The Sins of the Kings of Israel......share freely.......deno.

     But we want a king to be over us said the children of Israel. The prophet said to God, God they want a king over them like the other nations. God said, but I am their king. I know that said the prophet, but they insist. You know how your people are? Well, even though having a king was not Gods best for them and what God originally wanted for Israel, He in His love and goodness gave in to their wish and granted them kings to rule over them. Yet the truth of the matter on the most part, those kings were mostly awful. How often in His love God has bowed and bent down to the will and needs of His sinful people lest they be broken?

 
      Saul the first king, was stubborn and would not obey God faithfully and he tried to do things his way to many times and eventually God got so tired of Sauls heart that God tore the throne, the kingdom from Saul and his seed. Yet still, (note this) it was God that chose Saul to be the first king. Saul got his start as king of Israel, Saul was appointed and Anointed to be king by God Himself thru the prophet Samuel. God graced Saul for that honor and yet still Saul was terrible at obeying the Lord.  Mens hearts have over the many generations, even the anointed ones, their hearts have been turned away from God. It is amazing in numbers. Like David, their hearts God sees and likes, but something later happens under temptations and they  fall backwards. It is a common thing in the life and the history of many of Gods people, even of the best. The sins of the kings.
       We have the Anointing. We can have the Lord with us, but even though God blesses us, ordains us, anoints us with His Spirit for the ministry or position or a throne of authority that He has called us unto, God will not over ride our own wills. If you want to preach the gospel and live in adultery and sin at the same time, you can actually do that. God honors every person choices good or bad, wise or unwise. But just like king Saul and David, your bad choices, your sins whatever they be will soon come back to see you with an ugly face attached to it called judgement, the spanking of the Lord. The measure of that judgement is up to God as he reads the heart of the transgressor.
       God honors every man and woman's free will and freedom of choice. He has done so from the very beginning. He does the same to this day. That is why we must really will it and pray it that Gods will be done and not ours. But we have to ASK HIM to do that. Father, your will be done on earth even as it is in heaven. Seems like King Saul only wanted Gods will done mostly only when his stubborn will brought him trouble and pain. SOUND FAMILIAR ?
      Then came David to be King. God selected David. God anointed David with the kings anointing. As a young man David thrilled the heart of God with his passion for God and for his courage and faith in the Name of the Lord and the covenant. So much so that God took David the shepherd boy, and placed him on the throne of Israel. God chose David also just like He did Saul. God appointed and Anointed David as king over Israel. But the calling, the positioning of David on the throne and that kings Anointing did not nullify Davids own independent will or human sinful passions. David sinned also against the righteous scepter of the throne, against God, against Uriah, against the Anointing. 
       David as Gods selected and anointed king over Israel committed adultery and murder. The blood of Uriah was on his hands. His sins, though God forgave David, those sins caused David tremendous problems within his dynasty and within his family. His sin may have topped Sauls in measure. God knows. The old covenants forgiveness measure did not always remove the Fathers paddle from the life of the transgressors. 
      David, though God forgave him, those sins consequences were like a sword and a thorn in his side and in his families life that seemed to refuse to leave. In the old covenant, sins could not be purged as they are in the new covenant. They had only the limited power of the blood of animals to intercede and to atone for their sins. In the new covenant we have the blood of God atoning for our sins. HUGE DIFFERENCE. BIG BIG  DIFFERENCE. A more greater sacrifice has been offered for our sins. God became a Lamb in the man Christ Jesus and died for our transgressions. Nothing can compare to any of the power of God. Not to his Name. Not to His Words. Not to His Spirit, AND NOT TO HIS OWN BLOOD. 
     Well the selected, called, appointed, anointed David as king of Israel, he to sinned against God and the throne. God gives all of us the call, the selection, the appointing, the positioning, the anointing to reign in life as kings, Paul wrote so, but not all are because they do not know that they are kings in Christ, nor see that they are kings in Christ. Also because many of us who are so loved by God still let our own wills rule us and our life and not Gods will. Every morning people plan their day out without even consulting God about it and they give God the leftovers. Well that sure did not work for the kings of Israel and I assure you that same way, that same attitude will not bring the favor and the blessings of the Lord into our lives and days. The double minded James said, should not think that they shall receive anything from the Lord. The church and the individual believers are weak and so often so powerless because their double mindness is robbing them of victory, of blessings, of favor and joy, and Christ in their life realities (James 1:5-8).
        Then after David came Solomon, David and Bathshebas second child together. They lost the first child from the adultery conception. Solomon was their second child together. God appeared to Solomon in a dream and personally asked Solomon, What would you have Me do for you Solomon? Solomon started out with God, pleasing God with what he asked of the Lord. He asked for wisdom and knowledge to rule the people of Israel wisely as their king. God was well pleased with Solomon and with what he asked him. God said to him, Solomon you could have asked Me for riches, for wealth, for gold and silver but instead you asked for wisdom to lead and to rule My People and so for this I will grant you what you have asked. Solomon by My gift to you you shall excel in wisdom and knowledge as a king and no other king shall ever be able to be compared to your wit and wisdom and with this also I am going to make you the wealthiest king ever. All the days of your life shall be blessed with these gifts and blessings and no other king before you or after you shall be arrayed with such glory as the glory of Solomon. 
        It is absolutely amazing what this Word that God spoke into Solomon and into his life as king of Israel accomplished. That Word entered into Solomon and entered into others and into all the fields, fruits, animals etc. and other things in Israel and into people from other nations and that Word in them, not them but THAT SPOKEN WORD FROM THE MOUTH OF THE GOD THAT CANNOT LIE WHOSE WORD CANNOT FAIL working in them caused exceeding great and glorious things to be found and to be accomplished in Solomons life and reign as the king of Israel. It (That Spoken Word of God into Solomon and His life as king of Israel) even seemed to enter into the earth itself for its finest treasures and storages of gold and silver to open up and yield their glory and splendor into the life of King Solomon. For all the years of Solomons life, during the times he pleased God and even during the times that Solomon sinned, and he sinned greatly, even like no other king, that Word that God spoke into Solomon and into his life prevailed and did not cease or fail despite the good or the evil that Solomon committed. As long as Solomon lived that promise that God spoke into the life of Solomon new no breaks. They were only dissolved after Solomon returned unto the dust.
      Oh the things that one could write about Solomon and all the kings of Israel to the present us, and when I think of God and how truly sweet, wonderful, and great He is and how He is so good and how He so loves, and yet despite all His goodness and all He does for us, His creatures, from the beginning, we all have shown Him such contempt, dishonor and disrespect. We have sinned against 100% goodness and 100% love from the first two to the present us and all those in between.
    Oh God our God and Savior You have been so kind and gracious to us thru-out all the generations.  When we deserved wrath instead so many time undeservingly You showed us mercy. But it was Your love that caused mercy to triumph over wrath and your grace to triumph over our sins just as the Word you spoke into Solomons life. That Words goodness, strengths, power, and kindness that You spoke into Solomons life prevailed and triumphed even over all the sins of Solomon and still blessed him according to the full measure of the blessing that you spoke into his life despite all his manifold sins, transgressions, and despite all he said and did contrary to the Holiness of God. God that is also the glory of the love of God in the gospel grace promises that You have Sworn unto and into all of us who believe and belong to Christ. That is the power of even the gospel and grace given us in Jesus Christ. For by grace we have been blessed with salvation thru faith, and that not according to ourselves, it is Gods promise, Gods gift that He has spoken and Sworn in His love into the soul of all of us that believe, It is not of our works and doings, but according to His grace He has saved us. He has Sworn in His Love the everlasting promise of salvation to all who believe and belong to Jesus Christ, by the blood of His Cross. And that Word of God that He has spoken into us in Christ Jesus unto salvation is greater than the Promise and greater than the power of the Words that He spoke into Solomon, which promise prospered in Solomon all the days of his life thru the good and thru the bad, thru the right deeds and even thru all his many terrible sins.....Thank You God for all that You have spoken and Sworn in Your great love for us in Christ Jesus. Amen.....deno.....share freely.

By Grace Moses Went From Riding In A Basket To A Sea Splitter........deno.....share freely.

        Before Moses was in the Arms of the Almighty calling down fire and hail from heaven and splitting Seas apart with God who was his constant glory, he was in his beginning in the basket floating to the discovery of His Grace and His High Calling from the God that separated him from his mothers womb. It was 80 years from his days in that basket before he saw the Burnish Bush. Eighty years from layer upon layer of life and grace until he discovered what before was to him a strange presence with him in a hidden mystery from the days in that basket. Gods greatest servants often times have the most humble beginnings, but such God filled endings with grace and mercy filling up the in betweens until they apprehend that which they were apprehended by God for.....deno......share freely.

Before and After Sayings That Leads To Faith & Hope......deno.....share freely.

Before there was something there was nothing, only God.

Before the soul can really rejoice in the plenty it first must taste the flavor of lack.

Before there was the Amazing Universe there was the void and the emptiness.

Before there was the great light there was the thickest darkness.

Before God thundered "Let there be light" there was the silence of darkness.

Before there was the saved there was the lost.

Before he rejoiced in sight, the blind man could not see.

Before Abraham was connected to the truth and to God, he was connected to the liar and his idols.

Before Moses was is the Arms of the Almighty calling down fire and hail from heaven and splitting Seas with God who was his constant glory, he was in the basket floating to the discovery of His Grace and His High Calling. Gods greatest servants mostly have the most humble beginnings, but such God filled endings.

Before Moses was walking on the Mountain of God his feet were first treading upon the desert of despair.
 
Before Moses cried his first "Thus saith the Lord," he said I cannot speak Lord.

Before Moses was used by God, he was first used by Pharaoh & Egypt.

Before Moses and God came together to set the captive free, the children of Israel were first taken captive by the Pharaoh of Satan.

Before Jesus cast out all those demons out of the mad man living in the grave yards,  those devils fought back saying LEAVE US ALONE JESUS. They resisted but the still lost the battle. Jesus Won. We are to remember that. No matter the resistance, the demons are subject to us just as they were that day to Jesus in His Name.

Before David experienced the true love and mercy of God and wrote all those love songs of Gods mercy in the Psalms, David first sinned terribly.

Before Solomon learned to say that the most important duty to all men is to love God and to keep His Commandments, Solomon committed almost every sin in the book, even to the abomination of bowing his knee to idols and building those idols temples of worship even as he built Gods Great Temple. What happened to Solomon? Loose gentile women the bible says, turned Solomons heart away from God. God was furious with Solomon whom He gave all that wisdom and understanding to. In this we learn that incredible Wisdom and Understanding in themselves do not change whats really in the heart of man which is sin, nor does it change the pull that women have on the heart and flesh of men. Only the power that comes from the Cross of Jesus Christ and staying in constant prayer and true fellowship with Jesus can take away and overcome sin in the heart and in the record books. Solomon strayed from fellowship with the Lord. For years he preferred women above faithfulness to God. Wisdom and great education did not save him from this global problem and sin. Neither does is save this present generation from the constant repeating of this same sin. The world has gone wild in sexual sins, more that ever before just as scriptures fore told it would.

No one can no forgiveness unless they first know sin.

No one can really know what freedom is unless they first taste the bitterness of slavery.

What good is a solution without a challenge?

How can I know and rejoice in the sweet unless I have first tasted the bitter?

How can I experience a real answer from God if I do not first Ask Him directly in Prayer?

Israel would have never seen or known God to part Seas for salvation had they not first been backed in a corner.

How would we know that God meets all our needs if we never had a need, or if our cups are all full and overflowing. Even the rich and the wealthy Christians still have needs and still have day to day challenges. God does not let any of us that BELONG TO JESUS to stop using our faith even if our cups are all overflowing. For without faith no one can please God. He will have you giving by faith and believing for even greater things.

The way of the smooth and it's difference to what is rough is learned by the sole of the feet living life in this world, even by faith.

How can we know and experience the power of faith at work  without a mountain in its target sight?

No man can really know the difference between what is good and what is evil in this blind world without the Spirit of the Lord and His divine intervention on earth. For to man its all the same and of the same and both are natural with one having the same right as the other. For this very reason evil marches today in America and the world for its rights and expression saying I AM NOT WRONG, NOR AM I ABNORMAL.

Before we were translated into the kingdom of Jesus Christ and light, we were first DELIEVERED from Satan and the power of darkness.

Your present now is for a greater tomorrow filled with grace. BELIEVE, JESUS SAID TO MARY AT THE TOMB OF HER DEAD BROTHER, BELIEVE AND YOU SHALL SEE THE GLORY OF GOD. SHE BELIEVED AND SHE SAW THE GLORY OF GOD TURNED HER TEARS INTO INCREDIBLE JOY AND REJOICING. You may be sowing in tears right now due to lack or things that seem hopeless and dead, but the bible says to believers that those who plant seeds in tears will sprout up crops of joy by faith in God. Let us together believe and we shall see the glory of God turn things around bringing something out of what seems nothing, plenty where there was lack, health where there was sickness, life where there was death, freedom where there was slavery and bondage, love where there was hate, unity where there was division, sweet where there was bitter, calms where there was storms, wet where there was dry, oasis where there was desert, light where there was darkness, faith where there was unbelief, truth where there was lies, assurance where there was before doubt, and Jesus where there used to be Satan in the hearts of people......deno....share freely.

Loves Glistening Message Of His Cross......deno......share freely.

      The great love we see in the Cross of Christ and in the Father given us His Son; the great love that we see in the Father not withholding His Son, and in Jesus himself showing us all his own great love for us in the giving of himself for us, all that love sight seen in the Message of the Cross and all of the love that it cries and shouts is set and is preached so that when the real sight of that Message and of that great love display, when it more deeply dawns on us, on our understanding making its way deep into our hearts sight and comprehending, we first then from that sight believe unto salvation (Conversion), and then as we grow in the sight and in the knowledge of what the Cross of Christ and its love message shows us and preaches on that mountain top, the preaching of the Cross of Christ and the great love displayed there, it will rise such faith in the heart when we understand and see it properly that we come to see and come more and more to believe and come to the obtaining of the faith sight and understanding that there is nothing, not even one good thing that God will withhold from us or keep from us, SEEING He did not even withhold from us His Highest, His Most Valued Possession & Gift of His for our Ransom, Rescue, and Redemption, His own sweetest and most Precious Son Jesus Christ; and He did it when none of us, no not even one of us deserved it or were worthy of such sacrificial devotion to us from the Son of God as we see in the giving of himself for us in the Cross. Christ died for the UNGODLY.
       Paul said in Romans that God sparred not His Son even though His Son under the pressure of the powers of darkness in the garden of his despair cried that he might be sparred from drinking that cup, the cup of the Cross, which also is called in the scriptures, the CUP OF BLESSING. JESUS DRANK THAT CUP and The Father and the Son together did all this when there was none righteous, none deserving, no not even one. He did it all, every single drop of the blood of His Cross because GOD SO LOVED even when all THE WORLD so hated. It is written, And when all we like sheep had gone astray, every one of us to our own selfish self serving ways, the Lord laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. The Lord laid on Jesus the blow that would bring us back home, and that reconciling blow is THE CROSS AND IT'S GLISTENING FOR GOD SO LOVE THE WORLD LIGHT AND MESSAGE....John wrote it perfectly in his epistle when he wrote. The glory of it all is this, It was not done because we loved God, but because God so loved us despite us....That my friends is amazing grace and amazing love. That my friends is the glistening light of the MESSAGE OF THE CROSS....deno.....share freely.

Addicted To Christ.......deno......share freely.

        Lord I want you to know that I love you and that I love my time and fellowship with you. Nothing, and I mean nothing compares to the good that You and Your Presence brings and does to my heart and soul. Your effects upon my heart and within my soul and life are addicting. Nothing taste as good as the joy and the goodness that comes from Your presence Jesus.
        Jesus, Your Word says, "How can two walk together as one unless they agree." Lord whatever is still in me that is in disagreement with You, let that desire die within me so that all I want and desire is You, is of You, and Your will. Then shall my joy be made Your full and my life and my days and nights Your blessed. Then my life will be about all the business of God and I will be about each day pleasing God and doing the Fathers business walking in harmony with the spiritual love of my life that is You Lord Jesus, the Wonder of all Wonders. The Lion of the tribe of Judah. The King of kings and Lord of lords. The true loving Savior of the world. The Christ, the Son of the Living God who designed and created the worlds.  My Best Friend. My passion and My God....Amen.....deno and friends.

A Love Note From Jesus.....deno.....share freely.

A Love Note To Us From Jesus.

        Acts 10:28)...Jesus said, What I have cleansed let no one call unholy, or unclean....Also in conjunction with this truth given us we can say, What God has forgiven let no person call unforgiven, that means also not even the person that God just forgave....But deno I don't feel forgiven. Well the New Covenant is not a covenant based on feelings but on Covenant  facts. No where in the bible does it tell us to let our feelings be our Lord or our bible truth confirmer. Feelings, and going by our feelings and the deceitful lust, instead of living by Gods Word has always gotten Gods people into all kinds of troubles, troubles with God, troubles with people and into troubles from the devil. Just read the bible.
        When the early church was fed to the lions, stoned to death, burned at the stake, crucified on the streets of Jerusalem, the feelings they were feeling, and the pic of all that suffering was not to be the thing they used to base whether God loved them or cared for them or was with them. In the heat of all that, their feelings were all over the place as you could imagine, but their hearts were so sure of Christ presence with them, Christ love for them for He had sworn that He would be with them always even to the end of the world and history recorded that many of them died singing praises to God. They had learned that feelings and the persecution situation that we face in this world do not dictate anything about the measure of Gods love for us but that Gods Spirit WITH THEM caused the world to rise up against them JUST AS JESUS FORE TOLD THEM THAT IT WOULD, EVEN MORE AND MORE AS THE END OF GRACE ON EARTH APPROACHES.
        All our truth confirmations are to come NOT BY OUR FEELINGS but by the prophecies of Jesus and of the Spirit of the Lord and by the promises that God has Sworn to us in His Great New Covenant Love that we see in the New Testament. Those promises we are TO TRUST & TO BELIEVE. Those promises are our souls anchor and our truth anchor in everything. Once our hearts become established in that faith, and once we truly believe those promises then the dust of our frustrations that come from doubt and from unbelief AND FROM FEELINGS will finally settle and then we will see the truth clearly.
        Friends, Gods Word is also Gods eyes and how He Sees and Views Us In Christ and how He views all things. God does not walk or live in any realm that is outside HIS WORD. He always walks in His own Light and that light is HIS WORD. He watches over His Word, His Promises To Perform Them....Lets now more and more let Gods Word Be Our Truth In Life, our Glorious Light in the present darkness, and Our Truth Even In Death.
        We are not forgiven based on our FEELINGS about the situation, but on the facts of Gods Word and Promises. I will be merciful the Lord said. I will abundantly pardon them the Lord said. If they confess their sin unto me I will be to them FAITHFUL AND JUST to forgive them of their sin and to cleanse them from all unrighteousness. I will have mercy upon them the Lord Swore and their sins and their iniquities will I remember NO MORE. That's Gods Promise. By faith we stand so by faith in these promises YOU TAKE YOUR STAND. Resist the liar, the deceiver and the accuser of the brethren with these Sworn truths that Jesus gave us to STAND ON given us all in the IT IS WRITTEN....deno.....Your forgiven, and what God has forgiven let no man call unclean, not even the cleansed man himself...God is love and rich in mercy because of His great love FOR YOU. Love loves to forgive and Love, Gods Love Delights In Mercy....Amen.

O Lord, Have Mercy on us all......David confesses his sin 2 Samuel 12:1-13......PLEASE SHARE FREELY DENO.....