Floodgates of Heaven Devotions: Repentance

Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 22-23, John 4:31-54

Today’s Reflection: 2 Kings 22:19a Because thine heart was tender…

Get this: King Josiah started a renovation project on the house of The Lord, and while they were working on this project, someone came across the book of the law of The Lord.

Then, they brought it back to king Josiah, and read it to him. Upon hearing it, he wept, rent his clothes, and humbled himself before God’s presence because he knew that the judgements out of that book were upon Israel for having not heeded its warnings.

However, because of his immediate and tender response to God’s Word, God promised king Josiah that it would not happen in his days, but that his days would remain in peace.

And the point? You don’t have to go down in judgement with the rest of the crowd!! Just because many there be which go in thereat, does not mean that you have to.

No doubt even today, because of this wicked generation’s determination to go against God’s Word, will and ways, judgment day is coming. However, God is still looking for those who have tender hearts towards His Word.

Question: how sensitive are you to God’s Word? Upon receiving a rebuke from God’s Word, do you harden your heart, or respond with a tender heart to God’s will for your life? The truth is, you can make your own choices in life, but you cannot choose your own consequences!

It is important to know then just how important it is for us to respond to God’s Word with tenderness. Those who harden their hearts to God’s Word only seal their fate of judgment at His hand, but those who soften their hearts in obedient and repentant response learn that God has tender mercies to pass out for tender hearts to His Word.

Dear reader, do not kick against the pricks of The Holy Ghost who speaks sharply to you through God’s Word to warn you of the error of your way. Listen and respond with repentance and obedience so that He may have mercy on you and give you peace in your days.

Too many people today choose to ignore God’s Word, not realizing the sheer weight of consequence that follows. You don’t have to be one of those statistics. Wherever God speaks to you from His Word, regardless of the subject or the situation, take Him at His Word, and respond with tenderness of heart.

If you do, you’ll never regret it! However, should you choose to rebel, then you will live a lifetime of regrets. Be tender!

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Entry 135 of 365

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Today’s Reading: 1 Kings 16-18, Luke 22:47-71

Today’s Reflection: 1 Kings 18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

Don’t blame the preacher! After all, it was King Ahab himself that took Jezebel (a God-hater and later a true Prophet-slayer) to be his wife, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him, as if it was a light thing (see 1 Kings 16:31). The TRUTH was, that it was the sins if Ahab himself that troubled Israel.

Had he not done so wickedly in the sight of The Lord, this famine would not have come on the land to start with. But alas, Ahab did what lying politicians do best; he placed the blame on someone else. However, regardless of how King Ahab felt about the Prophet Elijah, only Elijah had the power with God that was needed in order to open up the windows of Heaven to release rain and to end this long famine.

So, this begs the question; why is King Ahab riding Elijah’s case, when Elijah alone has the power to end the famine? It looks to me like we have a conflict of interest here. It appears as if Ahab wants the best of both worlds, so to speak. He wants it to rain blessings upon the earth, while he continues to serve his false gods. But, it just don’t work that way with God!

Oh the folly of such a mindset, and yet we find it even so amongst all of society even today. Many a people have rejected the preaching of God’s Word as well as the preacher who delivered God’s word, because they were troubled by the message. Kind of like the rich young ruler, to whom Christ commanded to sell all he had, and to give to the poor, who then walked away in sorrow, because that wasn’t what he wanted Christ to tell him.

He was troubled, because he was in trouble with God, and he didn’t like the only solution that could fix it, which was repentance. So it is today. Many today are troubled by true Bible preaching, because it reveals to them how much trouble they are in with God because of their sins, but yet they are unwilling to do the ONE thing required to make things right with God; repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

Oh how it pains the fighting sinner to let go of his sin, but let me warn you dear reader, oh how it pains the fighting sinner even more to hold on to his sin. For one day, we shall all reap what we sow, and the scriptures teach us in Galatians 6:8a, “For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;” In other words, if you choose to live in your sin, you are also choosing the fatal consequences of dying in your sin, and you have no one to blame but yourself. Not the preacher, not the church, and not even the hypocrite. Your only solution is to turn to Christ in repentance of sin!

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Entry 124 of 365

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Floodgates of Heaven Devotions

God has tender mercies for tender hearts!

Don't blame the preacher!!