Calling On The Lord By Nanyamka Boyer
My beloved brother or sister in our sweet Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, may you be having a blessed day and be fellowshipping and walking with our blessed Lord, the Sweet Lover of our souls, for there's none like Him.
On this day, let us remember that our Lord is the Great I Am of this world and over our lives. For when all hope seems to be gone and when there's none to listen to your hearts cry and pain, know that our Lord Jesus, is there with you and for you, going through your pain, sorrow and suffering with you and available to listen to you and take your prayer requests, so He can come through for you, for remember that "there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother" Proverbs 18:24 and that friend IS Jesus!!
For the Lord is not only the Savior of our souls, but also the Savior of our lives, remember that He promises us in John 10:10 "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." So the Lord in His goodness, love and great mercies towards us, came to help us and to give us hope in this world, by us believing in Him, besides coming to die on the cross for us, so we could receive His free gift of eternal life by believing in Him.
The Lord says in Jeremiah 33:3 "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." So call upon His name daily in prayer, so He can show you and teach you great and mighty things that you have not known before, for the Lord wants you to grow spiritually and learn of His ways and the truth, who is Him, so you can not be deceived in this world.
Remember that the Lord says: "My people are destroyed (by the devil) from lack of knowledge." in Hosea 4:6 Knowledge of what you say? knowledge of the truth or Him, for the Lord Jesus alone IS the truth in this world. And if you continue to read Hosea 4:6 the Lord also says: "Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be not priest to me: seeing thou hast forgottten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
Friends this word was and is not only for the nation of Israel, but also for us His people, the church, to take heed, because if you remember in the book of Revelations 1:6, we His saints "have been made Kings and Priests unto God and His Father." So if you have left your first love who is Jesus, please come back to Him with a contrite or broken or not rigid) spirit and a repentant heart, so that the Lord does not reject you, as well as your children, for believe it or not we all need Him, for His love, salvation, provision, deliverance, hope, protection and direction in and for our lives!
So please be sure of your salvation, daily, by remaining in right standing with the Lord, by having your heart right with and before Him. And if you have backslid or do not truly know Him, for the Lord says "to thine own self be true," come back to Him, for once saved is NOT always saved, please read Ezekiel 3:20-21 and Ezekiel 18:24-26.
The Lord also wants me to tell you that "As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you..."
So let us be wise in what we say before the Lord, for He hears us and at that everything we say, especially when we murmur and complain and that grieves His Holy Spirit, just as the children of Israel did in the book of Numbers. For remember that "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof" as we read in Proverbs 18:21. So let us start watching what we say before the Lord, so we may have life, or blessings in our lives. Remember also what the Lord says in the gospel of Luke in chapter 7 verse 35 "But wisdom is justified of all her children," so those who are wise will bridle their tongue.
So let us always be the children of wisdom, who is the Lord, for the Lord is wisdom and let us obtain more of her (wisdom) by exalting her, so she can promote us to more wisdom, by doing as the Lord says in Proverbs 7:4-5 "Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman (or cousin relative): That they may keep thee from the strange woman, (or the spirit of Babylon or Jezebel) from the stranger which flattereth with her words."
And also Proverbs 4:8 "Exalt her (wisdom), and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her." So always say out loud: "Wisdom you are my sister and understanding you are my kinswoman," and you will see that the Lord will increase the level of your wisdom, so that you may have life in this world, for as it says in Ecclesiastes 7:12, so it is. "For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellecy of knowledge is, that WISDOM GIVETH LIFE TO THEM THAT HAVE IT."
God bless you and go with God, by always abiding in His Word and in Him and by being peanut butter and jelly with Him!