WISE SAYINGS

 

      Here is a sad truth of today.  Instead of telling people to quit their destructive behavior society just gives them another form of it.  Remember this most politicians today care more about your vote than they do you.  No matter who they may be only believe what a person does not what they say.

People do not care one about what you say.  They care about how you make them feel.

       For centuries satan has been trying to tell mankind God does not love them.  Yet one act says He does.  Jesus died to save mankind.  No greater love can you give when you lay down your life for a friend.  True courage is not found in great deeds but in moment by moment decisions to be truthfulness, honest, loving and compassionate.

      Parents model God’s love day by day in how we love, treat and care for them.  Mom, Dad, you model God’s love moment by moment before your children.  So spend moments with God to get the resources you need to do the task.  A Godly parent and a sinner do not pull on the same rope of influence for our children.

IN THE NORTH

 

Oct 22 – Smole in the Nostrils - Isaiah 65:1-5

 

     Isaiah continues his message and diatribe.  The Lord revealed Himself to a people who did know Him. He was found by people who did not seek Him.  That is how we are come.  While we were yet sinner Christ died for us.   He spoke to a nation that did not call on His name and said, “Here I am.”

     The Lord is reaching out to an obstinate people who walk in their own ways and imaginations. They are a people that offer sacrifices in gardens and on altars of brick.  They sit among graves doing night vigils for idols and they eat unclean animals.  They believe that they are sacred and pure when they are smoke in the Lord’s nostrils.

A DEFEATED FOE

 

     Isn’t it wonderful to know that satan has been defeated by Jesus Christ.  John reminds us that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.  Sin started with man and the results was he was kicked out of paradise and satan has exploited that.  It got so bad God had destroy the world with the flood. 

     After the flood God called Abraham to be his special man in the world.  Abraham believed God and he was declaring righteous and a man of faith.  Satan was very busy during this time tempting people to follow a pantheon of gods.  Behind every hatred or corruption is satan.  Satan attacks three ways, accusation, temptation and deception.  Satan also comes as an angel of light. 

     Jesus Christ came to set people free from sin, hell and the grave.  His death, burial and resurrection gave mankind freedom and victory.  We must know the motive and operation of satan to be able to defeat him.

     Satan has claim authority over the worldly system.  He has dominion over sinners.  He blinds people to the truth.  He is the father of all lies.  He is the one helping people to disobey God.  He slanders the saints.  He opposes the righteous.  He tries to ruin body and soul through sin.  He preys on the weak and vulnerable. 

     The Christian must employ the word of God, prayer, the armor of God and be fearless.  Remember satan is defeated, he runs from those who resist him in faith and the power of Christ.  Christ is going to fight for us and will give us peace.  We need to know we have divine assistance and help.  In fact, the angels of the Lord camp around those that fear and serve the Lord.  The Lord is our shield and buckler.  We have the victory so lets use it.

FEEDING OF THE 5000

 

    In the story of the feeding of the five thousand we learn that the physical realm can only be fed for a time, but the spiritual will always be fed when you are connected with the Lord.  Did you know that billions are spent every week on lotto tickets.  A person can spend their entire life trying to satisfy their carnal nature.  Mick Jagger sang a song stating he cannot get any satisfaction.  How true. 

     In the feeding of the five thousand people saw Jesus as a miracle worker but not anything more and that is often the case today.  Jesus is misunderstood.  Jesus is the giver of life, and he came for the whole person.  He came to give both eternal and abundant life. Jesus came to give is living water an face that cannot spoil. 

     Jesus gives us an overflowing cup.  He gives us a fullness of blessing.  He gives joy.  He gives a fullness of God.  He gives a fullness of Spirit.  He gives wisdom.  Jesus c called himself the bread of life.  He will always satisfy those that are hungry and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled. 

      What the world gives keeps you wanting more.  What Christ gives fills you to overflowing.  The things of this world last for a moment.  The things of God last for eternity.

JOHN THE BAPTIST

 

     The John the Baptist was an old-time preacher he was fearless in the face of evil.  He spoke against corruption in any form.  He told people to repent and not play games with God.  We need those types of people today.  He spoke against a corrupt religious system that was nice on the outside but corrupt on the inside.

     It is easy to just go with the flow, but that type of view is going to destroy you.  We need more people who stand on the Bible and live for the Lord.  You walk under the unction of the Holy Spirit.

You need reformation and revival.  John urge people to be righteous.  We cannot be living like the world because the Lord hates the world. 

     John was a man who steps from the presence of the Lord the presence of men.  He had a fire from God that burned in his soul.  He was a man of prayer.  True power id found in the prayer closet.  John preached for a verdict he wanted to repent.  John also point not to himself but to Jesus Christ and that is what we must do as well. 

     John was preparing the way of the Lord and we are well.  John was a signpost to God and we are as well our lives must point o God.  So today be fearless, walk in righteousness, stay in the presence of God and point people to Jesus.

HEED

 

Oct 21 – Heed - Isaiah 64:10-11

 

     The prophets sees that the sacred cities have been turned into a wasteland.  Both the area of Zion and Jerusalem itself.  The temple where generations of Israel worshipped the Lord has been burned with fire.  All they treasured now lies in ruins.  Yu can hear the heart of the prophet breaking.  He then requests that the Lord no longer hold Himself back.  He asks the question, “Lord will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?  Isaiah sees the future.  His knows what is coming that is why He wrote it down and hundred years before it happens.  There is still time and he hope that Judah will heed it.

WISE SAYINGS

 

     Don’t ever let someone tell you the way of the devil is easy.  The Bible says the way of the transgressor is hard.  Ask the drunk, the prisoner and the drug addict.  The devil comes to rob, kill and destroy.  That is not easy but hard.  Living in the past keeps a person from truly embracing the future.  Living in the past will never make the present God’s gift for the day.

     When you grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord every day.  You are making progress in faith to overcome anything.  The only way to stay strong and vigorous is to go to God daily for his strength and power.  The lesson we learn from manna in the wilderness is to trust God daily for his provision. Like breathing moment by moment so we must trust God moment by moment to keep us.

     The folly of many is that they believe they can store up for a lifetime what was meant for a moment.  A person never becomes anything until they take his first step good or bad.   Here is a lesson of reality.  If you never take a drink, you never become a drunk.  If you never smoke a

Cigarette you never become addicted to nicotine.