{"id":64222,"date":"2019-04-22T04:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T09:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=64222"},"modified":"2019-04-22T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:31:18","slug":"144-but-he-abandoned-the-counsel-that-the-old-men-gave-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/22\/144-but-he-abandoned-the-counsel-that-the-old-men-gave-him\/","title":{"rendered":"144. But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 Kings 11:42\u00a0 <\/span>And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.\u00a0 <\/span>Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam, \u201cYour father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.\u201d He said to them, \u201cGo away for three days, then come again to me.\u201d So the people went away.\u00a0 <\/span>Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, \u201cHow do you advise me to answer this people?\u201d And they said to him, \u201cIf you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.\u201d But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. And he said to them, \u201cWhat do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, \u2018Lighten the yoke that your father put on us\u2019?\u201d And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, \u201cThus shall you speak to this people who said to you, \u2018Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,\u2019 thus shall you say to them, \u2018My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs. And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, \u201cCome to me again the third day.\u201d And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him, he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, \u201cMy father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.\u201d So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 10:11<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 10:32<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastes 10:12<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The words of a wise man’s mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.<\/p>\n

James 3:17<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We need to be mindful of where we get our counsel.\u00a0 <\/span>Do we seek the Lord and His leading?\u00a0 <\/span>Do we spend time seeking Him?\u00a0 <\/span>Do we hunger and thirst for His guidance in our life?\u00a0 <\/span>God\u2019s word is a deep and wide ocean of wisdom and knowledge by which we gain understanding and godly counsel.\u00a0 <\/span>Time and busyness take their toll on the hearts and minds of those who don\u2019t intentionally set aside time for the single purpose of refreshing their heart, soul, and mind in God\u2019s word.\u00a0 <\/span>The counsel of the world will flood your heart and mind because there is nothing else to combat this flow other than the word of God.<\/p>\n

Un-godly counsel – give no thought to God\u2019s word today because you are too busy and tired and pre-occupied and am good enough with where you are spiritually.<\/p>\n

Godly counsel – desire and seek to be in His word each day wanting to be led by God for His purpose, honor, and glory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Kings 11:42\u00a0 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.\u00a0 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him … Continue reading “144. But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him”<\/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":[3806,3951,9949,9945,979,2717,452,119,2223,9951,6381,3103,7068,9946,9950,3247,7069,4936,9948,84,7067,9953,3210,2212,9943,9942,9,8907,5687,6629,9947,9952,118,5876,9944],"class_list":["post-64222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abandoned","tag-acceptable","tag-add-to-your-yoke","tag-counsel-with-the-old-men","tag-did-not-listen","tag-disciplined","tag-favor","tag-fool","tag-forever","tag-forsaking-the-counsel-of-the-old-men","tag-forty-years","tag-fountain-of-life","tag-good-fruits","tag-good-words","tag-harshly","tag-his-word","tag-impartial","tag-israel","tag-little-finger","tag-mercy","tag-open-to-reason","tag-peaceable-gentle","tag-perverse","tag-pure","tag-regined","tag-rehoboam","tag-servant","tag-serve-you","tag-sincere","tag-solomon","tag-took-counsel-with-the-young-men","tag-wicked-conceals-violence","tag-wisdom","tag-wise-man","tag-yoke-heavy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64222","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=64222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64225,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64222\/revisions\/64225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}