By Reason of a Great Wind That Blew

Oh the Noise!!! The constant roar outside...the News "high wind alert"...the Night, hidden terror...fear...anxiety...intense concern about potential 60 mph winds ripping down branches and damaging cars and homes. Trying our best to sleep with all the noise that just threatened our little piece of security was near impossible, but we finally fell into a deep sleep.
What would the morning bring? Mass destruction ...incredible yard work clean up?

The daylight broke revealing the wierdest setting...not a single branch had fallen...no rubbish strewn about ...NO MASS DESTRUCTION??? BUT ALL THE ROAR WAS STILL THERE BUT NOT A SINGLE TREE OR TREE TOP WAS MOVING.

For whatever the reason the wind was maintaining an altitude that is a lot like our worries...threatening but never touching. It is not always this way with the worries in our life, but those who are "the called according to His purpose", known as His children ...when our worries become reality HE IS THERE.

John 6:18 - And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
(Devotional paraphrase: "And the vast body of the unknown was awakened by a threatening violent wind that moved with a purpose.")
JESUS IS HERE WITH US, NOW!
Even when there is a real threat against us HE does not leave us alone in the threat.

Isaiah 41:10 - Fear thou not; (don't allow your awe to distract you from Him)
for I am with thee: be not dismayed ; (focus your gaze on Him)
for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; (He will make you alert, courageous, brave, stout, and bold)
yea, I will help thee; (He will supply assistance and support)
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. (He will grasp you with His Right hand of Deliverance)

Oh, if only we would allow troubles to make us draw closer to Him, to know Him more deeply.

HLFA,

Jeff

Is God Silent?

Interesting Week! The news is roaring with violence and then cheers out of Egypt.
As a nation, our media will lead us blindly through this massive shift of oppressive religious power and we will be led to believe that freedom has been peacefully won for a nation who was under the rule of a Mobster-like tyrant...Now the Youth have spoken ... Utopia is around the corner. BUT you watch as more pain and oppression ever imagined creeps in like a lion stealthily hunts out its prey.
This world is so so so noisy with opinions, complaints, dissatisfaction, inequity, pain, and scandal. It reeks with the putrefying sound of oppression and molestation.

Where is God in all this ...why is He silent?
There are songs that touch the heart about the sorrowful blessing of the Silence of God ...but this Question "Why is He silent?" leads me to believe something...and it is not just the same old, same old rhetoric: We don't listen or we don't want to hear. Here is some of the Biblical points that would lead us to believe God was silent ... There were times in OT history, there was no prophet, DOES GOD NEED A PROPHET TO SPEAK? Historians have told us there were hundreds and maybe thousands of years where God was silent (of course none of these men were there to know). NOW stop the arguing for a moment and medite on the next three scriptures:

Isaiah 65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

What is Isaiah saying about our God ..".into their bosom?"

Psalm 28:1 Unto thee will I cry , O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

The Psalmist was living because of the voice of God...

Psalm 19:3 - There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

The Stars talk all the time ...Who gives them their voice and who even stops to listen.

Here were a many of Times when God did not speak, but His voice, with out words, was ever so loud!

Jesus ... was silent ...wrote in the dust ...SIN BECAME OBVIOUS AND DELIVERANCE WAS NEAR.
Jesus ... was silent ... before Pilate... TRUTH WAS MANIFESTED AND ALREADY REVEALED.
Jesus ... was silent ... as He was beaten ... as a sheep before her shearers is dumb...THE PAYMENT FOR OUR SIN WAS IN PROGRESS.

I'm not so sure He has ever been silent..."In the beginning was the Word"

Let Him Love you!

HLFA,

Jeff

Different??? I Don't Think So! But I Hope So! (weapons 2)

Hey do you want to be different ....Special?

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened , and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat , and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Genesis 3:4-6)

CAREFUL NOW...the call has gone out and affects all mankind.
This is a temptation that remains in front of us at all times...this is the first and greatest battle to be fought...to be independent from God is not being different at all..."I want to do what I want to do and I don't care who thinks otherwise!" Watch it!!

Have you ever noticed ...that every once in a awhile there is a desire that sweeps over your soul that is unexplainable, indescribable...You don't know whether to cry or laugh. I does take your mind in and out of memories, twists the dearest memories, wringes them out so that you almost...(I stress the almost) can see the... "what if"...or the..."what could be". This still small voice moment (if it drove you to prayer)... that was Him. That was the Holy Spirit...this is His breathing, His desire for you...

Matthew 11:28 --Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden , and I will give you rest.

This is what is going on in me...His desire creates my desire...IF I WANT IT TO.

Psalm 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
Psalm 119:77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live : for thy law is my delight.
So much scripture that crys out his desire ....mingled with our desire.

Song of Solomon 2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Jeremiah 31:33 - But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

On the days where our soul is dry...and we are tired...and we want nothing...HE STILL WANTS US...HIS DESIRE IS FOR US.

For God so loved ( a love that welcomes, entertains, shows fondness, loves dearly, well pleased, contented)
the World (no one disqualified) that He gave (no one Forced His hand ...it was a gift from His desire)
His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on Him (the requirement)
should not perish(will not experience Hell fire forever - the second death)
but have everlasting life ( which fulfills His desire for you forever).

God does think of you as different ... to experience the difference, DESIRE to know this love ....take advantage of His Desire for you.

This is preparation for victory in the battle. Is He actually the Weapon????? Could Jesus be the only Weapon we need?

HLFA,

Jeff