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1 Samuel 12:6\u00a0 <\/span>And Samuel said to the people, \u201cThe Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that he performed for you and for your fathers. When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the Lord and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them. And they cried out to the Lord and said, \u2018We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.\u2019 And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety. And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, \u2018No, but a king shall reign over us,\u2019 when the Lord your God was your king. And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the Lord has set a king over you. If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well. But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king. Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes. Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king.\u201d So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.<\/p>\n

And all the people said to Samuel, \u201cPray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.\u201d And Samuel said to the people, \u201cDo not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty. For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself. Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way. Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you. But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How does a nation fall away from God?\u00a0 <\/span>You have to know that there was the first person who laid the idea, thought, and groundwork for the path leading away from God.\u00a0 <\/span>Then others just joined in and soon you have a society modifying God\u2019s word\/teachings to fit what they think best.\u00a0 <\/span>God\u2019s word does not change.\u00a0 <\/span>Expectations, rules, statutes, precepts, commands, promises are all the same.\u00a0 <\/span>When the church, individuals, believers, spend less and less time in His word, and more and more time being influenced by culture, society there is a drifting away from God that takes place so secretly that the person does not even recognize it happening.\u00a0 <\/span>Tozer said; \u201cWe do well to admit this is happening, but we should not accept it as normal, and we should not accept it as inevitable that we are shaped by the world.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Paul said; \u201cBe not conformed\u00a0to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Tozer: \u201cThat we have to some extent conformed to the world is proof of our weakness.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>We must recognize our neglect, repent, turn back to God and His word, and through obedience to His word, and with thankful hearts of the grace and mercy shown to us through the sacrifice, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, live humbly serving, honoring, worshiping, following, and obeying.\u00a0 <\/span>Through His word, we will find truth and this truth will set us free from the clutches of the worldly passions and desires that rob us of victoriously living for Jesus Christ who is worthy of all praise, honor, and glory forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Samuel 12:6\u00a0 And Samuel said to the people, \u201cThe Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that he performed for you … Continue reading “101. Consider what great things He has done for you.”<\/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":[5417,9445,9442,9446,999,3768,7086,9438,9437,1059,9440,1980,915,3673,9428,666,171,9429,9434,9443,9447,9433,5118,9432,9430,9436,219,1322,9427,2208,9425,9441,9435,9444,9426,849,9439,9280,8979,9448,1085,9431,872,9146],"class_list":["post-60957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-aaron","tag-all-you-heart","tag-ceasing-to-pray-for-you","tag-consider-the-great-things-he-has-done-for-you","tag-cried-out","tag-deliver-us","tag-do-not-rebel","tag-do-not-turn-aside","tag-do-nto-be-afraid","tag-egypt","tag-empty-things","tag-faithfully","tag-fear-the-lord","tag-feared-the-lord","tag-forgot-the-lord","tag-forsaken","tag-good","tag-hand-of-our-enemies","tag-i-will-call-upon-the-lord","tag-i-will-instruct-you","tag-if-you-do-wickedly","tag-it-will-be-well-with-you","tag-jacob","tag-king-over-you","tag-lived-safely","tag-may-not-die","tag-moses","tag-obey-his-voice","tag-oppressed-them","tag-performed","tag-plead-with-you","tag-pleased-the-lord","tag-pray-for-you-servants","tag-right-way","tag-righteous-deeds-of-the-lord","tag-serve-him","tag-serve-the-lord-with-all-your-heart","tag-served-baals","tag-sold-them","tag-sweptaway","tag-we-have-sinned","tag-whom-you-have-asked","tag-witness","tag-you-have-chosen"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60957","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=60957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60959,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60957\/revisions\/60959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}