03/16/2014 6:49 AM In time of problems, stop and Pause and do what David did,. Think and seek the Lord! One man who had encouraged Himself in the Lord and waited upon the Lord to answer His prayer, God used him to preparechis army of 600 which was shortened to 400 because 1/3 of his army was so fatigued to go on and God delivered there enemies (Philistines) into there hands and they got all there belongings and families back. 1Samuel 30:1-8, ■ 1 Samuel 30 King James Version (KJV) ● 30:1 → And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; ● 30:2 → And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. ● 30:3 → So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives. ● 30:4 → Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. ● 30:5 → And Davids two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. ● 30:6 → And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lordhis God. ● 30:7 → And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelechs son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. ● 30:8 → And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. ● 30:9 → So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed. ● 30:10 → But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor. ● 30:11 → And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water; ● 30:12 → And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: For he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. ● 30:13 → And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? And whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; And my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick. ● 30:14 → We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; And we burned Ziklag with fire. ● 30:15 → And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company. ● 30:16→ And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. ● 30:17 → And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled. ● 30:18 → And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. ● 30:19 → And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all. ● 30:20 → And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is Davids spoil. ● 30:21 → And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: And they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: And when David came near to the people, he saluted them. ● 30:22 → Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart. ● 30:23 → Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand. ● 30:24 → For who will hearken unto you in this matter? But as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike. ● 30:25 → And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day. ● 30:26 → And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord; ● 30:27 → To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir, ● 30:28 → And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa, ● 30:29 → And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites, ● 30:30 → And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach, ● 30:31 → And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont .to haunt. Psalms 40:1-3 ● Psalm 40 New Living Translation (NLT) Psalm 40→ For the choir director: A psalm of David. ● 40:1 → I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. ● 40:2 → He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. ● 40:3 → He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord. ● 40:4 → Oh, the joys of those who trust the Lord, who have no confidence in the proud or in those who worship idols. ● 40:5 → O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. You have no equal. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them. ● 40:6 → You take no delight in sacrifices or offerings. Now that you have made me listen, I finally understand → you don’t require burnt offerings or sin offerings. ● 40:7 → Then I said, “Look, I have come. As is written about me in the Scriptures: ● 40:8 → I take joy in doing your will, my God, for your instructions are written on my heart.” ● 40:9 → I have told all your people about your justice. I have not been afraid to speak out, as you, O Lord, well know. ● 40:10 → I have not kept the good news of your justice hidden in my heart; ♥ I have talked about your faithfulness and saving power. ♥ I have told everyone in the great assembly of your unfailing love and faithfulness. ● 40:11 → Lord, don’t hold back your tender mercies from me. Let your unfailing love and faithfulness always protect me. ● 40:12 → For troubles surround me— too many to count! ★ My sins pile up so high I can’t see my way out. ★ They outnumber the hairs on my head. I have lost all courage. ● 40:13 → Please, Lord, rescue me! Come quickly, Lord, and help me. ● 40:14 → May those who try to destroy me be humiliated and put to shame. May those who take delight in my trouble be turned back in disgrace. ● 40:15 → Let them be horrified by their shame, for they said, “Aha! We’ve got him now!” ● 40:16 → But may all who search for you be filled with joy and gladness in you. May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout, “The Lord is great!” ● 40:17 → As for me, since I am poor and needy, let the Lord keep me in his thoughts. You are my helper and my savior. O my God, do not delay. ■ Psalm 40 King James Version (KJV) ● 40:1 → I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. ● 40:2 → He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. ● 40:3 → And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. ● 40:4 → Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. ● 40:5 → Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. ● 40:6 → Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. ● 40:7 → Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, ● 40:8 → I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. ● 40:9 → I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. ● 40:10 → I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. ● 40:11 → Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. ● 40:12 → For innumerable evils have compassed me about: Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: Therefore my heart faileth me. ● 40:13 → Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me. ● 40:14 → Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. ● 40:15 → Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. ● 40:16 → Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified. ● 40:17 → But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God YOU ARE WRITTING YOUR VERY OWN HISTORY A HISTORY THAT OTHERS CAN SEE, ● Come to God with a genuine repentant heart . ● Seek the Lord and ask Him to clean you up. ● when we do not have anyone else to turn too and we seem to have no way out, Stop and pause, and come before God and seek His advice and wait upon His answer it will be the right one that will deliver you. ● Remember Your History, in every situation God has delivered you, now think and remember, who always delivered you in times past, who has always been there and delivered you? ● God has always been the one to get you out of your jams and bad predicament. ● God is always going to be there to rescue you. ● Stop and recall that it is and was, and shall be God who delivers you. ● No matter what the instructions of God may be, you can rest assured that Gods way will deliver you out of your troubles. ● WHEN WE HAVE DIFFICULT DECISIONS TO MAKE STOP ENCOURAGE YOURSELF IN THE LORD! ● HOW DO wE DO THIS? ● BY GETTING IN THE WORD AND READING UNTIL GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH IT. ● GOD WANTS US TO LIVE A JOYFUL LIFE, AND AN ABUNDANT LIFE, AND WE CAN NOT DO IT ALONE AND WE CAN NOT DO IT WITHOUT GOD!.. ● Read what happened to David and how that God delivered Him in his most difficult sittuation. ● when his 600 men came to want to stone him because there loved ones were taken captive and they lost all they had. David stopped and sought Gods guidance and how God delivered there loved ones back when it looked impossible God made it possible. IT SOMETIMES MAY SEEM IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO DO, BUT IF GOD TELLS YOU TO DO SOMETHING, JUST STEP OUT IN FAITH AND DO IT . GOD WILL DELIVER YOU! ● God CAN AND WILL CHANGE THINGS FOR YOU TOON ● LET GOD SHOW YOU AND LEAD YOU IN YOUR DECISIONS WHEN YOU ARE IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS AND DIFFICULT TIMES IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW FAR OFF COURSE YOU HAVE WENT FROM GOD, HE HAS A WAY TO BRING YOU BACK ON COURSE IF YOU WILL SURRENDER YOUR LIFE WHOLE HEARTEDLY AND START BEING OBEDIENT TO HIS INSTRUCTIONS HE HAS NEVER LOVED US ANY LESS AT ANY TIME EVEN WHEN WE MAKE A MISTAKE, RETURN TO GOD AND TRUST HIM. HE WILL CREATE I. YOU A NEW HEART AND WILL CLEAN YOU UP. ■ 1 John 1 King James Version (KJV) 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: ♥ ● 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ★ ● 1:9 → If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. ■ Jeremiah 33 King James Version (KJV) 33 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name; 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. 4 For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; 5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. 6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. 7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. 8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. 9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. 10 Thus saith the Lord; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, 11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the Lord of hosts: for the Lord is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the Lord. 12 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. 13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the Lord. 14 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. 15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lordour righteousness. 17 For thus saith the Lord; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 19 And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying, 20 Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; 21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. 23 Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. Brother Barrett Morrison 《406》871-8205 E-mail: walkinginfaithwithjesus@gmail
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