Psalm 34: 9-14 ~ The Lord, you His saints

Psalm 34:9-14

Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.

The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Whoever of you loves life 

and 

desires to see many good days,

keep your tongue from evil 

and 

your lips from speaking lies.

Turn from evil and do good; 

seek peace and pursue it.

The stories of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah are our stories!!! 

And in the middle of the Kingdoms and towards the end, life has a lot of work and many opinions and options. Yet the direction saving the Kings, the Kingdoms, the people swept in events is to worship Him corporately and in His Word. Seeing good, turning away from voluntarily handing Him our messes to clean up and to truly trust Him.

Hezekiah was King. No one doubted that. 

And Hezekiah found from time to time that his good life was lacking. Hezekiah was as prosperous as Solomon. With fewer blemishes. I sometimes wonder why Hezekiah is not more known. Joshua swept up a mess, surely we understand working with the events life gives us with Trust and Effort.

Hezekiah had all kinds of bad advice from his environmental upbringing. 

His generational sin was.... heavy. And Hezekiah said to his late father's memory = sure you wanted me to strip the Temple of Gold and hand that to the Assyrians, but really when I got to the point of that abomination - that felt wrong to me.

And we realize Hezekiah had help from the golden Isaiah. Well... notice with me Isaiah had three other Kings from whom Isaiah was learning the ropes. Wow. Like Isaiah, we learn as we get older how things work. And older people have some wisdom.

Well. Sometimes. Because we see a lot of the Kings ran after perceived power and other pursuits of 'wisdom'.

Hezekiah had time to make mistakes and recover.

Now also notice being King has perks. And some really awful exposure.

God asks us what decision will we make when we are tried again. Because the truth is Isaiah was working with his fourth King at the end of his life. Isaiah isn't recorded as being "generational -sins- flop- for- Hezekiah's- daddy." (Yet we could make a case for that, but we like Isaiah and give him the nod instead of the magnifying glass.)

God asks us what we will do with our beliefs, our efforts. What King do you pick for your life? Yes, of course the answer is Jesus. In reality, we cannot ever do what Jesus did because we are not HIM. He was without sin, to forgive our sins.

... are you the right side or the left side? Because unlike Joshua, sometimes we don't get to pick the middle! Of course, we are supposed to be balanced, but not all bicycles have the same training wheels in true circumstances. A lot depends on where your alligators are placed. 

And which metaphor do you like?

In the end, we get to be just like Hezekiah  - who felt like his nice life was about to be invaded, stamped out, rubbed raw, and you just didn't get the fair shake afforded to that dratted Solomon.

Why did Hezekiah prevail? He did something every day... 

He went out and thundered to the guy next to him about the LORD. Muscular Christianity to the extreme. Nope. The Scriptures record he wept, cried, complained, plotted, thought it out again, fretted, fussed, WHILE HEZEKIAH WAS PRAYING. And he put papers before the Lord and said... what am I to do. Sometimes, even rarely, Hezekiah decided to hush and wait upon the LORD.  Perils of life.

In the end the Kings that prevailed did this...

Fear the LORD, you His saints, 

for those who fear Him 

lack nothing.

We get so backward over this.

 Kings of Israel wanted to stuff our God behind a curtain. This is how the Holy of Holies was used by His People in some generations. Even David did this. People who understand God,  believes what we say when we say The Kingdom, The Power and The Glory are Yours.

And Hezekiah went forth Thundering Witnesses to this... No. Instead Hezekiah did this...

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Hezekiah spoke to the Lord, and of the Lord, rather quietly, but used his words, and his actions to reveal his belief that God would work with Hezekiah. And the Word of God says, 

He does this routinely when we place our trust in HIM.

ABBA, FATHER,

May God Please Bless America

we need Him

North Carolina's first widespread snowfall

2 Kings 20:3-6 

Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: 

I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. 

Behold, I will heal you. 

On the third day you shall go up to the House of the Lord, 6 

and I will add fifteen years to your life. 

I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, 

and I will defend this city for My Own Sake 

and for My servant David's sake.”

We pray in Jesus' Name. Amen.

ALL

The People of North Carolina

COLD WEATHER 

is not a place

to live in a tent.

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 and to walk humbly with You, our God.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, in Jesus Christ. 

Help us find and bring

to become

 more Heaven

to this earth.

In Jesus Christ is 

Our Love, Joy and Hope.

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and Flood Healing

and Care.

RECENTLY,

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all, 

worldwide

with Healing

Safety

Prosperity and

Worldwide

Peace!

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of Your Good Creation

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and the supply chain.

Being able to COMMUNICATE
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Veterans fought for us.

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and

The Border Security, as well.

For Worldwide Peace.

And the Peace of Israel.

The safety 

of Your people.

The safety 

of those

helping the earth 

to heal.

GOD BLESS THEM

Let evil and practicing evil

depart far from us

and our children.

And in Jesus - this Hope, 

Faith and Love - we will rise up believing Jesus. 

Amen.

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Thank You, Jesus