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2024, Psalms, Repentance, Will you pray with me?

Heavy Hand

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May it be that my own heart is right when I bring Father’s Word to Him in prayer for others. 

I have precious people in my world. They live undone lives—I mean, they live their lives their way, not God’s way.  I don’t say that without thought and compassion. I say this because when people watch our lives, it does not take long to see whether the Bible is our Guide. That is whether we are submitted to the LORDship of JESUS or we run our lives, our way. 

I said that to say this. I came across (probably not the first time) Scripture verses to pray back to Father for the precious people in my life. 

infinite-blessing-7-30-2992945211Psalm 32:4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat.  Selah 
5 Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity.  I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin.    Selah SOURCE

Father, please lay YOUR Hand heavy upon my precious people, You know their names, and may their strength to resist Your love and grace and conviction of sins be drained like energy in Alabama’s Summer heat. Help them, Father, to acknowledge the sins so easily besetting them; help them to cease to deny their iniquity. I know it is not hidden from you, don’t let them continue to hide it from themselves.  And thank You, thank You that when they confess and turn from their sins to You, You will forgive them. You will lift them up and give them life brand new.  In this prayer, I am bringing them all, Father, each and every one of them asking You for the holy gift of Your heavy hand upon them until they turn and say YES to JESUS.  Amen.
And all GOD’s People said . . .  .

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Until Next Time, Holy Hugs, Kathie

2 Chronicles, 2024, Daniel, Hebrews, Repentance, Salvation

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In early June I came here with a conversation springing from my reading of 2 Samuel, saying I was reading through the Bible slowly, Book by Book. I am continuing.

Today I finished 2 Chronicles. Yes, that’s pretty slow but it’s steady.  😊

2 Chronicles 36. In particular verses 15 – 27.

15 Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place. 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

17 So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, 18 who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials. 19 Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

20 Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.

21 So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.     source 

The first thing I want to call your attention to is again and again The LORD. Did you see that? Again and again The LORD sent His Messengers with His Message. And what did the people do?

Does that sound familiar to you? Do you know a people who are doing that today? Is it you?

What happened after the again and again and the mocking? Yes. The wrath of The LORD was stirred up beyond remedy. What does that mean? It means the kindness and goodness of GOD did not bring them to repentance so the only remedy left was for them to reap what they had sown. Is such a day coming again for a mocking people? We can be sure it is. What form will it take? That remains to be seen.

But this is not all I want to show you.

Do you see what happened next to the Sanctuary, the House of GOD?
Do you see what took place there?
Perhaps, the people ran to the Sanctuary when the judgment began,  but it was too late and they died there.
That’s not all. All the articles of the House of GOD were taken away. (Those articles were gold, silver, bronze – very costly!)

Now to my point. If you know from Scripture how meticulously and splendidly GOD gave instructions and made provisions for the building of His House, you might think He would certainly protect it.  He didn’t.
What was He more interested in? THE PEOPLE.
He wanted the People to return to Him. When they rejected His kindness and long-suffering, He took out the Whip. Do you think He has changed?

Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”

No.
PEOPLE are what matter to GOD.
People, GOD loves People!
Everything else is just stuff!

GOD LOVES PEOPLE.

Which means GOD LOVES YOU!

He is not who you have likely been taught He is.
Read His Word and find out for yourself who He is.

Let’s read the last verses of the Book and see what happened next.

22 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

23 “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:

‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.

Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”

For some in Exile, they humbled themselves and returned to The LORD.

By the way, if you are interested DANIEL lived through this exile of 70 years and He loved GOD all the way through. You can read all about it in the Book of Daniel. I hope you will.

 

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Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie

2 Samuel, 2024, Forgiveness, Repentance, Revelation, Salvation

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2 Samuel 11 and 7 words from verse 1 of 12. 

As I read Chapter 11 of 2 Samuel my spirit grieved; there was a tightness, a pain in my core as I read again David’s sins.  They are recorded for our learning. 
For us to learn the heart of GOD.

Verse 27.  It ends this way: But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Do you see that? 
GOD saw. And GOD saw it was EVIL. 
GOD always sees. He knows. Sin-Evil is not hidden from Him. 
And I believe He grieved for David when David violated Bathsheba, Uriah, the Nation, and The Logos of GOD Himself.  I am convinced He grieves for us when we violate His Word too.  

Why? 
Chapter 12 and the first 7 words. They spoke to me and I received their holy comfort. I am offering a portion of my comfort to you.

“Then the LORD sent Nathan to David”

So beautiful, so comforting, so glorious to me.
GOD sent His Messenger with GOD’s Message to David. 
The Message  – my paraphrase?  I hope you will read His Message in 2 Samuel 12 for yourself. 

REPENT and I will forgive you, restore you, and fellowship with you again. 

Sinners, violators of The Word of GOD, wayward children — what better message could we receive?!
The message is Today will you receive the GIFT of Repentance?
It’s not being judgmental, condemning, cruel, hard, harsh, or any such words that have been used to describe proclaiming the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST.  
Nope. It’s offering the BEST COMFORT in the Universe to someone poor, blind, and naked. 

Who wouldn’t want that?!


Until Next Time, Kathie 

P.S. David repented. Let us do likewise.