Forever For His Glory

At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night ; a nd God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?” The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long lif...

I love Proverbs. There are so many wonderful and insightful verses. I came across this one last night as I was looking for another verse... To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Proverbs 22:3 It immediately reminded me of 1 Samuel 15 where King Saul spared King Agag and saved the “fat of the land” against God’s direct orders to completely annihilate the Amalekites. Because of it, God rejected Saul as King and we all know the familiar verse that Samuel told Saul, “ Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. ” (1 Sam. 15:22) Have you ever thought of how that verse affects your life? And I’m not talking about head -knowledge, I’m talking about heart -knowledge. We can memorize the entire Bible, but if it never means anything to us personally - if it never grips our innermost-being - it’s useless. ...

As I was reading my daily Proverb a couple days ago, one verse in particular stuck out to me. Proverbs 25:14 says, Whoever falsely boasts of giving is like clouds and wind without rain . Whenever I have read that verse before, I thought that the giving part was talking about giving in a physical way, i.e. money, help, food, etc., and that it was dealing with outright lying to make oneself look good. But, when I just read it again, I saw it in a different light. It’s not just talking about giving something physical, it’s also talking about prayer. How many times have you had some ask you to pray for something and tell them that you would, and then go off and completely forget that you were supposed to pray? I have done it many more times then I care to admit. And it’s not that I don’t initially pray for them. When I receive an email, or have someone ask me for prayer, I normally pray immediately, but I only do it once. As if I was checking it off of my “spiritual” checklist. ...