A “Word” from the Pastor…
”On
Getting God’s Ear”
Hi Saints,
I hope you found Wednesday's class helpful in your daily
prayer life. In case you missed a note
or two, here are the highlights of the class with a little extra
information. For ease of identifying the
extra info, I will put that information
in italics. I found much of the class not only to be informative but
somewhat entertaining as well. For
instance, in the early part of the class when Abraham addresses God:
Abraham appealed to God as the "judge of all the
earth," and reprimanded God somewhat by telling him "that be far from
thee." What was important was that
we come to understand that God is not some distant, far off stranger. He is nothing less than our Father and for
that reason alone we should feel comfortable communicating with him. I was a grown man before I felt at ease
talking with my father but as I came to know him I was surprised that we had a
lot in common and more, I came to realize that he wanted me to talk to him and
actually anticipated meeting any request I made. I think about my own children. My concern has nothing to do with denying any
request they may make, I am concerned that I may not be able to accommodate
their needs. Our heavenly Father never
has to concern himself with His ability to perform our requests. If any, He might have to give some thought as
to whether or not our request is for our benefit or not. And that thought does not pose any problem
for the one who asked Abraham "Is anything too hard for the Lord?"
I was thinking over Abraham's request about making the
righteous exempt when destroying the cities.
I think, without Abraham's
intervention that God may very well have destroyed the righteous with the
wicked. But the destruction of the
righteous would have ultimately been handled differently. We get a glimpse of what I am trying to say
in the information surrounding the communion supper. We are told there, that because they did not
take communion “discerning the Lord's body” that many were sickly and further,
some slept, meaning that some died. The
same passage makes it clear that they did not die in the eternal sense but the
euphemism 'sleep' was used to show that they would not be
condemned with the world. Check it out
in I Corinthians 11.
My point is that in
the judgment of the righteous with the wicked God could have put the righteous
to sleep while at the same time putting the wicked to death.
Another point crossed
my mind. Why did Abraham stop bartering at ten?
The language clearly shows that each time Abraham lowered the number he
felt that he was pushing God so perhaps he figured that ten was as low as God
would go. But
based on the logic of his argument, for God to destroy even one would not have
been just. What's my point? Don't
pursue a course of logical argument with God without taking it to the
limit. In the case of healing, don't
settle for less than what is actually available merely because we feel that we
have pushed God too far. Go all the way
to the 'one.’ As it turned out, God's
grace allowed for the escape of four before destroying the city and they did
not merit salvation. It looked as if God
was willing to save the sons-in-law as well if only they believed Lot's warning.
Now let's take a look at Moses. I enjoyed the part where Moses reminded God
of his promise to Abraham. He even went
so far as to remind God of the oath He made in swearing himself by himself to
keep the promise made to the patriarchs
What Moses did was to present indisputable facts to God regarding his
promises and character. The part about
the Egyptians was thrown in for good measure because, let's face it, I don't
think the Egyptians would have bothered to report on God seeing as how they
didn't have anything to gain by doing so.
Such an action would have probably worsened their already tenuous
situation. It shows the
intent of God's heart to have communication with his people.
After we came home Wednesday my wife asked me how can we
approach God with something that He hasn't already heard. Good question! I think that would be a difficult task
also. On further consideration of that
point I believe the Holy Ghost gave me this answer.
It's not originality
that God is expecting from us, although each of our situations being different,
originality is still an open option, but rather God will respond to our urgency
and sincerity in our petitions. I had
someone come up for prayer a couple of weeks ago and in making their request
they specified that they had an emergency crisis. Naturally I presented the case to God with the
same urgency. And guess what? They
reported that before they arrived home God had already interceded on their
behalf.
Let me remind you again what God said to Abraham, "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" That might be a line to use in reasoning with
God when you present Him with a difficult, out of the normal situation. Should you do so, please don't forget the
message about "What's in it For Him" and praise God in the congregation
of the saints.
To
read more current revelations from Pastor Steve, check out his book published
September of 2017 on Amazon.com. It
gives crucial revelations about the rapture, strong delusion and the Lie.
https://smile.amazon.com/Gods-Final-Secret-Stephen-Benton/dp/1976338476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509271792&sr=1-1&keywords=god%27s+final+secret+by+stephen+benton
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