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THE WARHORSE AND THE GOD OF A THOUSAND HILLS

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Psalm 30-33,

Lord God maker of heaven and earth and all that is in it we give you all that

you might reign and rule in all areas of our lifes and that you might open doors that no one can close and close doors that no one can open In Jesus name amen

We look to Psalm 30 and end at Psalm 33 and we consider the message,

THE WARHORSE AND THE GOD OF A THOUSAND HILLS

Lets look into two scriptures , firstly

Psalm 33

13 The Lord looks down from heaven and sees the whole human race.

14 From his throne he observes all who live on the earth.

15 He made their hearts, so he understands everything they do.

16 The best-equipped army cannot save a king nor is great strength enough to save

a warrior.17

Don’t count on your warhorse to give you victory—for all its strength, it cannot save you.

18 But the Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing love.

19 He rescues them from death and keeps them alive in times of famine.

20 We put our hope in the Lord.

He is our help and our shield.

21 In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name.

22 Let your unfailing love surround us, Lord, for our hope is in you alone.

And we also look too31 -32 and leap on to Psalm 50

Why do we leap to Psalm 50 ?

Well at the time David wrote Psalm 30 he was putting burnt offerings on an Altar

and offering peace offerings up to God and begging Him to stop a plague upon the

people

He was there at a threshing floor that was made as an Altar to sacrifice before God

and to ask God for forgiveness and restoration

A threshing floor was usually located on a hill or high place, so that the wind would

blow away the chaff, here the separation took place between the chaff and the wheat

Sometimes we may find ourselves at this threshing floor of life when an open door in our hearts is seen by one who seeks to destroy and God grants permission to this , that we might be sifted as wheat

But God in His mercy has ways of making our circumstances and situations into something good for His glory

God has a way of taking the trying circumstances in our life and turning them to our good.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose” Ro. 8:28

Sometimes we do not realise an open doorway of the heart is even there and sometimes we do and we allow and in fact hold onto this open place, which in turn can have disasterous consequences, but God makes a way of escape which we will see in the life of David as we read on and discover that David in Psalms chapter 30:1 to Psalms chapter 33:22 knows of and speaks of.

God bless you and be encouraged in the Lord, knowing that God is watching over your life.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able, but will with the temptation also make a way of escape that ye may be able to bear it” 1 Cor.

10:13

Here the threshing floor where the oxen trampled the grain became the Altar where David sacrificed and pleaded with God his maker for the people

At Araunah's threshing floor we come to the hard ground to have the chaff of our hearts and lifes blown away by the wind of the Holy Spirit and from this a harvest

At this point I'm taken to Luke 22:31-32

Note this is at the last supper and also at the time when one who sat at the table with Jesus was a betrayer who had an open door where satan had entered

Luke 22:31-32

31"Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat.

32But I have prayed for you,

Simon, that your faith may not fail.

And when you have turned back, strengthen your

brothers."

So many find themselves on the threshing floor where the dividing of the wheat takes

place and where the wrong heart motives and attitudes are blown away

O to be refined and sifted by one so that God can appoint and anoint...

You know children find it very easy to take ownership of things ?

" ITS MY BEDROOM " they say " Its my pc, its my room, its my food, its my toy, its

my pocket money, its my life, its my choice, its my bike , its my parents...."

We take this on into adulthood as we say " Its our house, our car, our lifes, our money, our job, its my husband , my wife, my choice, my job, my career, my decision..."

We play the game into relationships often where the child is an adult but then becomes a child once more if it suits them

"I CAN DO WHAT I WANT, ITS MY LIFE .....UMM MUM CAN I GO OUT TONIGHT ...HAVE YOU GOT

ANY MONEY ?"

Between husband and wife when its her home that becomes his home when it suits best, its our car until it breaks down and the ownership reverts back to the husband who bought it

We are very good at taking onwership of things are'nt we ?

When a child is asked to give some of their pocket money for something mmmmmm

When an adult is asked to give some of their money towards something...mmmm

When God asks us to give mmmm

Now thats where the game ends

You see all through the history of Gods chosen people God was always the King of His people, He had and has ownership believe it or not

Psalm 24:1

Of David.

A psalm.

The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all

who live in it;

He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, whether we decide to give our hearts to God or not, we are still on his planet, in His solar system, on His earth, On His soil, the very atoms we are made of were created by Him, the air we breathe , every tiny particle of our makeup is His.

Every DNA strand and molecule are his, and then we dare to stand and say " ITS MY LIFE "

"I DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD "

And we say this through the very mouths that God made and breathed life into

and to give life to Adam and Eve

All through Gods word we hear the cries of the King telling His people to come back to Him

But they had to have an earthly king

1 Samuel 8 (NKJV)

4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, 5 and

said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways.

Now make us

a king to judge us like all the nations.”

And the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.

You see Gods people rejected the King of Kings, they had to have a King like other nations

And so God handed them over to the earthly kings

But the true one and only King was the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Angel of angels, the ruler of rulers, the judge of judges, the authority of all authorities, the Father of all Fathers, the Father of all Nations, the ruler of heaven and earth

The maker of makers and Priest of priests, the Teacher of teachers and the Forgiver of forgivers, the unseen all seeing God, the eye Opener of the blind, the Light Giver of all givers, the all seeing God who closes the eyes of those that walk the damascus road that they might fall down and hear His voice and have their eyes opened to see His glorious light

The Holy God of all gods who rules and reigns and has dominion and is Holy and righteous and blameless and sinless and good,

HE is the one who is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords

But the People who were married to God and had God as their husband wanted another king like the nations surrounding them and so God gave them over to the kings of the earth

And what does God do to those who walk in darkness who do not see the darkness they walk in ?

What does He do when people reject and despise and forsake and scoff and mock and spit at Him , He gives them over to other gods, that in so doing they might return to Him ...

Yes return to him the one whom made them and the one who dwells in unapproachable light is the one they approach ...

That they may see that light that is not a light of the sun but a light that penetrates deep into the very being and soul and speaks deep into hearts and changes lifes and brings healing and the wind of His Holy Spirit that they might lay on the threshing floor.

Have that wind blow away the chaff and divide the heart motives and the thoughts that they might be renewed and changed and have new life, that their God might call them His children and that they would call Him their Father

Romans 8:23

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies

2 Corinthians 5:17 (New International Version)

17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

And so the people had their kings who ruled and reigned over them and who they were