Good Morning,
Well, this is truly being reminded again, about resting in Him. Leaning our entire human personality on Him, and trusting in His power, wisdom and goodness.
As we look all around us we can see that our Father is cleaning His House. He has warned us through His Word that He would have a holy remnant. Nothing has caught God off guard, for all that has been going on He knew. He is bringing all that has been done in the dark to the light. Our stand should be to pray for healing and restoration of hearts and minds, especially for those who are being uncovered. This is the beginning of God's cleaning, and He is thorough. Remember, we are God's house, we are where He dwells. So, the House cleaning is an inside job, that is where it begins. Every man and woman that is being exposed, God has dealt with while they were covered. God covers our sins, iniquities, and faults not for the benefit of keeping them hidden so that we can continue in them, but in order that He may heal us if we yield. Read Ezekiel 16:1-15, even though it is spoken to Jerusalem, we can take it as God speaking to anyone that He delivered from the ashes of life and made beautiful by His Word.
Through all that is happening in the Church, we as the 'true' church, should have a heart that is willing to lay prostrate as the Father walks through His House. In fact this is the scripture that the Lord wants us to look at; "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." [Psalms:139:23-24; Amp] Search means to examine intimately; penetrate; sound out; and try. Try means to test; investigate and trial. Notice the psalmist is making it about his personal relationship with God. Last week we were asked to examine ourselves to see if we were in the faith. [II Corin. 13:5] Now it is God that the psalmist is requesting an examination from. When was the last time you asked the Lord to penetrate your heart, thoughts, and actions? I have never requested a trial from God to examine me intimately and see if there is anything wicked in me. Wicked comes from the word 'wicker' which means bending that which was straight, by entanglement, interconnecting and interlacing. Wicked is an entanglement of God with anything that is not Him. In Hebrew, wicked is an idol that causes bodily or mental pain. It is wicked to say we love God and not obey Him. It is not only the leaders in ministry that are being uncovered because of the wickedness of adultery, fornication, all kinds of sexual perversions, it is everything that we have made idols in our lives that must be destroyed. So, we must ask God to search and try us, while we stay humble enough to keep covered.
II Peter 5:6 says, "Therefore humble yourselves [demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation] under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you." Humble by obeying God, this is lowering yourself. We know that our biggest idol can be ourselves, for we are always trying to do what brings us the greatest satisfaction. God gives grace to the humble while He resists the proud (self-deifying). God resisting means that He will oppose, frustrate and defeat you. Yet, He will give you His ability to defeat any sin, weakness, iniquity, or fault, if you will humble yourself. If we don't humble ourselves, it is not easy when we are made to be humbled. As we yield our ways to God, then He will exalt [raise you; set you up; elevate and advance] you. While this great House cleaning is going on, stay humble, lay prostrate in your heart, for He is washing us thoroughly and repeatedly by His blood! Are you yielding?
"Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts"
Love,
Pastor D.
Daughters of Z 