Be STEDFAST in your FAITH, JOY, PEACE and HARMONY WITH THE SPIRIT!!

HE IS THE LORD, and HE IS WORTHY of ALL PRAISE NO MATTER WHAT WE GO THROUGH!!!

 I SHALL NOT DWELL IN THE DARKNESS... for HE IS HOLDING ONTO ME!!!

PSALMS 78: 8 And (that they) might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

PSALMS 78: 22  Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

READ PSALMS 78:

What really got my attention about Psalms 78 was the over all account of Israel’s time in the wilderness and their RESPONSE to the LORD.

It seemed the more GOOD that the LORD brought into their life the more they sinned. The less they trusted HIM, the more they tempted HIM, the more they lusted etc.

The thing that I found most interesting about this account of Israel’s time in the wilderness was that REQUIRED that the FATHER had to chastise, bring judgment upon them to get their attention FOCUSED back on HIM.

PSALMS 78: 3 When HE slew them, then they sought HIM: and they returned and inquired early after GOD..

ARE WE LIKE THAT TOO?

 IS that what it is going to take to get our ATTENTION focused on HIM?

The Father had REVEALED HIMSELF to them many times, giving them DELIVERANCE and HEALING:

HE was able to pour manna from heaven, part a sea, guide them by day with a cloud, by fire at night gave them water from a rock, heal them of the snakes, plagues  etc.

ODDLY the more GOOD and Deliverance HE brought into their LIVES the more they seemed to sin and doubted HIM.

PSALMS 78: 17 they sinned more against HIM by provoking the MOST HIGH in the wilderness.

PSALMS 78: 34  When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

Or you RECEIVING the GOOD HE offers and gives into your LIFE with PRAISE and WORSHIP or are you “DOUBTING” or even worse spending your time FOCUSED and concerned on the ENEMIES/snakes WORK in the WORLD??

Really what can you do when the World is gone to hell or the serpents begin to bite at your heels?

You can prepare till your monies are run out

You can worry till all you have is anxiety

You can run till your life is destroyed

All of which STRIPS the very peace and joy out of your life.

None of which truly brings any form of PEACE or COMFORT to your soul or life:

NUMBERS 21: 8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

While the WORLD is snipping at your heels, LOOK UP and be DELIVERED!!!

LOOK UP UPON the SERPENT on the POLE, stop focusing on the snakes around you, that are snipping at your heels, have CONFIDENCE, TRUST, PEACE and HARMONY with the LORD.

Give your worries, anxieties and concerns to the LORD, and proclaim GOD IS GOD, for in ALL YOUR TROUBLES and TRIALS HE is ABLE to deliver and heal.

I CHOOSE to live in peace and harmony with the SPIRIT Of the LORD, stedfast and secure in my faith… AMEN

DECLARE!!!

MY deliverance is coming one day by death, by life, or by rapture.

Psalms 78: 1 Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

MY HOPE IS IN GOD, the ONE THAT CAN!!!

HAVE WE FORGOTTEN THE MARVELOUS THINGS HE CAN DO??

PUT YOUR "HOPE" in GOD, and not forget HIS MIGHTY WORKS...

Psalms 78: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

PSLAMS 78: 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Psalms 78: 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

Psalms 78: 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.

Psalms 78: 13  He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

Psalms 78: 14n the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

Psalms 78: 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.

Psalms 78: 16  He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

CONCLUSION: 

SPEND TIME, ENCOURAGING YOUR OWN FAITH, BELIEF, TRUST in HIM, through reading the WORD, offering HIM PRAISE and WORSHIP, have a HEART Of GRATITUDE!!

Take your eyes off the world for awhile.

Look up from the bites of the serpent and PRAISE HIM that you may live in JOY, PEACE and HARMONY with the SPIRIT of the LORD.

TURN OFF THE WORLD and TURN ON YOUR PRAISE!!

CONNECT to YOUR GOD through MUSIC in your HOME, open your DOOR, and TAKE a DEEP BREATH, INHALE HIS PRESENCE and then take a good look at HIS CREATION. 

WHO could create such an AWESOME WORLD but our MIGHTY CREATOR!!!

DEATH is going to come to us one way or the other. Do not spend all your time focused on the works of the enemy.

BE a sweet smell in the nostrils of the FATHER and the LORD JESUS:

SING PRAISE SONGS, WORSHIP HIM, Spread your joy, peace, your hope and your confidence in HIM and what HE can do.

Spending this time LOVING your family and be a TESTIMONY to JESUS CHRIST!!!

YOU WILL BE BETTER FOR IT!!!! AMEN..

FOR HE IS ABLE!!!!!

YOU HAVE TO DECIDE to "COME TO THE TABLE"!!!

IF I STAND

The STUFF OF EARTH COMPETES for the ALLEGIANCE, I owe ONLY TO THE GIVER OF ALL GOOD!!!

SO IF I STAND, LET ME STAND ON THE PROMISE, that "YOU" will pull me through!!! AMEN and AMEN…