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Article #9: Are Your Chambers Filled
"And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all
precious and pleasant riches." (Pro. 24:4)
Are your chambers filled? If you are honest you must admit
the answer is "no."
We gather every Sunday to hear the Word of God, but the
chambers of our hearts are not filled, so we leave the
same way that we came in. It is sad to see and hear how the
Body of Christ doesn't seem to know much. Yeah, we know a
few scriptures, we know how to speak in tongue, we know how
to sow seeds and yet our chambers are not filled. We don't
seem to know why we are here, so the chambers of our
purpose are never clear. We don't seem to know if it's
alright to marry and who to marry or should I stay single,
is it ok to have children or not, work full time or be in
full time ministry, how to pay our bills, if we should
invest, we don't know how to hear from God and this list
could go on and on. So our chambers are never filled. We go
round and round constantly in a maze trying to get out, but
keep running into the "no exit" sign. Until after much
despair, after many failures, after constant defeat, we cry
out from a pure heart with pure motives:
"Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and
come in before this people, teach me good judgment and
knowledge. Give me understanding and I will keep your word,
make me to go in the path of thy commandments and incline
my heart unto your word and not to coveteousness. Turn away
my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken me in thy way."
It is only then that we begin the search for wisdom from on
high, it is only then that we consider our Creators wisdom
more precious than rubies and gold, it is only then that we
run without stopping or detouring to the throne of Grace to
receive help. It is only then that we his children begin to
walk in the Fear of our God and make him our dread. For
nothing else matters. It is here that you will count
everything up to that point as dung and will forget those
things which are behind for real, that you may be found in
Him not having your own righteousness, but the
righteousness which is of faith in Christ. It is here that
you will realize how much time you have wasted and will ask
God to give you back the years the locust has eaten, the
cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my
great army which (He) I sent among you. (Joel 2:25) It is
here
that you will ask God to teach you how to number your days.
It is here that from the depths of your being you cry out
"Give me now wisdom and knowlege.
Daily Prayer:
Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and
come in before this people, teach me good judgment and
knowledge. Give me understanding and I will keep your word,
make me to go in the path of thy commandments and incline
my heart unto your word and not to coveteousness. Turn away
my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken me in thy way.
(2Chr. 1:10, Ps. 119:66, 33-37)
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