So far we have covered just a small portion of GODS Promised and with the last one I asked Him what or which one He wanted me to do next. During the night watch I got my answer, Affliction was it. What I found was amazing and profound and once more the list rather long. So what I will do is list many of them with where they maybe found. It is GODS way of revealing to us ourselves and then His way of perfecting His Charter and image within us when He has been restored within us. The first person to experience this was Adam as seen in Genesis 3 and then all the way down through mans history. It is not a welcomed subject in the churches of our day but because this is true I will say this, if you take the time required you will benefit greatly from this study. If you have a good study reference Bible there should be a chain of study in it on this topic much like the one I have listed here. I happen to have several of them and they each have a lengthy list with other areas and subtopics or heading, so take up the challenge if you are up to it and enjoy.
Afflictions: hardships and trials designed to increase our spiritual obedience and understanding of GOD in us.
From GOD, visited on:
Israel in Genesis 15
Samson by the Philistines in Judges 16
Heman in Psalm 88
Judah in Lamentations 3
Israel by the world in Psalm 129
The Just by the wicked in Amos 5 and Hebrews 11
Christians by the world in 2Corinthians 1
The design of:
Show GODS sympathy in Isaiah 63
Make us to seek GOD in Hosea 5
Bring us back to GOD in Psalm 119
Humble us in 2Cronicales 33
Purify us in Isaiah 48
In the Christians life:
As a means of testing in Mark 4
A part of life in Matthew 24
To be endured in 2Timothy 4
Expected in 1Thessalonians 1
Must not be moved by in 1Thessalonians 3
Examples of in 2Timothy 3
Brief duration in 2Corinthians 4
Sometimes intense in 2Corinthians 1
Must be shared in Philippians 4
Can not separated us from GOD in Romans 8
Deliverance from promised in Psalm 34
Require prayer in James 5
Terminated by Christ's return in 2Thessalonians 1
Monday, November 30, 2015
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Discovering the Great and Precrious Promises of GOD (our deliverance)
Form being a Seeker, which actually had three parts to it. The next progression is that of Deliverance and this one also has two parts. It is real hard not to interject a word study with the words used in each passage group as there are within each many key words and phrases often over looked by us. That is why when we are truly Redeemed the LORD gives us of His Holy Spirit who is mingled in with our now awakened spirit. It this that is but a mystery and secret hidden by GOD for our leaning and understanding. The beginning of our growth and walk in this dark evil world as we become the Light and Life of His Love as recipients of His Grace in Truth by Faith. This fact and Truth alone makes His Grace much more than being simply unmerited favor. Because as we grow in the true knowledge, we receive more abundance of His Grace. As our spiritual word manna and water as our portion increases.
Deliverance:
Job 5:17-27 "Behold, happy is the man whom GOD corrects: therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty: For HE makes sore, and binds up: HE wounds, and HIS hands make whole. HE shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you. In famine HE shall Redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword. You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. You shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin. You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth. (long life is promised) You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season. Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know it for your good."
Psalm 91:1-4 "He that dwells in the Secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my GOD; in Him will I trust. Surely HE shall deliver from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover with His feathers, and under His wings shalt you trust: His Truth shall be your shield and buckler."
Psalm 116:5-11 "Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yes, our GOD is merciful. The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and He helped me. Return to your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars."
Isaiah 46:1-4 "Bel (Babylon) bowed down, Nebo stooped, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaded; they are a burden to the weary beast. They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. Hearken to ME, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by ME from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And even to your old age I am HE; and even to hoar (old age with grey) hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you."
1Corinthians 10:1-5, 6-13, 14-15 (we are to learn from Israel's many mistakes) "I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our (their) fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; (the manna) And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them GOD was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted (Him) and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world (the end of the Jew only age, as a political-religious institution of sin, leaving the Hebrew remnant to remain, as seen in Daniel, the Law and the prophets) are come. Wherefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall (as the Jewish religious-political system fell). There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say."
2Corinthians 1:2, 3-7, 8-11 "Grace be to you and peace from GOD our Father, and from the LORD, Christ Jesus.
Blessed be GOD, even the Father of our LORD, Christ Jesus, the Father of mercies, and the GOD of all comfort; Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of GOD. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also Abounds by (the revelation of) Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. Our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in GOD Who raises (quickens) the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: Whom we trust that HE will yet deliver us; You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf."
2Timothy 4:16-18 "At my first answer (defense) no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray GOD that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the LORD stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the LORD shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me to His heavenly kingdom: to Whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen."
Hebrews 2:14-18 "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, HE also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily He took not on Himself the nature of angels; but he took on Him the seed of Abraham. (as promised in Genesis 3:15, 4:25, 9:9, 12:7 and 15:5; Hebrews 11:12) Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and Faithful High Priest in things pertaining to GOD, to make Reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that HE Himself having suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted."
2Peter 2:4-10 "For GOD spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah (and his seven others with him) the eighth person, a preacher of Righteousness, (this indicated that he walked with GOD) bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that he a Righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous (daring) are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities."
Deliverance:
Job 5:17-27 "Behold, happy is the man whom GOD corrects: therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty: For HE makes sore, and binds up: HE wounds, and HIS hands make whole. HE shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you. In famine HE shall Redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword. You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. You shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin. You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth. (long life is promised) You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season. Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know it for your good."
Psalm 91:1-4 "He that dwells in the Secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my GOD; in Him will I trust. Surely HE shall deliver from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover with His feathers, and under His wings shalt you trust: His Truth shall be your shield and buckler."
Psalm 116:5-11 "Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yes, our GOD is merciful. The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and He helped me. Return to your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars."
Isaiah 46:1-4 "Bel (Babylon) bowed down, Nebo stooped, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaded; they are a burden to the weary beast. They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. Hearken to ME, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by ME from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And even to your old age I am HE; and even to hoar (old age with grey) hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you."
1Corinthians 10:1-5, 6-13, 14-15 (we are to learn from Israel's many mistakes) "I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our (their) fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; (the manna) And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them GOD was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted (Him) and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world (the end of the Jew only age, as a political-religious institution of sin, leaving the Hebrew remnant to remain, as seen in Daniel, the Law and the prophets) are come. Wherefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall (as the Jewish religious-political system fell). There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say."
2Corinthians 1:2, 3-7, 8-11 "Grace be to you and peace from GOD our Father, and from the LORD, Christ Jesus.
Blessed be GOD, even the Father of our LORD, Christ Jesus, the Father of mercies, and the GOD of all comfort; Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of GOD. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also Abounds by (the revelation of) Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. Our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in GOD Who raises (quickens) the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: Whom we trust that HE will yet deliver us; You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf."
2Timothy 4:16-18 "At my first answer (defense) no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray GOD that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the LORD stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the LORD shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me to His heavenly kingdom: to Whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen."
Hebrews 2:14-18 "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, HE also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily He took not on Himself the nature of angels; but he took on Him the seed of Abraham. (as promised in Genesis 3:15, 4:25, 9:9, 12:7 and 15:5; Hebrews 11:12) Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and Faithful High Priest in things pertaining to GOD, to make Reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that HE Himself having suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted."
2Peter 2:4-10 "For GOD spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah (and his seven others with him) the eighth person, a preacher of Righteousness, (this indicated that he walked with GOD) bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that he a Righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous (daring) are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities."
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Discovering the Great and Precrious Promises of GOD (seekers continued)
I ran over with the last section of Seekers and I hope to close it with this posting. This one is dealing with the Seekers of GOD.
Seekers of GOD:
Duties of:
Deuteronomy 4:25-31 "When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke Him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereto you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you. There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient to His voice; (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) He will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore (with an Oath) to them."
2Chronicales 14:2-8 "Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God: For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves: And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the Law and the commandment. Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest. Therefore he said to Judah, 'Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.' So they built and prospered. And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valor."
Psalm 105:1-7 "Give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name: make known His deeds among the people. Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him: talk of all His wondrous works. Glory in His Holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. Seek the LORD, and His strength: seek His face evermore. Remember His marvelous works that He has done; His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth; O you seed of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob His chosen. He is the LORD our God: His judgments are in all the earth."
Isaiah 55:6-13 "Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, said the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."
Jeremiah 29:10-14 "Thus said the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall you call upon Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will hearken to you. You shall seek Me, and find Me, when you shall search for Me with all your heart. I will be found of you, said the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, said the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive."
Hosea 10:11-15 "Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loves to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and rain Righteousness upon you. You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men. Therefore shall a tumult arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children. So shall Bethel do to you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off."
Amos 5:4-7, 8-9 "Thus said the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek Me, and you shall (will) live: Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. Seek the LORD, and you shall (will) live; lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Seek Him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is His name: That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress."
Zephaniah 2:1-3 "Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired; Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you. Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, which have wrought His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger."
Matthew 6:25-33 (Jesus is here speaking) "Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature? And why take thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say to you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall HE not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. But seek first the kingdom of GOD, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you."
Luke 11:9-13 (Jesus is speaking) I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask HIM?
Acts 17:24-29 "God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that HE is LORD of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though HE needed any thing, seeing HE gives to all life, and breath, and all things; And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and having determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though HE be not far from every one of us: For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of GOD, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device."
Seekers of GOD:
Duties of:
Deuteronomy 4:25-31 "When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke Him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereto you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you. There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient to His voice; (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) He will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore (with an Oath) to them."
2Chronicales 14:2-8 "Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God: For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves: And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the Law and the commandment. Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest. Therefore he said to Judah, 'Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.' So they built and prospered. And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valor."
Psalm 105:1-7 "Give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name: make known His deeds among the people. Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him: talk of all His wondrous works. Glory in His Holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. Seek the LORD, and His strength: seek His face evermore. Remember His marvelous works that He has done; His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth; O you seed of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob His chosen. He is the LORD our God: His judgments are in all the earth."
Isaiah 55:6-13 "Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, said the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."
Jeremiah 29:10-14 "Thus said the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall you call upon Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will hearken to you. You shall seek Me, and find Me, when you shall search for Me with all your heart. I will be found of you, said the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, said the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive."
Hosea 10:11-15 "Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loves to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and rain Righteousness upon you. You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men. Therefore shall a tumult arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children. So shall Bethel do to you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off."
Amos 5:4-7, 8-9 "Thus said the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek Me, and you shall (will) live: Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. Seek the LORD, and you shall (will) live; lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Seek Him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is His name: That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress."
Zephaniah 2:1-3 "Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired; Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you. Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, which have wrought His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger."
Matthew 6:25-33 (Jesus is here speaking) "Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature? And why take thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say to you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall HE not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. But seek first the kingdom of GOD, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you."
Luke 11:9-13 (Jesus is speaking) I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask HIM?
Acts 17:24-29 "God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that HE is LORD of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though HE needed any thing, seeing HE gives to all life, and breath, and all things; And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and having determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though HE be not far from every one of us: For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of GOD, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device."
Friday, November 27, 2015
Discovering the Great and Precrious Promises of GOD (seekers)
If we have not seen it by all is meant to bring us all to this one very important power of GOD, His Grace which works within the restored Spirit of all reborn men everywhere. Grace is Abundant and of all kinds and is without measure. Through it GOD perfects His restored nature and image within our spirit making us all a new man as if recreated which is a purely spiritual sense and reality, we have become Christ ones.
In our last study we looked at Guidance. So to days study I well take us through being a Seeker.
Seekers:
Deuteronomy 4:25-31 "When you shall (will) beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your GOD, to provoke Him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereto you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall (will) not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
The LORD shall (will) scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you. And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall (will) find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your GOD, and shall (will) be obedient to His voice; (For the LORD your GOD is a merciful GOD;) HE will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which HE swore to them."
2Chronicales 7:12-18 "The LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for an house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people; If My people, which are called by My name, shall (will) humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Now My eyes shall (will) be open, and My ears attend to the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there for ever: and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. And as for you, if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall observe My statutes and My judgments; Then will I establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David your father, saying, 'There shall not fail a man to be ruler in Israel.'"
2Chronicales 11: 4, 14-17 "Thus said the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of Me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office to the LORD: And He ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made. And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers. So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon."
2Chronicles 14:2-8 "Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God: For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves: And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. He built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest. Therefore he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valor."
2Chronicales 17:2-9 "He, Jehoshaphat, placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not Baalim; But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honor in abundance. His heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah. Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people."
2Chronicales 26:1-5 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did. And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper."
Ezra 8:21-23 "Then Ezra proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of Him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him; but (here is the warning) His power and His wrath is against all them that forsake Him. So we fasted and besought our God for this: and He was intreated (listened) of us."
Psalm 24:1-8 "The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill (Zion above) of the LORD? or who shall stand in His Holy Place? He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his Salvation. This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek His face. Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle."
Psalm 27:7-10, 11 "Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When You said, Seek My face; my heart said to You, Your face, LORD, will I seek. Hide not Your face far from me; put not Your servant away in anger: You have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsook me, then the LORD will take me up.
Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies."
BETH:
Psalm 119:9-16 "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to Your word. With my whole heart have I sought You: O let me not wander from Your commandments. Your word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against You. Blessed are You, O LORD: teach me Your statutes. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of Your mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in Your precepts, and have respect for Your ways. I will delight myself in Your statutes: I will not forget Your word."
Proverbs 8:12-21 "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By Me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
I love them that love Me; and those that seek Me early shall find Me. Riches and honor are with Me; yes, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; and My revenue than choice silver. I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: That I may cause those that love Me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures."
Jeremiah 29:10-14 "For thus said the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall you call upon Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will hearken to you. And you shall (will) seek Me, and find Me, when you shall (will) search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, said the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, said the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive."
Daniel 9:1-6 "In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Daniel set his face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love Him, and to them that keep His commandments; (here is the repentance required and needed) We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments: Neither have we hearkened to Your servants the prophets, which spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land."
Luke 11:9-13 (Jesus here is speaking) "I say to you, Ask, and it shall (will) be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask HIM?"
Luke 18:1-8 (Jesus is here speaking) "He spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 'Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not GOD, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.' And the Lord said, 'Hear what the unjust judge said. Shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night to Him, though He bear long with them? I tell you that HE will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?'"
John 12:20-26, 27-29, 30-33 "There were certain Greeks among them (the Hebrews and the politically correct religious Jews)) that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would seek Jesus. Philip come and told Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip told Jesus. Jesus answered them, saying, 'The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, (for this Truth) I say to you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to Life Eternal. If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall also (will) My servant be: if any man serve Me, him will My Father honor. Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.'
Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, 'I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.' The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spoke to Him.
Jesus answered and said, 'This voice came not because of Me, but for your sake. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.' This He said, signifying what death He should die."
John 14:8-14, 15 "Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us. Jesus said to him, 'Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known Me, Philip? he that having seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father? Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? the words that I speak to you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwells in Me, HE does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, (of a great Truth) I say to you, He that believes on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to My Father. And whatever you shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it. If you love Me, keep My commandments.'"
In our last study we looked at Guidance. So to days study I well take us through being a Seeker.
Seekers:
Deuteronomy 4:25-31 "When you shall (will) beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your GOD, to provoke Him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereto you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall (will) not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
The LORD shall (will) scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you. And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall (will) find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your GOD, and shall (will) be obedient to His voice; (For the LORD your GOD is a merciful GOD;) HE will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which HE swore to them."
2Chronicales 7:12-18 "The LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for an house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people; If My people, which are called by My name, shall (will) humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Now My eyes shall (will) be open, and My ears attend to the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there for ever: and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. And as for you, if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall observe My statutes and My judgments; Then will I establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David your father, saying, 'There shall not fail a man to be ruler in Israel.'"
2Chronicales 11: 4, 14-17 "Thus said the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of Me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office to the LORD: And He ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made. And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers. So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon."
2Chronicles 14:2-8 "Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God: For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves: And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. He built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest. Therefore he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valor."
2Chronicales 17:2-9 "He, Jehoshaphat, placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not Baalim; But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honor in abundance. His heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah. Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people."
2Chronicales 26:1-5 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did. And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper."
Ezra 8:21-23 "Then Ezra proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of Him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him; but (here is the warning) His power and His wrath is against all them that forsake Him. So we fasted and besought our God for this: and He was intreated (listened) of us."
Psalm 24:1-8 "The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill (Zion above) of the LORD? or who shall stand in His Holy Place? He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his Salvation. This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek His face. Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle."
Psalm 27:7-10, 11 "Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When You said, Seek My face; my heart said to You, Your face, LORD, will I seek. Hide not Your face far from me; put not Your servant away in anger: You have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsook me, then the LORD will take me up.
Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies."
BETH:
Psalm 119:9-16 "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to Your word. With my whole heart have I sought You: O let me not wander from Your commandments. Your word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against You. Blessed are You, O LORD: teach me Your statutes. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of Your mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in Your precepts, and have respect for Your ways. I will delight myself in Your statutes: I will not forget Your word."
Proverbs 8:12-21 "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By Me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
I love them that love Me; and those that seek Me early shall find Me. Riches and honor are with Me; yes, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; and My revenue than choice silver. I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: That I may cause those that love Me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures."
Jeremiah 29:10-14 "For thus said the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall you call upon Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will hearken to you. And you shall (will) seek Me, and find Me, when you shall (will) search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, said the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, said the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive."
Daniel 9:1-6 "In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Daniel set his face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love Him, and to them that keep His commandments; (here is the repentance required and needed) We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments: Neither have we hearkened to Your servants the prophets, which spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land."
Luke 11:9-13 (Jesus here is speaking) "I say to you, Ask, and it shall (will) be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask HIM?"
Luke 18:1-8 (Jesus is here speaking) "He spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 'Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not GOD, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.' And the Lord said, 'Hear what the unjust judge said. Shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night to Him, though He bear long with them? I tell you that HE will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?'"
John 12:20-26, 27-29, 30-33 "There were certain Greeks among them (the Hebrews and the politically correct religious Jews)) that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would seek Jesus. Philip come and told Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip told Jesus. Jesus answered them, saying, 'The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, (for this Truth) I say to you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to Life Eternal. If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall also (will) My servant be: if any man serve Me, him will My Father honor. Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.'
Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, 'I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.' The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spoke to Him.
Jesus answered and said, 'This voice came not because of Me, but for your sake. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.' This He said, signifying what death He should die."
John 14:8-14, 15 "Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us. Jesus said to him, 'Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known Me, Philip? he that having seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father? Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? the words that I speak to you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwells in Me, HE does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, (of a great Truth) I say to you, He that believes on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to My Father. And whatever you shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it. If you love Me, keep My commandments.'"
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Discovering the Great and Precrious Promises of GOD (our spiritual Guidance)
What those of the world and those of the churches of this world crave is Guidance. But sadly where and to whom does one turn for this Guidance is another matter all together. As a youngster growing in a some what devote family with a heritage within one to the worlds religious orders, a denominations composed of many united churches, there was little spoken of of GODS Holy Spirit. What was proclaimed was a gospel in form but lacked substance, there were all kinds of stories and good book reports about the activities of others such as missionaries. Then at least once a year there was the push for what they called stewardship, which I was to learn years latter was not what they had brainwashed the membership that it was in the churches estimation. You see they used it to raise concern and money to meet the financial needs of the pastor and religious system their denominations our bond by. This placed the congregations at the disposal and bondage of the denominational decrees and edicts. And the man at the front and his words of emptiness as they lacked any spiritual impact in the lives of those seated within the church house walls. To day I know that there was no presence of the LORDS Holy Spirit in these houses of either the person at the front or the congregations who were present. There was no motivation as seen in the second letter to the Corinthians written by Paul reveals. All that was present was a from of godliness form. But there was no power that should accompany that form. Now this may sound harsh and even bitterness to some. But the hard reality in the following scriptures will bear me out on this, many in the worlds religions and churches believe and have more trust in their particular pastor and church denominational creeds and doctrines, then they have in GOD through the LORD, Christ Jesus. There is therefore no presence of GODS Holy Spirit and the churches, therefore they lacked GODS Guidance in the life of the church and the families within it. And the denominational system that it was apart of. If and when there was anything spoken of the Holy Spirit it was in the since of being a future event after one dies.
From here I will endeavor to reveal what is contained within the context of GODS Promise of Guidance.
Of Believers Guidance:
Into a Pleasant Path:
Psalm 23:2-3 "He (the LORD) makes me to lie down in green pastures: He leads me beside the still waters. He restore my soul (revives my spirit): He leads me in the paths of (His) Righteousness for His name's sake."
In Making Decisions:
Psalm 25:8-10 and 32:8, "Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will He teaches sinners in the way. The meek will He Guide in judgment: and the meek will He teaches His way. All the paths of the LORD are Mercy and Truth to such as keep His covenant and His testimonies."
Psalm 32:5-11 "I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and You forgive the iniquity of my sin. For this shall every one that is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found: surely in the floods of great (tribulations as trails, as the) waters they shall not come nigh to him. For You are my hiding place; You shall (will) preserve me from trouble; You shall (will) compass me about with songs of deliverance. I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with My eye. (here comes the warning) Be not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to you. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all that are upright in heart."
To the end of life:
Psalm 48:14 "For this GOD is our God for ever and ever: HE will be our guide even to death."
This term death can have a double application, the spiritual dead of the spirit that rules natural man that leads to totality in our physical passing or the transformation of exchange brought about at our acknowledgement of our iniquities of sin as stated in verse 5 above in Psalm 32.
By wise Counsel:
Psalm 73:22-28 "So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before You. Nevertheless I am continually with You: You have taken hold by my right hand. You shall (will) guide me with YOUR counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but You? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside You. My flesh and my heart fails: but GOD is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever. (here comes the warning) For, lo, they that are far from You shall (will) perish: You have destroyed all them that go a whoring from You. But it is good for me to draw near to GOD: I have put my Trust in the LORD GOD, that I may declare all His works."
By the still small Voice:
Isaiah 30:18, 19-23 "Therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious to you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is GOD of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for (adhere to) Him.
For the people shall dwell in Zion at (the heavenly Spiritual) Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: HE will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry (of repentance); when He shall (will) hear it, He will answer you. Though the LORD give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not He your teacher be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see Him your teacher: And your ears shall (will) hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left. You shall (will) defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstruation cloth; you shall say to it, Get you hence (far away from me). Then shall He give the rain of you seed, that you shall sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures."
This last passage speaks of our service in ministry to the LORD within those we lead to Him and assist in their learning of Him. In their spiritual walk and growth with the helper and aid of the Holy Spirit within them, as promised.
In the Midst of Uncertainties:
Isaiah 42:14-17, 18-22, 23-25 and 48:17-19 "I have long time held My peace; I have been still, and refrained Myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do to them, and not forsake them. They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, you are our gods.
Hear, you the deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see. Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant? Seeing many things, but you observe not; opening the ears, but he hears not. The LORD is well pleased for His Righteousness' sake; He will magnify the law, and make it honorable. But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none said, Restore. (Repent)
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, HE against Whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to His law. Therefore HE has poured upon him the fury of HIS anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart."
Isaiah 48:17-19 "Thus said the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your GOD which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you should go. O that you had (would have) hearkened to My commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: Your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me."
By Divine Illumination:
Luke 1:67-79, 80 and John 10:1-6 (John the baptizers father) "Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the LORD GOD of Israel; for HE has visited and accomplished redemption for His people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David; As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy promised to our forefathers, and to remember His holy covenant; The Oath which He swore to our father Abraham, that He would grant to us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in Holiness and Righteousness before Him, all the days of our life. And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest: for you shall go before the face of the LORD to prepare His ways; To give Knowledge of Salvation to His people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our GOD; whereby the day spring from on high has visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
The child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing to Israel."
John 10:1-6 (Jesus is here speaking) "Verily, verily, (of a Truth) I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But He that enters in by the door (in His coming death for the cross is this door and after His ascension His becomes the spiritual door) is the shepherd of the sheep. To Him the porter opens; and the sheep hear His voice: and He calls His own sheep by name, and leads them out. And when he puts forth His own sheep, He goes before them, and the sheep follow (serve) Him: for they know His voice. A stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. This parable spoke Jesus to them: but they understood not what things they were which He spoke to them."
Into All Truth:
John 16:12-15 (Jesus is here speaking) "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear (receive) them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all Truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come. He shall (will) glorify Me: for He shall (will) receive of Me, and shall show it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall (will) show it to you."
This is the end of this portion under the heading of Guidance, however it is not complete as it is. I will be adding these headings later, Inspiration, Spirit Teacher and Enlightenment.
From here I will endeavor to reveal what is contained within the context of GODS Promise of Guidance.
Of Believers Guidance:
Into a Pleasant Path:
Psalm 23:2-3 "He (the LORD) makes me to lie down in green pastures: He leads me beside the still waters. He restore my soul (revives my spirit): He leads me in the paths of (His) Righteousness for His name's sake."
In Making Decisions:
Psalm 25:8-10 and 32:8, "Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will He teaches sinners in the way. The meek will He Guide in judgment: and the meek will He teaches His way. All the paths of the LORD are Mercy and Truth to such as keep His covenant and His testimonies."
Psalm 32:5-11 "I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and You forgive the iniquity of my sin. For this shall every one that is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found: surely in the floods of great (tribulations as trails, as the) waters they shall not come nigh to him. For You are my hiding place; You shall (will) preserve me from trouble; You shall (will) compass me about with songs of deliverance. I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with My eye. (here comes the warning) Be not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to you. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all that are upright in heart."
To the end of life:
Psalm 48:14 "For this GOD is our God for ever and ever: HE will be our guide even to death."
This term death can have a double application, the spiritual dead of the spirit that rules natural man that leads to totality in our physical passing or the transformation of exchange brought about at our acknowledgement of our iniquities of sin as stated in verse 5 above in Psalm 32.
By wise Counsel:
Psalm 73:22-28 "So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before You. Nevertheless I am continually with You: You have taken hold by my right hand. You shall (will) guide me with YOUR counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but You? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside You. My flesh and my heart fails: but GOD is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever. (here comes the warning) For, lo, they that are far from You shall (will) perish: You have destroyed all them that go a whoring from You. But it is good for me to draw near to GOD: I have put my Trust in the LORD GOD, that I may declare all His works."
By the still small Voice:
Isaiah 30:18, 19-23 "Therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious to you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is GOD of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for (adhere to) Him.
For the people shall dwell in Zion at (the heavenly Spiritual) Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: HE will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry (of repentance); when He shall (will) hear it, He will answer you. Though the LORD give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not He your teacher be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see Him your teacher: And your ears shall (will) hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left. You shall (will) defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstruation cloth; you shall say to it, Get you hence (far away from me). Then shall He give the rain of you seed, that you shall sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures."
This last passage speaks of our service in ministry to the LORD within those we lead to Him and assist in their learning of Him. In their spiritual walk and growth with the helper and aid of the Holy Spirit within them, as promised.
In the Midst of Uncertainties:
Isaiah 42:14-17, 18-22, 23-25 and 48:17-19 "I have long time held My peace; I have been still, and refrained Myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do to them, and not forsake them. They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, you are our gods.
Hear, you the deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see. Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant? Seeing many things, but you observe not; opening the ears, but he hears not. The LORD is well pleased for His Righteousness' sake; He will magnify the law, and make it honorable. But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none said, Restore. (Repent)
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, HE against Whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to His law. Therefore HE has poured upon him the fury of HIS anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart."
Isaiah 48:17-19 "Thus said the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your GOD which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you should go. O that you had (would have) hearkened to My commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: Your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me."
By Divine Illumination:
Luke 1:67-79, 80 and John 10:1-6 (John the baptizers father) "Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the LORD GOD of Israel; for HE has visited and accomplished redemption for His people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David; As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy promised to our forefathers, and to remember His holy covenant; The Oath which He swore to our father Abraham, that He would grant to us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in Holiness and Righteousness before Him, all the days of our life. And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest: for you shall go before the face of the LORD to prepare His ways; To give Knowledge of Salvation to His people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our GOD; whereby the day spring from on high has visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
The child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing to Israel."
John 10:1-6 (Jesus is here speaking) "Verily, verily, (of a Truth) I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But He that enters in by the door (in His coming death for the cross is this door and after His ascension His becomes the spiritual door) is the shepherd of the sheep. To Him the porter opens; and the sheep hear His voice: and He calls His own sheep by name, and leads them out. And when he puts forth His own sheep, He goes before them, and the sheep follow (serve) Him: for they know His voice. A stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. This parable spoke Jesus to them: but they understood not what things they were which He spoke to them."
Into All Truth:
John 16:12-15 (Jesus is here speaking) "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear (receive) them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all Truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come. He shall (will) glorify Me: for He shall (will) receive of Me, and shall show it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall (will) show it to you."
This is the end of this portion under the heading of Guidance, however it is not complete as it is. I will be adding these headings later, Inspiration, Spirit Teacher and Enlightenment.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Discovering the Great and Precrious Promises of GOD (our spiritual Cleansing)
This our second area for GODS Promised dealing with our Cleansing which is paramount for our progressing in our New Life of spirit. Because is a need for a spiritual change, as we change our outer garments some times two or even three times a day. Our inner man of the spirit also has to change and it is this change that so many of us resist because of our fallen nature, it is not freely welcome or even wonted. But change it must this is often expressed in scripture as putting on the new man, defeating the strongman of sin, putting on the new man of Christ, putting on the armor of the Lord and our receiving the light. When man is born in the natural birth he so with one spirit hidden within and is counted as being dead because of the imposture deceitful spirit of mans fallen nature, this spirit is all kinds of sickness and is capable of many evils and operates in mans flesh. It is from this stand point that we will now look at our required Cleansing.
Cleansing:
Psalm 65:3 "Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, You shall (will) purge them away."
Isaiah 1:18-20 "Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."
Ezekiel 36:24-29 "I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments, and do them. And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleanness's."
Zechariah 13:1-2 "In that day (the days of Christ Jesus' first visitation) there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land."
Matthew 3:1-3 "In those days (in that day of Zechariah 13:1) came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, saying, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the LORD, make His paths straight.'"
Ephesians 5:19-27 "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of our LORD, Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear (reverence with respect) of God.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the LORD. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the (His) Church: For He is the savior of the Body. Therefore as the Church (Body) is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loves the Church (as a body of One unite), and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious Church (Body), not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish."
Titus 3:1-7 "Put them in mind (rebuke, reprove and exhort them) to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved (Redeemed) us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; (Who is now our LORD as we are Christ, in Christ) That being justified by His (abundant) Grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life."
Hebrews 9:13-15 " For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh (the material world of our flesh which passing away with the use thereof): How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? For this cause He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the Redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might Receive the Promise of Eternal inheritance."
1John 1:5-10 This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare to you, that God is Light, and in HIM is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with HIM, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ HIS Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the Truth (Christ) is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word (the power of renewal in cleansing) is not in us."
Revelation 1:5-6 "From Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. To Him that loves us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to GOD and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."
Cleansing:
Psalm 65:3 "Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, You shall (will) purge them away."
Isaiah 1:18-20 "Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."
Ezekiel 36:24-29 "I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments, and do them. And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleanness's."
Zechariah 13:1-2 "In that day (the days of Christ Jesus' first visitation) there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land."
Matthew 3:1-3 "In those days (in that day of Zechariah 13:1) came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, saying, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the LORD, make His paths straight.'"
Ephesians 5:19-27 "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of our LORD, Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear (reverence with respect) of God.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the LORD. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the (His) Church: For He is the savior of the Body. Therefore as the Church (Body) is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loves the Church (as a body of One unite), and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious Church (Body), not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish."
Titus 3:1-7 "Put them in mind (rebuke, reprove and exhort them) to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved (Redeemed) us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; (Who is now our LORD as we are Christ, in Christ) That being justified by His (abundant) Grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life."
Hebrews 9:13-15 " For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh (the material world of our flesh which passing away with the use thereof): How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? For this cause He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the Redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might Receive the Promise of Eternal inheritance."
1John 1:5-10 This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare to you, that God is Light, and in HIM is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with HIM, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ HIS Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the Truth (Christ) is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word (the power of renewal in cleansing) is not in us."
Revelation 1:5-6 "From Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. To Him that loves us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to GOD and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."
Monday, November 23, 2015
Discovering the Great and Precrious Promises of GOD (To Believers)
To day is the first installment of this our new adventure with GOD and His powerful Words of Promise. And the first one that I want to cover is why there are only a few to actually enter His Promised kingdom. This I have also revealed in many of my posts and in the writings shared within this site. To receive the benefit of Christ one MUST Receive of Him thru these words, listen with all due care and take heed to them. This one has two sections in it and I will include the second with this writing because it is so very important for all of us. Our spiritual Life depends on how we receive GOD and His Living.....Life imparting Life through Christ the Life restoring Spirit of Love, Truth, Faith and Grace in those who actually receive Him with a true open heart.
To Believers, few saved:
Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it."
Matthew 22:14 "For many are called, but few are chosen." Or as I stated elsewhere few there are that choose the narrow and ancient path contained within the scriptures.
Luke 13:23-24 "Then said one to Him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And He said to them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able."
1Peter 3:18-22 "For Christ also having once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to GOD, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which Spirit also He went and preached to the spirits (departed souls of the ancients) in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by (through) the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of GOD; angels and authorities and powers being made subject to Him."
Revelation 3:3-6 "Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you shall (will) not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before HIS angels. He that has an (open) ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."
Promises to Believers:
Bodily Supplies:
Psalm 37:3-5 "Trust the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and verily (truly) you shall (will) be fed (the hidden manna of the word and the LORDS flesh). Delight yourself also in the LORD; and He shall (will) give you the desires of your heart. (Because you) Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in Him; and He shall (will) bring it to pass."
Unlimited Blessing:
Mark 9:23 "Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes."
Answer to Prayer:
Mark 11:21, 22-26 "Peter calling to remembrance said to Him, Master (LORD), behold, the fig tree which You cursed is withered away.
Jesus answering said to them, Have faith in God. For verily I say to you, That whosoever shall say to this mountain (of your need be it spiritual or earthy, temporal), Be removed, and be cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he said shall (will) come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he asked. Therefore I say to you, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. And when you stand praying, forgive (seek and acknowledge your own repentant heart and that of others), if you have ought against anyone: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive (set you right again) you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."
Removal of Obstacles:
Luke 17:5, 6-10 "The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.
The Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this sycamine tree, Be plucked up by the root, and be planted in the sea; and it should obey you. But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say to him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? And will not rather say to him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward you shall (then will you) eat and drink? Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do."
Divine Sonship:
John 1:10-11, 12-14, 15-17 "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came to His own, and His own received Him not.
But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of the Will of God (having but on the Spirit of the risen Christ from a true heart). The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we behold His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of Grace and Truth.
John (the Baptizer) baring witness of Him, and cried, saying, This was He of Whom I spake, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for He was before me. Of his fullness have all we Received, and grace for Grace. For the Law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by (within) Jesus Christ."
Eternal life:
John 3:9-13, 14-20, 21, 5:18-47 "Nicodemus said to Him, How can these things be? Jesus answering said to him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things? Verily, verily, (of a Truth) I say to you (this is how you speak), 'We speak that which we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness.' If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly (spiritual) things? No man has ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believes Him should not perish, but have Eternal Life. For God so loves the world, that HE gave HIS only begotten Son, that whosoever believes Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved (receive of His Salvation). He that believes (only in) Him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the condemnation, that Light (Life, Love, Grace and Truth) is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that does Truth comes to the Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in GOD."
John 5:18, 19-23, 24, 25-29, 30, 31-39, 40-47 "Therefore the Jews (those who were like our PC police, political-religious group of their day) sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
Then answering Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees (saw of) the Father do: for what things soever HE does (did), these also does the Son likewise. For the Father loves the Son, and showed (and is showing) Him all things that Himself does: and HE will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so the Son quickens whom He will. For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son: That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor (fear and reverence) the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent Him.
Verily, verily, (of a Truth) I say to you, He that hears (understands) My word, and believes HIM that sent Me, having everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death (spiritual separation) to Life (having changed from the false spirit lord to the LORD).
Verily, verily, (of a Truth) I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead (those currently separated spiritually from the Light) shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall (will) live. For as the Father has Life in HIMSELF; so has HE given to the Son to have Life in Himself; And having given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth (His leading the captivity into the heavens at His resurrection as the first fruits harvest); they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the Will of the Father which has sent Me.
If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. There is another that bears witness of Me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of Me is True. You went to John (the Baptizer), and he bore witness to the Truth. But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that you might be saved (Redeemed, spiritual healing leading to your Salvation). He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light (his witness).
But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given Me to finish, (the culmination of this age of the Hebrews and Jews only dispensation) the same works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. The Father Himself, which has sent Me, has borne witness of Me. You have neither heard HIS voice at any time, nor seen HIS shape (form). And you have not HIS word abiding in you: for whom HE has sent, HIM you believe not.
Search (become a seeker of) the scriptures; for in them you think you have Eternal Life: and they are they which testify (bear witness) of Me.
You will not come to Me, that you might have (spiritually restored to true) Life. I receive not honor from men. But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
I am come in My Father's name, and you receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from GOD only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust. For had you believed Moses, you would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me. But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe My words?"
Spiritual Fullness:
John 6:34-35, 36-40 "Then said they to Him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to Me shall never hunger; and he that believes Me shall never thirst.
I said to you, That you also have seen Me, and believe not. All that the Father gives Me shall (will) come to Me; and him that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the Will of HIM that sent Me.
And this is the Father's Will which has sent Me, that of all which HE has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the Will of HIM that sent Me, that every one which see the Son, and believe Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day."
John 11:21-27 Then said Martha to Jesus, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. For I know, that even now, whatsoever You will ask of God, God will give it You.
Jesus said to her, Your brother shall rise again. Martha said to Him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believes Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever lives and believes Me shall (will) never die. Believe you this? She said to Him, Yes, Lord: I believe that You ars the Christ, the Son of God, which should come (as promised) into the world."
Spiritual Light restored:
John 12:37-43, 44-50 "But though He had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not Him: That the saying of Esaias (Isaiah) the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore they could not believe, because of what Esaias said again, He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. These things said Esaias, when he saw His glory, and spoke of Him. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Jesus cried out saying, He that believe Me, believes not on Me, but on HIM that sent Me. And he that sees Me sees HIM that sent Me.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes Me should not abide in darkness. If any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save (bring Redemption to) the world. He that rejects Me, and receives not My words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, HE gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that HIS commandment is Life Everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said to Me, so I speak."
Power for Service:
John 14:1-14, 15-17, 18-21 "Let not your heart be troubled: you believe God, believe also Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas said to Him, Lord, we know not whither You go; and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man comes to the Father, but by (through) Me. If you had known Me, you should have known My Father also: and from henceforth you know HIM, and have seen Him.
Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us. Jesus said to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast you do not know Me, Philip? he that has seen Me has seen the Father; how say you then, Show us the Father? Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? the words that I speak to you I speak not of Myself: but the Father (the Spirit) that dwells in Me, HE does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, (of the Truth) I say to you, He that believes Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to My Father. Whatsoever you shall ask in My name (this being Christ, One with or a Christian), that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it.
If you love Me, keep My commandments. I will pray the Father, and HE shall (will) give you another Comforter, that HE may abide with you for ever; The Spirit of Truth; Whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him: but you know Him; for HE dwells with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world sees Me no more; but you see Me: because I live, you shall (will) live also. At that day you shall (will) know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He that has My commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves Me: and he that loves Me shall (will) be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him."
Salvation:
Romans 1:8-15, 16-17 "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, Whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the Will of God to come to you. For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established; (restored to the fullness spiritually) That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach this Gospel to you that are at Rome also.
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the Power of God to Salvation to every one that believe; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the Righteousness of God revealed from (simply trust to) faith to Faith: as it is written, The just shall live by Faith."
1Peter 2:3-9, 10-12 "If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious. Whom coming, as a Living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, you also, as becoming lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by (through) Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion (spiritual Heavenly Zion) a chief corner stone, (as a military officer leads His troops at the head of a column) elect, precious: and he that believe Him shall (will) not be confounded. To you therefore which believe He is precious: but to them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, (rejected, having turned their backside towards) the same is made the Head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereto also they were (are because of unbelief and hardness of heart are) appointed. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of Him Who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous Light: (His Salvation the restoration of healing of our heart of spirit)
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people (like the ancient Hebrews, like Abram was) of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall (will) behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."
This ends the first of many of GODS Promises to be shared. I apologize for the length of this post because my wife tells that I often say and reveal to much. Put to me all the discoveries of GODS Truth and Revelation is very important not only for me but for all. Because it is for you Whom the LORD died to restore us to what Adam lost so long ago.
To Believers, few saved:
Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it."
Matthew 22:14 "For many are called, but few are chosen." Or as I stated elsewhere few there are that choose the narrow and ancient path contained within the scriptures.
Luke 13:23-24 "Then said one to Him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And He said to them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able."
1Peter 3:18-22 "For Christ also having once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to GOD, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which Spirit also He went and preached to the spirits (departed souls of the ancients) in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by (through) the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of GOD; angels and authorities and powers being made subject to Him."
Revelation 3:3-6 "Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you shall (will) not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before HIS angels. He that has an (open) ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."
Promises to Believers:
Bodily Supplies:
Psalm 37:3-5 "Trust the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and verily (truly) you shall (will) be fed (the hidden manna of the word and the LORDS flesh). Delight yourself also in the LORD; and He shall (will) give you the desires of your heart. (Because you) Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in Him; and He shall (will) bring it to pass."
Unlimited Blessing:
Mark 9:23 "Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes."
Answer to Prayer:
Mark 11:21, 22-26 "Peter calling to remembrance said to Him, Master (LORD), behold, the fig tree which You cursed is withered away.
Jesus answering said to them, Have faith in God. For verily I say to you, That whosoever shall say to this mountain (of your need be it spiritual or earthy, temporal), Be removed, and be cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he said shall (will) come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he asked. Therefore I say to you, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. And when you stand praying, forgive (seek and acknowledge your own repentant heart and that of others), if you have ought against anyone: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive (set you right again) you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."
Removal of Obstacles:
Luke 17:5, 6-10 "The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.
The Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this sycamine tree, Be plucked up by the root, and be planted in the sea; and it should obey you. But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say to him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? And will not rather say to him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward you shall (then will you) eat and drink? Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do."
Divine Sonship:
John 1:10-11, 12-14, 15-17 "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came to His own, and His own received Him not.
But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of the Will of God (having but on the Spirit of the risen Christ from a true heart). The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we behold His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of Grace and Truth.
John (the Baptizer) baring witness of Him, and cried, saying, This was He of Whom I spake, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for He was before me. Of his fullness have all we Received, and grace for Grace. For the Law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by (within) Jesus Christ."
Eternal life:
John 3:9-13, 14-20, 21, 5:18-47 "Nicodemus said to Him, How can these things be? Jesus answering said to him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things? Verily, verily, (of a Truth) I say to you (this is how you speak), 'We speak that which we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness.' If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly (spiritual) things? No man has ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believes Him should not perish, but have Eternal Life. For God so loves the world, that HE gave HIS only begotten Son, that whosoever believes Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved (receive of His Salvation). He that believes (only in) Him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the condemnation, that Light (Life, Love, Grace and Truth) is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that does Truth comes to the Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in GOD."
John 5:18, 19-23, 24, 25-29, 30, 31-39, 40-47 "Therefore the Jews (those who were like our PC police, political-religious group of their day) sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
Then answering Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees (saw of) the Father do: for what things soever HE does (did), these also does the Son likewise. For the Father loves the Son, and showed (and is showing) Him all things that Himself does: and HE will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so the Son quickens whom He will. For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son: That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor (fear and reverence) the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent Him.
Verily, verily, (of a Truth) I say to you, He that hears (understands) My word, and believes HIM that sent Me, having everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death (spiritual separation) to Life (having changed from the false spirit lord to the LORD).
Verily, verily, (of a Truth) I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead (those currently separated spiritually from the Light) shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall (will) live. For as the Father has Life in HIMSELF; so has HE given to the Son to have Life in Himself; And having given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth (His leading the captivity into the heavens at His resurrection as the first fruits harvest); they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the Will of the Father which has sent Me.
If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. There is another that bears witness of Me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of Me is True. You went to John (the Baptizer), and he bore witness to the Truth. But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that you might be saved (Redeemed, spiritual healing leading to your Salvation). He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light (his witness).
But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given Me to finish, (the culmination of this age of the Hebrews and Jews only dispensation) the same works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. The Father Himself, which has sent Me, has borne witness of Me. You have neither heard HIS voice at any time, nor seen HIS shape (form). And you have not HIS word abiding in you: for whom HE has sent, HIM you believe not.
Search (become a seeker of) the scriptures; for in them you think you have Eternal Life: and they are they which testify (bear witness) of Me.
You will not come to Me, that you might have (spiritually restored to true) Life. I receive not honor from men. But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
I am come in My Father's name, and you receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from GOD only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust. For had you believed Moses, you would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me. But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe My words?"
Spiritual Fullness:
John 6:34-35, 36-40 "Then said they to Him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to Me shall never hunger; and he that believes Me shall never thirst.
I said to you, That you also have seen Me, and believe not. All that the Father gives Me shall (will) come to Me; and him that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the Will of HIM that sent Me.
And this is the Father's Will which has sent Me, that of all which HE has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the Will of HIM that sent Me, that every one which see the Son, and believe Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day."
John 11:21-27 Then said Martha to Jesus, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. For I know, that even now, whatsoever You will ask of God, God will give it You.
Jesus said to her, Your brother shall rise again. Martha said to Him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believes Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever lives and believes Me shall (will) never die. Believe you this? She said to Him, Yes, Lord: I believe that You ars the Christ, the Son of God, which should come (as promised) into the world."
Spiritual Light restored:
John 12:37-43, 44-50 "But though He had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not Him: That the saying of Esaias (Isaiah) the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore they could not believe, because of what Esaias said again, He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. These things said Esaias, when he saw His glory, and spoke of Him. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Jesus cried out saying, He that believe Me, believes not on Me, but on HIM that sent Me. And he that sees Me sees HIM that sent Me.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes Me should not abide in darkness. If any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save (bring Redemption to) the world. He that rejects Me, and receives not My words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, HE gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that HIS commandment is Life Everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said to Me, so I speak."
Power for Service:
John 14:1-14, 15-17, 18-21 "Let not your heart be troubled: you believe God, believe also Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas said to Him, Lord, we know not whither You go; and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man comes to the Father, but by (through) Me. If you had known Me, you should have known My Father also: and from henceforth you know HIM, and have seen Him.
Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us. Jesus said to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast you do not know Me, Philip? he that has seen Me has seen the Father; how say you then, Show us the Father? Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? the words that I speak to you I speak not of Myself: but the Father (the Spirit) that dwells in Me, HE does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, (of the Truth) I say to you, He that believes Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to My Father. Whatsoever you shall ask in My name (this being Christ, One with or a Christian), that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it.
If you love Me, keep My commandments. I will pray the Father, and HE shall (will) give you another Comforter, that HE may abide with you for ever; The Spirit of Truth; Whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him: but you know Him; for HE dwells with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world sees Me no more; but you see Me: because I live, you shall (will) live also. At that day you shall (will) know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He that has My commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves Me: and he that loves Me shall (will) be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him."
Salvation:
Romans 1:8-15, 16-17 "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, Whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the Will of God to come to you. For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established; (restored to the fullness spiritually) That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach this Gospel to you that are at Rome also.
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the Power of God to Salvation to every one that believe; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the Righteousness of God revealed from (simply trust to) faith to Faith: as it is written, The just shall live by Faith."
1Peter 2:3-9, 10-12 "If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious. Whom coming, as a Living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, you also, as becoming lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by (through) Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion (spiritual Heavenly Zion) a chief corner stone, (as a military officer leads His troops at the head of a column) elect, precious: and he that believe Him shall (will) not be confounded. To you therefore which believe He is precious: but to them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, (rejected, having turned their backside towards) the same is made the Head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereto also they were (are because of unbelief and hardness of heart are) appointed. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of Him Who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous Light: (His Salvation the restoration of healing of our heart of spirit)
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people (like the ancient Hebrews, like Abram was) of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall (will) behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."
This ends the first of many of GODS Promises to be shared. I apologize for the length of this post because my wife tells that I often say and reveal to much. Put to me all the discoveries of GODS Truth and Revelation is very important not only for me but for all. Because it is for you Whom the LORD died to restore us to what Adam lost so long ago.
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Discovering the Great and Precrious Promises of GOD (the beginning of)
Our study will take us through the Promises of GOD, which are many and spread through out the scriptures. I will attempt to accomplish this study on a day to day bases because there are so many of them. Some are currently active while others are held back for the future when Christ is both LORD and King of the world. What will become known is that many promises are spiritual and it was for this reason alone that Jesus came in the form of mans flesh and then again as Spirit after the death of mans corrupt flesh. Man like GOD and Jesus is composed of three parts, body, spirit and soul. Since the fall mans spirit part has been held in slavery to the deceiving spirit of Satan in death and sin's power of deception. These things have all been covered in the writings on this post and my other site shared on the front of this site.
Here is a listing of these promises and there maybe others that we should do our best to uncover as the LORD, the Spirit of all Truth leads in these endeavors. These are of the Divine type in their nature and are therefore spiritually discerned.
Endurance: Matthew 10:15
God's Promise
Answer to Prayer
Blessings
Cleansing: beginning with Psalm 65:3
Comfort
Deliverance: Job 5:17
Forgiveness
Guidance: beginning at Psalm 23:2-3
Health
Long Life
Mercy
Pardon
Peace
Posterity
Preservation
Progress
Protection:
Protection: Chronicles 16:7
Reward
Safety
Salvation
Strength
Wisdom
to the Afflicted
to Believers: Matthew 7:14 is our starting point for the first sect, Psalm 37:3 is the second starting point.
to Children
to the Humble
to the Liberal
to the Meek
to the Merciful
to the Obedient
to Overcomers
to the Pentitent
to the Poor
to the Prayerful
to the Righteous
to Saints
to Seekers: beginning at 2Chronicales 11:16
to the Tempted
to the Upright
to the Widows and fatherless
to Workers
and as I have already stated there will be others not here listed as we progress in this course of study.
Here is a listing of these promises and there maybe others that we should do our best to uncover as the LORD, the Spirit of all Truth leads in these endeavors. These are of the Divine type in their nature and are therefore spiritually discerned.
Endurance: Matthew 10:15
God's Promise
Answer to Prayer
Blessings
Cleansing: beginning with Psalm 65:3
Comfort
Deliverance: Job 5:17
Forgiveness
Guidance: beginning at Psalm 23:2-3
Health
Long Life
Mercy
Pardon
Peace
Posterity
Preservation
Progress
Protection:
Protection: Chronicles 16:7
Reward
Safety
Salvation
Strength
Wisdom
to the Afflicted
to Believers: Matthew 7:14 is our starting point for the first sect, Psalm 37:3 is the second starting point.
to Children
to the Humble
to the Liberal
to the Meek
to the Merciful
to the Obedient
to Overcomers
to the Pentitent
to the Poor
to the Prayerful
to the Righteous
to Saints
to Seekers: beginning at 2Chronicales 11:16
to the Tempted
to the Upright
to the Widows and fatherless
to Workers
and as I have already stated there will be others not here listed as we progress in this course of study.
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