Good morning to all on this Sunday morning! God is in His heaven and all is right with the world. If you don't have this perspective then ask God to help focus your attention on your blessings! It is the first Sunday in July and July 1st. One-half of the year is already passed us and for Waine and I it has been an exciting 2012! There have been opportunities and challenges; the challenges continue to cement us as a unit and the opportunities just shower blessings on us. I know the plans that God has for me and my family; plans for propserity and hope and God is NOT man that He should lie. Hallelujah!
I am continuing my journey in Jeremiah 29, verses 24-32, "Tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite, "This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You sent letters in your own name to all the people in Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the other priests. You said to Zephaniah, ‘The Lord has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada to be in charge of the house of the Lord; you should put any maniac who acts like a prophet into the stocks and neck-irons. So why have you not reprimanded Jeremiah from Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you? He has sent this message to us in Babylon: It will be a long time. Therefore build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Zephaniah the priest, however, read the letter to Jeremiah the prophet. Then the Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: “Send this message to all the exiles: ‘This is what the Lord says about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, even though I did not send him, and has persuaded you to trust in lies, this is what the Lord says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the Lord, because he has preached rebellion against me.’” Amen and may the Lord add a blessing to the reading and hearing of His Word.
In Jeremiah 29:11, the Lord says to all of us , "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Satan and his minions will have us believe otherwise, just has Shemaiah tried to do. There are many among us that will try and tell you what the will of God is for your life. They will preach from the Word but then put their own spins to it. The Word of God is clear to those that believe. It needs no interpretation. God means what He saids in His Word and tells us to hide His Words in our Heart so that we will not be led a stray by the Great Deceiver, satan. God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge or they would surley die. Satan comes along and then interprets this commandment to Eve who buys it hook, line and SINKER. God meant what He said to Adam and Eve and His Words are still true today. He commands us to love Him with all of our hearts and be obedient to His other Commandment to love our brothers as God has loved us. On these two GREAT Commandments hang ALL the laws of heaven and earth. When we love God we have a true desire to serve Him and to tell everyone about Him. It is not enough to be a good person; we have to be a Spirit filled, born again good person to fight the good fight against the evil one. Satan wants the world to believe that a Benevolent God would not allow so many people to perish. Well what Jeremiah has taught me is that God is not only benevolent, He is long-suffering and gives the world many chances to repent. But when the time is up it is up. God cannot exist in the same space as sin and so when your number gets punched and you die in sin, never having confessed Christ as Lord, the consequence of that decision is an eternity without God. The choice was yours and your chose unwisely.
Don't believe the Shemaiahs of this world. Believe that God is not man that He should lie. He has told us that we must confessour sins and then accept Christ as Lord. A grieving world needs this message. God has a plan of prosperity for all you acccept it. Our jobs as Christians is to get the Word out!
Now may the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; may he Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.
Stephanie
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