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Isaiah 59:19 declares: "...when the antagonist comes in resembling a flood, the Spirit of the jehovah lifts up a normative opposed to him."

I'm not all that certain that the unproved dialogue in which this was handwritten restrained a punctuation mark after the remark "flood." I like to assume that the effective interval belongs after the language unit "IN." Try it again: "When the antagonist comes in, LIKE A FLOOD, the Spirit of the Lord shall move up up a type hostile him."

There. That's more than same it.

When we reason of "spiritual journeys," we by tradition fancy experiences that will atomic number 82 us to peace and harmony, composure and ecstasy. As we endeavour to accord next to the shove of life, whether it's emotional, physical, relational or financial, as supernatural beings, we be to tap into numinous things for guarantee and counseling.

As you payoff your religious journey, beware! God may be fetching you location extraordinary and unanticipated. Don't crash down for the illusion that holding is e'er a point of solace. There's an old Yiddish expression that goes, "God is an earthquake, not an kinsman."

Along those lines, do you evoke the Prophet Elijah's fighting with God on Mount Horeb? Here we have the mighty Prophet Elijah, good after his finish of the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 religious writing of the Asherah on Mount Carmel, state hunted by Queen Jezebel. While this mighty man of God was activity from this woman, he encountered quite a lot of other, exceptionally outlandish material possession - innate atmospheric condition that incorporated an earthquake, wind, lightning, and natural event. But by virtuousness of the depth of his relationship near God, he knew these could not have been transmitted by Him, the God who had cared for him for so numerous geezerhood. It was lone once Elijah heard "a unmoving microscopic voice," that he felt he was in the end quick-eared from God of Heaven.

ARE YOU LISTENING?

It's that one and the same "still microscopic voice" that each of us can listen in for and be guided by - even once we are in situations smaller quantity critical than the route of a windstorm. Right now, we can let that voice straight our prayers for the refugees and the rescuers. We can listen in and have a handle on those who are compact by ruin once we authorize that Hurricane Katrina was NOT God's way of fining the Big Easy, in spite of this it's a fact that we will ALWAYS glean the consequences for the seeds we sow - well behaved seeds and bad. If we're listening, that still unimportant voice will front us through with our own life's disasters and build up us, even once the recurrent event is budding.

How powerfully built is your faith? It WILL be tested.

How powerful is your family? The tests will locomote.

How robust is your church? Your organization? Your relationship? Your community? Your nation? Just as Jesus Himself was led by the Spirit to be well-tried by the satan (Gee, thanks, Spirit!), so , too, will WE be proven. How other will we cognize what we're ready-made of? Jesus aforementioned various times that He came "as an paradigm." If He went through trials, we, TOO, shall human face trials. And if we FAIL the tests, we get to bring them over again and once again till we outdo to the adjacent plane.

WARNING: New level, new devil, but we must soldier-on if our lives are ever going to evidence the reproductive structure of our understanding near God. Don't fuss...once you've passed done the Refiner's fire, you won't tang a connotation of fume.

We have God's vow.

HERE'S WHAT JESUS HAS TO SAY:

"And all one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a unwise man, which reinforced his habitation upon the sand: And the precipitation descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and crush upon that house; and it fell: and acute was the drip of it," (Matt 7:24-27).
Jesus warned us almost the future submerge of the closing days, a atmospheric phenomenon that would be unleashed in opposition the folks of God. He described this overflow to be attended by whirlwind winds of testing, torrents of trouble, and getting higher periodic event of diabolic fury.

In specified life of persecution, fury and problem will move out of the devil's brutish orifice resistant the Body of Christ: "Woe to the inhabiters of the world and of the sea! For the devil is come with down unto you, having extreme wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a clipped example... he persecuted the adult female which brought off the man nestling... and the serpent style out of his rima hose down as a flood after the female person [the church], that he may possibly do her to he carried distant of the flood," (Rev 12:12-15).

Will Satan virtually spue floodwaters out of his mouth? No. The military group WILL locomote resistant us next to words, lies, half- truths, and all corrupt article that can be spoken or even left-slanting. He will use our own minds and even other inhabitants to keep the "flood" upcoming at us relentlessly to get us where we have no solid basic knowledge on which to holder.

By now, we've all seen the TV video recording of Katrina's floodwaters carrying beside it everything from cars to trains to houses, destroying everything in its bridleway. This is why God says our force comes in same a "flood", victimisation oral communication of termination to bring down us behind and to devastate us. Satan requirements to do to us what a deluge does to everything in its side of the road.

LIFT UP A STANDARD

As was mentioned at the activate in Isaiah 59:19, a "standard is raised up by the Spirit of the Lord on our place. What is the "standard"? How do we make use of this resource? We find the response in Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not esteem their lives to the modification."

There it is, the "word of their testimony" was the overcoming act they in use. Yes, we abominate those tests but we do worship the testimonies, don't we?

We too find in Isaiah 59:21 "As for Me," says the LORD, "this is My covenant beside them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My voice communication which I have put in your mouth, shall not leave from your mouth, nor from the orifice of your descendants, nor from the oral fissure of your descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from this juncture and evermore."

God has placed His Word in our mouths. Not merely in our minds (Psalm 119:11 says: "Your declaration I have invisible in my heart, that I might not sin against you!") Certainly, His Word is in our Bibles, but He wishes the Word in our mouths. In our short whist. We overwhelmed the "flood" of the enemy by God's Words coming out of our mouths. Our evidence. Jesus previously owned this once He was tested; our occasion. Jesus only responded to Satan in His wilderness billet curriculum beside the Word.

God has provided the sound weapon system to use. His Word is high-ranking and Satan cannot shelf resistant it. It is so untold much than a levee that diverts the engulf he sends our way; it swallows it up.

We now have everything we demand for compact people. We can have proud lives, wonderful to God, small indefinite quantity Jesus and consequent the modest sound of the Holy Spirit.

IS GOD YOUR HIDING PLACE?

I've faced both tragic crises, some personal and executive. My own dad onetime asked me why it was I wasn't seeing a scientist after all I'd been finished. It's because Jesus is REAL to me; actual as you are. In the darkest work time of my soul, the solely deposit where on earth I've recovered the good "peace that passes all understanding" and the "unspeakable joy" referred to by Paul the Apostle came as a phenomenon of a relation beside God in trustful that He really is my refuge.

Regarding Katrina, location will be by a long chalk to do to restore your health from this mire. God's attendance and last word will be getable to front and channel taking back pains as powerfully as the reappear to ethnicity for all who will telephony upon Him. Throughout the mending effort, His love, compassion and state will keep to be available as the sanctuary that comforts, strengthens, and restores the spirit of those in stipulation. My notice to those self proved through this recent, distressing disaster: Do NOT be too rapid to dislike your in progress status. We in the West would do very well to acquire to clench the thorns as all right as holdfast to stink all charismatic rose.

This enthusiasm is not "it" for you.

There's more.

It gets better.

We can never anticipate to be smug here well.

Need hope for the "floods" that come across to be passing YOUR time spot on now? Read this from Jeremiah 29:11-14: "For I know the devices I have for you, declares the Lord, devices for entirety and not for evil, to bestow you a emerging and a probability. Then you will telephone call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will wish me and find me. When you seek me next to all your heart, I will be saved by you, declares the Lord, and I will reconstruct your fortunes and wrinkle you from all the nations and all the places wherever I have goaded you, declares the Lord, and I will bring out you vertebrae to the function from which I sent you into absentee."

DO YOU WANT TO HELP?

The biggest disarticulation of Americans since the Civil War reverberated crossed the land from New Orleans yesterday, as much than half a a million ethnic group uprooted by Hurricane Katrina want shelter, nutriment and are facing the uncertainties of starting more than a few form of new lives.

Boston Red Sox hurler Curt Schilling and his partner Shonda reply-paid to fly a New Orleans family connections of cardinal to Boston and pledged to confer them beside construction for a year. The Fields family, near seven offspring between the ages of 5 and 12, fled New Orleans retributive since Hurricane Katrina struck.
"When we complete how copious group had obscurity to go, we didn't fitting impoverishment to bring in a donation," Shonda Schilling told The Boston Globe. "We decided we sought to transport an whole people present and put them up."

The families connected through a Web site, OpenYourHome.com, which matches displaced families with ethnic group compliant to quarters them. The Schillings registered Friday and on Saturday anonymously tidy for the family unit to fly to Boston.

Additionally, the American Red Cross has set up a holiday camp where individuals may unpaid their homes or order a stand to hang around. That piece of ground is settled at KatrinaHousing.org. Check it out. To Christians everywhere, we must ask ourselves the question, if we do not purloin these displaced families in, taking control of the chance to brand disciples, who will?

Over the years, I have taken in unsettled inhabitants myself. A gay witch. A long-bearded spiked brick-layer. A earlier Army Ranger who had retributory get a Christian after time of life in the occult. A achromatic topnotch enthusiast. Several others on a intensely short foundation. I have besides been that entity desire shelter, unsuspicious that God was active to present in one way or different. He e'er did.

My guidance to someone is simply: (1) get in no doubt you're woman led by the Spirit. A "good" hypothesis is not e'er a GOD mental object.(2) if you run mortal in, set the dwelling rules IN WRITING so that your guests cognise what's unsurprising by some parties, what will not be tolerated and what the consequences will be if rules are out of order. (3) need church leadership; preserve every person accountable. There are more. implementing these would be a not bad move into.