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FROM GOD'S WORD TO MY HEART
Psalm 141
As I was reading in Psalm 141 this morning, I
couldn’t help but to think about how often God’s people are
continuously under attack. So many times, my “flesh” wants to
lash out and handle the situation; however, if I do that, then I
don’t feel that I have won any victory….no, instead I feel sort of
an emptiness inside that I can not explain away simply.
Then I look to God’s Word for answers…....and, as
always, the answers are there…....bear with me for just a moment
while I share what God has revealed/confirmed for me today…..from
His Word….
Psalm 141 (NIV)
(verses 1-2) O Lord, I call to
You, come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You. May my
prayer be set before You like incense; may the lifting up of my
hands be like the evening sacrifice.
The very first thing that I must do in the
event of an attack is to come to God with an open and repentant
heart and “expect” to hear from Him. Now that I have asked God to
hear me, I must do “my” part….
(verses 3-4) Set a guard over
my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips. Let not my
heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with
men who are evildoers; delicacies.
It is so easy
to be drawn into, shall we say, a confrontation, and immediately
find ourselves opening up our mouths and being drawn into “their”
evilness…..then we find that we are no better than those who have
come against us.
(verse 5b; 6b)……Yet my prayer
is ever against the deeds of the evildoers….and the wicked will
learn that my words were well spoken.
Herein lies
the answer!!! God expects me/us to pray against those who do
wrong towards us…..its so simple….can we not just pray and allow
God to do His part?
And now, the
prayer that should be upon my lips as I face each day….
(verses 8-10) But, my eyes are
fixed on You, O Sovereign Lord; in You I take refuge…do not give
me over to death. Keep me from the snares they have laid for me,
from the traps set by evildoers. Let the wicked fall into their
own nets, while I pass by in safety.
Our God is
truly awesome, and there is nothing that He can not handle, if we
will just allow Him to do so………
LBG…....Marti |