Series
2.7.2 - #184
July
2, 2004
My
heart is heavy. I give it to God during this time of grief and
heaviness. The Lord has shed the love of God in my heart. Now
love will minister to my grieving heart and will lift the heaviness
from it. I will no longer rehearse the events of the past. I
forget them and leave them behind in the consuming fire of God's
love. God is love, and his love is a consuming fire. He has
sent a fire through my heart, not for bad but for good. The
fire of his love is burning up the effects of the poisonous
darts that have been shot into my heart. Well-aimed darts have
taken their toll on me. I am deeply wounded. Grace has been
given to me that bitterness does not come near me. I have grown
in the Lord and in the grace of God. I am not a stranger to
the battlefield. Being wounded is not a new thing to me. I expected
to be hurt in the house of my friends. Jesus was wounded in
the house of his friends. I am not greater than my Master. He
was wounded by his own. I came to do good. Now I have been rewarded
with evil. I cannot cover up evil by enveloping it with empty
good words and deeds. The taste of evil is the same whether
it is wrapped in evil or wrapped in good. Evil will not depart
from the house that rewards good with evil. I forgive those
who have despitefully used me and who persecuted me that I may
be a child of my Father who is in heaven.
God
makes the sun to rise on the evil and on the good. He sends
rain on the just and on the unjust. If I love only those who
love me, I have no reward. Even the thieves love those who love
them; therefore, I will love my enemies. I bless them that curse
me, and I will do good to them who hate me. I purpose to pray
for those who separate me from their company, reproach me, and
cast out my name as evil for the Lord's sake. I rejoice in this
day and leap for joy, for my reward is great in heaven. This
is the manner in which the prophets were treated. The Lord is
the stone that the builders rejected. I am a child of the stone;
therefore, I have been rejected. I am not deceived by flowery
words and good speeches, for their throats are open sepulchres.
With their tongues, they used deceit, and the poison of asps
was under their lips. God will appear to my joy, and they shall
be ashamed.
I
behold how the Lord takes the wise in their own craftiness.
He will disappoint their devices, and their hands will not be
able to perform their enterprise. I purpose to be poor in spirit
then God will save me from their swords, their mouths, and the
hands of the mighty. The poor has hope. Happy is the man whom
the Lord corrects; therefore, I will not despise his chastening.
God has made me sore, but he has bound me up. He has allowed
me to be wounded, but now my hands are made whole. He has delivered
me in six troubles, yea in seven, and there shall no evil touch
me. From the power of the enemy's sword, the Lord has saved
me. He is hiding me from the scourge of the tongue, so I will
not be afraid of destruction when it comes. I shall laugh at
destruction and famine. My tabernacle shall be in peace. My
spiritual seed shall be great, and my spiritual offspring shall
be as the grass of the earth. I shall come to my grave in a
full age, like as a shock of corn comes in his season. I hear
the word of the Lord. I know that good has come to my door and
seized me in its hands while mercy has lifted me above the wrath
of my enemies.
Hebrews
10:22 - 23
Let
us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water. Let
us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;
(for he is faithful that promised;)
Ephesians
2:8-9
For
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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