{"id":85944,"date":"2020-04-17T04:14:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=85944"},"modified":"2020-04-16T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:18:39","slug":"10-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/17\/10-f\/","title":{"rendered":"10.f. “I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amos 9:1\u00a0 <\/span>I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: \u201cStrike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cIf they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them. And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 28:15<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God\u2026 And it shall be, that just as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the\u00a0LORD\u00a0will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.<\/i><\/p>\n

Leviticus 26:23<\/a><\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me, then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins. And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This was God\u2019s way of telling Israel that they could run, but they could not hide from Him and His judgment. Even if they tried to\u00a0dig into hell\u00a0or\u00a0climb up to heaven, they could not escape their responsibility before God. A high mountain (Carmel) or the\u00a0bottom of the sea\u00a0could not hide them from judgment. \u00a0I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good: An essential part of the Old Covenant was the promise of blessing or cursing based on Israel\u2019s obedience. If Israel was in chronic, systemic disobedience, they could expect that God\u2019s eye toward them would be\u00a0for harm and not for good.<\/p>\n

How much better is it to live under the blessings of God?\u00a0 <\/span>Who would choose to take harm over good, and yet we do this every day we choose to walk paths disobedient to what it means to honor, glorify, follow, trust, and obey Jesus Christ.\u00a0 <\/span>Walking each day with Jesus Christ is an intentional choice to deny self and live for Him. Life has a way of capturing our focus and it does it very subtly.\u00a0 <\/span>Soon we find ourselves adopting things into our lives that are not honoring Jesus Christ or to our benefit.\u00a0 <\/span>Keep a deep hunger and thirst for not only honoring Him but for growing in wisdom and understanding of His Word><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amos 9:1\u00a0 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: \u201cStrike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall … Continue reading “10.f. “I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1012,10780,3205,7489,97,681,13443,458,13446,251,171,38,416,3412,3838,6695,13361,117,13447,348,4067,13448,3408,13445,13441,13442,211,13444,495,2614,810,168],"class_list":["post-85944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-altar","tag-captivity","tag-command","tag-contrary","tag-covenant","tag-destroy","tag-dig","tag-escape","tag-fix-my-eyes-upon-them-for-evil-and-not-for-good","tag-flee","tag-good","tag-heaven","tag-hell","tag-hide","tag-kill","tag-multiply","tag-nothing","tag-obey","tag-plucked","tag-possess","tag-punish","tag-reformed","tag-rejoiced","tag-search-them-out","tag-shake","tag-shatter","tag-sight","tag-slimb","tag-strike","tag-sword","tag-vengeance","tag-voice-of-the-lord"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85944","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=85944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86151,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85944\/revisions\/86151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}