Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009

7-29 Prophetic Thoughts

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“You are THE most beautiful girl in the world!” Evie literally glowed as she stood there tanned and smiling … that was the same compliment I gave to granddaughter Esther just a few moments earlier. My girls are the best in the world! They look as lovely as their mother. Esther hung her arms around her grandpas neck as I gave Evie a great big hug. Isaiah wanted in on it… he nosed his way in and we had a group hug thing going on! We did all that on the hottest day of the year… yep only 110? 111? Hot enough yet? After all the trial and error of raising kids, there are some rewards that can’t be measured tangibly. Pretty good huh?

Today's Scripture reading is 1 Kings 8:1-21; Zechariah 10; Luke 17
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Today’s thought comes from Ezekiel 38: 10 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: 11 "You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’ — 12 "to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land. 13 "Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’"’

I think I thunk a thought. The prophecy about the leaders of the army from the North in the end times is that “Thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan.” They will think it, they will plan it, they will execute it. Where do thoughts come from anyway? My thoughts are my own. I get to think my own thoughts and form my own opinions in this little brain of mine. You get to do the same thing in yours. We are individual, free thinkers… but are all our thoughts our own? Not really. We hear and evaluate dozens, perhaps hundreds of thoughts a day from other sources: radio, TV, conversation, magazines… etc. Some we believe, others we discard. But if you are an aware person, plugged into your thoughts as you should be, sometimes you will sense a perverse thought flying across your brain pad from out of nowhere like an arrow shot silently from the unknown and you will say, “Hey! Where did that come from!” And if you are a thinking individual you will quickly reject the thought. “That didn’t come from me! An enemy has done this.” …An unseen spiritual enemy. Yes, our enemy the Devil and his demons have the ability to plant thoughts in the mind and we must learn to reject them. On the other hand, God also can interject thoughts. It happens! God puts ideas, suggestions, and the sensation of his presence in our mind. The more the better, I say. In the case of the army from the north, God says in verse 1, “I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out!” And in verse 8 God says, “After many days you will be visited.” God claims that He is leading the army of the north out to battle, but in verse 10, the generals and politicians think that they are the ones making the plan! So which is it? I just love the conundrums of the Word! I love to discuss the tension between the sovereignty of God and the free will of man. Do we have to have it one way or the other? Why can’t we have it both ways! God sent the thought; the kings of the north picked it up and ran with it! In their case, it is going to be a bad thing with a bad ending. Prophecy is coming. But normally, when God speaks to your mind you would be wise to listen and follow.

Dear Lord. I pray that my thoughts would please you. Help me to control the thoughts that come into my mind from various places… to evaluate them so that I may reject the thoughts that are off the mark and accept the ones that line up with your word. And most of all, help me to hear your voice and follow your leading.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength. This is the greatest commandment

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