Monday, August 14, 2023, 08:10
Choosing a side.
We will choose to do what we want to do
“What we want in life, reveals Who the lord is of our lives”
Luke 18:9-14
9 And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:
10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 “The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
12 ‘I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’
13 “But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’
14 “I tell you; this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 18:11-12
11 “God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’
{{What are the indicators that someone is trusting in themselves are self-righteous, self-justifying pride. Religious Pride is The Most Dangerous Form of Pride because it deludes a person into thinking that they are God-Like! One reason we are told in Matthew 7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.”}}
(We will choose to be who we want to be)
Luke 18: 14
I tell you, this man (the tax collector) went down to his house justified, pure, innocent, freed, righteous.
(We will choose to go where we want to go)
rather than the other (the Pharisee); for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
(Will we Choose to be Humbled by God?)
are you waking up to the reality that you just can’t “Make things happen?”
Philippians 3:7-9
7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.
8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, For whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.
Romans 4:25-5:1
4:25 Jesus Christ was delivered up because of our offenses and was raised because of our justification.
5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 5:8-9
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
We stand BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL And EVERYONE OF US HAS TO CHOOSE A SIDE.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
2 Corinthians 5:16-17
16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
It is time to choose.
Will you choose the love, forgiveness, and justification that Christ the Lord is offering you?
Or will you choose to live for yourself, to do what you want and go where you want?
Remember these words:
“What you want in life reveals Who the lord is of your live”
This is true for each and every one of us. What is important to you?
Choose this day whom you will serve.
Saturday, August 5, 2023, 12:21
My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
GOD's Promise and Warning
2 Chronicles: 11-22
¶ Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s palace, and successfully completed all that he had planned on doing in the house of the LORD and in his palace.
¶ Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place. For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’
¶ “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’
And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore, He has brought all this adversity on them.’”
{{ And the sceptic says that’s all fine and good but He is talking to Solomon, not to us. Wrong.
The Bible was written to all of us to show us who GOD is and how GOD does things, written so that we may know God the Father, Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. Who they are and what they did, are and will do, how life works, the blessings for obeying and the consequence for not obeying.
Being humble and repenting is a key point to salvation. Above there are a few points that I would like to lay out
1. “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
When tragedy comes in to this world or our lives, we have a choice to make, will we turn to the ways of man for answers or will we turn to Father God?
As a Christian, a believer in and follower of Christ the Lord, Farther God says; if we will humble our self, pray and seek His face, turn from our wicked ways, (our sin, our disobedience) then He will He will hear our cry for help, forgive us of our sins and heal our land.
You want this world, this country, your life to turn around and become a blessing aging?
Then turn to the Lord, humble yourself turn away from the wickedness in your life pray to Christ the Lord before the Lord, repent of the wickedness in your life, your sins, ask to be forgiven, for your heart and your land to be healed.
Key point humble yourself, and repent.
i am reminded of these scriptures:
Matthew 8:2
And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
The man humbled himself and approached Jesus. And in faith said “if You are willing, you can make me clean” And the result Jesus cleansed him.
Matthew 8:5-8 and 13
And when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, imploring Him, and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, fearfully tormented.” Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
But the centurion said, “Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Matthew 8:13 And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed that very moment.
(A centurion was a man of power and authority, but yet he humbled himself to come to Christ in faith to ask Jesus to speak healing in to his servant, and because the centurion believed in Jesus the servant was healed.)
Matthew 9:2
And they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
Matthew 9:20-22
And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak; for she was saying to herself, “If I only touch His garment, I will get well.”
But Jesus turning and seeing her said, “Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well.” At once the woman was made well.
Examples of Christ the Lord responding to humility. By humbling oneself before the Christ the Lord repenting of one’s sins to the Christ the Lord, with faith in Christ the Lord.
He will hear from heaven and answer you.
Question is:
Can you humble our self?
Will you repent of your wickedness?
Will you except the love of Christ in your life?
Will you be a part of your land being healed or a part of its downfall?
dont just read this and move on. Think about it.
Are you a truly follower of Christ the Lord?
Or just a church attender?
Figure it out.
Let go of your arrogance
( what is arrogance? haughtiness, conceit, self-importance, high-handedness, bosting, condescension, distain, contempt, imperiousness, pride, vanity, snobbery, smugness, pretentiousness, scorn, mocking, sneering scoffing, presumptions a sense of superiority. )
Turn away from the wickedness in your life. ( the sins that you cling to )
Turn instead to Christ the Lord, repent and ask to be forgiven, except the forgiveness, read the word of GOD ask the Holy Spirit for Him to teach you and to lead you through life , to make you the man or woman GOD has created you to be.
Live out the greatest commandments ever given.
Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus right out tells us what they are:
And He (Jesus) said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’
This is the great and foremost commandment.
The second is like it,
‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’
Some may say well that is only once in the bible can’t be that important.
O YEA don't fool your self, read on we have been told to love the lord our GOD over and over again Here are a few examples.
Deuteronomy 6:5
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 11:1
“You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
Deuteronomy 11:13
“It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:22
“For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,
Deuteronomy 13:3
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 19:9
if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways always—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.
Deuteronomy 30:6
“Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30:16
in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.
Joshua 22:5
“Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Joshua 23:11
“So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God.
Matthew 22:37
And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'
Mark 12:30
AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.'
Luke 10:27
And he answered, “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
Go with GOD and you will go in peace.
Don't obey and you win a free ticket to spend eturnity in hell (hell - separated from Father GOD, Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit.)
it is your choice a choice no one ells can make for you.
so Chose well.
Choose this day whom you will serve.
Will it be man, satin or Christ the Lord?
Turn to Christ or reep the consiquinses.
if you have chosen to repent, ask Christ the lord to forgive you then go with the help of the Holy Spirit living out your life fulfilling the two greatest Commandments
The first;
'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOS WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'
The second it like it;
'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' }}
Out for now.
Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 09:28
Matthew 6:27
“And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?"
Matthew 10:39
“He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it."
Matthew 16:25
“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it."
Matthew 20:28
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Mark 8:35
“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it."
Mark 10:45
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Luke 9:24
“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it."
Luke 12:15
Then He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.”
Luke 17:33
“Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it."
John 10:11
“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep."
John 12:25
“He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal."
John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends."
1Jo 3:16
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
1Tites 1:16
Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
Revelation 22:19
and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.
{{ Christ the Lord (Jesus) came to earth in the form of a man and gave His life for us, so that we by excepting what He did for us on the cross, our sins will be forgiven.
Jesus suffered so that we may live with Him for eternity in the kingdom of God.
And in return we are to be like Christ and give our live for Him.
Reading the above the word of GOD states several times;
If you are trying to hold on to this life you will in turn lose it.
As a Christian this world becomes no longer your home,
All the stuff and things are but a burden to the life of a believer in Christ the Lord.
In trying to gather and hold on to YOUR things, including life its self you will lose it, but by letting go of all even life its self you will gain so much more, a life in the kingdom of GOD.
As Christians we should be living a life of truth and grace, willing to speak the truth from the word of GOD and showing love and grace to all, especially fellow believers.
John 13:35
“By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1John 2:15-17
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abides forever.
Having a greater love for the tings of this world is evidence that the love of the Father is not in them.
Clinging to life in this world and the things of the world, also engulfs the life lived in this world, and Leeds mankind to live for self, not for fellow man and defiantly not for Christ the Lord.
The lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, will all be destroyed for they are not of the Father.
By holding on to your life rather than giving it up for others, you will lose it right along with all the money, stuff and things you have accumulated.
i was told by someone who attends church, is in a role of leadership;
“I don’t love money, but I sure like what it does for me.“
You may think the same thing, don’t fool yourself, you love money, and the world can see that you do.
What to show you don’t give away all have and follow Christ the Lord, follow the teachings of Jesus. Lose your life, to save it.
Matthew 19:16-24
And someone came to Him (Jesus) and said,
“Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?”
And He said to him,
“Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Then he said to Him,
“Which ones?” And Jesus said, “YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER; YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY; YOU SHALL NOT STEAL; YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS; HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER; and YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
The young man said to Him,
“All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?”
Jesus said to him,
“If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.
And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
“Again, I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Does your property, possessions, stuff and things have more value to you than eternal life?
I will leave you with this:
Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
It is your choice.
Sunday, July 9, 2023, 17:06
David and Goliath; the battle of all battles
1st Samuel 17:1-11
¶ Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array to encounter the Philistines.
The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them.
Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits ( 9 feet ) and a span ( tall ).
He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze ( 125.88 pounds ).
He also had bronze greaves on his legs and a bronze javelin slung between his shoulders. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron ( around 15 pounds );
his shield-carrier also walked before him.
He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to draw up in battle array? Am I not the Philistine and you servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. “If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will become your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall become our servants and serve us.”
Again the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together.”
When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
{{ if you would like more background on David and Goliath grab a bible and read !Samuel }}
{{ The telling’s of one person, a young boy, a sheep herder, the youngest in hie family, who stood up and said here am I send me.
The odds were against him, all the others young to old were too afraid to do anything, but this one young boy took on the challenge of the waring giant.
A young boy maybe around 5 feet tall took on a 9-foot warrior, with a slingshot and a smooth stone, and his adversary in full warrior garb a sword, a spear, and a javelin, with the shield-bearer in front of him. And this young boy told the giant “You come to me”. What made David so confident and brave that he could go to the enemy so boldly. }}
1st Samuel 17:45-48 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.
“This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD’S and He will give you into our hands.”
Then it happened when the Philistine rose and came and drew near to meet David, that David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.
{{ It was David’s faith and trust in and dedication to the LORD GOD that gave Him the ability to stand before his enemy a waring giant and declare “I will strike you down and remove your head from you”
And to run to meet the giant in battle.
GOD is not looking at your age, your self-value nor your position in life. He is looking for the ONE.
The one who has a heart after Him one who is willing to stand for truth and freedom.
ONE, are you willing to be that one for GOD?
Are you willing stand for the Lord when all looks hopeless and all others seem to be against you are you willing to stand for the LORD to say LORD here am I, send me. }}
{{ if you are One, today is that day, stand for the Lord GOD, open your heart, allow the Holy Spirit to give you the boldness and words to share His good news, tell them what the Lord Jesus has done for them, the words of salvation freely given by Christ Jesus, through His shed Blood on the cross, and their redemption through His resurrection from the grave. Tell them what the LORD has done for you
Stand for the LORD, stand in His strength and share the LORDs plan of salvation and redemption to the people around you.
We are all given the responsibility to witness to those whom the LORD has set in our path, (( as it may be to take down the giants for those who are not able to take them down them self. ))
And to do that all you only have to direct them to the Lord Christ Jesus, speak the truth of Christ to them and then allow the Holy Spirit to do the rest.
Are you a believer in, a follower of Christ Jesus?
Are you a true Christian?
Is your life dedicated to the Lord GOD?
Are you willing to or have you pledged your being, your life to Christ Jesus?
Is it Christ Jesus whom you are dedicated to for your daily needs?
Is it He and Him alone you look to for life?
Or are you a Sunday Christian, still looking to the world and others for your straight, desires, value and worth, is it still more important to you what others think of you, it fit in to their ways and desires, to be excepted by man and his ways? If so there is nothing i or any one ells can do for you, just keep being a Sunday Christian, make your appearance, get your pat on the back from all your other Sunday Christian buddy’s.
But don’t forget the word spoken by our LORD Jesus
Matthew 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles? And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.”
Think on these things;
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Money, stuff and things, the approval of man, showing up at church on Sunday non of this will get you in to Heaven.
Only by doing the will of Father God will you get in.
And what is the will of Father God in your life?
That you call on and except His Son, Christ the Lord Jesus, that you give your hole being to Him, declaring Him as your LORD the savior the redeemer of your soul.
The way to do that:
Ask HIM to come in to your life,
Confess to Him you are a sinner,
Ask Him to forgive you of your sins,
Except HIS forgiveness,
turn from your former life,
for in Christ you have a new life to live,
submerge yourself in the word of GOD read the bible.
Be baptized
Matthew 3:6
and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.
Mark 16:16
“He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
I like this one about being baptized
Galatians 3:27
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Tell all creation in the whole world the gospel of Christ the Lord. Mark
16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
This is the will of the Father in your life.
Are you willing to fallow the leading of the Holy Spirit?
Are you willing to give your all for Christ the Lord Jesus?
Are you willing to be the One, that makes a difference?
If so then stand up for Christ the Lord Jesus, and in HIS strength by the leading of the Holy Spirit slay that giants.
Friday, July 7, 2023, 09:25
Daniel 6:16
Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions' den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.”
{{{ Interesting the King who was not a follower of the one living GOD Makes the statement
“Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.”
Your God whom you constantly:
this is the key to having the Lord GOD on your side when evil plots and comes against you. To be constantly serving Him.
Read the recall of Daniel and the lion’s den below, or better yet get take the time to pick up a bible get off by yourself, pray and ask the Lord GOD to open your heart and mind to the truth of what the Bible is telling us, and then read Daniel 6 )))
Daniel 6:20
When he (the King) had come near the den to Daniel, he (the King) cried out with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
{{{ And yet aging the non-follower of the only living GOD makes the statement
“Daniel, servant of the living God “, “whom you constantly serve”
What God do your serve?
And how often to you actually serve it or Him?
Do you spend more time with your phone, tablet, laptop or computer then with the only living GOD?
if so you might want to reconsider what or who your GOD is, and who or what you are or serving. }}}
Daniel 6:24 The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions' den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
{{{ just like with those who maliciously accused Daniel, because of Him constantly serving the only living GOD, know that if you are constantly serving the Lord GOD He will do the same in your life.
i was reminded of Romans 8:28-31
Romans 8:28-31
¶ And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
What then shall we say to these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?
We are not being accused by man alon but rather by the evil that he serves and allows to control him, this is who is against us, he is against us because we serve the one most high GOD and serve Him and Him alone.
Conclusion: This world hold nothing for me, my home is not here on earth but in Heaven.
i will not fear mankind who can only kill the body,
but only Father GOD who can not only kill the body but can send the soul to the pit of hell.
Father GOD wills that no man should parish and go to hell,
by sending His Son to earth to hang on a cross for us to take our place and pay our debt for all the sins we have committed, to return to life three days later victories over death, hell and the grave, holding the keys to all three,
He has set us free.
It is your choice to except His freedom and His forgivness
that He has purchased for you.
i chose to except that gift and to constantly serve Him, will you.? }}}
Here is Daniel 6,
and the account of what lead up to Daniel being thrown in to the lion’s den. And what happened afterwards. Take the time to read and see what the Holy Spirit may show and say to you.
Daniel 6:1-5
¶ It seemed good to Darius to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom, and over them three commissioners (of whom Daniel was one), that these satraps might be accountable to them, and that the king might not suffer loss.
Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself among the commissioners and satraps because he possessed an extraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom.
Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to government affairs; but they could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him.
Then these men said, “We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him with regard to the law of his God.”
Daniel 6:6-9
¶ Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, live forever!
“All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions’ den.
“Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.” Therefore, King Darius signed the document, that is, the injunction.
Daniel 6:10-13 ¶
Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.
Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king’s injunction, “Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.”
Then they answered and spoke before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a day.”
Daniel 6:14-15
¶ Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him.
Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Recognize, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed.” Daniel in the Lions' Den Dan
6:16-18 ¶ Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions’ den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.”
A stone was brought and laid over the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing would be changed in regard to Daniel.
Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.
Daniel 6:19-24
¶ Then the king arose at dawn, at the break of day, and went in haste to the lions’ den.
When he had come near the den to Daniel, he cried out with a troubled voice.
The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
Then Daniel spoke to the king, “O king, live forever!
“My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths and they have not harmed me, inasmuch as I was found innocent before Him; and also, toward you, O king, I have committed no crime.”
Then the king was very pleased and gave orders for Daniel to be taken up out of the den. So, Daniel was taken up out of the den and no injury whatever was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
Daniel 6:25-28
¶ Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations and men of every language who were living in all the land: “May your peace abound!
“I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel;
For He is the living God and enduring forever,
And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed,
And His dominion will be forever.
“He delivers and rescues and performs signs and wonders In heaven and on earth,
Who has also delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.”
So, this Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
{{{ Why don’t you dedicate or rededicate your life to the Lord Christ Jesus? Living to constantly serve Him instead of man or yourself, and see what He will do for you. }}}
at least take the time to look at what lions den you may be in
thank about who you are serving.
Make the choiceof who or what you will serve,
the choice is up to you, it is yours.