DON'T FORGET HIM

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Jeremiah 12:2

You have planted them, and they have taken root and prospered. 

Your name is on their lips, but you are far from their hearts.


It seems that it is the nations that are going through troubles that remember that they have to serve God. Those who began with God during their times of struggles and slavery have begun to forget Him when things have become properous. They have adopted strange religions and practices, they have used their liberty as a licence for abominations.


The answers to our prayers, the removal of our thorn and the prosperity of our land/harvest is not to take us away from the Lord but to bring us closer to Him.


James 1:17

Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.


So be careful what you preach or hear, for the Lord did not bring you salvation just because of the goodies on the earth. The goodies are for everyone who lives on this earth. Salvation came to us to redeem us from the power of sin and death, that we may live forevermore. Then as He prospers us the sorrow does not go with it.


John 11:25-26

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.

Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”


So our prosperity is not just earthy, it is divine for:


Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.


THE DIFFERENCE IS CLEAR!


Mark 10:29-31

“Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for my sake and for the Good News, will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in the world to come that person will have eternal life.

But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.”


So what is that thing that will make you forget your creator, it is not just about calling Him or going to church or wearing a label, or making a lot of noise. What fruits do you bear? IS YOUR HEART WITH HIM ?


Matthew 7:21-23

“Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter.

On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’

But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’


May nothing take our heart away from the Lord.


We will prosper in Him.


We will continue with Him.


He calls us blessed.


Love

@the watcher

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