FEAR GOD: Part XII
WORD OF THE DAY:"TURN"
Scripture references: Psalm 119:79; Nehemiah 1:9:
"Let those that fear thee turn unto me,
TURN=
"a primitive root; to turn back (hence, away), (not necessarily with the
"TURN" is through the idea that you were there once, or you were never there
We need God and we need each other.
Let us turn to God and turn to believers who follow and honor the Lord. Let us
King David wanted people around him who feared the Lord, honored His name and
Evil communications corrupt good morals. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
I received salvation at the age of nine. My parents, as good as they were, did not
I was lost, even though I was a born again Christian. The pain and suffering
I have no power to overcome by myself. I need God to help me. I need faithful
The key to deliverance, in any area, is turning to God. He will heal the
After you turn to God, hang with others who are living uprightly so you can
Praise be to God I am not lost anymore. I am walking in His power. I have the
We all have something to over come, some mountain that is in our path.
Nem.1:9:
" But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments,
Let us turn to God, and turn to one another. Amen.
-Carol Kenreigh
[David, a man after God's own heart] and those
that have known thy testimonies."
idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial,
again:
to begin with, and you departed for a while, or were out there on your own,
without God, and now you are coming or going back; to return.
not forsake our God, nor forsake one another.
who knew God's Word. (Psalm 15:4a)
In other words, if you hang out with people with fleas, you'll get fleas too.
If you hang with people who are speaking the Word and living the Word, you will
imitate what you see. God wants us to come out from among the God rejecters, and
fellowship with others who love God and keep His commandments too.
(II Corinthians 6:14-18; I John 5:1-5)
attend church regularly or teach me the Bible. Shortly before or after that,
(I do not remember, but it was the same six months) something very terrible
happened to me. I was an uninstructed, with no example to follow, messed up,
little girl because of it. For a while, I prayed, but was surrounded by
faithless people, and that eventually took its toll.
and my walk was not reflecting the Christ in me (I did not know I had Christ in me!)
As a teen, I took a Bible class and began to recover, but still, I had not
forsaken the old habits that I used to cope with the trauma that had happened to me.
I lived two very different lives. I was still lost.
people who know how to "live it right," around me so I can imitate them.
I turned to God, asked Him to show me why I acted the way I did, asking why
I did them. I got down to the core of the matter and now I can effectively deal
with the real thing, and not just the symptoms that were hiding what was
really wrong.
broken hearted. He will bind up the wounds. He will hear and he will gather
the lost back in to himself.
imitate what they are doing. Iron sharpens iron.
victory through Christ and I am on the road to full recovery. I do not know
any one who has suffered what I have, personally, so I am reading books by a
believer who overcame the same things, with God's help. I am reading what she
did, and what promises helped her. I will learn to imitate her example.
Whatever it is, the answer is in the Bible. God will turn our ashes for
beauty, and restore what the locusts ate, and He will turn for good what
the devil meant for our harm. We can say to the mountain, "Be removed,"
and it will be removed, just like we said.
and do them; though there were of you cast out unto
the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather
them from thence…."
c.Carol Kenreigh, 2001. All rights reserved.