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| Voice of Prayer |
The value of God’s wisdom is incomparable. Wisdom of God
brings enlargement to our lives. We are to see through His eyes &
understand. His kingdom is moving & enlarging. As it does, the purposes for
our lives will enlarge our capacity. We
are given a greater ability to see through His eyes as we humble ourselves to
read & spend time in His presence.
Proverbs
8: 20- 26 NKJV 20 I
traverse the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice, 21
That I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, that I may fill their
treasuries.
22 The LORD
possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. 23 I have
been established from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an
earth. 24 When there were no depths I was brought
forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the
hills, I was brought forth; 26 While as yet He had
not made the earth or the fields, or the primal dust of the world.
The power of God is the inherent characteristic of
God. His nature is inherent power. We can see that in His creation.
Revealed in
Jeremiah 10:12-18 Amplified
Bible, 12 God made the earth by His power; He established the world by His
wisdom and by His understanding & skill stretched out the heavens. 13 When
He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, & He
causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for
the rain & brings forth the wind out from His treasuries & from His
storehouses. 14 Every man has become like a brute, irrational & stupid,
without knowledge [of God]; every goldsmith is brought to shame by his graven
idols; for his molten images are frauds and falsehood, & there is no breath
in them. 15 They are devoid of worth, usefulness or truth, a work of delusion
and mockery; in their time of trial & punishment they shall [helplessly]
perish. 16 The Portion of Jacob [the true God on Whom Israel has a claim] is not
like these, for He is the Fashioner and Maker of all things, and Israel is the
tribe of His inheritance----the Lord of hosts is His name. 17 Gather up your
bundle [of baggage] from the ground, O you who dwell under siege. 18 For thus
says the Lord: Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this
time and will bring distress on them, that they may feel it and find it [to be
as I have said, and turn to Me.].
God is real and He has presence. He has a voice that He speaks but do we hear Him speak? Without knowing Him we become like the brute beast. We become irrational and yes stupid. I do not know about you, but I do not want to be stupid in my daily living.
It is God who established the earth. It is He who regulates the times and seasons we read from verse 13 of chapter 10 of Jeremiah the prophet. God is called the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 45:11-13 NKJV 11 Thus says the LORD, The Holy One of Israel, & his Maker; Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; & concerning the work of My hands, you command Me. 12 I have made the earth, & created man on it. --My hands----stretched out the heavens, & all their host I have commanded. 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, & I will direct all his ways; he shall build My city & let My exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says the Lord of hosts.
From this passage, God is speaking to Cyrus and as God's instrument he was raised in righteousness to do God's will on earth. If you are born again to God, then you have His Spirit living in you to guide you in those daily affairs in life. In our turning to God we are turning to Him in faith and much trust. In relying on His wisdom, we live this life with His wisdom on our minds and in our hearts.
Proverbs 15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the fool does not do so.
We have to understand that there is a right way and a wrong way to disperse knowledge. When God reveals something to you and I through His word then we are to tell others, and teach them if necessary what the word means in our daily life.
John 8:32 says that the truth sets people free. And the truth is that which is revelation knowledge and it comes from God who is the God of love. He loves us greatly and sent His Son to prove it!
Corruption appears when we make idols! Exodus
20:4-6 NKJV 4"You shall not make for yourself a
carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow
down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those
who love Me and keep My commandments.
Keep what God commanded has us as to those boundaries of safety in Him. There is nothing created on earth that can come close to displaying God or our Lord Jesus Christ. These two are unique indeed. They come from beyond this physical realm we know so well. They are the absolute. They are the pure and undefiled. They are eternal. Yet the idol is a something or a someone of any other realm that man can make and can value. But we are to give to God rightfully what belongs to Him and that is worship to our Creator.
You and I must know who God is and know His love for in that is He revealed. We become what we worship. And knowing idolatry is a false thing and without life to it, why worship what cannot speak nor breathe? Acts 17:25 Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'for we are also His offspring'.
The bloodline is of God and the people, those men and women, are made in His image. Knowing
God's true nature is important because we become what we worship. Thus, this
commandment from Exodus 20 covers idolatry in a form in which the true God if worshiped
through either a false image or a corrupt practice that is the false representation
of His true reality. If we idolize that thing, we become the wrong thing. Then we act like what we worship and identify with it in our day to day living.
Ask yourself today if there are any idols in your life. Ask God by His Holy Spirit to direct you into seeing what you might have created as "an idol". For some it could be a hobby or for others it could be that band where you can exhibit your talent with the bass guitar.
What is that which spurs you into tomorrow? Is it God and to know Him and His love for you and yours or is it to make a name for you? This year was the year I got back into exercising and it consists of a lawnmower and a big yard. It was to get back out into the light of day and expend some energy to actually tone up some muscles that needed some real help. When one is ill and taken out of the daily living cycle, one can get depressed, and lose interest in life. That is why God's word is so important so that we can see daily the life He has for us from that living word. Getting back to eating the right foods and drinking plenty of good water, and exercise I have found more energy but I also find I have to watch & make certain that cutting the grass every week is not becoming an idol to me.
Paul wrote this: Romans 1:25....who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, & worshiped & served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
There should be no wrath for the children of God. And why? Because we find this from Paul: 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 NKJV For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, & how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
Will I consider the verse above and remember turning to God is turning to the living and the true? For with all the false narratives and created lies and deceit, I would rather have life in God than in what some news programs can speak out as the pompous and blasphemous horn of hate to many men even though we all have the same blood given to us by the One true God. And the next time I cut the grass in the backyard, I will remember I got to do it because God met me in the early morning hours of March 18, 2015 to keep me alive to enjoy another beautiful day in the sun and give Him praise for His goodness to me in the land of the living.
Will you consider what might overpower you to worship it? For me, I will not worship green grass!
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