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Over the next few days I want to post my notes from the Beth Moore Living Proof Conference. The message from His Word was powerful - and I want others to learn from it and be spoke to. The posts will be long as I will type out all the Scriptures - just in case you don't have a Bible handy! So please, bear with me and get ready for a lot of flipping through the Scriptures!
Be still. Have no distractions, so that God may speak to you!
Friday, August 13, 2010
EAT - PRAY - LOVE
Tonight, the biggest chick flick movie premieres! Eat, Pray, Love. It is a movie in essence about a woman in search of everything! In search of a god, but not the God.
In the book of Jeremiah, a woman travels all of Israel, Egypt and Exile in search of everything!
- Jeremiah -
EAT - PRAY - LOVE
EAT
Jeremiah 2:1-7
"The word of the Lord came to me: "Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: " ' I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, a land not sown. Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devoured her were held guilty, and disaster overtook them, ' " declares the Lord. Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, all you clans of the house of Israel. this is what the Lord says: "What fault did your fathers find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless idols themselves. They did not ask, 'Where is the Lord who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and rifts, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?' I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.' "Focus: Verse 5: We become what we follow!! Worthless idols!
The woman is searching for everything... when she's already got it! Her God was everything!!
1.) She stopped disapproving the idolatry
2.) She stopped not welcoming the idolatry3.) She opened up to the idolatry
4.) She adopted the idolatry
5.) She burned her children at the stake of the idolatry. - (Jeremiah 7:31)
*Key Verse* Jeremiah 2:7 - I brought you here.... to eat! Jeremiah 52:4-6 - by the end, they were starving to death.
*You have forgotten how to blush! (Jeremiah 8:12)
*(Jeremiah 2:8) "Where is the Lord?" We are to KNOW He is there!
*What are you doing with your devastation? (Jeremiah 4:30) Our question should be... NO! NEEDS to be: WHAT ARE YOU DOING, O GOD, FOR THIS DEVASTATED ONE?!?! HOW ARE YOU USING MY DEVASTATION FOR YOUR GLORY AND FOR YOUR KINGDOM?!?
* "See, today, I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot, and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant." - Jeremiah 1:10
- This uprooting and tearing down takes place all through out Jeremiah.
*Sometimes, He must uproot and tear down first, before He can build something back up!!
*He will never uproot anything without wanting to plant something better in return!!
In the book of Matthew it states that somethings need to pulled up by the roots. - Generational curses need to be pulled up by the roots!! But, rest assured, He wants to plant something even greater in place of those generational curses!!
Jeremiah 2:2b - "and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown."
- The definition of a desert: A land not sown. A place that appears where nothing can grow.
Jeremiah 4:3 - BREAK UP YOUR UNPLOWED GROUND!!
What is our desert? Anything or anytime when we don't sense His power or His presence.
*You were made more for a purpose rather than a painlessness!
* That's where your desert turns into a blue paradise! When you say to God, "You can't have this area of my life", that's where He will go! That is your desert. Anywhere you won't let Him break up your unplowed ground!! Give Him your desert, let Him break up the unplowed ground, then you will have a paradise!! Your desert may be your career, or a secret that you have held down way down deep. Any part of you that you haven't given to God!
*Jeremiah 6:14 - "They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, Peace' they say, when there is no peace.
- We do not need people telling us, "it's not that bad." IT IS THAT BAD! IT IS A SERIOUS WOUND! But PRAISE GOD!!! WE HAVE A HEALER!!
*Jeremiah 31:25 - "I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint." (!!!!!)
HE WILL REPLENISH YOU!!
*Revelation 3:20 - Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Jeremiah 2:7a - I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit.
Jeremiah 15:16 - When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight!
"The word of the Lord came to me saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.' 'Ah, Sovereign Lord,' I said, ' I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.' But the Lord said to me, 'Do not say, "'I am only a child' you must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the Lord. Then the Lord reached out His hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "Now, I have put my words in your mouth." - Jeremiah 1:4-9 (italics added)
*****Jeremiah 15:16 explains Jeremiah 1:9*****
Jeremiah 15:16 - when your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight. (!!!!!) ******
*God puts words in our mouth. We chose whether or not to eat them!!
*Hosea 2:14-15 - "Therefore I am going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. there I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. "
*Sometimes, He must uproot and tear down first, before He can build something back up!!
*He will never uproot anything without wanting to plant something better in return!!
In the book of Matthew it states that somethings need to pulled up by the roots. - Generational curses need to be pulled up by the roots!! But, rest assured, He wants to plant something even greater in place of those generational curses!!
Jeremiah 2:2b - "and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown."
- The definition of a desert: A land not sown. A place that appears where nothing can grow.
Jeremiah 4:3 - BREAK UP YOUR UNPLOWED GROUND!!
What is our desert? Anything or anytime when we don't sense His power or His presence.
*You were made more for a purpose rather than a painlessness!
* That's where your desert turns into a blue paradise! When you say to God, "You can't have this area of my life", that's where He will go! That is your desert. Anywhere you won't let Him break up your unplowed ground!! Give Him your desert, let Him break up the unplowed ground, then you will have a paradise!! Your desert may be your career, or a secret that you have held down way down deep. Any part of you that you haven't given to God!
*Jeremiah 6:14 - "They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, Peace' they say, when there is no peace.
- We do not need people telling us, "it's not that bad." IT IS THAT BAD! IT IS A SERIOUS WOUND! But PRAISE GOD!!! WE HAVE A HEALER!!
*Jeremiah 31:25 - "I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint." (!!!!!)
HE WILL REPLENISH YOU!!
*Revelation 3:20 - Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Jeremiah 2:7a - I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit.
Jeremiah 15:16 - When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight!
"The word of the Lord came to me saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.' 'Ah, Sovereign Lord,' I said, ' I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.' But the Lord said to me, 'Do not say, "'I am only a child' you must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the Lord. Then the Lord reached out His hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "Now, I have put my words in your mouth." - Jeremiah 1:4-9 (italics added)
*****Jeremiah 15:16 explains Jeremiah 1:9*****
Jeremiah 15:16 - when your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight. (!!!!!) ******
*God puts words in our mouth. We chose whether or not to eat them!!
*Hosea 2:14-15 - "Therefore I am going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. there I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. "
*God meets us in our desert!! *HE BROUGHT YOU HERE!!!*
*WHATEVER YOUR DESERT IS- HE BROUGHT YOU HERE!! HE WILL DELIVER YOU, IF YOU ALLOW HIM!! LET HIM BREAK UP YOUR UNPLOWD GROUND!!!
*Jeremiah 7:24 - "But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed their stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward not forward."
*WHATEVER YOUR DESERT IS- HE BROUGHT YOU HERE!! HE WILL DELIVER YOU, IF YOU ALLOW HIM!! LET HIM BREAK UP YOUR UNPLOWD GROUND!!!
*Jeremiah 7:24 - "But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed their stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward not forward."
- Am I going backwards? Or am I going forwards??
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