Observing Lying Vanities Is Foraking The Mercy Of God

But do we get a better result?

The answer is NO! We become observers of lying vanities and we turn our back on our own mercy.

What the Holy Spirit was sharing with me all this week was that God commanded silence because in this first crucial battle in the Promised Land God didn’t want the Israeli soldiers to talk and grumble among themselves about the this plan. He didn’t want them to talk themselves out of simply DOING the Word of the Lord.

So God says; “Just be quiet. Let faith build. Let my Word be the last Word until the moment comes to put the exclamation point on this particular seven day test of obedience, and then SHOUT and see the unleashing of my mercy toward you, shout and see the glory of God that comes from simply DOING MY WORD.

Quiet believing is better than constant complaining, manipulating and doubting – “Mary pondered all these things in her heart.”

What is God’s Word telling us right now? I will tell you what I am hearing and see if you agree. He is saying to us “Exodus 14:13 "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. (Only believe and you will see the glory of God.”)

He is saying take my Word and here is what you will do… “Matthew 17:20 “…you will say to this mountain , ’Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

(He has given us His Word. We are to speak His Word into the unseen powers that work to uproot the overthrow the life-giving, life-sustaining Word of God in our life.

From the His teaching in Matthew 6 (what we commonly call The Lord’s Payer), Jesus is instructing us to:

• Pray to see the highest purposes of God and His glory established here on earth as it is in heaven..

• He instructs us to pray for our daily bread.

• He instructs us to forgive so that we may be forgiven.

IN OTHER WORDS, the very door we open to release people from our judgment (to forgive them) is the very door through which God flows His forgiveness to us. Shut that door up from releasing forgiveness to others and you shut it up to receiving the mercy and forgiveness that God has for you.

• He instructs us to pray to be delivered from evil.

• He instructs us to long to confess that His IS (not will be but IS), the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Let me ask you something. Have you reduced the Word of the Lord to theology and topics for discussion rather than a Word that tells you WHAT TO DO?

Do you remember the passage where Jesus washed the feet of the disciples as an example of how to live as lowly foot-washing servants to each other? And after 3 years of modeling the servant life before them, and immediately after this real-time demonstration of how life was to be lived what did He say’ John 13:17 If you know these things, BLESSED ARE YOU IF YOU DO THEM.

God expects His family, His house to be a house of prayerful, foot-washing servants. That is how this way of life in Christ is to be lived, not by preferences or mood swings, or any such thing. We live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.