Tag: Intervention

God is Always Searching

July 25, 2017

God is Always Searching

Once again I have to give God Glory for His consistent presence in Amazing Life Church. He is positioning people among us to understand His presence, and how to utilize it in our daily lives.

I know He is ever with me, and with you. It is still particularly pleasant, and humbling, when you can sense Him in your daily walk. Always in you, surrounding you, and leading you day by day. Makes no difference who you are, what level of faith you have. It makes no difference if you occasionally stumble. Even if you have left the reservation for a season. He loves you, and awaits your return. Ever ready to help you find your way again.

What an awesome Father, Son, and Spirit. I come to you today, In His Name, with some thoughts titled, “God is Always Searching”

Psalms 143:1-12

1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, Give ear to my supplications! Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!
2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous.

3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.
4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; My heart is appalled within me.

5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your doings; I muse on the work of Your hands.
6 I stretch out my hands to You; My soul longs for You, as a parched land. Selah.

7 Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails; Do not hide Your face from me, Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.
8 Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning; For I trust in You; Teach me the way in which I should walk;
For to You I lift up my soul.

9 Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies; I take refuge in You.

10 Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
11 For the sake of Your name, O Lord, revive me. In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
12 And in Your lovingkindness, cut off my enemies And destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am Your servant.

What a Prayer

David is pouring out his heart. Crying out for deliverance from his enemies, and direction for moving forward.

Prayer is how we build our relationship with the Father. It is our path to victory, revelation, healing, deliverance.

It is the source of our faith, and understanding of His words.

Oswald Chambers said, “we have to pray with our eyes on God, not on our difficulties.”

Prayer consists of three elements. “Petition, praise, and worship.”

There is an interesting verse found in Ezekiel 22. The chapter is all about God, and His anger towards Israel for their rebellion and sins.

Ezekiel 22:28-29

28 Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

29 The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.

Ezekiel 22:30

I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

NLT

“I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one.”

“No one there to defend, and no one there to intercede.”

What a sad epitaph for the nation of Israel.

“Jesus stood in the gap for us”

Paul understood the value of intercessory prayer. He shared an admonition to Timothy that would do us well to follow today.

1 Timothy 2:1-2

1 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,

2 for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

He is encouraging us to pray for people, and for those in authority. “Pause and calmly think of that.”

Ephesians 6:18-19

18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

19 and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, “ Paul said pray for me”

Romans 15:30

Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

AMPC

I appeal to you [I entreat you], brethren, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love [given by] the Spirit, to unite with me in earnest wrestling in prayer to God in my behalf.

Matthew 26:39-41

39 And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”

40 And He *came to the disciples and *found them sleeping, and *said to Peter, “So, you men could not keep watch with Me for one hour?

41 Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

God is searching for someone to pray.

When I read these last few scriptures an old chorus we used to sing, from years ago, came to my mind.

It’s me, Its me oh Lord. Standing in the need of prayer.

Link to the video. Hope you enjoy. http://bit.ly/2tWLXOx

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God Always Remembers

June 19, 2017

God Always Remembers

The message is really about intervention. God’s intervention in our lives.

The times we cry to Him, He hears and moves to meet our need. Sometimes He intervenes for us, and others, because of prayer. Our prayers, and others.

There are times when God will move the world around us to make sure we walk the path of our destiny. In many of these times we never even know it.

There are many Godly interventions throughout the Bible. A very serious one occurred 6 chapters into the Bible.

Genesis 6:1-8 NASB

1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

7 The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

“God looked and looked for a reason not to destroy.”

Several generations later God’s people found themselves in bondage to an Egyptian king. The next few passages tell an amazing story of His love.

Exodus 2:23-25 NASB

23 Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God.

24 So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

25 God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them.

If you read from the beginning of this chapter Moses had been born, grown up, and was hiding in Midian.

God had already begun the process of intervention in answer to the cries of His people.

Why? Because He remembered His promise!

This represents the awesome love of God!

In 1^st Corinthians 10, Paul was teaching about all the mistakes and failures of the children of Israel. Teaching from the Scrolls of the Old Testament. “He was explaining why these things were written.”

1 Corinthians 10:11-13 NASB

11 Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

^Verse13 plainly tells us that God will intervene against the attack of our enemy. Tempting us to turn away from Christ.

The phrase take heed means, “to see with the mind’s eye. To have the power of understanding.” The word temptation means, “the trial of man’s fidelity, integrity, virtue, and constance.” The word tempted is referring to, “the attempt or the endeavor to tempt.”

We need to discern the opportunities presented us, before we find ourselves in the middle of a bad situation.

Just some thoughts about the greatest intervention of all time.

This intervention was very broad. It went back in time to the garden. It moved forward in time to today, and will continue throughout eternity.

It was an intervention that carried a huge cost for God.

Let me read the words of Simeon in the temple.

Luke 2:30-32 NASB

30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation,
31 Which You have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
32 A Light of revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel.”

Today is your day. Here is a link to the video.http://bit.ly/2rJldov

Have a blessed week.

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