Bible Prophecy and Inspiration

Genesis 15:6 – ⁶ Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Do we believe the Lord? 

If we do then we should try to make our decisions that match His Word.

The freewill that we have been given, isn’t because however we think makes it right.  We have another election coming up and our personal preference will not be what’s held accountable.  There is a right and there is a wrong and it comes down to how God looks at it.  Be careful on how you vote, because even if you are not a participator in the changes society is trying to make, you will still be held accountable as a supporter.

It’s the old adage, choose your side.  Who will you stand with?  Yourself?  That will be a lonely spot.  It’s best if we choose to stand with the Lord. 

Let’s believe in what He has to say in His Word.  It will be considered righteousness.  However to not obey His Word would be exactly the opposite.  Don’t straddle the fence and don’t be swayed by the world.  The Lord cares and wants you to believe.  It was the full faith in Abram (Abraham) in which God chose to have His line come down through him.

 Sell out to God completely.  Allow Him to credit you with righteousness and do not lean on your own understanding.

 When we make a decision, let’s consider FIRST how God would view it.

Psalm 49:1-20 –
¹Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who live in this world,
² both low and high, rich and poor alike:
³ My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the utterance from my heart will give understanding.
⁴ I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle:

⁵ Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me—
⁶ those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?
⁷ No man can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for him—
⁸ the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough—
⁹ that he should live on forever and not see decay.

¹⁰ For all can see that wise men die; the foolish and the senseless alike perish
    and leave their wealth to others.
¹¹ Their tombs⁾ will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations,
    though they had named lands after themselves.

¹² But man, despite his riches, does not endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

¹³ This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who approve their sayings. Selah
¹⁴ Like sheep they are destined for the grave, and death will feed on them.  The upright will rule over them in the morning; their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.
¹⁵ But God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself. Selah

¹⁶ Do not be overawed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases;
¹⁷ for he will take nothing with him when he dies, his splendor will not descend with him.
¹⁸ Though while he lived he counted himself blessed—and men praise you when you prosper—
¹⁹ he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of life.

²⁰ A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

You read the New Testament and it’s the same theme.  It’s completely natural to want to chase after these things in our fallen state.  So what do we do?  You study the Word of God and meditate on it.  You go to prayer that you can live and be all the God has for us. 

I don’t know if any of us will ever come close to our full potential, but it’s not hard to see now and throughout history those who attempted to and did a pretty good job of letting God work through them.  First rule to more success concerning all of us?  It’s about He, not me.

Exodus 17:8-13- ⁸ The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. ⁹ Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”

¹⁰ So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. ¹¹ As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. ¹² When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. ¹³ So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

When Moses brought his hands down, the battle turned against them.  When he kept them up in acknowledgement that the Lord was the power, they we’re winning to the point of victory.

Your life is on a battlefield rather you know it or not.  That battle is for the control of man’s heart.  Raise your arms and let God win this battle for you.  Don’t be trying to doing it on your own or you will lose.

The raising of your arms is acknowledgment, submission, shows faith, in the one Whom is in charge.  He wants your heart.  Give to Him and have victory.