Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Bible Lesson: Answered Prayer: Nehemiah Prayed For Protection From His Enemies.
Bible Lesson: Answered Prayer:
Nehemiah Prayed For Protection From His Enemies.
Subject Of Prayer: Nehemiah Prayed
That Sanballat And Tobiah Would Reap The Plans They Had Made For The
Jews.
Bible Text:
Nehemiah 4:1-23 NLT (Enemies
Oppose the Rebuilding.)
1 Sanballat was very angry when he
learned that we were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and
mocked the Jews,
2 saying in front of his friends and
the Samarian army officers, “What does this bunch of poor, feeble
Jews think they’re doing? Do they think they can build the wall in
a single day by just offering a few sacrifices? Do they actually
think they can make something of stones from a rubbish heap—and
charred ones at that?”
3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was
standing beside him, remarked, “That stone wall would collapse if
even a fox walked along the top of it!”
4 Then I prayed, “Hear us, our
God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their
own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land!
5 Do not ignore their guilt. Do
not blot out their sins, for they have provoked you to anger here in
front of the builders.”
6 At last the wall was completed to
half its height around the entire city, for the people had worked
with enthusiasm.
7 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and
the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the work was going
ahead and that the gaps in the wall of Jerusalem were being repaired,
they were furious.
8 They all made plans to come and
fight against Jerusalem and throw us into confusion.
9 But we prayed to our God and
guarded the city day and night to protect ourselves.
10 Then the people of Judah began to
complain, “The workers are getting tired, and there is so much
rubble to be moved. We will never be able to build the wall by
ourselves.”
11 Meanwhile, our enemies were
saying, “Before they know what’s happening, we will swoop down on
them and kill them and end their work.”
12 The Jews who lived near the enemy
came and told us again and again, “They will come from all
directions and attack us!”
13 So I placed armed guards behind
the lowest parts of the wall in the exposed areas. I stationed the
people to stand guard by families, armed with swords, spears, and
bows.
14 Then as I looked over the
situation, I called together the nobles and the rest of the people
and said to them, “Don’t be afraid of the enemy! Remember
The Lord, who is Great and Glorious, and fight for your brothers,
your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes!”
15 When our enemies heard that we
knew of their plans and that God had frustrated them, we all
returned to our work on the wall.
16 But from then on, only half my
men worked while the other half stood guard with spears, shields,
bows, and coats of mail. The leaders stationed themselves behind the
people of Judah
17 who were building the wall. The
laborers carried on their work with one hand supporting their load
and one hand holding a weapon.
18 All the builders had a sword
belted to their side. The trumpeter stayed with me to sound the
alarm.
19 Then I explained to the nobles
and officials and all the people, “The work is very spread out, and
we are widely separated from each other along the wall.
20 When you hear the blast of the
trumpet, rush to wherever it is sounding. Then our God will fight for
us!”
21 We worked early and late, from
sunrise to sunset. And half the men were always on guard.
22 I also told everyone living
outside the walls to stay in Jerusalem. That way they and their
servants could help with guard duty at night and work during the day.
23 During this time, none of us—not
I, nor my relatives, nor my servants, nor the guards who were with
me—ever took off our clothes. We carried our weapons with us at all
times, even when we went for water.
Oh the many prayers that have been made
at time of war! Some one long ago has said, “there are no atheists
in a fox hole,” and how true.
Nehemiah and the Jews were constantly
taunted by the Samaritan leader Sanballat, and Tobiah an Ammonite,
saying, “
Nehemiah 4:2,3 NLT
2 ...“What does this bunch of
poor, feeble Jews think they’re doing? Do they think they can build
the wall in a single day by just offering a few sacrifices? Do they
actually think they can make something of stones from a rubbish
heap—and charred ones at that?”
3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was
standing beside him, remarked, “That stone wall would collapse if
even a fox walked along the top of it!”
Nehemiah prayed....
4 ...“Hear us, our God, for we
are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads,
and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land!
5 Do not ignore their guilt. Do
not blot out their sins, for they have provoked you to anger here in
front of the builders.”
6 At last the wall was completed to
half its height around the entire city, for the people had worked
with enthusiasm.
7 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and
the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the work was going
ahead and that the gaps in the wall of Jerusalem were being repaired,
they were furious.
8 They all made plans to come and
fight against Jerusalem and throw us into confusion.
But Nehemiah prayed!
9 “...we prayed to our God and
guarded the city day and night to protect ourselves.
11 Meanwhile, our enemies were
saying, “Before they know what’s happening, we will swoop down on
them and kill them and end their work.”
Nehemiah 13 “...stationed the
people to stand guard by families, armed with swords, spears, and
bows.
Then Nehemiah 14 “...called
together the nobles and the rest of the people and said to them,
“Don’t be afraid of the enemy! Remember The Lord,
who is Great and Glorious, and fight for your brothers, your sons,
your daughters, your wives, and your homes!”
What happened? God answered their
prayer!
15 When our enemies heard that we
knew of their plans and that God had frustrated them,
we all returned to our work on the wall.
Vigilance:
16 But from then on, only half my
men worked while the other half stood guard with spears, shields,
bows, and coats of mail. The leaders stationed themselves behind the
people of Judah
17 who were building the wall. The
laborers carried on their work with one hand supporting their load
and one hand holding a weapon.
18 All the builders had a sword
belted to their side. The trumpeter stayed with me to sound the
alarm.
19 Then I explained to the nobles
and officials and all the people, “The work is very spread out, and
we are widely separated from each other along the wall.
20 When you hear the blast of the
trumpet, rush to wherever it is sounding. Then our God will fight for
us!”
21 We worked early and late, from
sunrise to sunset. And half the men were always on guard.
22 I also told everyone living
outside the walls to stay in Jerusalem. That way they and their
servants could help with guard duty at night and work during the day.
23 During this time, none of us—not
I, nor my relatives, nor my servants, nor the guards who were with
me—ever took off our clothes. We carried our weapons with us at all
times, even when we went for water.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you hear the
trumpets?
Everyday the ramparts of righteousness,
Truth and honor are being besieged by the enemy. What is needed are
Christian Workers, willing as the dedicated workers of Nehemiah's
day. Workers willing to stand guard, to protect decency, marriage,
infants, family, the church, our country and The Word Of God. The
hour is late, but now is not the time to leave our posts! The enemy
as a prowling lion, seeks to destroy, destroy, and to destroy.
But …
I John 4:4 KJV
"... greater is He that is in
you, than he that is in the world.
Dear Christian, we are on the Victory
side,...
Galatians 6:9 KJV
“...let us not be weary in well
doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Romans 8:31 KJV
What shall we then say to these
things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
“Don’t be afraid of the
enemy! Remember The Lord, who is Great and Glorious, and fight for
your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your
homes!”
our God will fight for us!”
We
Serve A God Who Answers Prayer!
Joshua
10:14 KJV
And there was
no day like that before it or after it, that The Lord hearkened unto
the voice of a man: for The Lord fought for Israel.
Nehemiah 9:27
KJV
in the time of
their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them
I Chronicles
16:11 KJV
Seek The Lord
and His strength, seek His face continually.
Nehemiah 9:27
KJV
in the time of
their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them
Job 22:27 KJV
Thou shalt make
thy prayer unto Him, and He shall hear thee..."
Psalm 6:9 KJV
The Lord hath
heard my supplication; The Lord will receive my prayer.
Psalm 55:17 KJV
Evening, and
morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear
my voice.
Psalm 65:2 KJV
O thou that
hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Psalm 66:19 KJV
But verily God
hath heard me; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Psalm 88:1,2 KJV
1 O lord God of
my Salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2 Let my prayer
come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
Psalm 91:15 KJV
He shall call
upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will
deliver him, and honor him.
Psalm 99:6,8 KJV
6 "...they
called upon the Lord, and he answered them.
8 Thou
answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest
them..."
Psalm 102:17 KJV
He will regard
the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Psalm 122:6 KJV
Pray for the
peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Proverbs 15:8,29
KJV
8 The sacrifice
of the wicked is an abomination to The Lord: but the prayer of the
upright is His delight.
29 The Lord is
far from the wicked: but He heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 38:5 KJV
“...I have
heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears...”
Isaiah 56:7 KJV
"... for
Mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Isaiah 58:9 KJV
Then shalt thou
call, and The Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He shall say,
Here I am...:"
Isaiah 65;24 KJV
And it shall
come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they
are yet speaking, I will hear.
Jeremiah 29:13
KJV
And ye shall
seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your
heart.
Jeremiah 33:3
KJV
Call unto Me,
and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which
thou knowest not.
Zechariah 13:9
KJV
And I will
bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver
is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My
name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they
shall say, The Lord is my God.
Joel 2:32 KJV
And it shall
come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of The Lord shall
be delivered..."
Matthew 5:44 KJV
But I say unto
you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them
that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you;
Matthew 6:6 KJV
But thou, when
thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy
door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which
seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 7:7,8
KJV
7 Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you:
8 For every one
that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew 18:19,20
KJV
19 Again I say
unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any
thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father
which is in heaven.
20 For where
two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the
midst of them.
Matthew 21:22
KJV
And all things,
whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Matthew 26:41
KJV
Watch and pray,
that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but
the flesh is weak.
Mark 11:24,25
KJV
24 Therefore I
say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe
that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
25 And when ye
stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your
Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Luke 11:9,10 KJV
9 And I say
unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10 For every
one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him
that knocketh it shall be opened.
Luke 18:1,7,8
KJV
1 And He spake
a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and
not to faint;
7 "...don’t
you think God will surely give justice to His chosen people who cry
out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off?
8 I tell you,
He will grant justice to them quickly! But when The Son Of Man
returns, how many will He find on the earth who have faith?”
Luke 21:36 KJV
Watch ye
therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape
all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before The Son
Of Man.
John 14:13,14
KJV
13 And
whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that The Father
may be glorified in The Son.
14 If ye shall
ask any thing in My name, I will do it.
John 15:7,16 KJV
7 If ye abide
in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.
16 Ye have not
chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go
and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that
whatsoever ye shall ask of The Father in My name, He may give it you.
John 16:23,24
KJV
23 And in that
day ye shall ask Me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whatsoever ye shall ask
The Father in
My name, he will give it you.
24 Hitherto
have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that
your joy may be full.
Romans 10:12
KJV
For there is no
difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all
is rich unto all that call upon Him.
Ephesians 2:18
KJV
For through Him
we both have access by one Spirit unto The Father.
Ephesians 6:18
KJV
Praying always
with all prayer and supplication in The Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Philippians 4:6
NLT
Don’t worry
about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you
need, and thank Him for all He has done.
Colossians 4:2
NLT
Devote
yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
I Thessalonians
5:17 KJV
Pray without
ceasing.
I Timothy 2:8
KJV
I will
therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without
wrath and doubting.
Hebrews 4:16 KJV
Let us
therefore come boldly unto The Throne Of Grace, that we may obtain
mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 10:19
KJV
Having
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by The Blood
Of Jesus,
James 1:6 KJV
But let him ask
in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
James 4:8 KJV
Draw nigh to
God, and he will draw nigh to you
James
5:13-16 KJV
13 Is any among
you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick
among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them
pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of The Lord:
15 And the
prayer of faith shall save the sick, and The Lord shall raise him up;
and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your
faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be
healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.
I Peter 4:7 KJV
But the end of
all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
I John 3:22 KJV
And whatsoever
we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do
those things that are pleasing in His sight.
I John 5:14,15
KJV
14 And this is
the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing
according to His will, He heareth us:
15 And if we
know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the
petitions that we desired of Him.
Revelation 8:3-5 NLT (Prayers heard and kept)
3 Then another
angel with a gold incense burner came and stood at the altar. And a
great amount of incense was given to him to mix with the prayers of
God’s people as an offering on the gold altar before the throne.
4 The smoke of
the incense, mixed with the prayers of God’s holy people, ascended
up to God from the altar where the angel had poured them out.
5 Then the
angel filled the incense burner with fire from the altar..."
Monday, June 29, 2015
Pain
Bible Questions Answered:
“If god is a god of love why did he
make a world of pain?...”
Samantha/ Calgary, Alberta Canada
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
God created pain receptors in the body,
there are some 200 pain receptors in every square inch of flesh.
That's a lot of pain receptors, and why did God do that?
Without pain receptors a person may
have his hand too close to the camp fire and burn himself, a runner
may over do his exercise and hurt himself, if his body wasn't warning
him, “hey this hurts, back off!”
Job 14:22 KJV
But his flesh upon him shall have
pain..."
Job 30:17 NLT
At night my bones are filled with
pain, which gnaws at me relentlessly.
Man, is not the
only one experiencing pain!
The Word Of The
Lord also tells us that all of creation experiences pain.
Jeremiah
12:10,11 NLT
10 “Many rulers have ravaged My
vineyard, trampling down the vines and turning all its beauty into a
barren wilderness.
11 They have made it an empty
wasteland; I hear its mournful cry. The whole land is desolate, and
no one even cares.
Romans 8:22 KJV
For we know that the whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Pain came as
Divine Judgment:
Genesis 3:17-19
KJV
17 And unto Adam He said, Because
thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the
tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all
the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it
bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast
thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Revelation 16:10
KJV
And the fifth angel poured out his
vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of
darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
Godly (pain)
sorrow, leads to repentance:
II Corinthians
7:8-10 NLT
8 I am not sorry that I sent that
severe letter to you, though I was sorry at first, for I know it was
painful to you for a little while.
9 Now I am glad I sent it, not
because it hurt you, but because the pain caused you to repent and
change your ways. It was the kind of sorrow God wants His people to
have, so you were not harmed by us in any way.
10 For the kind of sorrow God wants
us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation.
There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow,
which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.
Our Faithful
High Priest:
Hebrews 2:18 NLT
Since He Himself has gone through
suffering and testing, He is able to help us when we are being
tested.
Hebrews 4:14-16
MSG (The High Priest Who Cried Out in Pain)
14-16 Now that we know what we
have—Jesus, this Great High Priest with ready access to God—let’s
not let it slip through our fingers. We don’t have a Priest who is
out of touch with our reality. He’s been through weakness and
testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. So let’s walk right
up to Him and get what He is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept
the help.
Psalm 18:2 NLT
(The Lord Our Spiritual Deliverer.)
The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress,
and my savior; my God is my Rock, in whom I find Protection. He is my
Shield, The Power that saves me, and my place of Safety.
Psalm 34:18 NLT
(The Lord Delivers From Emotional Pain.)
The Lord is close to the
brokenhearted; He rescues those whose spirits are crushed.
Our God's
Promise:
I Corinthians
10:13 MSG
No test or temptation that comes
your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All
you need to remember is that God will never let you down; He’ll
never let you be pushed past your limit; He’ll always be there to
help you come through it.
For God's
people, there is coming a time when pain will forever be banished!
Revelation
21:4,5 KJV (The Lord, Our Deliverer from physical, spiritual, and
emotional pain.)
4 And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former
things are passed away.
5 And He that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said unto me, Write: for
these words are True and Faithful.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
God's Anger
Bible Questions Answered:
“...seems like the god of the old
testament is a angry god...”
Henrietta/
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
God's anger was based upon the sin of
the people.
God's Anger:
Numbers 14:11 KJV
And The Lord said to Moses, “How
long will these people treat Me with contempt? Will they never
believe Me, even after all the miraculous signs I have done among
them?
II Kings 22:13 KJV
Go ye, enquire of The Lord for me,
and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this
Book that is found: for great is the wrath of The Lord that is
kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the
words of this Book, to do according unto all that which is written
concerning us.
Psalm 2:8,9,12 KJV
8 But He will pour out His anger and
wrath on those who live for themselves, who refuse to obey
The Truth and instead live lives of
wickedness.
9 There will be trouble and calamity
for everyone who keeps on doing what is evil—for the Jew first and
also for the Gentile.
12 Kiss The Son, lest He be angry,
and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.
Psalm 7:11 KJV
God judgeth the righteous, and God
is angry with the wicked every day.
Jeremiah 17:23 NLT
But they did not listen or obey.
They stubbornly refused to pay attention or accept My discipline.
God's Love: (As seen in the Old Testament.)
Deuteronomy
7:8,12,13 KJV
8 But because The Lord loved you,
and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn unto your
fathers, hath The Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt.
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass,
if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that
The Lord thy God shall keep unto
thee the covenant and the mercy which He sware unto thy fathers:
13 And He will love thee, and bless
thee, and multiply thee..."
Isaiah 38:17 KJV
"...thou hast in love to my
soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all
my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah 63:9 KJV
In all their affliction He was
afflicted, and The Angel Of His Presence saved them: in His love and
in His pity He redeemed them; and He bare them, and carried them all
the days of old.
Jeremiah 31:3
KJV
The Lord hath appeared of old unto
me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:
therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
Hosea 11:4 KJV
I drew them with cords of a man,
with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke
on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Hosea 14:4 KJV
I will heal their backsliding, I
will love them freely: for Mine anger is turned away from him.
Zephaniah 3:17
KJV
The Lord thy God in the midst of
thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He
will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing.
God's love is
universal, and so to His judgment over sin.
John 3:16-18,36
KJV
16 For God so loved the world, that
He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be
saved.
18 He that believeth on Him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he
hath not believed in the name of The Only Begotten Son Of God.
36 And anyone who believes in God’s
Son has eternal life. Anyone who doesn’t obey The Son will never
experience eternal life but remains under God’s angry judgment.”
Romans 1:18,19
NLT
18 But God shows His anger from
heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress The Truth by
their wickedness.
19 They know The Truth about God
because He has made it obvious to them.
Ephesians 5:6
NLT
Don’t be fooled by those who try
to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who
disobey Him.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Bible Lesson: Answered Prayer: King Manasseh Prays For Deliverance.
Bible Lesson: Answered Prayer: King
Manasseh Prays For Deliverance.
Subject Of Prayer: Manasseh
Prayed To Be Delivered From The Assyrians.
Bible Text:
II Chronicles 33:1-20 NLT
1 Manasseh was
twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem
fifty-five years.
2 He did what
was evil in The Lord’s sight, following the detestable practices of
the pagan nations that The Lord had driven from the land ahead of the
Israelites.
3 He rebuilt
the pagan shrines his father, Hezekiah, had broken down. He
constructed altars for the images of Baal and set up Asherah poles.
He also bowed before all the powers of the heavens and worshiped
them.
4 He built
pagan altars in the Temple of The Lord, the place where The Lord had
said, “My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
5 He built
these altars for all the powers of the heavens in both courtyards of
The Lord’s Temple.
6 Manasseh also
sacrificed his own sons in the fire in the valley of Ben-Hinnom. He
practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and he consulted with
mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in The Lord’s
sight, arousing His anger.
7 Manasseh even
took a carved idol he had made and set it up in God’s Temple, the
very place where God had told David and his son Solomon: “My name
will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem—the city I
have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel.
8 If the
Israelites will be careful to obey My commands—all the laws,
decrees, and regulations given through Moses—I will not send them
into exile from this land that I set aside for your ancestors.”
9 But Manasseh
led the people of Judah and Jerusalem to do even more evil than the
pagan nations that The Lord had destroyed when the people of Israel
entered the land.
10 The Lord
spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they ignored all his warnings.
11 So The Lord
sent the commanders of the Assyrian armies, and they took Manasseh
prisoner. They put a ring through his nose, bound him in bronze
chains, and led him away to Babylon.
12 But while in
deep distress, Manasseh sought The Lord his God and sincerely humbled
himself before the God of his ancestors.
13 And when he
prayed, The Lord listened to him and was moved by his request. So The
Lord brought Manasseh back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then
Manasseh finally realized that The Lord alone is God!
14 After this
Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, from west of
the Gihon Spring in the Kidron Valley to the Fish Gate, and
continuing around the hill of Ophel. He built the wall very high. And
he stationed his military officers in all of the fortified towns of
Judah.
15
Manasseh also removed the foreign gods and the idol from The Lord’s
Temple. He tore down all
the altars he had built on the hill where the Temple stood and all
the altars that were in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the
city.
16 Then he
restored the altar of The Lord and sacrificed peace offerings and
thanksgiving offerings on it. He also encouraged the people of Judah
to worship The Lord, The God Of Israel.
17 However, the
people still sacrificed at the pagan shrines, though only to The Lord
their God.
18 The rest of
the events of Manasseh’s reign, his prayer to God, and the words
the seers spoke to him in the name of The Lord, The God Of Israel,
are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel.
19 Manasseh’s
prayer, the account of the way God answered him, and an account of
all his sins and unfaithfulness are recorded in The Record of the
Seers. It includes a list of the locations where he built pagan
shrines and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself
and repented.
20 When
Manasseh died, he was buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became
the next king.
II Chronicles 33:12,13 NLT
12 But while in deep distress,
Manasseh sought The Lord his God and sincerely humbled himself before
the God of his ancestors.
13 And when he prayed, The Lord
listened to him and was moved by his request. So Ghe Lord brought
Manasseh back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh finally
realized that The Lord alone is God!
Manasseh was the
evil son of Godly King Hezekiah. Are you a parent that feels you have
failed? There can be no doubt King Hezekiah left his son a Godly
legacy, but that Manasseh's intentions were anything but Godly.
Can this happen to
Godly parents? Yes.
Actually it can
happen even if they were raised by Christ Himself, for during the
millennium, 1,000 years of Christ rule, after the end of the 1,000
years many yet will go after the devil, and will not serve God.
Revelation
20:7,8 NLT
7 When the thousand years come to an
end, Satan will be let out of his prison.
8 He will go out to deceive the
nations—called Gog and Magog—in every corner of the earth. He
will gather them together for battle—a mighty army, as numberless
as sand along the seashore.
Because Manasseh
would not serve God, but did everything he could to serve the evil
one.
II Chronicles
33:11 NLT
So The Lord sent the commanders of
the Assyrian armies, and they took Manasseh prisoner. They put a ring
through his nose, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to
Babylon.
Only in a
Babylonian prison were Manasseh's eyes opened to his sin, and in deep
repentance, he turned to the one from which he had run for some 22
years, The Lord the God of his fathers.
Parents, should one
ever give up on praying for their children? Of course not!
Though long dead,
Hezekiah's prayers (No doubt) for his son were answered, as his son
Manasseh turned completely to The Lord.
II Chronicles
33:12 NLT
But while in deep distress,
Manasseh sought The Lord his God and sincerely humbled himself before
the God of his ancestors.
God heard his
prayer, and delivered him.
Luke 15:20-24
KJV (Christ's Parable Of The Lost Son.)
20 And he arose, and came to his
father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and
had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21 And the son said unto him,
Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no
more worthy to be called thy son.
22 But the father said to his
servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a
ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf,
and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is
alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Once back in
Jerusalem...
II Chronicles
33:15,16 NLT
15 Manasseh also removed the
foreign gods and the idol from The Lord’s Temple. He tore down all
the altars he had built on the hill where the Temple stood and all
the altars that were in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the
city.
16 Then he restored the altar of The
Lord and sacrificed peace offerings and thanksgiving offerings on it.
He also encouraged the people of Judah to worship The Lord, The God
Of Israel.
But though he tried
somewhat to undo what he taken years to do, yet the people loathed
his memory, and so would not bury him as a King among the sepulchres
of David, but rather...
II Kings 21:26
NLT
He was buried in his tomb in the
garden of Uzza (A garden attached
to Manasseh's palace.)..."
Galatians 6:7
KJV
Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Homily:
You may pound a
nail in the wall wishing to hang a picture and than say to yourself,
“no that's not where I want to hang that after all,” so you
remove the nail.
One may remove the
nail, but the hole in the wall remains.
Yes, how wonderful
God forgives sins, when we repent in prayer before Him, but He is
under no obligation to undo the crop that we have sinfully planted.
How true the
words....
Numbers 32:23
KJV
"...be sure your sin will find
you out.
Dear friend, make
sure they find you out before you have spent a life time of sinful
mistakes, affecting countless others.
This story assures
of one thing, our Heavenly Father is always listening for the sinners
call, and He will answer!
Will God hear your
prayers?
He will if you are
a child of His, if you are not His child, call upon Him now, and have
your name written in Heavens Book Of Life.
The
God Who Hears And Answers Prayer:
Joshua 10:14 KJV
And there was
no day like that before it or after it, that The Lord hearkened unto
the voice of a man: for The Lord fought for Israel.
Nehemiah 9:27
KJV
in the time of
their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them
I Chronicles
16:11 KJV
Seek The Lord
and His strength, seek His face continually.
Nehemiah 9:27
KJV
in the time of
their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them
Job 22:27 KJV
Thou shalt make
thy prayer unto Him, and He shall hear thee..."
Psalm 6:9 KJV
The Lord hath
heard my supplication; The Lord will receive my prayer.
Psalm 55:17 KJV
Evening, and
morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear
my voice.
Psalm 65:2 KJV
O thou that
hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Psalm 66:19 KJV
But verily God
hath heard me; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Psalm 88:1,2 KJV
1 O lord God of
my Salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2 Let my prayer
come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
Psalm 91:15 KJV
He shall call
upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will
deliver him, and honor him.
Psalm 99:6,8 KJV
6 "...they
called upon the Lord, and he answered them.
8 Thou
answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest
them..."
Psalm 102:17 KJV
He will regard
the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Psalm 122:6 KJV
Pray for the
peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Proverbs 15:8,29
KJV
8 The sacrifice
of the wicked is an abomination to The Lord: but the prayer of the
upright is His delight.
29 The Lord is
far from the wicked: but He heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 38:5 KJV
“...I have
heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears...”
Isaiah 56:7 KJV
"... for
Mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Isaiah 58:9 KJV
Then shalt thou
call, and The Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He shall say,
Here I am...:"
Isaiah 65;24 KJV
And it shall
come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they
are yet speaking, I will hear.
Jeremiah 29:13
KJV
And ye shall
seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your
heart.
Jeremiah 33:3
KJV
Call unto Me,
and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which
thou knowest not.
Zechariah 13:9
KJV
And I will
bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver
is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My
name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they
shall say, The Lord is my God.
Joel 2:32 KJV
And it shall
come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of The Lord shall
be delivered..."
Matthew 5:44 KJV
But I say unto
you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them
that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you;
Matthew 6:6 KJV
But thou, when
thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy
door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which
seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 7:7,8
KJV
7 Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you:
8 For every one
that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew 18:19,20
KJV
19 Again I say
unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any
thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father
which is in heaven.
20 For where
two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the
midst of them.
Matthew 21:22
KJV
And all things,
whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Matthew 26:41
KJV
Watch and pray,
that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but
the flesh is weak.
Mark 11:24,25
KJV
24 Therefore I
say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe
that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
25 And when ye
stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your
Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Luke 11:9,10 KJV
9 And I say
unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10 For every
one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him
that knocketh it shall be opened.
Luke 18:1,7,8
KJV
1 And He spake
a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and
not to faint;
7 "...don’t
you think God will surely give justice to His chosen people who cry
out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off?
8 I tell you,
He will grant justice to them quickly! But when The Son Of Man
returns, how many will He find on the earth who have faith?”
Luke 21:36 KJV
Watch ye
therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape
all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before The Son
Of Man.
John 14:13,14
KJV
13 And
whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that The Father
may be glorified in The Son.
14 If ye shall
ask any thing in My name, I will do it.
John 15:7,16 KJV
7 If ye abide
in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.
16 Ye have not
chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go
and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that
whatsoever ye shall ask of The Father in My name, He may give it you.
John 16:23,24
KJV
23 And in that
day ye shall ask Me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whatsoever ye shall ask
The Father in
My name, he will give it you.
24 Hitherto
have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that
your joy may be full.
Romans 10:12
KJV
For there is no
difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all
is rich unto all that call upon Him.
Ephesians 2:18
KJV
For through Him
we both have access by one Spirit unto The Father.
Ephesians 6:18
KJV
Praying always
with all prayer and supplication in The Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Philippians 4:6
NLT
Don’t worry
about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you
need, and thank Him for all He has done.
Colossians 4:2
NLT
Devote
yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
I Thessalonians
5:17 KJV
Pray without
ceasing.
I Timothy 2:8
KJV
I will
therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without
wrath and doubting.
Hebrews 4:16 KJV
Let us
therefore come boldly unto The Throne Of Grace, that we may obtain
mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 10:19
KJV
Having
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by The Blood
Of Jesus,
James 1:6 KJV
But let him ask
in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
James 4:8 KJV
Draw nigh to
God, and he will draw nigh to you
James
5:13-16 KJV
13 Is any among
you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick
among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them
pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of The Lord:
15 And the
prayer of faith shall save the sick, and The Lord shall raise him up;
and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your
faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be
healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.
I Peter 4:7 KJV
But the end of
all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
I John 3:22 KJV
And whatsoever
we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do
those things that are pleasing in His sight.
I John 5:14,15
KJV
14 And this is
the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing
according to His will, He heareth us:
15 And if we
know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the
petitions that we desired of Him.
Revelation 8:3-5 NLT (Prayers heard and kept)
3 Then another
angel with a gold incense burner came and stood at the altar. And a
great amount of incense was given to him to mix with the prayers of
God’s people as an offering on the gold altar before the throne.
4 The smoke of
the incense, mixed with the prayers of God’s holy people, ascended
up to God from the altar where the angel had poured them out.
5 Then the
angel filled the incense burner with fire from the altar..."
Monday, June 22, 2015
Adoption
Bible Questions Answered:
“...after all we are all god's
children...”
Robby/San Diego, California U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
We have all been created by God, but
God is “not,” The Father of us all! God is not Father to the
lost, those who refuse His “pardon for sins,” through His Son The
Lord Jesus Christ.
God is Father to the redeemed, this
called adoption:
Adoption:
Our great God, knew
what our choices would be long before we were ever born.
God's
Omniscience: (All Knowing.)
Job 42:2 KJV
I know that thou canst do every
thing, and that no thought can be with holden (withheld) from thee.
Isaiah 46:9,10
KJV
9 Remember the former things of old:
for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none
like Me,
10 Declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done,
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure:
Children Of God:
Matthew 5:9 KJV
(Followers of Christ.)
Blessed are the peacemakers: for
they shall be called the children of God.
Romans
8:14,15,23,28,29 NLT
14
For all who are led by The Spirit Of God are children of God.
15
For ye (The
Christian) have
not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have
received
The Spirit
Of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
23 And we believers also groan, even
though we have The Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future
glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and
suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will
give us our full rights as His adopted children, including the
new bodies He has promised us.
29 For God knew His people in
advance, and He chose them to become like His Son, so that
His Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
30 And having chosen them, He called
them to come to Him. And having called them, He gave them right
standing with Himself. And having given them right standing, He gave
them His glory.
Ephesians 1:5,7
NLT
5 God decided in advance to adopt
us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus
Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure.
7 He is so rich in kindness and
grace that He purchased our freedom with The Blood Of His Son and
forgave our sins.
Galatians 3:26 NLT
For you are all children of God
through faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:4-7
KJV
4 But when the fulness of the time
was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the
law,
5 To redeem them that were under the
law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath
sent forth The Spirit Of His Son into your hearts, crying,
Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a
servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Hebrews 12:5-9
NLT (The Lord disciplines His
children.)
5 And have you forgotten the
encouraging words God spoke to you as His children? He said, “My
child, don’t make light of The Lord’s discipline, and don’t
give up when He corrects you.
6 For The Lord disciplines those He
loves, and He punishes each one He accepts as His child.”
7 As you endure this divine
discipline, remember that God is treating you as His own children.
Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father?
8 If God doesn’t discipline you as
He does all of His children, it means that you are illegitimate and
are not really His children at all.
9 Since we respected our earthly
fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the
discipline of The Father of our spirits, and live forever?
I John 3:5-11
KJV (The Lord's children.)
5 And ye know that He was manifested
to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth
not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him.
7 Little children, let no man
deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is
righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the
devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose The
Son Of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the
devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not
commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because
he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God
are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not
righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 For this is the message that ye
heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Promise Of The
Future:
Matthew 13:43
KJV
Then shall the
righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who
hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Philippians
3:20,21 KJV
20 For our
conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for The Savior,
The Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body,
that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to
the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto
Himself.
I John 3:2 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God,
and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when
He (Christ) shall
appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.
Revelation 21:7
KJV
He that over cometh shall inherit
all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son.
Dear friend, if God
is not your Father, receive His love Gift today, The Lord Jesus
Christ, and be adopted into the very family of God, with your name
written in heavens book of life.
Revelation
21:22-27 NLT (Heavenly New Jerusalem.)
22 I saw no temple in the city, for
The Lord God Almighty and The Lamb are its temple.
23 And the city has no need of sun
or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and The Lamb is
its Light.
24 The nations will walk in its
Light, and the kings of the world will enter the city in all their
glory.
25 Its gates will never be closed at
the end of day because there is no night there.
26 And all the nations will bring
their glory and honor into the city.
27 Nothing evil will be allowed to
enter, nor anyone who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty—but
only those whose names are written in The Lamb’s Book Of Life.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Hallelujah
Bible Questions Answered:
“What does halelujah means?”
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Hallelujah:
In the Old Testament; Praise ye
Jehovah/ Praise ye The Lord.
A shout of praise, gratitude or joy.
Dear friend, how much time do you set
apart each day to, “Praise The Lord?'
Ten Psalms in the Old Testament are
called "The Hallelujah Psalms," because frequently
mentioned is the phrase "Praise The Lord."
Psalm 106:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord. O give thanks
unto The Lord; for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever.
Psalm 111:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord. I will praise
The Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in
the congregation.
Psalm 112:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord. Blessed is the
man that feareth The Lord, that delighteth greatly in His
commandments.
Psalm 113:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord. Praise, O ye
servants of The Lord, praise the name of The Lord.
Psalm 135:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord. Praise ye the
name of The Lord; praise him, O ye servants of The Lord.
Psalm 146:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord. Praise The Lord,
O my soul.
Psalm 147:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord: for it is good
to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is
comely.
Psalm 148:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord. Praise ye The
Lord from the heavens: praise Him in the heights.
Psalm 149:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord. Sing unto The
Lord a new song, and His praise in the congregation of saints.
Psalm 150:1 KJV
Praise ye The Lord. Praise God in
His sanctuary: praise Him in the firmament of His power.
The Greek form:
Alleluiah-(Al-le-loo-yah):
Praise ye Jah, an adoring exclamation. Alleluiah.
Revelation 19:1,3,4,6 KJV
1 And after these things I heard a
great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation,
and glory, and honor, and power, unto The Lord our God:
3 And again they said, Alleluia And
her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
4 And the four and twenty elders and
the four beasts fell down and worshiped God that sat on the throne,
saying, Amen; Alleluia.
6 And I heard as it were the voice
of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the
voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for The Lord God
omnipotent reigneth.
Praise ye, The Lord!
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