Humpty Dumpty the Sequel

Am so appalled to be alive to see such nonsense. I think of others who are with the Lord today and how they might be surprised of all the fake news, and hindrances. In Scripture we find this: Proverbs 14:12 there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

In a recent Letters to the Editors, one notes narcissists listed as Trump followers. Another is Evidence, do not cherry pick only the rights we agree with, lists followers as insurrectionists. If one truly wants truth they would seek out who the insurrectionists were on January 6 debate. In one last session the last several days, those  with a subpoena in hand appeared on the Hill in Washington, D.C.. And they were the five including him who said Trump was leader. They held no truth and appeared as some  goon squad out for their own justice. Sad indeed! ( especially saying many cops died when they did not.)

There is going to be a sequel to Humpty Dumpty! They have placed themselves on a wall as "kings" and demand justice. They would not know what it looks like. Justice has been turned upside down!

Ecclesiastes does not speak that life can not be enjoyed. It is God Who wants us to enjoy the best that life has to offer. But the Bible also teaches that "to whom much is given, much is required." (Luke 12:48) Christians should enjoy life but to keep it in perspective. Our purpose for living is not found in earthy treasures. It is found only in a life filled with a desire to the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why He said, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water I shall give him will never thirst." ( John 4:13)    Ecclesiastes does not say that life cannot be enjoyed.

God is displeased with perverting justice: Ecclesiastes 5:8…..NKJV….8 if you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent (1) perversion of justice and righteousness in the a province, do not marvel at the matter; for high official watches over high official, and higher officials over them. 

Whatever the chain of command: God is still over ALL!

There is the pleasure of vanity: Ecclesiastes 2:5 I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made myself water pools from which to water the trees of the grove. 7 I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me. 8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all kinds. 9 So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. 10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For what heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my reward from all my labor. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done. And on the labor in which I had toiled; and indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind, there was no profit under the sun.

Then we find the end of the wise and the fool! Ecclesiastes 2: 12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who succeeds the king?---- Only what he has already done. 13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly and light excels darkness. 14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself perceived that the same event happens to them all. 15 So I said in my heart, "as it happens to the fool, it also happens to me, and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart, "This also is vanity."  16 For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever. Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come." And how does a wide man die? As the fool!  17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind. 18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19 And who knows whether he will be wide or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wide under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.  22 For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrowful and his work burdensome; even in the night his hear takes no rest. This also is vanity. 24 Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.  25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? 26 For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

From verse 12, retribution is the doctrine and only God will balance the scales to compensate for life's inequalities. Wisdom is of far greater value than foolishness. It is because the wise man realizes what he is doing, but the fool blunders along like a blind man. In verses 14-16 it is the Preacher realizing that both wise and fool are destined for death. But none of that will bring redemption.  If wisdom does not guarantee the person justice, then all the effort he exerted in becoming wise accomplishes nothing.

So nothing like wealth and pleasure accomplish nothing. You cannot take them with you at death. From verses 20-23 the person comes to despair in knowing he is leaving his fruitful labor to him who dho does not deserve it nor has worked for it!

Seek to please the Lord and honor Him in your work. As you do, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy!

We are to fear God!   Ecclesiastes 5:1-3  NKJV   Walk prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

2 Do not be rash with your mouth,  And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God.

For God is in heaven, and you on earth; Therefore let your words be few.

3 For a dream comes through much activity, And a fool’s voice is known by his many words.

At first glance, verse 3 appears to say that dreams are an echo of our daytime activities, that anxious days cause troubled sleep. While that is certainly true, the verse appears in the context of how to worship God. Thus Solomon advises, "Prioritize and keep your life simple!"

 Do not pile on extra stuff to your life. Put God first. 

"Walk prudently" means "watch your moral conduct." Frequently, "hear" is used as a symphony with "obey," and the "sacrifice of fools" is allowing fellowship to degenerate into mere socializing without serious regard toward walking prudently and hearing God. Hastiness in prayer is speaking ill-considered words before God. Though we pour out a prayer to Him in anguish, we may not think about the possible effects of our words. We can also do this by praying carelessly, ignorant of the seriousness of our communication with God.

 What causes hastiness in prayer?

1.    A multitude of business.

2.    The busy fool pours out a flood of useless words because his mind is crammed with all the details of his business.

3.   Evil excess misuses important time with God and obscures the effectiveness of simple, heartfelt, and thoughtful prayer. When our minds are so full of our own activities rather than with the purposes of God, we often pray to Him like fools who talk incessantly about things of no consequence, or we endlessly repeat ourselves.

Sin Weakens and Destroys...Ecclesiastes 12:6-7;11--14 Amplified Bible  6[Remember your Creator earnestly now] before the silver cord [of life] is snapped apart, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern [ and the whole circulatory system of blood ceases to function]. 7 Then shall the dust [out of which God made man’s body] return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God Who gave it.

11 The words of the wise are like prodding goads, and firmly fixed [in the mind] like nails are the collected sayings which are given [as proceeding] from one Shepherd. 12 But about going further [than the words given by one Shepherd], my son be warned. Of making many books there is no end [so do not believe everything you read]. And much study is a weariness of the flesh. 13 All has been heard; the end of the matter is: Fear God[ revere and worship Him, knowing that he is] and keep His commandments, for this is the whole of man[ the full, original purpose of his creation, the object of God’s providence, the root of character, the foundation of all happiness, the adjustment to all inharmonious circumstances and conditions under the sun] and the whole duty for every man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good or evil.

Weakened without Christ Jesus ; Ephesians 2:11-13 NKJV  11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh---who are called the Un-circumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands---12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

1.   We were estranged from our Creator our Father

2.   Were without a Savior, living in futility and hopelessness 

Thoughts on Genesis 4:1-10…Cain slew his brother Abel.

1.   In approaching God, Cain was coming to God in his personal worthiness

2.   He was not accepting of God’s way

3.   Cain was offering to God what God had cursed, the whole ground of the earth

4.   Cain presented the toil of his own hands:God refused it

5.   Anger culminated in Cain’s character

6.   His path was set for rage, set for the unworthy…no good purpose 

Believing Power Demonstrates Strength: Ephesians 1:18-19  Amplified Bible 18 By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light; so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), 19 And [ so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength.

1.   Strength of God is in us who believe

2.   That strength is demonstrated through us when our eyes for seeing is flooded with His light

3.   That is our hearts must be filled with His thoughts, His ways and plan

Freddy Mercury wrote later after his musical years that idolization brought him bitter loneliness. He knew he lacked personal friendship. In a song by U-2, thinking it was the 1980's, they wrote for the song " haven't found what I am looking for."

Many today will sing the same song, sing it or confess with much cursing that they lack. They might be stealing sums of money by governmental means but they cannot take it with them. Humpty Dumpty is sitting on the wall. He has made himself a king and he has his own rules.  He will fall and break into pieces. His silver cord will break. His life will be over! There is distractions in this world and what headlines your thinking will take you there. You will find the ditch on the side of road. You will not go forward nor backward but you only wait on "help". I mean you have waited on help from the wrong place and wrong Father! You will find yourself the old and decrepit, but truth should rule your heart even now because then it will most likely be too late! Those who wait can despair and cut their own lives short!

Without God there is no purpose for our lives, no purpose under the sun!

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Executing Wisdom on the Earth

Proverbs 24:30-34 I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; 31 And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; its surface was covered with nettles; its stone wall was broken down. 32 When I saw it, I considered it well; I looked on it and received instruction: 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest; 34 So shall your poverty come like a prowler, and your need like an armed man.

Observing the sloth there is tragedy in the house! According to this passage, this man has no understanding. His place, that where he resides is all grown up and the surface is covered with nettles. It did have a stone wall but that is broken down. Being asleep to responsibility is allowing things to go without attention!

Do we set purpose toward having a job and showing up on time? DO we seek to caring for that which has been given into our hands? Do we struggle on getting up in the morning but chose to stay up late? Proverbs 6:9-11 How long will you slumber ( lie down), O sluggard? 

When will you rise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep----11 So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, and your need like an armed man.

Showing no effort towards living this life given us, really points to that idle behavior, that has no result of good in it! In relating to the one, who, when the alarm goes off in the morning should one readily reach to shut off the alarm and arise to the day the Lord has made? But I wonder how many struggle with that alarm! I wonder how many just want to stay in bed.

What about shopping for groceries or taking care of paying those bills? The sloth appears when one has no zest to take the trash out to the container for the morning's pickup. Some folks choose to be slack by choosing to leave it at the back door as if that trash bab will some how make its way to the bin on its own!

It is one thing if a person is ill and requires help for that daily living assistance. But if it amounts to being lazy, the slacker, the one who really dislikes the whole "work" thing really places one into a new category. Not taking care of daily issues like sacking trash and purchasing food for meals gives others the idea and notably true that we dislike doing that thing.

When our grand-daughter is here for a visit, we have always liked to watch Zootopia with her. Now this last time that she came for a visit, we never had much time for television and movies. The days she was here proved to be days of sun and fun. And although we missed Flash, the sloth from Zootopia, I still thought of that character. You know his name is Flash and he works at the DMV. Still he is a sloth that shows up for work. Yes, I know this is a animated character from a kids movie, but should we not also consider what people see as humor is not really humor. We are made in the image of God and not the image of a sloth.

Seriously, would you want to look like a sloth?

Proverbs 12:27 The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is man's precious possession. One who is too lazy to to cook the game he went after is truly lazy!

Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life.

Yes, it is the heart of man that tells the world what is going in their thinking. Living in that regard is not really living life that God intended. We each have a 'garden' to care for and whatever it looks like, whether a tent, a model home or palace should still be regarded as to be cared for that which we have been given.

The description given in Proverbs 4: 24-27 gives great detail how our lives should be lived with intent and not as a sloth. Verse 24 : Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. And your eyelids look right before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established. 27 Do not turn to the right or the left; removed your from evil.

Our mouth and lips convey communication. Our eyes look at what has our attention and the feet walk out our behavior. So if we are hooked on television and how to be the next great singer or dancer, and cannot sing or dance, that tent might be where one will find themselves living. What behavior we execute from our thinking then will determine our outcome!

Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird; 18 but they lie in wait for their own blood, they lurk secretly for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.

People can easily be ensnared when they project their wants above truth and what is right for life. Those who are considered the wicked are always looking for easy prey. They will look how to take money from unsuspecting women by making them think they have a love interest in them. There are those seeking who they can prey upon who think they can actually have a singing career and be 'talked into making decisions' that are wrong for the unsuspecting prey. They could be talked into doing that which relieves them of their bank account to zero. And the unsuspecting could have their name exploited by those who do not care about the person nor do they mind taking them to the 'cleaners' in doing so.

It is God and His truth that helps you and I to make godly choices. His truth helps us to not make foolish mistakes. You and I must have the counsel of God to reject the counsel of the ungodly. We should hear God's voice above all others when the wicked appear. And today, they appear in all kinds of places : like schools, churches, hospital and rehabilitation units as well as the parks and gyms, lifting weights and cycles that are regarded as spin class!

If our eye just looks on our wants, those fleeting passions of the flesh, we can find a lot of emptiness and everything void of life. Our salvation was meant to save us from destruction. It was the plan of God for us to have a relationship with Him. We are to know Him intimately.  Isaiah 26:1-3…..We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts. 2 Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith. 3 You will keep him in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. NIV

 And our God is not passive in His love for us but is actively looking for opportunities to do us good, assuring us in II Chronicles 16:9, "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him." Not only is it God's will to be a present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1), this verse in II Chronicles also reveals that He takes it much further. God is with great effort, illustrated by running to and fro, actively looking for opportunities to help us.

But if we are too lazy to look into His perfect law of liberty, if we are too intent on being the singer and spend time with watching singers on television or even you-tube, we might certainly miss that which God is willing to show us out of His great love for us. 

For truly, God's word exposes that truth but it is only our trust in Him that sees that word executed in our lives. If we live as a sloth, then everything will go to ruin, to weed and to the point of us having no protection. With the wall torn down, one is put in danger of predators coming to take over not only what you have but live in that which you never fought for. For being idle is truly a sad state to be in.

Proverbs 5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; lend your ear to my understanding 2 that you may preserve discretion, and your lips may keep knowledge. When we bow before God and His wisdom...that is...we pay attention, we set our heart on what He gives as truth to us. As we listen to Him, we will not stray from His wise instruction. Without God, we come to death, poverty, condemnation, and disgrace.

Living diligently is living with purpose, is living with lips that keep God's knowledge, that sound like the wisdom of God  and behaves in His wisdom that we execute His wisdom on the earth. Amen.

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What SNARES?

SNARES, WHAT SNARES?

In walking around the backyard I was reminded of my younger days of walking through fields of bluebonnets, sweet clover, and weeds about knee high. I was also reminded of those fields that held an abundance of fleas.
Although at that time, I did not know how to apply the word of God to stop those critters from clinging to my socks. So it was an ever so gently removing of the socks and shoes outside the house before entering into the house to wash off all that field dust and hitchhikers. Yikes!

I find places to walk today that are people friendly like level paths for the feet, dry areas and mostly grass, asphalt or concrete. I am not much of an enthusiast for finding those wild, wide open spaces where animals rule. One dog in the house is plenty. I certainly do not need to go looking for further adventures with the "wild game" of America.
Had seen this video clip on the "news" recently of this group of men who got out of an SUV to take pictures of Cheetahs.......NOW, did they not know the Cheetahs are known for how fast they can run....????
But seriously why do something like that? Are people not in their right minds when taking adventures on hikes, vacations or cruises to those far away places where there are still animals, critters to hitchhike on socks and even some things we would rather not mention here.
But I remembered today of this lady who took her family on a trip to Bermuda one summer. But of her return proved delightful to her in that she has three children and the oldest was a son, they all cooperated by the rules in place to have family time and fun together.  Her son proved vital for help on the trip and the girls were a set of twins who were about four years old at the time, laughed a lot and agreed with what mommy said!

The lady came in to our work place about a week after her trip home and told us of that trip and how the sun was great but she was not feeling too well. She had some fatigue and had slept a lot since returning home. She also happened to show us this long red mark on her right leg. It was a streak of red from the side of small toe up the side of her calf. Yikes again! I asked her if she had been to the Dr.  and she had not been but she told us that she had made an appointment for that day!

When she returned to our place of work, she told us of her report and she had been snared by some parasite from the sandy beaches of that region. Although they were told to wear sandals especially on the beaches and when showering in those shower stalls next to the ocean, still she had contracted a hiker who hitched all the way back to Washington State.
She had to take medicine for parasites and recovered from her ordeal, she though shared that she thought she would take a different kind of trip the next time.

Snares?  Proverbs 22:5 Amplified Bible 5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate and willful; he who guards himself will be far from them.

Thought of this and wondered if the people who have resorts to visit really give the proper information to those traveling abroad to see their vacation land? For those who do not tell truth to those coming to the "resort" will certainly encounter some thorns and snares.
 For people who will not operate in truth will lead others into certain dangers. If a full shoe was needed to cover the entire foot instead of some a sling sandal, maybe the hitcher would not have caught a ride with this woman to her home.
Reflecting on her time there, she was glad or happy for some real time "with her children" and enjoy some summer sun, but to be sick on returning to her home was not in her plans at all!  For this lady came home with something "that troubled" her body and could have caused some serious damage to her body.

I wonder today how many go around with parasites from other countries and regions and never know they have them!
We must know truth and be given to hearing truth and what lies outside the region of which we live. For certain travel is necessary at times when some family member is ill or one just wants to get out and see some scenery other than down the I-5 corridor in the northwest.

Not sure this lady took any more adventures outside the mainland, but I know I would check out which "critters" live in that region of the world and what chances are they likely to catch a ride of a human type transport.
wall,
People may lie, and lie to their advantage, but God will never lie to us. He gives us His wisdom that speaks only truth to us. Lying is wicked (Psalm 109:2 and Proverbs 13:5) and an abomination to the Lord (Proverbs 12:22). And we know that all lies originate from the devil who is the father of lies. John 8:44

God is to be our wall. He puts a wall around His people to keep Satan at bay. He did that in the example of Job. Satan complained, “have you not made a hedge [wall] around him, around his household and around all that he has on every side? (Job 1:10) It was only when God removed that wall that Satan could attack Job. And we see what Satan did to Job.

We each have the personal work of rebuilding the “wall”. It is one who seeks to have a strong relationship with God, and then see that it is He Who provides the defenses for us and our loved ones. Yes God is our WALL!

Before traveling this summer be sure to find out all the necessary information to the place you decide to visit. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal what may be necessary information the travel people forgot to tell you and what you really need to know about. And ask questions about the region or place you have chosen to travel.

God desires us to wise as serpents and gentle as doves. Enjoy the warm summer breezes, the scent of honeysuckle and watch in the evening hours for those lightning bugs and be reminded that God lights our way we when ask Him to light our way and enjoy His goodness that he has for you and me!

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Sleeping in Ruins?

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.


1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

5:1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing. NKJV

Let us watch: greygoreuo....1127......is to awake...NT 1453 is to waken (from sleep) from inactivity, as in sleeping in ruins and from nonexistence.

Now that is a little scary if you ask me. That we are told to not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 

That sleep is that which people do without knowing it. They are those who have no discernment of the time and the season.  We are to take a stand.

Putting on our breastplate of "belief" in the feast of love! For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Drawn into that word of watch.......1127..........and that people are to awaken from inactivity. Well what inactivity, and what is that sleeping in ruins? Do people have an actual place of which they operate as the non-existent one?

Isaiah 41:11-13

11 "Behold, all those who were incensed against you 

Shall be ashamed and disgraced;

They shall be as nothing,

And those who strive with you shall perish. 

12 You shall seek them and not find them--

Those who contended with you.

Those who war against you 

Shall be as nothing,

As a nonexistent thing. 

13 For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand,

Saying to you, 'Fear not, I will help you.'   NKJV

Now I really love the book of Isaiah and sometimes really have to have a quiet place to read it. And during my days of working outside the home, the Lord gave me this passage of scripture.  Those incensed against you shall be ashamed and disgraced. They shall be as nothing and those who would choose to strive with me would perish. YIKES! 

Then I was told: YOU shall seek them and not find them----those who contended with you...those who war against you shall be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing. FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL HOLD YOUR RIGHT HAND....SAYING, 'FEAR NOT, I WILL HELP YOU.'

ON rising this morning, I thought on this area of discernment. My husband and I spent much time reading on it last night. And the scriptures we were given on it, especially for prayer surely made a lot of sense. And it was like we were being awakened to something new.  For in this teaching, we saw the prayer warrior given a message from the Holy Spirit to pray for a brother overseas who was fighting in the Vietnam War in the 1960's. AND the specific prayer given to prayer person was so surprised what the Lord had given him in this vision/dream who then mailed it to brother in Vietnam. He wrote to brother: This is how it will happen and you must be on your guard!

It was mailed and received.  And the "message" given came to pass some 4 weeks later on an actual battle field. The brother survived the attack and did what the prayer warrior had sent him to do by the Spirit of God. Hallelujah!

As this prayer warrior grew more in that awareness of God and His speaking, this prayer person continued to give another example of how the Lord showed him how his brother was to die this one day around the 3 p.m. hour and He, God desired prayer person to pray. Well quickly, he, the prayer warrior called one other person and together they prayed from their different locations. They asked for God to intervene on the older brother's behalf and reminded God of the brother's commitment in his early teen years to God. They also spoke how they knew he had walked away from God, but that still believed and had faith that said brother in harm's way would be delivered from the harm.  They prayed the Word and the prayed in Tongues. The brother( in harm's way) just knew he needed to pull off the road and talk with a man within this business, but when he stopped and went inside he could not remember what he needed to ask the business owner. Well, in that four minutes.........another vehicle had went on by and that vehicle crashed into the vehicle coming from opposite direction and in that head-on crash, the couple inside died exactly what had been given for prayer warrior's brother to be killed. BUT someone prayed and  not only prayed but kept praying for another full two hours after the event was to take place. The thing taken from this was..........was anyone praying for the couple who died that day?

And then I was astounded to know what people could be given about circumstances. 

The prayer warrior had many examples of God's love for those who love Him. And I thought of those that are or become the nonexistent thing.

While meditating on what we had read, we awakened to another important part of why we are to pray. We also came away with what God cannot do when NO ONE PRAYS for someone. For surely lives were saved on that eventful afternoon at 3 pm. and others were lost.

We know how to pray for a loved one who has not received Jesus, right? That is to remind God of how they might have gone to church as a child, how they took others to church and how regularly they tuned in Kathryn Kulman to see God move through people in the attitude of complete quiet. We can remind Him of how a parent might have taken us week after week to church, yet in their last days on earth, they choose to lie in bed in a death state that is one of sleeping in ruins and being the nonexistent thing. But God in His love has shown us how we are to put on that love and walk by faith, not only for ourselves but for others as well.

We got this message to pray for loved ones last night.  With a conditioner in my hair and a mixture of water and creme running into my eyes, I got this vision. I saw a driver out of control on state route 14 headed from the Stevenson area to Vancouver.  I was telling my husband we must text our family and tell them to stop where they are at and not go any further. And we continued to pray. Again, I saw the out of control person, and it appeared as a woman trying to reach for a ringing cell phone drives into the opposite lane on a sharp curve. So we prayed more thoroughly. They had stopped and waited a full hour and instruction came. So they went the long way around to get home. Was there something that would have cost a life? Not sure yet, but we will know. We confess we will always know every form of information God desires for us to know that will bring glory to Him. We will have that piece of information to make decisions that involve our lives and others and in that we require and put God's wisdom on it, in it and through it in how ever many hours of prayer it takes.

When the call came in they had arrived home in safety, then we rested in God and His love.

1 Thessalonians 5:9-11

9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

For God has not appointed us to wrath. In our salvation through Jesus Christ, we live unto Him. And we know many others have gone who now sleep in Him. But those who sleep today, who sleep in ruins and the decay, those who sleep as the nonexistent thing are those who are far from God.

The Amplified Bible states this: for verse 9 For God has not appointed us to [incur His] wrath. [He did not select us to condemn us], but [that we might] obtain [His] salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). 10 Who died for us so that whether we are still alive or are dead [at Christ's appearing], we might live together with Him and share His life. 11 Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing.

For the Lord is returning for His people. And we are not the "condemned" but the saved.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (Rom. 8:1) 

 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him. (John 6:63-65)

There are those appointed to wrath, but we are not those. Our world is to be framed by the Word of God.  It is in that trust that where we live and reside is not in the that place of the "ruins" but in the safe place of His boundary, and it is in His Word. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.  By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. (Hebrews 11:1-3)

Our praying, not only for our loved ones, but also those who come across our path, are those who now have a boundary, a fence if you will, around their lives. The Word of God spoken and prayed over them will keep them in the safe place.

As an example I have put a prayer here that is that boundary of God's Word around our grandchild. It is prayed and placed as a "hedge" of protection around her. And when or if something arises........we remind the Lord that she was placed in His hands the moment we heard of her conception.

Father, in the name of Jesus we pray for our granddaughter. May she obey her parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord. WE pray that she would not be provoked by her father so that she not become discouraged according to Colossians 3:21.

 We pray that she will honor her father and her mother. She will be a wise son who hears her father’s instructions,  she will not consent to going with sinners. We pray she not walk on the path with them but she keep her feet from their path for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

 According to James 1:19-23, our grandchild will be "the" swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; knowing that the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. We pray she will continually lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with  meekness,  the implanted word, which is able to save her soul. We say that she will be a doer of the word and not a hearer only, deceiving herself.

It is According to Prov. 22:24-25 that she will make no friendships with angry men and she will not go with the furious.  She will refuse them and their ways.  We pray that she will know that God loved us so much, that He gave His only begotten Son Jesus , so that we would have everlasting life by believing on HIM. We pray that she confesses with her mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in her heart that God has raised HIM from the dead, and be saved. We believe her to walk all her days of life with Him.  Her heart, we pray, will believe unto righteousness, and her mouth brings her to salvation of her soul.We pray that the LORD is her Shepherd and she shall not be in want of any good thing.  The Lord restores her soul so that she walks the paths of righteousness for His names sake. She will have no fear of evil for she will know that God is with her to protect her. His rod and His staff will comfort our grand-daughter . She will be anointed with fresh oil till her cup is running over. We will see the goodness and mercy of God follow her all the days of her life and she will dwell in the house of the LORD FOREVER. AMEN AND AMEN

Truly we can make a difference in praying and speaking God's Word over another person. Truly He is on our side when we choose Him 1st. May we awaken from that sleep that leads or tends toward poverty of the soul. May we make the decision to not only attend church..........but attend to that which God has placed in our hands. The Lord is returning for His church "His body of believers" and will He find faith on the earth?(Luke 18:8)

In closing:

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

When we consider everyplace we have traveled, everyplace we have walked and seen, how many places can you remember that seemed to be that which was the overgrown, the overwhelmed with weeds and briars?  How many places do you remember seeing that was the broken down, needing paint and the wall or fence around was in "ruins"? Well that is one's heart. And when we apply God's Word it changes. For if we continue to neglect to speak His Word and pray for others that God has given us, then a little sleep, a little slumber, ah yes the folding of hands to rest.........and you will find yourself in poverty. In those moments before the disaster, before the earthquake, before the report of a grave illness, what wall will keep the enemy away or will it come in like a flood?

Arm yourself with His Word and declare His truths. 

Forever who would love life and see good days, must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. He must turn from evil and do good. He must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are attentive to their prayer. But His face is against those who do evil. (1 Peter 3:10-12)

Amen.

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