Fri, Feb 22nd - 4:03PM
Solomon's Prayer
I found myself reading in this prayer of Solomon's today---I've been here before because I have part of it underlined. I had a fitful prayer time with the Lord last night...another time of what feels like crushing to me.
Then in a dream I was made to think: "I am the Lord's prisoner." He is working in me, teaching and training me not to go ahead, nor lag behind---but to listen, yield, hear, obey... in "HIS" time, at His word, by His Spirit.
I also decided to keep hoping in Him...against hope and natural reasoning that He wants to and will restore my health.
1 Kings 8:56-61
"Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised.
There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He has promised through His servant Moses.
If God fulfilled all His word spoken through Moses, how much more can we hope, believe & trust upon the words of Jesus Christ---God's Son. Hebrews 1:1-2
It is good to exalt the Lord and His word, His faithfulness to His own goodness and to us.
Solomon prayed this prayer, not David as I thought...he did not stay true to the Lord but let his heart be defiled by his many wives. 1 Kings 11:1-8
We start out with good intentions...seeing the Lord and His glory, we even pray...but we still get muddled up in sin, despising the Lord and His word...O Lord, keep us back, keep me back from presumptious sins.
"May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us, (ps 106:8)
"that He may incline our hearts to Himself,
to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgements, which He commanded our fathers.
I don't always hear Your word Lord "as a command". I need help in hearing and understanding Your word as You mean it to be heard...that is where Your power lies...in the truth of Your word. Cause me to love You with my whole heart; cause me to delight to do Your will.
"and may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the Lord,
be near the Lord our God day & night,
This makes me think of Jesus, my High Priest---everliving to make intercession for me; seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens. Hebrews 7:24-25; He 8:1-2
that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day may require,
O Lord remember Your people Israel again and all Your good word spoken to them. Let them hear your lovingkindness in the morning and teach them to do Your will.
Remember the blood of Jesus that was shed even for their sins...O Lord, let Your mercy & forgiveness fall upon Israel, thank You Lord.
"that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.
This is really what all life is about---God bringing us to a place to reveal Himself---His existence, His glory, His sovereignty over all His creation.
We learn to bow low in worship & adoration to the God who truly is God.
"Holy, holy, holy
Lord God Almighty
Who was and is and is to come!"
You are worthy O Lord,
to receive glory and honor and power;
For You created all things,
and by your will they exist and were created.
Revelation 4:8;11
Let your heart therefore be loyal to the Lord our God,
to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.
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