"Ordained Strength"

 

"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast

thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou

 mightest still the enemy and the avenger."

(Psalm 8:2)

"And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say?

And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read,

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou

hast perfected praise?"

(Matthew 21:16)

Samuel

What is "Ordained Strength?"  The Bible sends us directly to the scripture in Matthew 21 and explains it; it is "perfected praise!" Beautiful, isn't it?  It comes from the mouths of babes; it comes from the innocent heart of a child, that pure heart that just believes.  Samuel was given to the Priest at a young age, and he was called at that young age; his first words to the Lord God Almighty were those powerful words that the Lord longs for all of children, young and old, to say, those profound God moving words, "Here am I."  

  

Samuel's father was Elkanah, a Levite, a Priest unto Almighty God, and he had a wife named Hannah, who was barren, but she prayed a prayer in her distress that was drastic; the Lord answered and gave her a son, but He gave Himself a Prophet:

"And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look

on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine

handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give

him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor

come upon his head."

(I Samuel 1:11)

When Samuel was weaned, Hannah took him to Eli the Priest, just as she had promised, and left him to be raised by Eli in the temple.  Samuel heard the voice of the Lord even as a young child.  Children have a way of reaching God very simply and without fanfare.  

  

David was another one who worshipped the Lord as a young lad, while he was out in the pasture, playing his harp, staring at the stars, cooing the sheep, and cooing His Lord in the moonlit nights.  He was just a young boy when he killed the lions to protect the sheep and the new little lambs.  He strummed and sang love songs to the God of his soul, as the tall grasses swayed in the lilting winds of David's psalms.  He had a heart after God.  "What does that mean?" you ask.  It is someone whose every thought, whose continual existence is spent in worship and praise to his Creator; it's someone whose every action is to please his God and do His will; it's a person who is lovesick for the lover of his soul, and this starts young.  Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."

    

"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise;

God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong."

(I Corinthians 1:27)

And a little child shall lead them  ...  We have entered the time in God's providence when children shall do exploits; children shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover; children shall prophesy and speak God's Word.  Acts 2:17 says, "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams." 



"At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and

earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned,

and revealed them to little children."

(Matthew 11:25)
 

Children receiving the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues as the Spirit of God gives the utterance is the most beautiful thing you can ever see in this world.  When you see it, you know it's real.  I saw the children in our Sunday school classes one Sunday some years ago, as the Lord moved and filled them with His Spirit.  It was a powerful move of God down in the sanctuary for Adult church, and as we came upstairs, we realized the Lord was moving among the children as well.   Parents stood in the hallway crying at the sight and the feel of this move of God.  The air was thick with the mighty presence of our Lord, and they were speaking in a language they never learned as God filled them with the Holy Ghost; their little hands were raised, with tears of joy streaming down their faces.  It was much like this picture, only the children were much younger, around four and five years old.  Powerful, beautiful, precious, and wonderful is our God!

Do we want to receive everything God has for us?  We can learn from the little ones; they have no preconceived ideas, no outward or inward inhibitions, no embarrassment in a crowd, no analysis of the situation, no religious debating configurations, no trying to explain it in human terms  ...  just an approach as a little child:  "Jesus said I can have it, and I want it."  "Jesus said I will speak in a language I never learned, so I will."  It's the pure heart of innocence.



All the Nations of the world have come to the time of Joel 2:28, when God will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh.  It's what we've been waiting for, revival and rebirth of planet earth!  It will open the door for the greatest move of God the world has ever seen and it will start with Adults seeing the value of becoming as a little child, and as we do, we obtain the thing that will help us endure to the end, the thing that makes us stand tall in times of persecution, the thing that lifts us to the presence of God:



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"How Is Your Soil?"

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; 

and man became a living soul."

(Genesis 2:7)

"And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and

devoured them up:  Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith

 they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:  And when the sun was up, they

were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.   And some fell among thorns;

and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:  But other fell into good ground, and brought

forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold."

(Matthew 13:3-8) 

 



It's not about the sower, not about the seed, but it's about the SOIL!  We were formed of the "dust" of the ground, but the Lord does not want us to remain dust!  Huh?  The soil is the heart.  

"And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard,

Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have

heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;  And have no root in themselves, and so

endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake,

immediately they are offended.  And these are they which are sown among thorns; such

as hear the word,  And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of

other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful."

(Mark 4:15-19)

Do we allow satan to lie to us about the Word we have received; do we have depth of soil to endure hardship and suffering without blaming God; are we offended by the Word of God; do the riches and pleasures of the world mean more to us than the things of God?  It's all about our hearts, the Soil.  No wonder the Bible says to hide the Word in our hearts that we might not sin against Him, and that the heart is desperately wicked, who can know it?  We must pray that God will search our hearts, give us pure hearts, and let nothing be in our hearts that is displeasing to Him.  Why?  Because it can be our downfall  ...  We do not know our own hearts.  Who are we really?  Are we pliable as clay in the hands of the potter?  Which soil are we?  You say, "What difference does it make?"  It makes all the difference in the world for us to be able to "endure" to the end.  It matters all the way to the depth of our souls  ...  it will determine if we are looking for, and ready for, the coming of the Lord, or if we haven't a clue  ...

It's not a new thing; it goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve.  They let satan steal the Word and deceive them; their SOIL was not properly cared for; their hearts were not pure; they believed a lie and were cast out.  So it is today; we must be careful, especially in this last hour before the Rapture of the Church.  We must guard our hearts, our Soil, with all diligence.  The only thing constant, true, and pure is the Holy Bible, the Word of God.  Almighty God will not say anything different than what He has already said in His Word.  It is important to remember this, especially in this last day before the Rapture of the Church, because it is a time of "deception" such as has never been.  People have "itching ears," not wanting to hear Truth, but wanting sermons that salve them, instead of "prick" them!

 

 

 

In the maze of life, cling to the Holy Bible; it stands above all else; it is our roadmap, our insight into the mind of Almighty God; it is our strength and the source of all truth.  Hide it in your SOIL, your heart, because when satan comes along to deceive, we must KNOW the Word in order to tell him just what Jesus Christ told him when he came to deceive Him  ... "It is written..."  Every time satan came to Jesus to tempt and deceive, the Lord God said, "It is written..." and then He said, "Get thee behind me, satan..."
 

 

Dear friend, don't ever let the Word of God, the preaching of the Word, or the rebuking of the Word, offend you.  The Word of God keeps us saved; the preaching of the Word brings our SOIL into correctness for the Word to take root, and thus, we end up with "good ground."  Pray for your heart, that it is pure before the Lord who knows all things; Pray that it is clean and holy before Him.  We have a mandate to bring forth a hundredfold or at least thirtyfold, and we produce "in kind."  What?  When we multiply our soil, we bring forth soil like our own.  Lord, let it be good ground, we pray! We must have roots in Truth, roots in holiness and righteousness, roots that keep us stable when the winds blow and the devil comes to deceive  ...  we must know what we believe and "in whom" we believe, Jesus Christ our Lord!

 

 

 

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