Bro Gary Wednesday Evening 12/21/11

Bro Gary Wednesday Evening 12/21/11

Psa 8:2  Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

The commentators believe that David wrote this after facing Goliath.  He felt himself a babe.  God gives strength to the humble.

Strength - H5797 עוז    עז ‛ôz  ‛ôz oze, oze - strength in various applications (force, security, majesty, praise):

Mat 21:12  And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

Mat 21:13  And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Mat 21:14  And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.

It is a marvel how in a setting where things were not the greatest, Jesus Christ still took care of the needs.  We have all experienced this scripture to be true.  In untimely difficult situations, when it wasn’t our doing, He was there and stepped in and showed Himself very strong.

Mat 21:15  And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,

Mat 21:16  And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

Those that should have been rejoicing were sore displeased.  Don’t underestimate what God will do for you.  If you feel like you are no one great then expect a miracle.  You feel like you need divine intervention?   

Expect a miracle.  Don’t hesitate to believe that God will work a miracle for you.

Jesus was very displeased because God’s house was to be a house of prayer and praise, and they had made it a place of business.  When the blind and the lame came and Jesus met their needs it did not move the Chief Priests, the Scribes and the Pharisees at all.  They had needs and He would have met their needs as well.

“Hosanna” means welcome thou son of David and the messiah.  The children knew.  The Scribes and Pharisees asked, “Do you hear what they are saying?”  Jesus said, “Out of the mouths of the babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise.”

The children recognized Jesus and were at liberty to give him praise.

Psa 84:5  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

Blessed is the man that is trusting God.  Most of us have a whole lot of things that we are trusting God for.  We are blessed.

Psa 84:6  Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

This is the valley of weeping.  The valley of weeping can come from many different things.  We don’t always just weep because of the loss of a son, or over sinners and prodigals and these are something to weep for. 

One thing that brings real weeping is disobedience.  To feel that you have failed God in any way brings weeping. 

This has become so strong in my thought patterns recently, “people may feel so bad that they hurt whomever it was, but unfortunately being hurt is a part of life.”  I was visiting with my grandson and he is three and said, “Somebody hurt my feelings.”  I should have said, “Why did they hurt your feelings Cole?” 

The thought that is so strong is to not only feel weeping when we fail, but to realize that I didn’t just trespass someone, but I failed God and His son.  His son is the one that died for me. 

When it comes to us and weeping, why are we weeping?  Are we weeping because we are embarrassed? 

We cannot control what anyone else does.  You cannot pack that.  You live right and you do right. 

Weeping because of conviction is a wonderful thing.  I’m near the end of my journey and I am thanking God for conviction.  I don’t have to end bitter and without joy.  Isn’t that wonderful?

Whatever season of life that you are in you need to enjoy it.  Enjoy the season of having children if you have children.  It is wonderful.  Enjoy the season that you are in.  If you’re worried about yesterday, weep tell God that you are sorry and change. 

We cannot change the past.  You cannot buy love.  Weep before God and ask God to help you to find someone to love.  I’m talking about giving out of your self.

Soul travail – I don’t know much about travail.  You sisters that have born children know what it is like to bear a baby for 9 months and to feel that life.  It must be something.  Then you reach the point where the baby is going to be born.  In the day that my mother had babies, my dad probably built up the fire and put water on the stove and then called Dr Maney.

The travail of the soul is something to weep for.  My brother’s son called and said, “I really need prayer.”  What does that mean?  Does it mean that he recognizes a spiritual need?  Does it mean that there is trouble in the school?  We need to be as willing to travail for someone that the world looks down on as we would for someone that is looked up to. 

When we get ready and say, “Oh God, help me to know how to travail.”  The wonderful song written in New Zealand, “Search me O God; O Holy Ghost, revival comes from thee.” 

We have to really want someone to get saved to travail for them.  We will not consider it an inconvenience.  One that wants a baby does not consider pregnancy and inconvenience.  Sometimes we need to really travail for our self.  “God I’m going to show you how much that I want victory in my life.  I’m going to travail.”

To lose a loved one causes weeping.

It is a tragedy to lose the fellowship of those that you love.  There are people that I really love that will not fellowship me.  There are those that once loved us and wanted us to come to their place that would feel really uncomfortable if we showed up the first of March.

Go through the valley of weeping; weep your way through it.  I had a relative that received a bunch of lies about me.  Soon he got to thinking that the person that told him all that, tells one lie after another.  You will be betrayed.  It is a part of life.  Jesus was betrayed.  It hurts and breaks our heart.  At one time we were a good guy and now we’re a bad guy.  Don’t hang around liars.

Disappointment causes weeping.  God is a God of order.  We know that the sun will come up in the east and set in the west.  It is vital that you and I have order in our life; if we don’t then it will end in shambles.

Lack of discernment will cause weeping.  Travail before God until he can trust you with discernment.

Lack of preparation can cause weeping.  When you know that you will be visiting with a soul about spiritual things then be prepared.  Be here early on Sunday so that you are not flustered.  If you have a visitor coming, they will be here early.  We want to have order and preparation in our life.

Wait on God or you will be weeping.  Too little prayer and too much talk and trials will cause weeping.  We will have trials.  We pray to be genuine and the dross comes up and we weep before God. 

Temptation makes you shake your head, “How crazy do you think that I am that I would leave God for What?”  The world doesn’t have anything to offer.

We will weep because we are misunderstood.  The thing to do is to go through the valley of weeping and get over it.  Weeping will endure for a night but joy comes in the morning.

Psa 84:7  They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

This strength is virtue and virtue comes from God.  Add to your strength virtue and virtue means moral excellence.  Pray for moral strength to arise and meet the difficulty with valor.

Valor is strength of spirit and mind to encounter danger with firmness.

God will give us strength to face difficulty, temptation, trials.  We can add to our faith virtue and go from strength to strength.  Virtue and valor can only come from God. 

Unless we do things God’s way it doesn’t work. 

Psa 84:1  To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

Today and yesterday we had lots of burdens.  They were burdens that we wanted to carry.  Whether in the house or out of the house we can make a tabernacle.  Bro Gyme makes a tabernacle right there in the hospital.  Bro Bill makes a tabernacle right there in the school.  We must appear before God.

Weeping is not bad, it is good for us.  Weep your way through until you are in the presence of God and you experience strength of virtue.