FOR NOW, You Must Leave…
For now, there is a shame. For now, there is an embarrassment. For now, we wonder where to hide as we can’t handle what has happened to us. The good news is that it is only, for now!
Sound teaching, hard passages, prophecy, and errors to avoid.
For now, there is a shame. For now, there is an embarrassment. For now, we wonder where to hide as we can’t handle what has happened to us. The good news is that it is only, for now!
Stephen endured stoning to death because of his relationship with God. Peter slept comfortably on the night he was to be killed, because of his relationship with God. Apostle Paul declared he was ready to die and wait for resurrection, he could endure the terror of coming death by beheading because he had a close relationship with God. The secret behind unbreakable endurance is a genuinely close relationship with God.
God tried everything until he reached where He declared – leave them alone! At that point, God’s favor was withdrawn from Israel and they became subject to attack, loss, failure, and death. They lost nationhood. It is very dangerous to every aspect of our life when God says – leave him alone!
Hosea 4:14“I will not punish your daughterswhen they turn to prostitution,nor your daughters-in-lawwhen they commit adultery,because the men themselves consort with harlotsand sacrifice with shrine prostitutes —a people…
Satan is the master in the blame game. Those engaging in blame games are engaged in diabolical activities. Any leader allowing a blame game has allowed satanic activities. Day and night you listen to accusers reporting others and you believe and act? The chief accuser is Satan.
When you are already in trouble, in hot soup, the way out is one, just acknowledge that heaven rules. Acknowledge genuinely. God responds to anyone who pledges allegiance to Him. Manasseh was a wicked king for fifty-five years. As Manasseh went to exile as punishment for his sins, he came to his senses and acknowledged that heaven rules, 2 Chronicles 33:10-13. Immediately Manasseh was restored. When you acknowledge that heaven rules.
Negotiating with God means you seek to understand Him and in certain matters, He would allow you to have your way because it does not defy His will. God tells David through Nathan that he shouldn’t have killed Uriah in order to have his wife Bethsheba, God says, if David should have informed God that he needs another wife or anything else, God says He would have provided, 2 Samuel 12:8. God expected David to engage Him. God expected David to negotiate with Him. You can actually negotiate with God, wow!
Therefore the seven women scrambling for a husband is an event of that time when God punished Israel by sending them to the Babylonian captivity. The event is not in the future but in the past. It teaches us that God punishes evil. It teaches us that the evil will someday be so desperate.
The truth remains to be the truth even if no one supported it. The truth doesn’t have to have a good logical argument. If God who can heal, allows a loved to one die after you have prayed without ceasing, would you still praise Him and worship Him? If you are desperate about something but the more you pray the worse it gets and eventually it fails to work out, would you still love God?