Words Choose the Atmosphere

 

Within the vein of the last teaching on Voice of Prayer, we saw the use of straw in making bricks. According to Pharaoh, he did not mind stopping all work and life for his plan of worshiping his idols in regard to the specific time of year. But when Moses and Aaron came to speak of the whole Hebrew nation go out to the desert to worship God, Pharaoh threw a hissy fit. The uproar was about Pharaoh's plan and not to their (Hebrews) asking for their desire to meet God. ( the first encounter was Exodus 5)

Of course, in the atmosphere of those words spoken, straw was removed from them and they had to find other means of brick making! Those words choose the atmosphere. They can be words to delight, to bring questions, to see something never seen before, and they can be words to destruct and bring harm! ( Exodus 5-6) And remember the plagues began to fall on Pharaoh and all that lived in that region when he refused God. He would not allow them to go meet God in the wilderness and to worship Him there. Even here we note when straw is removed as in : officers de-funded and less officers on the job more violence occurs, nurses removed who will not vaccinate to be replaced with those not qualified to be a registered nurse, schools where substitute teaches no longer need a degree to teach your children (Oregon) just as long as you graduated High School you can apply to teach! Truckers removed from delivering goods to grocery markets and stores. (seen in the teaching: No Negative Thoughts or Feelings)

And ultimately, Pharaoh continued to speak in words of hate and violence, so much so that he followed the Hebrews with his best chariots and men. ( Exodus 12:31-51) He was determined to bring them back. But the sacrifice of praise to God in the wilderness led the Hebrews to the safe area to cross the Red Sea, to cross over for God's glory and to His praise. And they went through but the Egyptians died in their pursuit to attack the Hebrews to bring them back and to make them pay for their attitude! (Exodus 14:1-31)

Here we speak God! Here we lay down our morning, noon and night! Here we speak:

"LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, & Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that You are the LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again." ( and we know God hears His born again believers)

Today, we speak these names of Jehovah God, over the people of  these United States. ( You can speak over your nation here)  You are God Alone. You have prepared us for the day of Battle. And we speak as YOU have spoken….  Elohim, the Creator of the heaven and earth, Who was in the Beginning…….You are in the Beginning of their new life and of this new day! May the men and women of this country meet and know.............

Adonai, our Lord and our Master---the Completely Self-existing One, always present, revealed in Jesus Who is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Jehovah Jireh, the One Who sees our needs and provides for them……….May they know….

Jehovah-Rapha,  Our  HEALER  and the One Who makes bitter experiences sweet. YOU  sent YOUR word and healed us .  YOU  forgave all our iniquities and YOU healed all my diseases

Jehovah-Nissi ….Our Victory, our Banner and our STANDARD. …and it is Your  BANNER over us that …… is LOVE. When the enemy comes in like a flood….Jehovah-Nissi lifts up a STANDARD against him.

Jehovah-Shalom, WE bless Your Name. YOU are the PEACE….THE PEACE which transcends all understanding, which garrisons and mounts guard over every man, woman and child in the communities and the nation(s) we have asked for.  May their atmosphere be changed here and now in an instant….

Jehovah-Tsidkenu, Our Righteousness.YOU became sin FOR US THAT WE would become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. AND in that….we have

Jehovah-Rohi, Our SHEPHERD….We shall not be in want for any good or beneficial thing. We give thanks for …..

Jehovah Shammah, Who will never leave us nor forsake us… “The Lord is my HELPER, WE will not be seized with alarm-----WE will not fear or dread or be terrified. What can man do to me (us)?

 

God our Father: It is Your NAME that is to be exalted. It is YOU Who has given us all we need.  It is the sacrifice of Jesus  lifted up and it is our voices that must be resounding all to YOU for You are our Father Who has given all good things through YOUR Son Jesus. The sound of justice is present in You. The rain falls on the just and unjust just as the sun shines on the just and the unjust!

Today, we call the OPEN Door from John 10:9-10  NKJV…9 I (Jesus) am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I (Jesus)  have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.  We have spirit and truth in the Lord. We have His light and we have no more condemnation in the truth of God’s word.

 It is so sad that many people today delight in removing God so they can do more sinning, do more in man’s ideas of which he views as right in his own eyes. ( Judges 21:25, Proverbs 12:15, Proverbs 21:2) But destruction is not far behind that thinking and doing. We must call God Who He is in our lives and what we expect. Like in the reading of Elijah and the false prophets of Jezebel found in 1 Kings 18, they expected nothing. They had seen nothing except by their own hands. But here Elijah called down fire to a corrupt group of nonbelievers. Elijah had a belief in God that He could do what was asked of Him!

We are to expect when we speak with the voice of right words that fills the atmosphere for God’s good in our lives. We fill the atmosphere with good:

Philippians 4:6-9 NKJV  6  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;  7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.   8  Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9  The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

 

We need to pay careful attention to this sequence of instructions because it contains much that can help us attain both good spiritual and physical health.

It has been in the last 60 years, men have come to understand how deteriorating and destructive stress is to life. Paul's counsel, written nearly two thousand years ago, tells us not to be driven by anxiety or fearfulness about life.   In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus admonishes us to "take no anxious thought." The stress of anxiety is wearying, setting us up for multiple afflictions. If we really "see" God, we should know that He is with us. 

Even then Jesus gave us this assurance to take no anxious thought, should we not feel great assurance in His promise that never allows us to be tempted above what we can bear? Faith is a prime solution for anxiety. So is Faith operating in us?

 

Paul continues, urging us to let God know our needs in every matter of life. God likes to converse with us. He sent His Holy Spirit to be in the daily walk with us here and now. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, He already knows our needs, but He wants us to recognize, evaluate, and communicate them to Him, accompanied by thoughtful expressions of thanksgiving for what He has already given, as well as His promises of blessings in the future. Do we see what this process achieves? It disciplines us to think within certain well-defined parameters that have Him and His way at the center of our life.

A benefit of this is tranquility Paul reveals is that of the mind, respite from the restlessness so common to the carnal mind, which is constantly searching for new stimulation to satisfy its insatiable longings that this peace of God will stand guard over our minds like a sentinel, allowing us to meet and cope with the problems of life.

And "finally" from verse 8 Paul closes the thought. In that relation to anxiety, the peace of God and coping with problems, our minds are to stay focused and thoughtful on or occupied with  things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and praiseworthy. Through this discipline, we program our minds with the right things; what goes into the mind determines what comes out in words, actions, and attitudes.

So if one puts in his day by way of his mouth garbage. then it will be garbage in and garbage out, but wholesome in and wholesome out is what Jesus expanded on in Matthew 12:34.

"For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks". We could take this further and say that out of the abundance of the heart the mind thinks and feels, and the body acts upon that which is the spoken!

What words will you choose today? What will you speak over yourself, your family, your son or daughter, over your community and nation? We speak words that will fill the atmosphere with good! Will your words invite death or bring life? In the garden of Eden, Eve listened to a voice not with life giving advice. She adhered to that voice and she acted on it. She invites her husband Adam to participate with her in this action. He knowing, she is now in the spiral downward death scenario, experiencing spiritual death and he hating to lose her altogether, he joins her in that atmosphere of death. He leaves God to adhere to death and its death throws. 

We have a "woke" society doing that very thing today! They choose to leave the right way, the things of God and join the world in their doing. There are people who choose to keep their friends, a boyfriend, or a neighbor but their way is changed from the godly to the worldly way. They have taken vaccines and died. They did not want to make waves and they changed in their thinking. They took on the fearful heart and choose to live at peace with the enemy as peacekeepers, but God has called us to be peacemakers. We have seen it in family members who live miles away from us. You cannot join the world and expect to live in Christ!

Oh choose your words wisely this day, your day counts on where you will be and what you will experience: life or death!

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A Sound Mind or an Open Mind

 

2 Timothy 1:6-7 NKJV 6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

In Scripture so far I have only found “open” listed with opened eyes ( 2 Chronicles 6:20 and verse 40), and gates will be open continually. ( gates: Isaiah 60:11)

Being the sound mind, is being the disciplined in the thought patterns of the Lord, making right decisions, including the quality of self-control/self-discipline!

The Open Mind is open to anything! But Scripture tells us perfect peace have those whose mind is stayed or fixed on the Lord: Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trust in You.

The Lord keeps us in health, happiness, well-being and peace who stay in His presence, residing in His goodness and light. All started in the Lord will be of good in health, good in happiness, that well-being of stepping outside our doorway to do for His glory and to His praise, for His will for us is good! 

Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputations, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming the  likeness of men. 8 and being found in appearance as a man. He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

 

Being humbled in the Lord is paramount before you stand before men in either leadership or leading a family! Having His mind, is Christ-like humility. It was manifested in the son of God, manifested in the freedom of God’s Son to affirm the fullness of all God has placed in Him without His need to flaunt, prove or push through to an agenda or self-advancement. Jesus did not clutch for power. And we see many today clutching for that power, for that self-advancement. Unless it is the Lord rising in us, then we clutch for that human power thing and that will not work, not today or ever. It will fail!

 

 Fools, not wise men, reject God seen in Psalm 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” they are corrupt, they have abominable works, there is none who does good. Sin invites Satan into a person's mind. Ultimately, his influence causes madness.  So when you have a group of people seated in making decisions,  for, let’s say a nation, they are hopefully those filled with the spirit of God and not the spirit of the air. They should be those with faith in God and not faith within their own thoughts and own abilities!

In that arena of the air ( those in league with the devil), you see strange things: In Luke 6:11 you can see men filled with rage ( madness) who do not want God on any level of their leading. They want to be rid of Jesus, when there is a healing on the Sabbath. Salvation brought us into the kingdom of God to see and to hear. But will we see and hear to obey His commands. Matthew 12:43-45 NKJV 43 When a n unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.

We have seen that within our own nation, where people are trying to remove God from everything mountain: religion, the family, education, government, media, arts and entertainment, and business. And if one does not have God, then they can have demonic activity around them or in them.

 BUT, when a demon is removed, a person's mind is cleaned of chaos and made orderly. To avoid being possessed again, he needs to replace what was swept out with God's Spirit & truth.  As of the demoniac of Gadara, the man under that influence cannot rest. That demon removed also had the role he played in tormenting a person. Hunger and thirst must be our heart for the Lord: to fill our heart with the water of His word; To be cleansed Purity of Heart : Matthew 5:8 NKJV 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God. 

Purity of heart: the pure draw near to God: James 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 2 Corinthians  7:1 therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh & spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

 

Psalm 15:2 He who walks uprightly & works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. 3 He who does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor does he take up a reproach against his friend; 4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honors those who fear the LORD. He who swears to his own hurt and does not change; 5 He who does not put out his money at usury, nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

The sound in mind will not be moved or shaken from his steadfastness in the Lord!

 

The demons in the men are uncontrollable ("neither could anyone tame him,") Mark 5:4 because he had often been bound with shackles & chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, & the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. 5 And always night & day, he was in the mountains & in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran & worshiped Him.   

Evil people cannot control their desires, and society cannot control them, so crime rages on.  Living God's way of life as revealed in the life of Christ is the answer. God provides the right mind to produce the fruit of the Spirit, including self-control (Galatians 5:23). Galatians 5:22-24 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions & desires.

 

Spiritual love, that godly love, is unattainable by those driven by the spirit of this world. This agape love—the love of God—is the kind that is "poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit[which] was given to us" (Romans 5:5). Jesus warned His church that the wickedness of the world  would increase to such an extent that it would sap the spiritual heat out of His own people, causing their love to grow cold. Matthew 24:12  NKJV   12  And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.  

3 John 11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God. But he does evil has not seen God.

1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

 

We are to be unpretentious and balanced in spirit. Tranquility will rule our hearts in mind when we are instructed to the truth of God. Jesus instructs the healed man to tell people about his deliverance, particularly those who were familiar & intimate with him. He wants him to be an example of God's grace, first among his own family & friends, so that they can come to repentance.  Luke 8:39 Now the man from whom the demons had departed begged Him that he might be with Him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” And he went  his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

The sound mind will speak of what great things Jesus has done for him. The open mind is open to madness of the world. The sound mind gives what is sound in ideas. The sound mind is righteous in accepting alternatives as in medicine. Not going about to change anything that God has created! Sound mind will not tolerate that which is false according to God’s standards. The open mind has a way but the ditches are wide and long. Sound is peace, with truth prevailing! The open minded are open to the world, to things the world speaks and get a good smell of the cesspool the world offers.  It sees parades of culture passing by and allowing you the person to decide what parade of culture you desire, to hitch a ride or just jump on with both feet and go with the “crowd”!

Let’s rekindle the fire in our hearts to that sound mind. Let us have a conscience and know what is before us. Let us understand the ways of God for life eternally. For the open mind has that empty place and is void of God. The open mind has no walls, if righteousness is not our breastplate. For the world hosts evil and the Christian in his aggressive prayer warfare will assail that of demonic strongholds. You cannot take hold of something of evil and take God’s hand to demolish. We are to seek the lover of our souls. It is living with a gusto for life He was so merciful to give. And it was His same mercy that sent the Son of His love.

As the demoniac of Gardara  has revealed once healed by Jesus, once made whole by Jesus, once saved for the Lord’s glory, his first response to that active witness was what Jesus pointed him to. He told him to stay and tell others of what had occurred to him.  A Christian is first responsible for witnessing to those closest to him, who will see the greatest difference in him as he lives God's way of life.

We do that as the demoniac saved, he dressed or clothed and in his right mind. That sound mind or right mind, is the word: “sophroneo” a N.T. word 4998 meaning sound mind, sane or to be sober.

Can you imagine you making such an impact to those around you when you walk in with a right or sound mind? Can you imagine when they see you not scared but they are shaking in their shoes? Can you imagine when you Speak and God is with you in that speaking? How awesome to have sound mind: one that heeds what Jesus spoke, watches for the signs He outlined, praying regularly and earnestly as He did staying close to the Father and to keep doing, heading toward destiny in God’s work. In Luke's account, Jesus tells us that "when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near" (Luke 21:31). Then He warns about not letting "that Day come on you unexpectedly" (verse 34).

Praying helps us to keep our focus. We use a sound mind to communicate. Our prayers are meant to help us keep watch over our spiritual condition and world events,  praying for the Kingdom of God and for all that God tells us to pray about! 

Peter warns us, "Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil walks about like a oaring lion, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8). Staying aware of the powerful behind-the-scenes role of Satan and his demons enables us to understand the atrocious evil and madness of this world. It also enables us to "resist" them (James 4:7).

Madness is seen today, and mayhem is to the extreme, but with a sound mind we will stay in peace for the Prince of Peace resides in our hearts.  Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears and departs from evil, but a fool rages and is self-confident. A wise man will never trust in himself, the wise man fears God!.......In the N. Testament, God’s judgment for man’s actions was placed on Jesus; believers will not suffer wrath; But ungodly actions still bring ungodly results…It will come from a man and from the devil!

 

Each of us has to be revived in that which is in and through Jesus Christ. There is no revival without the revival fire in each of us! Where are the sacrifices and the burnt offerings ? Balaam was consecrated to personal gain and eternal perdition of what we see in Numbers 22. And a donkey spoke to him in his madness. In  Jude 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. Just wandering to catch up with a “crowd” to go astray should not be the battle cry! May the doors that be open be only those the Lord has opened for us to enter; for the Lord knows the way of righteous, those just, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

 

 

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Instruction and a Healthy Heart

 

I am always amazed at people who will not heed instructions, particularly those that can kill if not heeded! My husband and I had seen the warning of Tsunami for the west coast of the United States. Being that a volcano erupted in the Pacific Ocean, we pay attention to it. We were up early on Saturday to see what was in effect for our state. The station we sometimes watch for weather showed the beach and wave action at Seaside, Oregon. Now we have seen what will happen to that city in a big Tsunami. There have been people working on scenarios of crises for that city if a tsunami appears. We learned from watching those specialist is that most of the city will most likely be carried out to sea! Anyway, we watched and watched, and waited for some word, and suddenly the station tuned to the college basketball game already in progress.

Now I say something like: “What?” "What....a basketball game.....!!!!

Yeah, then we hear nothing. We see more pictures of the island of Tonga just south of the Figi Islands,  and watched the explosive volcano send out all those hot gases including much sulfur and how much of the land of Tonga was affected. We were amazed at the strength of the eruption and how all the island was covered with four inches of ash. Then you wonder who is alive with such a terrific blast that close and underwater,  and how would anyone get to them in that region to bring them some kind of relief!

Finally we see pictures last night, yes on Tuesday night and there is nothing but ash and no life seen. But the report out of Oregon for Seaside was a most jaw dropping, neck jerking, and awe inspired word for the journalist reported that some people of that city decided to check out the Tsunami and when they heard the blast for the WARNING, they marched toward the beach and not away from the water action coming. Yes, the Report was that if a tsunami of magnitude had occurred at that moment, it would have caused traffic jams with those trying to leave the city with those running to the ACTION just to get a look at the  BIG WAVE!

How many run to action to end up in the action and not live to tell about it? How many will not listen to instruction when there is a destructive thing occurring and can affect any coastal city on the west coast of America?  I wonder if there is any sanity left in America.

Remember, that our heart contains the motivations for what we do and why we do it. So I ask you today, is your heart healthy and instructed to know Tsunamis can kill you? Just as the body can’t function well without a healthy heart, neither can the Christian with a spiritual heart—we will be sluggish in our work, hard at hearing God’s word, and slow to recognize His presence. The consistent disciplines of the Christian faith of prayer, Bible study, and fellowship will keep our spiritual heart pumping strong toward our eternal destination.

So can you see a healthy heart is required to live long on the earth! Has anyone surrendered to know the truth of Tsunamis and how to stay out of one? But discipline is required whether you are born again unto the Lord, discipline to be taught how to raise your children, to be taught the wisdom to make it through life without meeting some devastating waves at your back door.

One of the best blessings in being a believer in Jesus Christ is the peace that rises above every life situation including Tsunamis or volcanic eruptions. While others are fretting with worry, believers have the power of the Holy Spirit to guard their hearts and minds with peace that has no human explanation. Having peace allows believers to continue to go through hardship and painful situations without regret. The key to having peace in our hearts is surrendering all our prayers to God and trusting in Him to take care of each one. We must be instructed by Him! We must be about His plan for our lives!

 

We have the abilities God placed in us before we were born. But we must seek out His wisdom, that purpose for our lives where His wisdom in that instruction leads us. We have this word given to us in Proverbs 17:22: “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones” . When you and I have joy in our hearts, it will spill over and out to those who are around us. We bring the medicine of cheerfulness not because every situation is great, but because God is greater than any situation like Tsunamis. Our joy is renewed as we stay in the presence of God through prayer and Bible study. The key to having a joyful heart is to keep our minds stayed on God and His grace over our lives. Things occur! Everyday there is catastrophe in the world, but we should not meditate on those things. We are to meditate on the goodness of God!

One thought of someone who would run to see the Tsunami would be a person who is ruled by their own mind and heart. It is exhibited worldwide, regardless of culture.  Those who are self-centered rather than God-centered will end up in a world of hurt.

This is due to the underlying spirit beings who are at its heart and soul, being the key elements in communicating the course of this world into humanity. One illustration or example would be seen in Genesis 1:31. Genesis 1:31 reads, "Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day." God's statement of satisfaction in all He had made at the end of the sixth day of creation includes Adam and Eve's nature, as by this time they were already created.

In the beginning, mankind’s nature is designed and designated by our Creator God. And He stated: “it was very good.” But we also find in the Genesis 3 record that the episode that began the transformation of their basic nature to the extremes of self-centeredness we witness today. Man's nature was not created evil, but it became evil through the influence of another spirit - besides God - that Adam and Eve chose to follow without any interference from their Creator.

 Once they committed to that initial step, the course of this world began. It was only in the next or what was the second generation that murder had occurred (Genesis 4:8). You know Caine killed or murdered his brother Abel. And by the Flood where Noah was commanded to build a boat, that  men were so evil that they were "only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5). It is this same peak of evil toward which this world and its multiple courses are being driven. All of this takes place because of the communication, reception, and acceptance of evil concepts from an evil source.

2 Timothy 3:13  reveals a general principle still working as we "progress" toward the return of Jesus Christ: "But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." Improving character and conduct in any given culture are temporary, indeed very brief, when observed within a survey of all of man's history. Yeah, men are growing into the worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. We must pay attention to what we spend time in seeing and hearing for what we put in our hearts will certainly spill over and touch other people's lives. And hopefully what is coming out of our hearts is not folly but the wisdom of God to make right decisions.

Moral deterioration that concluded with the Flood was quickly restarted shortly after its waters receded, and it persists to this day, as each person is born into this world and exposed to the same spirit and to the variety of courses that influenced Adam and Eve and all their progeny. Because we are made of flesh, we are born with a slight pull toward self, but not with the corruption that later develops and reveals itself in our conduct. Evil is passed on by the spirit of the age through the course of this evil world. It is transferred to us through the cultures into which we are born, all of which are carnal to the core. Yeah culture rated R and XXX you might say and causes death! Yikes. You can see that on the commercials.

Was thinking about Haman and Queen Esther. Haman wanted the Jews killed. He had come into some authority with the ring of the king and he built a gallows to hang people on it. In Esther 3 Haman plots against the Jews to kill them . Mordecai persuades Esther to intervene and then Esther solicits Mordicai’s help in chapter 4. In this, it is that Modecai is exalted and Haman hates it and talks about it much with his family. Haman plots to destroy Mordecai. But by chapter 7 it is Haman who is exposed and he himself with his sons are hanged on the gallows instead. By chapter 8 the king issues a decree to stop what Haman had started. The Jews defeat their enemies.

In this world, those who serve themselves will find trouble and much hurt. It was two who worked together to commit to pray and fast for a nation. Among hostile people, the Jews survived the plans of the enemy and saw them come to nothing.

If we receive instruction to a warning of destruction, should we not take it to prayer and to another with us who will pray alongside us to see God’s plan for our lives? Or will we jet out on the horn’s notice and be met next time by a 90 foot tidal wave? It is a choice indeed and a healthy heart is required in that it hears God and knows truth to live to 120 years. If Haman had a different heart, he might have lived longer in his life on earth.

Most certainly it is mankind and those represented by Adam and Eve, who have chosen to submit to Satan, and all of their descendants, including us, have also chosen to become evil under the sway of the same evil spirit that offered our first parents the choice. This creates and accounts for "the course of this world."

Was also thinking of David, who sent by his father to take cheese and bread to his brothers and those fighting the frontlines against the Philistines. David took his father's instruction and went the way to bring some food and comfort from home. But in his going, he met Goliath who held hate for God's people. David obeyed and found a cause worth fighting. He used that of his weapons used in the field against the lion and the bear. David would be victorious for he would slay the giant and remove his head too!

Tsunamis exist in this fallen world, and those world events will play out among the evil and the just, but many will be caught in the evil schemes to catch a glimpse of a wave started by a catastrophic volcanic eruption deep in the Pacific Ocean. And many will try to soothe their ego to have their will be done and be entertained by a great splash, but then they will only be lost to the depths of their ego, the unbelief that guards their heart and holds its display that a “foolish person “ might be present.

And if you should know one, remind them that God desires them to have long life, to follow His instructions where we are disciplined. The benefits in discipline is for each of us to be immersed in the word of God, to read the Scriptures daily so that God is revealed to us and our hearts. If we want to know and enjoy life, we must know Him who created life for us. In God, the place to begin is in God’s word.

No one has to tell me that Tsunamis can kill nor can anyone tell me that earthquakes cause great damage and kills by violence. And a warning should be noted. I would rather not be in an earthquake nor a volcanic eruption, but I have been disciplined to know the “dangers” by reading and preparing since I have many volcanoes surrounding us where we live. We have viewed documentaries on T.V. to know the best action for safety and that is to get to high ground not sea level in view of a flood of tidal proportions.

 Never been in a volcanic event but have been in an earthquake. Yes, more than one have I experienced. and it was not a fun time. And I would rather avoid hot gases from a belching volcano ....thank you very much! 

Apart from the Bible, we cannot know what God is like. He is our Father, He has love for us and really wants to give us His wisdom for this life to live in despite of volcanoes, earthquakes, firestorms and polar blasts and heat waves! My husband and I have seen to having a healthy heart when something has gone amuck in this county, this state or country. We choose to pray and read the word of God. We choose to hear the Lord speak His instruction. And then we rehearse what is important if we are not together when an event occurs. We have planned what to do and how to get from point A to point B without many distractions and obstacles in safe and wise ways!

We must be awakened to truth, and disciplined for that which brings life. God never changes and He instituted instruction in His wisdom to live long. And we plan to do that, for His spiritual truth remains the same: yesterday, today and forever in Christ Jesus! And in Him are safe indeed, in the arms of a loving God! Amen.

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Armor, Shields, Slingshot and Backbone

 1 Samuel 17:1-11 NKJV Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle, and were gathered at Sochoh, which belongs to Judah; they encamped between Sochoh and Azekah, in Ephes Dammim. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together and they encamped in the Valley of Elah and drew up in battle array against the Philistines. 3 The Philistines stood on a mountain on one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side, with a valley between them. 4 And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. 6 And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. 7 Now the staff of his speak was like a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighted six hundred shekels and a shield-bearer went before him. 8 Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. 9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, they you shall be our servants and serve us.” 10 And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. 11 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

 

In this we see conflict! In the age of kings and his men, we see Saul and his army scared to face Goliath. The mighty do not seem so mighty against Goliath the giant. They are gathered listening to the critical complaints of a bully! Speaking among themselves and watching the giant parade before them in all his arrogant pride!

Even today, we have such bashing's against those men of war, a bashing and complaints to those men and women who police the community for safety and then continue to see an all out brutality with knives to those who respond to help either by first-aid or that ride to the hospital in an emergency. But the culture has dictated to belittle the man, the leader, the source who should lead. Alas, man is being bashed and pushed aside like Adam in the Garden of Eden. The voice of them should be heard today where chaos is running a muck. And some are choosing to speak up while others pack up and leave. But man should be on the “alert”. Man should take his place and lead others by his influence held by the Holy Spirit of God.

We see David being sent to his brothers on the front-line!

 1 Samuel 17:19-54…………… 19 Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.  20 So David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for the battle. 21 For Israel and the Philistines had drawn up in battle array, army against army.

          *  David rose early to do the father’s bidding

          *  David left his sheep in the hands of the keeper

          *  David took the food and went as Jesse commanded him

          * David had order in his life; disciplined to obey the commands

 

22 And David left his supplies in the hand of the supply keeper, ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. 23 Then as he talked with them, there was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words. So David heard them. 24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were dreadfully afraid. 25 So the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daughter, & give his father’s house exemption from taxes in Israel.” 26 Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” 27 And the people answered him in this manner, saying, “So shall it be done for the man who kills him.”

 David was rehearsing what the men of Israel spoke in regard to the three things done for the man who slew Goliath! He, David would see wealth, he would be given the king’s daughter and his father’s house would have exemption from taxes!

 

1 Samuel 17: 28 Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused against ( his anger was one of arrogance when he spoke of David’s pride and insolence.)David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.” 

 David was anointed. We read it in 1 Samuel 16:13….how Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the presence of his brothers and the Holy Spirit came on him in power) 29 And David said, “What have I done now? Is there not a cause?” 30 Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing; and these people answered him as the first ones did.

 

1 Samuel 17:31 Now when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him. 32 Then David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." 33 And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth."   This battle was not David’s battle!

34 But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, 35 I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God." 37 Moreover David said, "The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

 

Conflict: how people hate the word conflict ….that confrontation; the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear… is viewed in the natural as a conflict of interest. It is a place of violence spoken of you and about you. It involves you and will be the up close and personal, a rolling in the dust. It will attack your character and your voice in what you give regard to as to God, YOUR Lord and to His Word!

•        WILL have an outcome of something or someone coming against your person, will be about shutting you down and if you are ruled by emotions, then a most probable defeat. Matthew 8:26 But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea and there was a great calm. When our faith is little, it is not trusting in God. We have no confidence that He will do what He has spoken in His word. Destructive power can appear on land as well as the sea. And it can be loud and boast great things, but anything that kills, steals or destroys is not of God, but of the enemy. And we as believers are to stand against that which has come to kill, steal from us and destroy our lives.

•        OUR faith is that which resides in God  WHO is our righteousness, & we  know without doubt that His truth prevails in our lives, & we stand firm in the faith voicing freely God and His love to others.

         

 Saul said to David, "Go, & the LORD be with you!" 38 So Saul clothed David with his armor, & he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail. 39 David fastened his sword to his armor, & he tried to walk, for he had not tested them. & David said to Saul, "I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them." So David took them off.   

·         Saul decided to cloth David in his own armor, but David had no freedom in that which he was dressed

·         David refused those things and removed them.

·         To do what God has for us is to be dressed in Him: dressed in salvation ( white garment) and to be dressed in the robe of righteousness

1 Samuel 17:40 Then he took his staff in his hand( remember the promises of God); & he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, & put them in a shepherd's bag, in a pouch which he had, & his sling was in his hand. & he drew near to the Philistine. 41 So the Philistine came, and began drawing near to David, & the man who bore the shield went before him. 42 And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy & good-looking. 43 So the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 & the Philistine said to David, "Come to me, & I will give your flesh to the birds of the air & and the beasts of the field!"   

·         From verse 41….and the man who bore the shield went before him

·         Can you imagine a giant some 9-11 feet tall requiring an armor bearer, a man who bore a shield who would go before Goliath?

·         I have read it  and re-read it and I am always in awe how a big guy had an armor bearer. What kind of shielding can this short guy do for a 9 plus-footer?

·         All I know is that this armor bearer of Goliath's had a real job before him!

1 Samuel 17:45 Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, & with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, & I will strike you & take your head from you.  And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD's, & He will give you into our hands."

 

1 Samuel 17:48 So it was, when the Philistine arose & came and drew near to meet David, that….  David hastened & ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. 51 Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. 52 Now the men of Israel & Judah arose & shouted, & pursued the Philistines as far as the entrance of the valley & to the gates of Ekron. & the wounded of the Philistines fell along the road to Shaaraim, even as far as Gath & Ekron. 53 Then the children of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines, & they plundered their tents. 54 And David took the head of the Philistine & brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent. NKJV       

·         Now my question: where did the armor bearer go when Goliath went down

·         I thought the armor bearer was to be available always, especially in events, in activity the armor bearer should be on the spot, in the scene, but I find no place where he is mentioned when Goliath goes down and ……then dies by the sword.

 

 In Facing a Philistine!  Philistine is a word meaning  “unclean spirit”. Unclean spirits can manifest in different ways but one main quick attack is through trying to “silent mouths” that is to shut a mouth so that it will not speak for God.  The open door was the encounter with Goliath and it was through Eliab’s anger he testified and confirmed his hate when he told David that David had insolence and pride. In Goliath, we see one wanting to shut their mouths & scare the nation of Israel away!

•        We have demonic spirit doing the same thing today through people just like David saw back in his day! You have those of an unclean spirit targeting your testimony of victory and God’s goodness in your life.

•        Those who follow truth and operate in it are being harassed by those who love lies and live in them. We cannot watch our weather man any more as a T.V. station who promotes lies now none of their reports even come close to truth including their weather report! We are relying on God for our own weather report these days!

Another  manifested form of an unclean spirit that pertains to and is of a performing nature, is like that of Goliath parading around on the merit of  his size… and his big mouth.  Some 9'-11' feet in height must have helped Goliath accomplish something…Remember in Canaan that the very giants Joshua and Caleb saw were evident indeed? But maybe it was just his big mouth that was the chaos and fire-starter for hate that rallied people that day!

Have you seen people who are there just to perform and not minister anything? No life, and no good word comes out of them, but they speak of me, myself and I …. Just saw a woman make voice to the vaccine mandate. She gave her opinion of it while  holding her 2 year grand-daughter in her lap. This “grandmother” hissed out venom that she was getting the vaccine and then get to all the people to infect them to make them sick. (Remember now that the vaccine gives a spiking protein throughout the body of the person who has taken it. They can shed that protein for six weeks infecting others!)  She wanted freedom and she said she was going to get it by infection. Yikes! She said it was enough and it was time this “thing” was  all over. Well, most certainly it is over. But it is over and done in and through those who trust the Lord and His leading by His grace and His love.

IN Scripture unclean means "to be the defiled, to be the polluted, unwholesome," … readily refers to foods that are unfit, defilement can be of a religious character, and moral or spiritual impurity.  In the New Testament we find a spiritual application: in it is listed as uncleanness or moral defilement with fornication plus other sins as "works of the flesh in reading from Galatians 5:19-21.

                                                                                                  

Are we behaving as we gather together with other believer’s?  Behaving in an environment focused on God and praise to Him that can cause some people to shrink back into that which many seek to find as a place of comfort and the hidden. But our love for others should be seen.  And our voice should give heed to that which is of God for life and not of the enemy for death!

Are we waving at God as we pass by on our journey of this life, or do we really stop, visit, and have some time of serious talk, some laughter and always a few tears with our Father God. Behaving is about allowing the Holy Spirit to have His way in us either in the home, in the prayer closet, in public as to shopping and greeting others and even within a church service. As the righteous we are committed to truth and no lies. We are committed to God’s word and no changing His word. And as a child of God, we follow no one but the Lord. And when He tells us to go, we GO and if we are not take anything deadly into our bodies, even then we are to obey always by His truth and His will in our lives being done. If not, then we are all lost without our Lord and going to hell. I have seen it on earth so far and not fond of where most will find their home. Hold on for this ride is going to be good indeed and some will enjoy God's peace on it and others will only smell smoke and feel the heat of the flames of fire!

 

Romans 13:11-14…..the hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality& debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, & do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.  NIV

David spoke in verse 47. 47 Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD's, and He will give you into our hands."

And in verse 51….David runs over, takes the sword from the sheath of Goliath and uses it against him.

•        David’s faith was in God: He went in His Name, the God of the armies of Israel

•        David was speaking against that whom defied God

•        David affirmed that the LORD would deliver the enemy into his hand

•        David also included the entire camp of Philistines for destruction to be food for the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth

•        David understood, that the “battle is the Lord’s.”        

Every time he took up his shepherd’s staff, David could read the promise God had for him from it. Marked with every good thing God had done for him like a journal, even his own staff marked good things done by God. David walked with the promise in his heart. David walked forward and his path included a giant.  Deuteronomy 31:6 in the Amplified Bible, “ be strong, courageous and firm; fear not nor be in terror before them, for it is the Lord your God Who goes with you; He will not fail you or forsake you.”  

The courageous do not have to pretend. They have this undaunted courage. They have no fear, they have no discouragement. They are armed with the Presence of God!

In this hour, all men stand in faith of God, all believers stand in readiness to speak by faith a confidence that God is with them and from the willing heart they are disciplined in prayer and of the spoken Word! God our Father  has given us His Holy Spirit to not fear.  He has given us power, love, and a sound mind to prevail in all situations. Holding fast the pattern of sound words & always cultivating a relationship with His Holy Spirit that propels us into the power of God for signs and wonders.

•        John 4:23-24........ 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."    NKJV

The more infusion of His Spirit into our lives, the greater of God’s love flowing through us. The true believer is one who manifests the love of God and moves in that love toward others. It is always residing and abiding in His truth, not moving from that truth, using the weapons He has provided for us in worship to Him that is a love revealed. Is our love showing to reveal God on earth? Are we positioned to take our land of freedom that is of the Lord and not of any enemy? 

Where will you stand when the smoke settles and the dust clears for our battle is not ours but the Lord who is true and prevails, for He is the power and He is the might!

                                                                                                                                      

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