom, and who profess Your Word, may the wisdom of God come, and help us in any decisions in choosing that to pray for those far from Christ. Oh yes, it is in Jesus' holy name we pray. We expect to see the "youth" come to the altar of God, for the Daniel's to be released from the mouths of the lions and the Caleb's to take that mountain. This is the day and the hour. Let's take it in strength and the power of God's Word revealed in Jesus Christ, the hope of glory. Amen.
This journey is for an eternity, for those who have entered Your kingdom, and who profess Your Word, may the wisdom of God come, and help us in any decisions in choosing that to pray for those far from Christ. Oh yes, it is in Jesus' holy name we pray. We expect to see the "youth" come to the altar of God, for the Daniel's to be released from the mouths of the lions and the Caleb's to take that mountain. This is the day and the hour. Let's take it in strength and the power of God's Word revealed in Jesus Christ, the hope of glory. Amen.
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