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5. November 2008 by admin.
Dear Friends:
This BLOG is not intended to disparage any one regardless of the candidate that you voted for. Rather it is a word of encouragement. America has been calling for change and yet many Americans have not wanted this drastic of a change in the election of Senator Obama. However, as I watched the election coverage, I recalled the story in the Old Testament of how Israel wanted a change. They were so distraught with their current circumstances that they demanded that the prophet Samuel give them a king.
1 Sam 8:1 and it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Sam 8:3 and his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
1 Sam 8:4 then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
1 Sam 8:5 and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
1 Sam 8:6 but the thing displeased Samuel, when they said; Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
1 Sam 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Samuel did not want to do that, but the Lord told him to listen to the people.
V. 7. Here is what he told the people.
1 Sam 8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
1 Sam 8:11 and he said, this will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
1 Sam 8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
1 Sam 8:13 and he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1 Sam 8:14 and he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1 Sam 8:15 and he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1 Sam 8:16 and he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
1 Sam 8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
1 Sam 8:18 and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
1 Sam 8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
1 Sam 8:20 that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Notice the correlation of this situation and the current situation in America. We want change and we are getting it.
HERE IS THE ENCOURAGEMENT
1 Sam 9:15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
1 Sam 9:16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
1 Sam 9:17 and when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
Israel wanted a change regardless, BUT God chose the man. His name was Saul.
You may or may not like Barack Obama, but you can take great courage in the fact that even though America wants a change, which many see as a detriment to the foundation of our existence, remember that it is God that ordains the election of Barack Obama.
Rom 13:1 let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Psalms 75:6 for promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Psalms 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Psalms 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
The next and last thing I want you to note is that God had already prepared a young shepherd boy to be the next King, when Israel became repentant and dissatisfied with Saul. And Saul constantly had to contend with David, as he walked in honour and humility before King Saul. So much so that his heart smote him when he just simply cut off a piece of Saul’s garment while Saul was occupied with something else.
I encourage you to pray for the President and all that in authority.
1 Timothy 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
1 Timothy 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
1 Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour
1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Be strong, take good courage and determine that you will continue to do the things you do that make America great.
Be blessed:
Richard
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