Jeremiah the prophet speaking to the people of Jerusalem. He grieves for his people!
Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction.They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent. Jeremiah 5:21-22 "Hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not. Do you not fear me? declares the LORD.
Do you not tremble before me? Jeremiah 5:23-24 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;
they have turned aside and gone away. They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the LORD our God,
who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.' Jeremiah 8:18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me.
O Lord, I fear we have gone the way of Jerusalem. Forgive us for we are a stiff-necked people. Amen
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Our Call/Jeremiah's Call
Jeremiah 1:4-12 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth." But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a youth'; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the LORD." Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see an almond branch." Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."
Lord, help us be faithful to Your word. Ready our hearts to follow You. Ready Your harvest to hear Your word. Let us glorify You with our obedience! Amen
Cristo biena!
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth." But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a youth'; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the LORD." Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see an almond branch." Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."
Lord, help us be faithful to Your word. Ready our hearts to follow You. Ready Your harvest to hear Your word. Let us glorify You with our obedience! Amen
Cristo biena!
Return to the Lord
Joel 2:12-13 "Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments."
Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
O foolish man, when will you turn back to your Maker? We have disasters we try to fix and fail. We need to turn back to the Lord. You see the oil spill and the havoc it is reaping, God could change it with a rushing wind, have you been on your knees to ask? When are we going to declare we need God? We try to take God out of everything and now we are going to hear from Him! It will not be pleasant. It is not too late. America ask God for forgiveness and repent.
2 Peter 3:8-10 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
God is faithful to fulfill his promise, you just have to repent and be obedient!
Lord, I pray for our country. We have strayed from you and played the harlot with other gods. Please forgive us and heal our people and our land. Even so Lord, come quickly! Amen
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments."
Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
O foolish man, when will you turn back to your Maker? We have disasters we try to fix and fail. We need to turn back to the Lord. You see the oil spill and the havoc it is reaping, God could change it with a rushing wind, have you been on your knees to ask? When are we going to declare we need God? We try to take God out of everything and now we are going to hear from Him! It will not be pleasant. It is not too late. America ask God for forgiveness and repent.
2 Peter 3:8-10 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
God is faithful to fulfill his promise, you just have to repent and be obedient!
Lord, I pray for our country. We have strayed from you and played the harlot with other gods. Please forgive us and heal our people and our land. Even so Lord, come quickly! Amen
Monday, July 5, 2010
Personal Preparation
Today, Charles Stanley began a 140 day intercession for America through bible reading and prayer. This is the first bible reading. This is just so beautiful. I had to share.We all need a clean heart!!
Ps.51 Have mercy on me,O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise. For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
build up the walls of Jerusalem; then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Ps.51 Have mercy on me,O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise. For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
build up the walls of Jerusalem; then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Loss of a Loved One
July the 4th, a time of celebration, a time for remembrance, the time I think about my daddy the most because it was his birthday and he died in March of 1998. How did time get away so fast? It seems like yesterday when he died. I was always daddy's little girl! I have three brothers and I was the only girl, spoiled rotten, that's no lie! I had really great parents, they were so good to us. I saw a radical change in my dad in the last ten years of his life. He found the Lord and was totally changed, nothing like the dad I grew up having. My dad could cuss the horns off a billy goat! He could hold a lot of beer too! He wouldn't mind me telling it because he knew what it was to be a sinner and be saved by grace. I had often prayed for my dad to be changed but the Lord's does things in His own time and way. When my young daughters began asking about their Papa and if he knew Jesus, I told them to pray and ask God about Papa. Once they started praying, it was not long before my dad was changed. I am so thankful to have know him as a God fearing man. It brought such joy to my heart to see him with his bible and to hear him quote scripture. I think my dad was a miracle because not many men in their sixties or seventies come to repentance and know the Lord.Friday, July 2, 2010
God's Will for Missions/Our Mindset for Missions
Romans 8: 35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I know that a lot of folks can't understand the radical idea of moving to the inner city to live in high crime areas to serve the Lord. It really is no different than going on a foreign mission field where danger sometimes abounds. The need is great for God's love to be shown to those who have no hope. For years the crime in the inner city has been left unchecked and is causing havoc among the people who live there. We have tried, on our own without God, to address the problem with no success. When is this world going to figure out that they can't exist in peace without holy God? Lord, I call on You as Creator and King, to show Your wisdom to the world. Let us fall on our knees to You in fear and adoration so that You will heal our land you have entrusted to us. Lord, I ask for Your faith to fall on people who don't understand Your radical way. Amen
Jn. 15:12-17 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
I know that a lot of folks can't understand the radical idea of moving to the inner city to live in high crime areas to serve the Lord. It really is no different than going on a foreign mission field where danger sometimes abounds. The need is great for God's love to be shown to those who have no hope. For years the crime in the inner city has been left unchecked and is causing havoc among the people who live there. We have tried, on our own without God, to address the problem with no success. When is this world going to figure out that they can't exist in peace without holy God? Lord, I call on You as Creator and King, to show Your wisdom to the world. Let us fall on our knees to You in fear and adoration so that You will heal our land you have entrusted to us. Lord, I ask for Your faith to fall on people who don't understand Your radical way. Amen
Jn. 15:12-17 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Potter/Clay/Sinner/Mercy
These are such beautiful words the Lord is speaking. The clay acknowledges Maker and wants forgiveness.
Is.64: 8-9 But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand. Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity forever.
What a rebellious people we are!
Is.65:1-3 I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I,"to a nation that was not called by my name. I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;
a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks;
God wants a heart to dwell in not a building.
Is. 66: 1-2 Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Lord, I pray for the hearts that are hardened. You can change them, open their eyes to the power of Your word. Amen Jesús te ama.
Is.64: 8-9 But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand. Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity forever.
What a rebellious people we are!
Is.65:1-3 I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I,"to a nation that was not called by my name. I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;
a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks;
God wants a heart to dwell in not a building.
Is. 66: 1-2 Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Lord, I pray for the hearts that are hardened. You can change them, open their eyes to the power of Your word. Amen Jesús te ama.
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