Sunday October 26th 2008 Mark and Lamantations

I went to Church today the worship and services was very good. Pastor Greg was saying how we should stand in and pray for those who need prayer. That is what Pastor Greg did for us, he came to the hospital and prayed with us. I felt more at peace after he had prayed .Today I gave a testimony on how God had saved Mark. Isn't this what God has told us to do. Tell all the world great things he has done for us. It feels good in your soul to give God the Glory for things he has done.

I went to see Mark after Church. He looks good, he has had alot of visitors today. It looks like he really is enjoying everyone that has come . My father and mother in law Henry and Alice came by he enjoyed seeing them. Henry made Mark laugh alot. Alex and Kathy came up to see Mark right after Henry and Alice left. Then Chad and Cheryl came by, Mom and Cheryl said Mark loved seeing their baby Cierra and all the other kids. Everybody can not believe how well he is doing . I love seeing how excited everyone is for Mark. God has been very good to us. I could never write down in words how Grateful I am to him or how much I love him for what he has done for us.
Every time I turn on the T.V., I have been seeing what a state our country is in and I'm not turning it on that often but it never seems like anything good is going on.

I woke early this morning about 4:00 a.m. out of the blue. The Lord spoke to me and said "Mark and Lamentations" . I was telling my sister Nellie what had happened and how I could not remember if Lamentations was a book in the Bible or just an area in the Bible. She told me she thought it was a book in the old testament. I decided to read it. This book is only 5 chapters, it is not long but it is what happened to Jerusalem when they forgot God. This is what the Lord laid on my heart when I read Lamentations.


Lamentations 1: 9
9 Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her. "Look, O Lord, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed.


This scripture refers to fulfillment of Deuteronomy 32:28-29
28 They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them,
29 If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!

Lamentations 2:16-19

16 All your enemies open their mouths wide against you; they scoff and gnash their teeth and say, "We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it."

17 The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word, which he decreed long ago. He has overthrown you without pity. he has let the enemy gloat over you, he has exalted the horn of your foes.

18 The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night; give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest.

19 Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street.

This was foretold that this was going to happen to Jersulam because of the sins of the people. God is bringing about correction to draw people near to him through their sufferings. When there is prosperity, so often we forget about God.

Lamentations 3:21-28

21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

22 Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

24 I say to myself, " The Lord is my portion, therefore I will wait for him."

25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

28 Let him sit alone in silence, for the Lord has laid it on him.

God wanted the people to repent and to see their sins for what they were.

My thoughts:

So often we as human beings forget what we have, until it is taken away from us. When what is taken away from us is restored to us, we then see the value of what it was to begin with.

TO SEE GOD'S GLORY

When we repent for our sins we see God's glory for what it truly is. It is an act of Love on our behalf. Paid by Christ. Also we see our sin for what it is and how it separates us from God. The price paid for our sin was done out of Agope love. Christ died on the cross for us out of Agope love. (Vine's concise dictionary of the bible says, Agope love means to describe the attitude of God towards his son and the human race, generally and to such as believe on the Lord Jesus Christ particularly to convey his will to his children concerning their attitude one toward another and toward all men, to express the essential nature of God. Love can be known only from the actions it prompts. God's love is seen in the gift of his son. Love had its perfect expression among men in the Lord Jesus Christ.)

The meaning of Glory---Pertaining to the use of it in this phrase.

It is used of the nature and acts of God in self-manifestation what He essentially is and does, as exhibited in whatever way. He reveals Himself in these respects, and particularly in the person of Christ, in whom essentially His "glory" has ever shone forth and ever will do (John17:5,24)

5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

24 Father I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

I have been listing to Casting Crows Cd a song on here reminds me of Lamentations and of our country we were founded on God fearing people .

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

O little town of Bethlehem / Looks like another silent night / Above your deep and dreamless sleep / A giant star lights up the sky / And while you're lying in the dark / There shines an everlasting light / For the King has left His throne / And is sleeping in a manger tonight

Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping / For God became a man / And stepped into your world today / Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history / As a city with no room for its King / while you were sleeping / While you were sleeping

Oh little town of Jerusalem / Looks like another silent night / The Father gave His only Son / The Way, the Truth, the Life had come / But there was no room for Him in the world He came to save

Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping / The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today / Jerusalem, you will go down in history / As a city with no room for its King / While you were sleeping / While you were sleeping

United States of America / Looks like another silent night / As we're sung to sleep by philosophies / That save the trees and kill the children / And while we're lying in the dark / There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky / For the Bridegroom has returned / And has carried His bride away in the night

America, what will we miss while we are sleeping / Will Jesus come again / And leave us slumbering where we lay / America, will we go down in history / As a nation with no room for its King / Will we be sleeping / Will we be sleeping

Then let us return to the nation our forefathers founded our country on, One nation under God with Liberty and Justice for all.