Month: July 2021

Samson’s mother (unnamed) carried her son AND the Lord’s Call on his life until he was able to take it up himself. Judges 13

1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years (a generation, like those who wandered in the desert).

The Angel of the Lord appeared to her and delivered a message from heaven. She had been barren, but heaven had ordained that she would have a son and that he would begin the Deliverance of Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

³ The angel of the Lord appeared to her and said, ‘You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. 4 Now see to it that YOU DRINK NO WINE OR OTHER FERMENTED DRINK AND THAT YOU DO NOT EAT ANYTHING UNCLEAN. 5 You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, DEDICATED TO GOD FROM THE WOMB. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.’ 

This unnamed woman was going to bear a son who would begin Israel’s Deliverance from their enemies, the Philistines. There was more to it than that, for that son, Samson, to stand in his calling, he had to be a Nazirite from his birth, set apart for the Lord. His mother had to live under the same Nazirite Vow while she carried him! In order to fulfill God’s plan and purpose for his life he could never be contaminated by anything forbidden under that vow.

The chapter begins with the statement that Israel had been ruled by their enemies for forty years, a generation. I believe in our day that there will be an anointed generation on the earth set apart for the purposes of Heaven. God may require spiritual mothers and fathers to stand with them and help them until they are able to embrace the Calling on their lives. Samson’s mother carried her son physically but during that time she also lived as he was called spiritually – set apart for God. Some of us may have such a calling on our lives, to ensure a younger generation can stand in the place God has for them as this Age reaches a climax.

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We must all Cross Over from death to Life – we belong with the Life People in the Life Kingdom.

I have been blogging from Jephthah in Judges and Paul in Acts, not much apparent to connect them, but God has revealed some insights regarding our Destiny.

In Acts we next read the account of Lydia;

¹³ On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate TO THE RIVER, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. ONE OF THOSE LISTENING (God chooses the ones who are ready to receive)  was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshipper of God. The Lord OPENED HER HEART TO RESPOND TO PAUL’S MESSAGE. Acts 16

Lydia’s Heart was opened and God’s Spirit came in and gave her Eternal Life (the first recorded salvation in Europe or the West)! Thank you Lord for saving me/us as you did Lydia so long ago.

The next part of the chapter tells of the slave girl who followed after Paul;

¹⁷ She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, ‘These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved.’ ¹⁸ She kept this up for many days (Disturbance/Distraction). Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned round and said to the spirit, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ I COMMAND YOU TO COME OUT OF HER!’ AT THAT MOMENT the spirit left her. Acts 16

There were two spiritual transactions here, Lydia received the Spirit of God of her own free will. The slave girl was freed from a spirit of divination, by Paul’s authority in Christ. Thank you Lord that You are still setting people free today. There was no doubt in either case that something definite had happened! Lydia had crossed into something new, whereas the slave girl could no longer predict the future.

The Biblical account of Jephthah ends in Judges 12 with a dispute between the now victorious Gileadites and the men of Ephraim. The Ephraimites picked a fight with Jephthah and his men, which they lost.

⁵ The Gileadites captured the FORDS OF THE JORDAN leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, ‘Let me cross over,’ the men of Gilead asked him, ‘Are you an Ephraimite?’ If he replied, ‘No,’ ⁶ they said, ‘All right, say “Shibboleth”.’ If he said, ‘Sibboleth’, because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time. Judges 12

The river in Acts became a place of life when the Good News of Jesus’ sacrifice was preached, but in Judges, the Jordan became a place of death. The Ephraimites couldn’t speak the word that would have meant life, just one word! At the end of time, we too will need that one word, ‘Jesus’. No other Name will get us safely across to our true home.

May God bless and keep you today.

Yesterday we saw how Jephthah’s Destiny still came to pass even after he’d been driven away by his own family. Three hundred men gathered around him, recognised his leadership, before Israel called him to lead their army.

²⁹ Then the SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME ON JEPHTHAH. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. ³⁰ And Jephthah MADE A VOW TO THE LORD: ‘If you give the Ammonites into my hands, ³¹ whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.’ Judges 11

Jephthah was anointed of the Lord to lead Israel in battle, to victory over their enemies. However, he made a very unfortunate vow before God, to offer a sacrifice when God gave him victory. His only child (how sad), a daughter, came running from his house to greet him. The amazing thing was that she accepted her father’s vow and told him to fulfill it, after two months alone with her friends. How seriously they took that vow to the Lord. Did Jephthah act rashly or did the enemy (devil) trick him? We don’t know, but sometimes the fulfilment of our Destiny may involve personal cost to us and blessings for others.

In Monday’s blog, Acts 13, we saw how the early Church at Antioch met before the Lord in worship and fasting. The Holy Spirit told them, ‘to set apart Barnabas and Saul for the work He’d called them to do.’ They were commissioned and prayed over, before being sent out on the first Church Missionary Journey. The Spirit chose them to be together and sent them off to take the Gospel to unreached Gentile peoples. God commended their testimony with signs and wonders to the Gentiles.

Acts 15:36-41 gives us a very different account of the next Missionary Journey. Now it’s Paul who’s taking the initiative, but a major disagreement took place between the two apostles. Barnabas wanted to take John Mark with them, but Paul wouldn’t agree because he’d deserted them before. So the duo called together by the Holy Spirit, split and went their separate ways. We don’t know whether the enemy got in and destroyed the relationship or if the time had come for them to part. Once again, as with Jephthah, it seems that words (spoken in heated moments) had a major part to play. Even situations and people anointed by God to work together still need to be careful in walking out their Destiny.

God always has chosen us, everyone of us, to help bring in His Kingdom on earth. Walking out our Destiny may well involve some personal cost for us and hopefully blessing in the Kingdom. We need to be careful and value God given relationships and not give the enemy a foothold or opportunity to destroy them. Ephesians 4:27

God bless and keep you today.

 

Sometimes our Destiny may choose us after we’ve been rejected by those around us. Judges 10 & 11

In the Book of Judges, Israel were continually wavering between serving the Lord and the gods of the nations around them, resulting in periods of harsh discipline. God wouldn’t allow Israel, the only people on earth who knew Him, to go their own way.

11 The Lord replied, ‘When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, 12 the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands? 13 BUT YOU HAVE FORSAKEN ME AND SERVED OTHER GODS, so I will no longer save you. 14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!’

15 But the Israelites said to the Lord, ‘We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.’ 16 Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the Lord. AND HE COULD BEAR ISRAEL’S MISERY NO LONGER. Judges 10

How many times are we guilty of turning our backs on God and going our own way? God doesn’t like to be ignored, nor used, anymore than we do. Israel were attracted by the things/gods in the nations and similarly we may be attracted by the things of this world, but God demands we hold fast to Him and remember His love for us.

Jephthah, (means to open or release), was rejected by his own family. They saw him as inferior, because he came from a different mother and evicted him from the family home.

Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. 2 Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. ‘You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,’ they said, ‘because you are the son of another woman.’ 3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of adventurers/scoundrels gathered around him and followed him. Judges 11

The people around Jephthah were quicker to see and respect what was in him than those closest to him. David also began with the 400 in the Cave of Adullam, those in debt, discouragement and distress.

Israel were under severe threat from the Ammonites and they turned to Jephthah to lead them. He’d been thrown out of his home, but Israel pleaded with him to come and help them to repel the enemy. His own brothers had rejected him, but now his people needed him.

9 Jephthah answered, ‘Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the Lord gives them to me – will I really be your head?’

10 The elders of Gilead replied, ‘The Lord is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.’ 11 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before the Lord in Mizpah. Judges 11

Jesus knew rejection from his own, but God made Him the capstone or chief stone, holding the whole building in place.

You may have experienced rejection, but God hasn’t called ‘time’ on your life. He alone knows what lies ahead, put yourself in His hand and ask for His Destiny. Jephthah was restored and given a key role in his day. Who knows what God has for us, only good for sure.

God bless and keep you today.

Is God looking for us (always begins with Him) and are we looking for Him? Acts 13

Acts 11:19-21, persecution scattered the believers in Jerusalem to distant places and gentile peoples with the Gospel.

19 Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed travelled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews. 20 Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and BEGAN TO SPEAK TO THE GREEKS ALSO, TELLING THEM THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE LORD JESUS. 21 The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

22 News of this reached the church in Jerusalem (the  Church in Jerusalem felt a responsibility for the distant work) and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

God blessed the preaching of the Word among the Greeks and many turned and put their trust in Him. Antioch would in turn become ‘a Gentile Sending Church’, perhaps it’s founders deposited something in the character of the Church.

13 1 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. 2 WHILE THEY WERE WORSHIPPING THE LORD AND FASTING, THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID, ‘Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.’ 3 SO AFTER THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.

4 The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, …

By the time we get to Acts 13 the believers in Antioch are recognised as a Church, they had people in positions of leadership within the Body; specifically prophets and teachers are named.

This Church worshipped the Lord with fasting and Acts 13 begins with the Holy Spirit calling for Barnabas and Saul to be set apart for the work He had for them. They were commissioned after more prayer and fasting and sent out on the first recorded missions trip of the Church.

How can this relate to us as individuals and groups in our own lives? Jesus said, ‘the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few’. There’s always a need for more people to help bring in the harvest and many people believe we are standing on the verge of the greatest harvest the Church has ever seen. God wants and needs people who are willing to serve Him in this day. The believers in Antioch began by worshipping the Lord and fasting, not with the plans of men.

God has called each of us to do something for His Kingdom and it’s uniquely suited to us. It may involve struggles and challenges but God is with us, Emmanuel. What is God calling us to in our day? True fulfilment lies in finding out and doing it.

24 ‘“‘The Lord bless you
and keep you;
25 the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord turn his face towards you
and give you peace.’”
27 ‘So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.’ Numbers 6

Lord open our eyes that we may see aright, give us fresh perspective today. John 9

Yesterday we saw how Jesus made the religious accusers look in their own hearts before they stoned the woman they’d brought to him. They all walked away and left her. Jesus words to her;

‘Then neither do I condemn you,’ Jesus declared. ‘Go now and leave your life of sin.’ John 8:11

All of the following chapter, John 9, describes the healing of a man born blind. His disciples asked who had sinned, the man or his parents for this to have happened, but Jesus said neither. God hadn’t punished him for some sin. They were seeing the man from a wrong perspective.

Jesus put mud on his eyes and told him to go the pool of Siloam and wash it off – that was his part in the healing.

6 So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

His neighbours and others debated how he was able to see and some didn’t believe he was the man. Then they brought him to the Pharisees to have the healing investigated (some people don’t want to believe and will argue vehemently, no matter what the evidence; don’t go there!).

The disbelieving Pharisees, actually ‘they were divided’ V16, struggled to refute the truth before their eyes. They asked the man twice, ‘ how can you see?’, but weren’t able to accept the truth. They had Jesus ‘labelled’ and despite the miracle they continued to look for evidence to the contrary. There are many people today who have mindsets that deny the truth and will oppose it. We may be able to plant some seeds of understanding by talking to them, but only the Holy Spirit can open eyes to receive Jesus. Many of us as believers, who have received Jesus, may still carry blind spots or strongholds in our lives, especially religious strongholds. God’s Spirit works with us to remove them and increase the light in us. Proverbs 4:18

The Pharisees eventually threw the healed man out, they wouldn’t accept that Jesus had healed him, their theology wouldn’t allow it. Then the man met Jesus once again and had his spiritual eyes opened, another miracle;

35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, ‘Do you believe in the Son of Man?’

36 ‘Who is he, sir?’ the man asked. ‘Tell me so that I may believe in him.’

37 Jesus said, ‘You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.’

38 Then the man said, ‘Lord, I believe,’ and he worshipped him.

Jesus concluded this encounter by saying He’d come to bring judgement, ‘so the blind could see and the sighted would be blind’. He told some Pharisees, ‘If you were blind you wouldn’t be guilty of sin (how righteous judgement will be given). V41

John Wimber, founder of the Vineyard Churches, talked about our ‘World View’, how we see or understand life. We are the product of our families, schools, environments and cultures. We need to ask the Lord to help us ‘judge right judgement’; may be very different from our own mindsets.

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Religion may condemn you, but there is now no condemnation for those IN CHRIST. Romans 8:1

John’s Gospel has an interesting account of a woman caught in adultery, John 8:1-11 (these verses are not in most reliable manuscripts). Jesus was in the Temple Courts teaching the people. What an experience to have sat listening to the Lord Himself! The people gathered around Jesus, they wanted to hear Him. However, Jesus was interrupted by teachers of the Law and Pharisees, with the woman caught in adultery. Suddenly the whole focus of the gathering had changed. Some of us may have been to meetings where the direction has been hijacked. On this occasion it moved from words of life to words of death, couldn’t have been more serious! The underlying intent was to trap Jesus, the teacher from God before the people.

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?’ 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. John 8

Jesus didn’t answer their accusations about the Law directly, nor did He confront the woman’s accusers. Instead He stooped down; I imagine the scene was fairly heated as the religious intruders tried to force the issue. Eventually Jesus stood up and uttered one single statement;

7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, ‘Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’

Jesus changed the whole basis of the argument right then. The accusers had been blaming the poor woman for her failing (where was the man who’d been with her?). Jesus forced them to look in their own hearts and no one could meet the condition to cast that first stone, every one of them were sinners too. Interesting that the eldest left first, they’d lived longer and knew beyond doubt that they were just as guilty.

10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, ‘Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?’

11 ‘No one, sir,’ she said.

‘THEN NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU,’ Jesus declared. ‘GO NOW AND LEAVE YOUR LIFE OF SIN.’

Jesus didn’t condemn a woman caught in the adultery. In God’s eyes the issue may not be the guilt of the accused but also of the accusers. Those who are throwing stones or insults and accusations may open themselves to the judgement of God.

Jesus, forgave her, but told her, ‘to leave her life of sin’. He extended God’s forgiveness, but told her to repent and change her way of life.

Romans 8:1 tells us that those in Christ are no longer under condemnation, because of Jesus’ sacrifice, but we too must turn away from known sin.

The example of the outstretched hand with the pointing finger of accusation comes to mind. The one finger on the hand points at the accused, but the other three fingers, point back to us. We may have more to be judged than those we’re accusing.

God bless and keep you today.

Don’t focus nor dwell on the problems, (it will only magnify them) focus on the Lord and His Promises.

We saw yesterday how King David, God’s psalmist, OFTEN moved from Pleading in Prayer to Proclaiming in Praise. David’s life was under constant threat and those threats are probably the main reason why we have so many of his Psalms or Songs handed down to us today. He had to lean hard upon the Lord in the trials he faced, but he invariably ended on a positive note, praising God for His faithfulness. David would not allow the circumstances and his emotions to rule him, he proclaimed God’s goodness in the face of troubles. So Should We Today!

6 Though the Lord is on high, he looks kindly on the lowly;
but the proud He sees from afar. (NIV 1986)
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
you preserve my life.
You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes;
with your right hand you save me. Psalm 138

The early NIV Bible makes a distinction between God looking upon the humble (from on high), but only seeing the proud from afar. God will always distance Himself from human life pride, it’s the humble who God will lift up.

David ends the psalm with a positive proclamation of God’s faithfulness towards him and us;

8 The Lord will FULFIL [His purpose] for me;
your love, Lord, endures for ever –
do not abandon the works of your hands. NIV 1986

The Lord WILL PERFECT THAT WHICH CONCERNS ME; Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, endure forever—forsake not the works of Your own hands. AMPC

The Lord WILL WORK OUT HIS PLANS FOR MY LIFE—for your loving-kindness, Lord, continues forever. Don’t abandon me—FOR YOU MADE ME. TLB

7 By your mighty power I can walk through any devastation,
and you will keep me alive, reviving me.
Your power set me free from the hatred of my enemies.
8 You keep every promise you’ve ever made to me!
Since your love for me is constant and endless,
I ask you, Lord, to finish every good thing that you’ve begun in me! TPT (The Passion Translation)

The Passion Translation provides a powerful rendering of David’s last words in this psalm. Our words have the power to create the circumstances in our lives. David was a wise and Godly King who continually declared God’s goodness and faithfulness to him, in the midst of great opposition. The Lord can use the confession of our faith to help us in our own trials.

God bless and keep you today.

 

David begins in desperation but ends in praise/thanksgiving

King David wrote just over half the Psalms that we know about. His often began crying out to God in desperation and despair, but his psalms often ended with praise and thanksgiving. David’s last words were usually positive and faith building, he couldn’t allow his enemies and his circumstances to overcome him. Neither should we, the sons and daughters of God today.

Many of David’s psalms don’t give us any context, but Psalm 3, was written as he fled from his own son Absalom.

1 Lord, how MANY are my foes!
How MANY rise up against me!
2 MANY are saying of me,
‘God will not deliver him.’ Psalm 3

David obviously felt overwhelmed as he fled Jerusalem, not knowing if he would ever return and sit on the throne again. He knew that he’d brought God’s judgement on himself and his household 2 Samuel 12:11, 12 He held onto God and cried out to Him for His help and mercy.

What positive declarations did David make in this psalm?

3 But you, Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, the One who lifts my head high (encourages me).
4 I call out to the Lord,
and he answers me from his holy mountain.

You’re my Protection, You Encourage me, You answer me.

5 I lie down and sleep;
I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.
6 I will not fear though tens of thousands
assail me on every side.

David was able to Sleep because he believed God was protecting and helping him. The external situation wasn’t good but David trusted God for the right outcome. He boldly stated HE WOULD NOT FEAR, no matter how many his enemies.

7 Arise, Lord!
Deliver me, my God!
Strike all my enemies on the jaw;
break the teeth of the wicked.
8 From the Lord comes deliverance.
May your blessing be on your people.

David ends the psalm with a call to God to Deliver him and makes a declaration that Deliverance (Rescue) comes from the Lord. His last statement is that God’s blessing would rest upon His people – calling for God’s blessing despite a coming civil war in the nation.

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 LORD. 1 Samuel 30 KJV

David had learned how to hold onto God in tough situations and he did so again. He was able to move from despair at what was happening around him to a place of trust in God where he could lie down in sleep. We might say today that he had ‘prayed through’ to peace. In unsettled times we may have to turn to God in deeper/total trust, so that we too are in peace and not overcome by the situations around us.

God bless and keep you today.

Israel learned a very tough lesson, through Achan’s disobedience in Joshua 7.

He took some of the devoted things, set apart for God, from the city of Jericho (Jericho is said to be the oldest inhabited city on earth). Israel had crossed the Jordan and were now in Canaan, the land of God’s Promise to the patriarchs centuries before. The manna had stopped as soon as they ate some of the produce of the land. Israel were now dependent on the land and the conquest of Canaan through Joshua. (God’s chosen leader) They’d taken Jericho and destroyed all the Amorites, except for Rahab and her family. Achan stole some of the devoted things and brought God’s anger on the whole nation. The outcomes of sin are always more far reaching than we can foresee.

20 Achan replied, ‘It is true! I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel. This is what I have done: 21 when I SAW in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I COVETED them and TOOK THEM. They are HIDDEN in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.’ Joshua 7

Achan describes the process of his disastrous sin, I SAW, I COVETED (WANTED/DESIRED), I TOOK AND LAST OF ALL, I HID. In Genesis 3:8 we read that Adam and Eve HID from God in the Garden of Eden. Sin loves to HIDE, IT HATES THE LIGHT!

Thank God that we live under a different Covenant today, Jesus’ sacrifice saves us from many consequences of sin.

The late pastor and prophet, Neville Johnson, spoke about the apostle John’s relationship with the Lord when He was still on earth. John was the ‘beloved apostle’ and at the last supper, Peter told John to ask Jesus who was going to betray Him. (John had his head on Jesus’breast) Neville Johnson stated that the Gospels, particularly John and the letters of 1 John 1, 2 and 3 would become more important in latter days. There was no record of John’s death and no grave was ever identified, so John may have been translated like Enoch.

5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 1 John 1

John tells us here that we can only walk in the light as we avoid conscious sin. Walking in the Light ensures Fellowship with God and one another AND JESUS’ BLOOD cleanses us from all sin.

Through Achan’s sin, Fellowship with the Lord was broken and the whole nation of Israel was in danger. The sin had to be uncovered and dealt with before any more of their inheritance could be taken.

Walking in the Light is crucial for us as believers today to receive all that the Lord has promised for us. Be quick to obey the prompting of the Spirit, when He convicts of something displeasing to God. Walking in the Light is a key to unbroken Fellowship with the Lord and one another.

God bless and keep you today.