1 Kings 8: 27 -32 Can it be that God will actually move into our neighborhood? Listen to my prayers, energetic and devout, that I'm setting before you right now...and listen to the prayers that I pray at this place.
I Kings 8: 37 -40 When disasters strike, famine or catastrophe, crop failure or disease, or when an enemy attacks their defenses—calamity of any sort—any prayer that's prayed from anyone at all among your people Israel, hearts penetrated by the disaster, hands and arms thrown out to this Temple for help,
Listen from your home in heaven. Solomon repeated the refrain seven times.
What does God hear from me this day? Is it petitions? Is it intercession? Is it praise? Is it a repentant heart He hears?
Holy living will result in dependence and trust and mission and love.
Bless the LORD! We are exuberant with heartfelt gratitude for all the good our God has done this year! I Kings 8: 66
Exuberant with gratitude for the deep work HE is doing in my heart where no circumstance changes anything. Please pray---for HE is listening---for God's direction as we are back in foreclosure. Life no longer is about things working out for us...it's all about Him, isn't it? He's a good God. I would have despaired had I not believed I would see His Goodness. Psalm 27: 13-14 We wait for a good God not for a change in our circumstances. May HE show up in our hearts this day!
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful for the encouragements God gives from His word that help with a long struggle. Today's encouragement, "God had done what he said he would do" I King 8:20.
ReplyDeleteI am floored at times where His encouragments come from when I am listening! Thank you Father.
Bev, I am praying for you even as I type this. Jehovah-Jireh I pray you will meet the needs of Bev and her family. You are the Provider and the God of Grace and Mercy. I call upon your Name to deliver Bev and her family from foreclosure. Nothing is impossible for you, God. Look upon your servant, Bev and reward her faithfulness and her loving heart, and provide restoration. In your Holy Name, Amen
ReplyDeleteDeep humility, heartfelt passion and pleas...such a beautiful prayer. What a comfort to be reminded that we are His inheritance. He brought us out of the iron furnace...His eyes are open to our prayers...He will listen to us whenever we call. (1Kings 8:51-53) I love the phrase, "as each day may require," in the NKJV. (1 Kings 8:59) We can trust in God's faithfulness, day by day. Solomon is asking God to maintain the cause of His people...Why? Not only does he want God's compassion, forgiveness and presence...Solomon wants others to know that the LORD is God...THERE IS NO OTHER. (vs.60)
ReplyDeleteThe heavens cannot contain Him...neither can a buiding. My "clay jar" really can't compare with Solomon's beautiful temple. And it certainly can't compare with the "heaven of heavens." Yet, God has taken up residence in my heart. May I be gripped by that truth today...humbled by it. And may I live in such a way that others won't doubt it.
Bev, I'm so sorry you are going through this! Praying, "as each
day may require," you will know what specific steps will need to be taken. I watch as you continue to hope in His unfailing love and I am blessed. It is so evident...YOUR HEART IS HIS HOME!
Love and prayers!
FG
King Solomon's prayer in Ch. 8 just amazes me. He knew the Lord was dwelling in His midst "The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud (in the temple)." I love the details of Solomon kneeling in reference when he prayed and how he spread our his hands toward heaven as be began to pray.
ReplyDeleteGod is in our midst too. His Holy Spirit LIVING in us, and today's reading reminded me to truly be aware that our GOD is in our midst and CAN and DOES hear our prayers.