{"id":64729,"date":"2019-05-01T04:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T09:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=64729"},"modified":"2019-04-29T09:27:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:27:47","slug":"152-to-give-strong-support-to-those-whose-heart-is-blameless-toward-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/152-to-give-strong-support-to-those-whose-heart-is-blameless-toward-him\/","title":{"rendered":"152. To give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">1 Kings 15:9<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah, and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother&#8217;s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done. He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron. But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"verseid:14.16.9\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>2 Chronicles 16:9<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"verseid:24.16.17\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Jeremiah 16:17<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"verseid:20.5.21\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Proverbs 5:21<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0For a man&#8217;s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"verseid:20.15.3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Proverbs 15:3<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"verseid:19.34.15\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 34:15<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"verseid:58.4.13\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Hebrews 4:13<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">If your life was being chronicled like those in the Bible, what would be recorded?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Would it be said that you did right in the eyes of the Lord and wholly true to Him or would it say something along the lines of being more lukewarm, lacking conviction, and being influenced by worldly things more than by God.?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I think it would do each well to examine their life, thoughts, and actions in light of God\u2019s word.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Of course, this would require time spent in His word with an open heart and desire to have your eyes and ears opened to hear Him speak into your life. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I think this is where commitment falls apart.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When we have to spend time and effort to be led by God it becomes a burden.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When we want, desire, and seek to spend time and effort to be led by God it becomes our purpose for living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When you get up in the morning do you say I get to spend time in God\u2019s word or do you think I have to spend time in His word?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Getting too will be a blessing and having too will be a burden.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Having to do the right thing is different than wanting to do the right thing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I have to because God said is different than I want to because God said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I have to thinks there is something to be earned.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I want to thinks God is worthy and that they are thankful.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One is a partial heart and one is a whole heart.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One life is blessed and the other is not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One finds peace, joy, hope, strength, power, love and courage the other finds disappointment, frustration, unhappiness, and confusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Our lives, thoughts, intentions, and actions are not hidden from God so why do we pretend that they are.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You get to choose to seek and desire God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You get to choose to live for Him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You get to choose to surrender to Him, honor Him, serve Him, follow Him, obey Him, trust Him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>These choices will lead you on paths with purpose.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Choose and commit to seek and desire God every moment of every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Kings 15:9\u00a0 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah, and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother&#8217;s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done. He put away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/152-to-give-strong-support-to-those-whose-heart-is-blameless-toward-him\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;152. To give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him.&#8221;<\/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":[10044,10050,10039,5759,3242,4808,1131,10041,2936,1988,10051,10046,7468,10040,2144,587,4936,9969,8233,1987,10042,10049,4003,10047,10043,203,2933,10045,10048,5592,9906],"class_list":["post-64729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abominable-image","tag-all-are-naked","tag-asa","tag-burned-it","tag-concealed","tag-cut-down","tag-david","tag-did-right","tag-every-place","tag-evil-and-good","tag-exposed-to-the-eyes-of-him-to-whom-we-must-give-account","tag-eyes-are-on-all-their-ways","tag-eyes-of-the-lord","tag-forty-one-years","tag-heart-is-blameless","tag-iniquity","tag-israel","tag-jeroboam","tag-judah","tag-keeping-watch","tag-male-cult-prostitues","tag-no-creature-hidden","tag-not-hidden","tag-ponders-all-his-paths","tag-removed-all-the-idols","tag-righteous","tag-strong-support","tag-to-and-fro","tag-toward-their-cry","tag-whole-earth","tag-wholly-true"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64729","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=64729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64730,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64729\/revisions\/64730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}