May 9, 2012

May 9, 2012
1 Sam 5:1-7:17, John 6:1-21, Ps 106:13-31, Pr 14:32-33

(My heart pains this day.  My heart is heavy yet this is my time to enter into the holy of hollies and be in the presence of my God.  Will I bring my trouble into the temple?  Will I ponder it so loudly that I hear not the comfort of the heavenly Father's voice?  Will I miss the joy of being with the one that will loves me perfectly and already knows all that troubles me?  No Lord.  I will walk into your chamber with rejoicing for I will meet my savior there.  Lord I thank you that this day I will see you the living God.  That your embrace will sustain me and bring me peace.  That your word will speak to my Spirit man and raise him up to know full well how to react to what pains my heart.  Not that I speak out of my pain or understanding but that I walk as one that has walked with the Lord.  Lord prepare my heart, bind it up that I may sit at your feet now, a student of your word.)

4 The Philistines asked, “What guilt offering should we send to him?”

6 Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did?

9 but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us.

20 And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?”


(Lord I thank you and praise you that you have permitted me to enter into your holy place.  That you have purchased my sin with the atoning sacrifice of my savior that I may walk boldly into your presence fearing not death for wickedness still lies in the heart of man.  So it is from this place that I petition you.)

6 When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” Now Samuel was serving as leader of Israel at Mizpah.

Psalm

30 But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
    and the plague was checked.
31 This was credited to him as righteousness
    for endless generations to come.

(Lord your words seem to speak so clearly this morning to what pains my heart.  That the righteous must stand up and and make atonement in way of a guilt offering and fasting for the sins of those that have yet to have eyes to repent.  For they are bound by the lies that they have believed in their hearts to be true.  Lord even to the detail of my prayer for a sign was spoken of in your word today.  Yet Lord this word is but a sounding board for my conversation with you.  Lord just as you made it clear to this people that yes YOU had brought this people low.  I pray that you would make it clear to those that need to hear your voice.  That those that are walking blindly in disobedience would see and hear plainly the path of destruction you are allowing into their lives.  Lord that they would see that your hand of protection has moved from their heads.  Lord as I ask for you hand on my family I also ask that you do as needed to bring about true repentance.  For I know you will keep up.)
Proverbs 14

32 When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down,
    but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.

33 Wisdom reposes in the heart of the discerning
    and even among fools she lets herself be known.


(Wow how telling your proverb is for this day.  For I will forever seek refuge in your tent, with my children at my side.  Lord let wisdom be my voice.  Let no other words fall from my lips in response to what has crossed my path yet again.)


(So here I am Lord rejoicing at your temple.  Praising you for you are the lifter of my head.  For you know me full well and speak so clearly of my own life among the pages of your word.  Amazed beyond all things that you knew I would need this word on this day.  I praise you that you ordained all the days of my life and know me full well.  Lord let no unwholesome thing depart form my lips.  Lord guard my thoughts and actions for the enemy is seeking to kill, steel and destroy what this thorn in my side is designed for good.  For it is only out of death that life can grow.  So Lord I surrender all that is in my heart that needs to die this day that you may birth in me your vision, hope and truth.  I could go on forever for I leap for joy in the presence of the Lord.  The enemy has not stolen what is precious to me.  For man is not what I worship.  Lord I am forever grateful for the love you are welling up in me for those that are in the darkness.  Groping around for someone to lead them to the light.  Yet they do not know they need or even desire a savior.  Lord show me your compassion that will lead them to repentance this day.)