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"GOD BLESS IT"
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By:
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Blessing-to-you
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Mood:
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Encouraging
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Date:
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07/18/2008 11:50:45
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Music:
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None
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Our country that has been trying to get as far from God as possible, this is quite a change. The prayers that the children used to say in the schools were basically God Bless, our parents, teachers, our leaders, our country and ourselves. God Bless us is a very powerful prayer. Most people don't even realize they are even praying. God hears our prayers. We had a certain amount of protection when we were a nation that saw God as its head. PS 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,the people he chose for his inheritance.
Just as was described in Ezekiel chapters 8 and 9,God's Glory departs slowly. We never really saw it happening. We did detestable things, the things God warned Israel not to do, this is just a small part:
EZE 8:5 Then he said to me, "Son of man, look toward the north." So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy.
EZE 8:6 And he said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing--the utterly detestable things the house of Israel is doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable."
And we turned as far from a Just God as we could, scorning His laws, His love, His Glory, and Him, His Glory departed, little by little everyday, the darkness got darker and the light got fainter. Even those who say they Love Him, compromised with love for the things of this world. We wanted so much, forgetting that this world is not our home, forgetting that we are seated with Him in heavenly places, we lived lives that did not honor Him. I am so ashamed, But as Nineveh repented and came out from under the destruction God had scheduled for them;
(JONAH 3:10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.)
We can also, we can repent and we can follow Zerubbabel's example:
ZEC 4:7 "What are you, O mighty mountain (a symbol for large troubles)? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground (or will be made a non-problem). Then he will bring out the capstone (a symbol for Jesus) to shouts of `God bless it! God bless it!' " (the comments in parantheses mine)
2CH 7:13 "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. 2 Chronicals 7:13-15
So:
Lord,I repent of the idols in my life, the many times I have rejected You and placed my needs, my desires, my self on the throne of my heart. Forgive me, and and my nation: And "God Bless it, God Bless it" In Jesus' Name, Amen
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