We know from John 17:17 that the Word of God doesn't just contain Truth, it IS Truth! I really love how a whole church full of people can hear the same message delivered, but hear specifically what each one needs to hear for their own individual lives! Sometimes, when I share what Holy Spirit has told me, people listening look at me like I "fell in a well"! Why? Because we each hear, from the very same sermon, teaching or message, exactly what WE need to hear, IF we are really listening! A single verse of Scripture can so powerfully address and affect a certain area we are dealing with and, some time later, be equally as powerful and direct concerning something completely different! Today I really liked 2 Chronicles 29:1-3:
29 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. 2 And he did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father [forefather] had done. 3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord [which his father had closed] and repaired them.
Hezekiah became the king after his father died. His father, Ahaz, had NOT followed the Lord and was NOT a good king! These verses say that Hezekiah DID follow the Lord and WAS a good king! What is the first thing that this good king did? He began to turn the nation back to serving the Lord their God! He repaired the house of the Lord and then called the priests together to again minister as they had been instructed to do. When YOU find yourself getting a little away from the things of God and from obeying His Word, this is what YOU should do, too! Repair your fellowship with Him by getting back into His presence. Get back into the Word of God and make it your determined purpose to obey whatever you see in the Word of God to do! Follow the leading of the Holy Spirit for own life and become, again, that effectual minister of life and light and love that Jesus desires for you to be! Remember, His #1 priority is "to seek and to save" the lost (Luke 19:10)! AMEN! Make it yours, also! Here is a very good re-commitment song by Hillsong called "I Surrender":
Shalom in Him!
