{"id":59130,"date":"2019-02-02T04:44:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T10:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=59130"},"modified":"2019-02-01T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:36:30","slug":"77-they-do-not-know-me-declares-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/02\/77-they-do-not-know-me-declares-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"77. They do not know me, declares the LORD."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joshua 23:6 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cBe very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left. Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them. But you are to hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have until now.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 4:26-27<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.\u00a0\u00a0Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 5:32<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0You shall be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 16:13<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.<\/p>\n

Ephesians 6:10-19<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.\u00a0\u00a0Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.\u00a0\u00a0For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah 9:3<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Be strong, stand firm, ponder your path, do not swerve left or right, put on the whole armor of God, do not turn aside, hold fast, and be watchful – these are all words of warning and encouragement. We would not have words encouraging us to be strong, stand firm, hold fast, and our on the whole armor of God if there was not going to be something to fight against.\u00a0 <\/span>We are to stand firm against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.\u00a0 <\/span>They are very real and you do not have to look very hard to find their cunning and deceptive work in the lives of people.<\/p>\n

We are not to allow ourselves to be drawn in, influenced, and enticed by our culture and the dark forces that lead it.\u00a0 <\/span>We are to be watchful and stand firm in faith to God.\u00a0 <\/span>Just because our culture tolerates (in the name of being progressive) pornography is called adult entertainment, abortion is called women’s\u00a0right to choose, LBGTQ is alternative lifestyles,\u00a0 does not make it right or progressive or in line with serving God.\u00a0 <\/span>Be watchful.\u00a0 <\/span>If God\u2019s word is not ever present in our daily lives how are we to see these dark forces at work in our world.\u00a0 <\/span>If God\u2019s word is not daily present in our lives how are we to know right from wrong when our culture has adopted and called right that which is wrong.\u00a0 <\/span>If God\u2019s word is not daily present how are we to know false from the truth? I saw this quote yesterday and thought it appropriate for today.\u00a0 “And gradually though, no one remembers exactly how it happened, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, and then acceptable, and then legal, and then applaudable.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We will not be able to stand before God and plead we did not know.\u00a0 <\/span>The very fact that we choose to neglect and become complacent with His word condemns us because we chose to ignore.\u00a0 <\/span>Do not spend another day blindly following a world heading straight to hell.\u00a0 <\/span>Pick up His word and intentionally choose to spend time in it with all your heart, mind, and soul with the purpose of humbly serving, honoring, trusting, following, and obeying God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joshua 23:6 \u00a0 \u201cBe very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left. Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You … Continue reading “77. They do not know me, declares the LORD.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9109,5207,2676,9108,3395,1754,9101,6010,9114,777,9107,164,2810,2,2021,9113,3964,9104,9116,9105,8879,1399,9115,9111,878,4455,2811,9100,9110,9106,9103,9112,9102],"class_list":["post-59130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-act-like-men","tag-authorities","tag-be-strong","tag-be-watchful","tag-bow","tag-bow-down","tag-careful-to-obey","tag-commanded-you","tag-cosmic-powers","tag-darkness","tag-do-not-swerve","tag-evil","tag-evil-to-evil","tag-faith","tag-falsehood","tag-flesh-and-blood","tag-heavenly-places","tag-must-not-serve-them","tag-not-truth","tag-ponder-the-path-of-your-feet","tag-right-or-left","tag-rulers","tag-spiritual-forces","tag-stand-against-schemes-of-the-devil","tag-stand-firm","tag-strength-of-his-might","tag-they-do-not-know-me","tag-very-strong","tag-whole-armor","tag-will-be-sure","tag-without-turning-aside","tag-wrestle","tag-written-in-the-book"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59135,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59130\/revisions\/59135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}