Memory Verse: Psalm 119:104-105
"Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."
Notes
* If someone were to ask you to describe God, what would you say?
Some of us answered; Creator, Love, Patient, Omnicient...
How would YOU describe God?
Our horses and chariots have a lot to do with the way we process our thoughts - the thoughts that lead to fear, anxiety and insecurity....
Consider this illustration:
Our hearts are like the Castle. And we have the protective walls (Spirit's Protection)surrounding our heart. And there are these strong towers (The name of the Lord and and the knowledge of God). But there are these thousands of messengers (intrusive thoughts - thoughts that lead to insecurity, fear, anxiety, self-centerdness...etc) trying to get through the wall. The only way they can get through is if we let the drawbridge down. How are we holing up our drawbridge? Are we letting the messengers come through?
Are we letting those thoughts/emotions lead us astray... to boast in things that are not of the Lord's?
* So then the question is..... How do we have the Holy Spirit take over our thoughts? How do we hold up the drawbridge so that we are not led astray?
We can ask the Holy Spirit to take over our drawbridge and start to filter our thoughts in specific circumstances. We need to learn to ask HIM... and release ourselves to Christ.
Did you know..... that Holy Spirit is such a GENTLEMAN? He will help us!
And what is our part in this?
Is is activly meditating on God's truth instead of keep thinking the thoughts that lead us astray. We need something to hold on to... - the truth of God that relates to our circumstances which will anchor our hearts. We need to hold on to the TRUTH, hold fast to that TRUTH. Memorize Bible verse that pertains to the situation you are in.LORD I WANT TO KNOW YOU pg 5
*What are the Lord's promises in the Psalm 20?
God will set you securely on high
will send you help
will support
will remember all your offerings
wil accept your offerings
will grant your heart's desire
will fulfill all your counsel
will sing for joy over your victory
will fulfill all your petitions
will saves His anointed
will answer
JUST ASK!!!!! We need to pray.. pray with thanksgiving.
Phillipians 4:6-7
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
BOAST in the name of the LORD!
"Turn your heart's desire into a prayer. Tell your Father what you need. Thank Him that He wants to be known by you in greater depth!" pg 6
Proverbs 18:10
ReplyDeleteThe name of the LORD is a strong tower;
the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
I went onto Bible Gateway and looked at the commentary to this verse. I found it to be very insightful. There is so much depth in this one verse.
Also in this verse, the righteous man runs INTO the strong tower versus just running to it and being safe. I thought that was cool :)
Here is the commentary....ENJOY! It's definitely worth reading!
Here is, 1. God’s sufficiency for the saints: His name is a strong tower for them, in which they may take rest when they are weary and take sanctuary when they are pursued, where they may be lifted up above their enemies and fortified against them. There is enough in God, and in the discoveries which he has made of himself to us, to make us easy at all times. The wealth laid up in this tower is enough to enrich them, to be a continual feast and a continuing treasure to them. The strength of this tower is enough to protect them; the name of the Lord is all that whereby he has made himself known as God, and our God, not only his titles and attributes, but his covenant and all the promises of it; these make up a tower, a strong tower, impenetrable, impregnable, for all God’s people. 2. The saints’ security in God. It is a strong tower to those who know how to make use of it as such. The righteous, by faith and prayer, devotion towards God and dependence on him, run into it, as their city of refuge. Having made sure their interest in God’s name, they take the comfort and benefit of it; they go out of themselves, retire from the world, live above, dwell in God and God in them, and so they are safe, they think themselves so, and they shall find themselves so.