Trust through Christ. People really need to start understanding who the people of God are if they are ever going to understand who the Israel of God is.
Psalms 125:1 KJV They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Psalms 125:2 KJV As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Psalms 125:3 KJV For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
2 Corinthians 3:4 KJV And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
Peace upon the Israel of God.
Psalms 125:5 KJV As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Galatians 6:16 KJV And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
If you have died and been born again, there's no mistaking it. The evidence lies in a transformation that focuses on the will of the Spirit versus the will of the flesh. If your day-to-day life is consumed by the flesh, you are none of His.
Romans 8:9 KJV But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Romans 8:10 KJV And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans 8:14 KJV For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
The LORD is always bridging the gap for His people in Christ who trust in Him. These groanings cannot be uttered, so it's foolish to believe or practice that one's own babbling jump-starts the Spirit of God. Also, if you're seeking heavenly intercession, seek it from the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, not the saints. If they could, the saints, including Mary, would tell you the same.
Romans 8:26 KJV Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Romans 8:27 KJV And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
My Christian friend, there's no need to worry; trust in the LORD. He has already planned your life's best possible outcome with Him. It will all work out according to your salvation.
Romans 8:28 KJV And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:29 KJV For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 8:30 KJV Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans 8:31 KJV What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
If you can be separated from the love of Christ, you have never truly received the love of Christ through faith.
Romans 8:35 KJV Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
John 10:28 KJV And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:29 KJV My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Romans 8:37 KJV Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 8:38 KJV For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Romans 8:39 KJV Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The congregation participated in the ordination of the Levites to the service of the LORD. As there is opportunity, elders lay hands as they acknowledge and support the calling of God on another man's life. However, a church body must also participate with the same acknowledgment and support if they want to have a God-honoring and working relationship with their new pastor.
Numbers 8:10 KJV And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
Numbers 8:11 KJV And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
A pastor trending on X had a 10-month sexual affair with a congregant and claims other pastors are unqualified due to their wayward adult children. Hey hypocritical fornicator, the qualification of ruling one's household doesn't apply to independent adult children. These fornicating pastors would tell Eli, Samuel, David, Solomon, and others to quit their God-given callings because of their adult children's choices. Ironically, these pastors have no adult children themselves.
These audacious sorts would probably say God is unqualified to be God due to the rebellious children among the nation of Israel and the Church, if they needed a big enough diversion from their own hypocrisy.
Isaiah 30:1 KJV Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Some walk to Egypt, while others walk to their denominations. Little do they know, all who surrender their trust to the political and religious establishment, disregarding the Word of God, will only receive shame and confusion.
Isaiah 30:2 KJV That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
Isaiah 30:3 KJV Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
If you understand the perverseness of the American Antichrist Uniparty and the Christians who have placed their faith and trust in it, you'll understand why many have turned aside from the path of the LORD. I fear that America's destruction will be instantaneous.
Isaiah 30:11 KJV Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Isaiah 30:12 KJV Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Isaiah 30:13 KJV Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
The LORD calls repeatedly with mercy, but the masses repeatedly reject His gracious terms.
Isaiah 30:15 KJV For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Isaiah 30:16 KJV But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
Within the last five years alone, I have committed thousands of hours to Bible study, and over the past 30+ years as a Christian, the total hours are countless. Through this journey, I have learned, first and foremost, that the LORD God is a loving, gracious, and merciful God. Moreover, I have come to understand that all men who reject such great love, grace, and mercy will be without excuse.
Isaiah 30:18 KJV And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Even faithful and generous givers and tithers experience adversity and affliction, despite what the 'health and wealth' preachers, who solicit $1,000 faith seeds, claim.
Isaiah 30:20 KJV And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
In the end, the people of God will always sing while the enemies of God scream.
Isaiah 30:29 KJV Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
Isaiah 30:30 KJV And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
Isaiah 30:31 KJV For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
Isaiah 30:32 KJV And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
Isaiah 30:33 KJV For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Father, it’s a joy to sing praises unto You. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
