Our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan for today covered so many relevant issues that I could fill three blogs! Instead, I will simply touch on the the basics of three different thoughts to take away from it. First, I see this TRUTH from Ecclesiastes 3:11a:
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy],
Have you ever heard someone say that we are all born with a God-shaped hole that only HE can fill? THAT is what THIS Scripture is referring to! This explains why unbelievers get involved in some of the things that they do. They are searching for what only GOD can fill, and looking in ALL of the wrong places! That is what causes them to be the fulfillment of Ecclesiastes 3:18:
18 I said in my heart regarding the subject of the sons of men, God is trying (separating and sifting) them, that they may see that by themselves [under the sun, without God] they are but like beasts.
Like ANIMALS! Men and women all over the face of the earth are acting like, and in some instances worse than, animals! Besides the tortures, wars and murders, there are men doing with other men what the Word of God calls an abomination! WORSE than animals! Leviticus 18:22:
22 You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination. AMP
He does not speak of just men either. Look at Romans 1:26-27:
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. KJV
And what has happened? Any number of health issues, including aids! Those of us who are born again, spirit-filled believers are to be praying for these people and being obedient to God, His Word and His Spirit as HE leads us to minister LIFE to these! Don't get into endless debates with them. They already KNOW that this is wrong or they wouldn't be so hatefully vile to those who disagree with them! Walk in love, which does NOT hesitate to speak the WORD, but with the right motive (in love). EXPECT the God of the Bible to reveal Himself to them so that they can become new creatures in HIS image! AMEN! The next thought that I want to share with you is from Matthew 8:8-10:
8 But the centurion replied to Him, Lord, I am not worthy or fit to have You come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my servant boy will be cured. 9 For I also am a man subject to authority, with soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my slave, Do this, and he does it. 10 When Jesus heard him, He marveled and said to those who followed Him [who adhered steadfastly to Him, conforming to His example in living and, if need be, in dying also], I tell you truly, I have not found so much faith as this with anyone, even in Israel.
This centurion understood that the miracle working power that Jesus was operating in came from His position of authority! All that Jesus had to do was speak and evil spirits, demons, sickness, disease and death HAD to leave! Jesus was so amazed at the faith of this man who had no background in the Word of God or a Covenant with Him! Why did His disciples not understand this? For the same reason that born again believers today do not realize all that God has provided for them in His Word! They did NOT give attention to it! YOU can, though! WILL you? Jesus said THIS to us in Mark 11:23-24:
23 Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him. 24 For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it]. AMP
The last "thought" comes from ALL of Psalm 8!
1 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent (majestic and glorious) is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory on [or above] the heavens.
2 Out of the mouths of babes and unweaned infants You have established strength because of Your foes, that You might silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I view and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained and established,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him?
5 Yet You have made him but a little lower than God [or heavenly beings], and You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent (majestic and glorious) is Your name in all the earth!
HE IS GOD and HE IS GLORIOUS! There is no one beside Him and HE loves YOU! AMEN! Spend some time praising Him today, simply for Who He IS! AMEN! Here, to help you with that, is Hillsong with "Like Incense":
Shalom in Him!
