{"id":71088,"date":"2019-08-20T04:34:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T09:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=71088"},"modified":"2019-08-17T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T21:19:26","slug":"2-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/20\/2-r\/","title":{"rendered":"2.r. I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things."},"content":{"rendered":"
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2 Chronicles 21:16\u00a0 <\/span>And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians. And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king’s house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.<\/p>\n

And after all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers. He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.<\/p>\n

1 Kings 11:11<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, \u201cSince this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.<\/p>\n

1 Kings 11:14<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0And the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon,<\/p>\n

1 Kings 11:23<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0God also raised up as an adversary to him,<\/p>\n

Ezra 1:5<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 10:5-6<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!\u00a0\u00a0Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the street<\/p>\n

Amos 3:6<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?<\/p>\n

Isaiah 45:5-7<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,\u00a0\u00a0that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.\u00a0\u00a0I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Do you ever wonder what God is not in control of?\u00a0 <\/span>Is He in control of everything?\u00a0 <\/span>We see \u201cthe Lord stirred up against Jehoram,\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI will tear the kingdom from you\u201d, \u201cthe Lord raised up an adversary\u201d, \u201ceveryone whose spirit God had stirred\u201d, \u201cthe staff in their hands is My fury\u201d, \u201cDoes disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?\u201d, and \u201cI make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord who does all these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

God uses both the godly and ungodly too manifest is plans and purposes.\u00a0 <\/span>He is the creator of all there is so it is well understood that He can control it.\u00a0 <\/span>Do we live our lives like God is in control?\u00a0 <\/span>Do we pray like God is in Control?\u00a0 <\/span>Do we trust God like He is in control?\u00a0 <\/span>People reject God\u2019s calling in their life.\u00a0 <\/span>They choose to ignore Him.\u00a0 <\/span>However, even in their rejection and the problems and troubles, they cause on others God can and does use it for good.\u00a0 <\/span>We may not see it but we can trust it is true.\u00a0 <\/span>One example is with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 <\/span>Evil and lost people did this but it was ordained by God for the salvation of all who believe.<\/p>\n

We know how David cried out to God and stating what appeared to be an oversight by God, in that, there were evil people who seemed to prosper, denounce God, treat others with harm, and God was seemingly blind to it.\u00a0 <\/span>He wasn\u2019t and isn\u2019t blind to actions, but more than that, He knows the thoughts and intents of each person\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

The problem we have is that we don\u2019t have the wisdom, understanding, and knowledge of God.\u00a0 <\/span>We chase after answers with our limited understanding and knowledge.\u00a0 <\/span>We convince ourselves that we no best and if we were God we would do it differently.\u00a0 <\/span>He is God, not us.\u00a0 <\/span>His ways are not our ways.<\/p>\n

So why is it that we say God is in control and then do not believe or trust Him when seemingly bad things happen?\u00a0 <\/span>He does not change.\u00a0 <\/span>He has been the same forever and there is no changing in Him.<\/p>\n

I think the closer we are to Him the more we learn and grow in our trusting of Him.\u00a0 <\/span>The closer we are we have fewer questions and we have more praise.\u00a0 <\/span>The closer we are doesn\u2019t mean we have fewer questions but it does mean we have one answer \u201cGod is in control\u201d and in this, we can find a peace that passes all understanding.<\/p>\n

You have to imagine the Israelites were full of questions and afraid when they were at the banks of the Red Sea with the Pharaoh and his warriors approaching. When we face the impossible, tragic, and terrible, trials in our life, know that there is a God who is in control and will work out all things for the good of them who are called by His name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2 Chronicles 21:16\u00a0 And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians. And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king’s house, and also his sons and his wives, so … Continue reading “2.r. I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.”<\/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":[11222,1533,10414,7971,6988,3144,2916,97,11230,10774,11228,3718,11229,807,11221,80,11220,9187,6202,8233,11218,10773,350,4044,10772,11223,11224,9,6629,4883,655,11217,11219,804,11225,7469,11226,11227,2550],"class_list":["post-71088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-adersary","tag-against","tag-assyria","tag-benjamin","tag-besides-me-there-is-no-god","tag-carried-away","tag-commanded","tag-covenant","tag-create-calamity","tag-create-darkness","tag-do-not-know-me","tag-equip-you","tag-for-light","tag-fury","tag-great-agony","tag-honor","tag-incurable-disease","tag-invaded","tag-jerusalem","tag-judah","tag-philistiens","tag-plunder","tag-possessions","tag-rebuild","tag-rod-of-my-anger","tag-rose","tag-rose-up","tag-servant","tag-solomon","tag-spirit-of-god","tag-statutes","tag-stirred-up","tag-struck-him-in-his-bowels","tag-sun","tag-take-spoil","tag-there-is-no-god-besides-me","tag-tread-them-down","tag-unless-the-lord-has-done-it","tag-well-being"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71088","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=71088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71158,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71088\/revisions\/71158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}