Tuesday 4 June 2024

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Scriptures

Micah 7:18-20

English Standard Version

God's Steadfast Love and Compassion

18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity    and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.19 He will again have compassion on us;    he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our[a] sins    into the depths of the sea. 20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob    and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers    from the days of old.

Proverbs 1:20-33

English Standard Version

The Call of Wisdom

20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; 21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: 22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing    and fools hate knowledge? 23 If you turn at my reproof,[a]behold, I will pour out my spirit to you;    I will make my words known to you. 24 Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, 25 because you have ignored all my counsel    and would have none of my reproof, 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, 27 when terror strikes you like a storm    and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,    when distress and anguish come upon you. 28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. 29 Because they hated knowledge    and did not choose the fear of the Lord, 30 would have none of my counsel    and despised all my reproof, 31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way,    and have their fill of their own devices. 32 For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; 33 but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”

2 Timothy 3:1-9

English Standard Version

Godlessness in the Last Days

1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

Observation

GOD is great and merciful HE always forgives those who repent and turn to HIM in righteousness written in the book of Micah just how wonderful HE is, faithful, and forgiving pardoning thosewho turn to HIM. And HE is faithful always warning those who live in folly through HIS WORD in Proverbs - HE writes through Solomon the wisest King teach us how to live in wisdom. HE knows how simple minded His created beings are, how easily trapped, how fragile we are and easily deceived by the cunning enemy because we are finite and powerless on ourselves. He teaches us how to be wise and warns us in the last days what is coming in the last days through the books of the New Covenant. 

Application

When we stand before GOD during judgement day, we have no escape, because HE has provided everything for our salvation - especially JESUS HIS Beloved and only Son to show us HIS love so we can surrender our lives to follow HIM and walk in HIS ways. There is no excuse in the great day of the LORD, because ignorance to the Law excuses no one! The law is there - written faithfully by GOD through HIS Saints, the people who gave themselves and their lives for GOD and HIS Kingdom. The law is there, called the WORD of GOD - complete in our time and we ought to always meditate on HIS laws, we ought to always look to HIM for salvation and depend on HIS power to keep us blameless until the end. Without HIM, we are nothing, we cannot achieve anything, we are helpless and hopeless on our own. I know this of for a fact today just how difficult this life is on earth that is why I am encouraged when the Psalm of David writes "Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!" - Psalm 31:24 because when we depend on GOD we are in a good place, we are in the right path, we are seeking HIM, relying HIM and trusting HIM.

Prayers

Dear AVI, 

As King David writes in Psalm 31, I pray these to YOU My GOD and KING!

1 In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;    let me never be put to shame;    in your righteousness deliver me!

2 Incline your ear to me;    rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me,    a strong fortress to save me!

3 For you are my rock and my fortress;    and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;

4 you take me out of the net they have hidden for me,    for you are my refuge.

5 Into your hand I commit my spirit;    you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

6 I hate[a] those who pay regard to worthless idols,    but I trust in the Lord.

7 I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,    because you have seen my affliction;    you have known the distress of my soul,

8 and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;    you have set my feet in a broad place.

9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;    my eye is wasted from grief;    my soul and my body also.

10 For my life is spent with sorrow,    and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity,    and my bones waste away.

11 Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach,    especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances;    those who see me in the street flee from me.

12 I have been forgotten like one who is dead;    I have become like a broken vessel.

13 For I hear the whispering of many—    terror on every side!—as they scheme together against me,    as they plot to take my life.

14 But I trust in you, O Lord;    I say, “You are my God.”

15 My times are in your hand;    rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

16 Make your face shine on your servant;    save me in your steadfast love!

17 O Lord, let me not be put to shame,    for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame;    let them go silently to Sheol.

18 Let the lying lips be mute,    which speak insolently against the righteous    in pride and contempt.

19 Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!

20 In the cover of your presence you hide them    from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter    from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the Lord, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me    when I was in a besieged city.

22 I had said in my alarm,[b] “I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.

23 Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.

24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

YOU are the KING of KINGs and YOU Rule over all creation and all the heavenly and earthly bodies! IN YOU O GOD do I find hope to live and seek my refuge, find strength to live another day, because it has been so difficult for me. My mother is such a problem to me O GOD, I pray O GOD, when will YOU deliver me from her toxicity??? Help me King JESUS, deliver me from her, from her jezebels, from her negativity? Why can't YOU give me a husband who will give me a new home and a new environment where I can live and be happy for at least some time. All my days have been full of sorrow and my life is wasting away. Do not allow me to be like them O GOD, but help me to be like David my brother who continues to be pure hearted in YOU. Help me KING JESUS, to endure until YOU bring my husband to me??? How much longer my GOD??? How much longer until YOU give me relief from all my troubles??? How much longer??? I know YOU are coming too but YOU are delaying because YOU want to still save many others but help me GOD, to endure, give me refuge O GOD and help me to keep following YOU until the end, keeping me blameless. Keep my heart pure O GOD, do not let me be like my mother O GOD, have mercy on me O GOD. For YOU to belong all my best worship and devotion, my praises and highest respect belongs to YOU KING JESUS!

In YESHUA Adonai Tzeva'ot who fights for me, Amen!