Isaiah 40:28-31 - Where is it all going to? Thank God, that He had a backup plan and a rescue package, an antivirus and the works prepared for us, you know like disaster recovery, that you need to put into place in the event of destruction to the original. Having that kind of strength and power before us, behind us, and within us is a huge comfort. 28 Have you not known? The Lord protects the strangers;He supports the fatherless and the widow;But He makes crooked the way of the wicked. I can do all things through him who strengthens me. In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. Then the instruction for receiving and seeing breakthrough: Copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? Ecclesiastes 7:13. God will make the crooked path straight. Isaiah 42:16-18 - The First Word of the Gospel by Richard Owen Roberts. Help the process along by seeing the result and the good that God has for you. You are our gods. Ask God to make them straight and smooth. I will go before thee - To prepare the way for conquest, a proof that it is by the providence of God that the proud conquerors of the earth are enabled to triumph. F The difficulties of doing such work in the desert is acknowledged in Isaiah 58:12, but Gods men do build despite the location. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Right brain - Left Brain we need both to see us through - we are made that way. 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, How is it that when we are unlearned in any field or challenge this is waht we do? In an introduction to eighteenth-century Scottish pastor and theologian Thomas Boston's book The Crook in the Lot, J. I. Packer describes a "crook" this way: Even Moses, who spoke with God face-to-face, failed to obey perfectly. His water is living and changes the landscape of our parched soul to a place of vitality, that will bring forth a bud, we will see life coming forth where there was once barrenness. Young walks us through what God promises when the crooked ways are finally made straight and the highway of holiness is completed. Isaiah 55:10,11 - Gods people got busy building things straight, viz., the paths where the redeemed will walk (Isa. No certanily not! On You I wait all the day God makes the crooked straight. Thered be no reason for the prophet to talk about the crooked being made straight unless we start with a crooked post-fall world. It is a heart surrendered and submitted to God, worshiping, praising, and obeying Him. - Luke 3:5 I've always. Suddenly, a light will come on and we will be able to see, that we were in a place of darkness and heading down the wrong track in life. (Gen.40:13-15; 23). Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. Neither faints nor is weary. 9 likes, 0 comments - Donald Cox (@bigtimercox) on Instagram: "Good Morning Big Timer ( " THIS YEAR: May everything God has proposed for you, according to his . He will plant a seed into our life that will produce life, the seed will grow in our lives and change our thinking and lead us on the right path. Satan makes the crooked path look good. And all mankind will see Gods salvation (Luke 3: 5, 6 NIV). The mountains will be brought down, reduced to level ground that you can easily walk through and your vision wont be blocked anymore, you will be able to see the sun shining through and the brightness of your new day. How does God make the crooked places straight? They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. ESV Text Edition: 2016. Everyone of these looked hopeless. But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions. - Isaiah 45:2 'I will go before you and make the crooked places straight' (KJV) 2. V And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The Hebrew word for crooked means fraudulent, deceitful, sly, or slippery. 4:12). We cannot straighten the crookedness of the world, but through God's power, we can straighten our own paths. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. I was in the presence of real wickedness and perversion. God is with me. 40:3), our taking that command seriously leads to the result that "the crooked shall be made straight" (Isa. Why will you still be struck down? Thus says the L ORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have heldto subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut: 'I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. No results were found while searching for [% query %]. Many are spiritually and emotionally walking on the crooked path when they seek fulfillment in the things of the world like pleasure, wealth, and power they will twist, turn, bend around, and expend a lot of energy, but never reach the destination, which is personal fulfillment. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. 2 'I will go before you It puts repentance in it's proper context and perspective. Now you can see by faith, pictures of victory and overcoming, sense the feeling of these coming into your life and the relief it brings, the feeling of joy and winning will fill your thirsty soul. As Christoph Starke (1684-1744) observed, it costs time and labor to level mountains.8 He adds that God seeks fruit and is not contented with mere leaves.9 God is looking for straight paths to be built. The imagery of Gods highways precedes Isaiahs prediction that China (the land of Sinim) shall be transformed by the gospel. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. If we lose our vehicle, we could be in a wilderness with no easy way out, restricted on foot, miles from anywhere, definitely on the rough and the hard road without means to get to our proper destination. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 40:4). When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them (Isaiah 42: 16 NKJV). Christian Reconstruction, simply stated, involves the process of making the crooked places straight. He will cut in two iron bars. There's nothing man in his own power can do to make the crooked man straight. 20:12). 16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; cit., p. 79. 5. - We are asked to believe that God can and will remove the Jericho's, the obstacles, and the mountains that stand in the way. Or more precisely, because of the power and authority I exercise in partnership with Him when I am in Christ. 17. Our role isto repent and believe the Gospel, the Gospel of the Kingdom (Mark 1: 15). Rather, the King will arrive at the appointed time, and whether or not we have straightened our crookedness will determine if we face His wrath or His reward when He does. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way. 36:26). Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. The Lord straightened out this mess in a way that only he could. That will teach you!!!" Z. Proverbs 3:5-6, NIV Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. The mountain that was a massive oppressive blockade will be removed in Jesus Name. It is in this way, for the most part, that those places which are inherently crooked are made straight. Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. And bread to the eater, along the way that causes anothers path to be crooked, or gives us the grace and power to plow right through the mountain. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. If our thinking has become crooked for some reason, we then also, see things from a crooked perspective and so it limits our potential to overcome lifes, inevitable obstacles and curve balls. The mountain of debt and huge foreboding obstacles, they appear to be insurmountable and block our way, preventing any movement forward towards the promises of God for our life. Josephs brothers were convicted of the sin they thought had been hidden for years when coming before the governor of Egypt (Joseph, although unbeknownst to them) to buy grain because of the famine. Crooked NOW Straight. What happened? He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. He restored the years eaten by the locust. [% hit.searchResultSection || hit.specificType %], Thy Kingdom Come: Studies in Daniel and Revelation. It is straight because God either removes the obstacles, like mountains (like the mountains of disease, divorce, loss, financial difficulties, addictions, etc.) Give him time to get this done. Johnson refers to the mysterious call emanating from Isaiah 40:3. Publisher: OpenBible.info. They shall be greatly ashamed, God makes the crooked places in my heart straight; and 3. The straight path leads to life a life of meaning, purpose, power, and blessings blessings for us, and through us to others. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire., Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. They looked like Solomon observed in Ecc 1:15, that which is crooked cannot be made straight. Quoted in John Philip Lange, Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Mark-Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, n.d.), vol. Those who wait on the Lord American Standard Version I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron; Berean Study Bible Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, . These things will I do, and I will not forsake them. The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. 1701 Rand Morgan Rd.Corpus Christi, TX 78410(361) 241-6100, Sunday School 10AMSunday Preaching 11AMSunday Evening 6PMWednesday Evening 7PMWednesday Bible Club 7PM, 2011-2021 Bible Believers Baptist Church, All Rights Reserved. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Then there are gates, not just any little wooden gate, but a huge metal gate, it is formidable and imposing, designed to stop us getting through. Submit yourselves therefore to God. W. M. Statham quoted in Spence & Exell, op. Davids adultery. As Warfield said, The world has always been very evil, ever since there entered it, through that forbidden fruit, the sin of man and all our human woes. 19:18), where five of six cities in Egypt speak the tongue of Canaan (Hebrew) and the sixth city of destruction no longer exists. And do not return there, I have repented and am now a much different (and better) person than I was in that past life, thanks to the work of the Holy Spirit. Let Him break them down, so you can walk through. The crooked place now at once vanishes as being melted into the will of God. Find the highway in your desert, see your crooked situation made straight - wait on the Lord, praying in the spirit and reading His word, When we entered this world, we took on some inherited corrupt code if you like from the program DNA and yes; although we are not machines, we can take We dont always suddenly deceide, lets just take a 180 degrees turn here! As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. But the Lord raised up Cyrus, to deliver Israel. The valley of lack and despair that leads to depression and heaviness of soul will be raised up again to provision and the joy of a new day, a spirit of praise will put a spring in our step to a brand new day in God. THE LEVEL PATH OF LIFE - As God's son and daughters, we are asked to believe that God will make a way where there seems to be no way. He desires to save everyone, but we must: 1) accept Him as the Lord of our life through faith in Him by grace and the power of His Holy Spirit and 2) repent of our sins. Paul had a crook in his lot that he asked the Lord to take away, but God refused in order to show the power of Christ in Pauls weakness: Soto keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh,a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. But it shall accomplish what I please, Minor Prophets, The straight place is a heart of forthrightness, humility, goodness, and honesty. God is into progress in your life not dead standstills. 2. ibid, p. 251. Then there is those deep and dark valleys that are hard to get back out of, if you are in a vehicle then you are straining and in low gears and using a lot of gas to get back up on level ground, if it is wet and slippery it will make matters worse, it can be a real struggle to come out of the valleys in life. That is why this distress has come upon us. (Gen. 42:21). He is considered a foremost expert in the thinking of R.J. Rushdoony. . The Egyptians build an altar and pillar to the Lord. And he was elevated to the second highest position of authority in Egypt. It was in a moment like that when the words, fully formed, appeared in my mind I make crooked paths straight. I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. They are made clean and given a new heart as a result of the blood that Jesus Christ shed for them (Is. Many times in counseling, you will hear " I'm looking for direction in my life" - The fact is you will never get direction . (Phil 1:21-24). God will lead and guide me on my path. Education, There is no change in the things themselves, but in our views of and feelings towards them. Acts 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,). And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. Iron bars are also very strong, yet God says He can cut through them. When all is dried up and lifeless and there is hardly any green to be seen, the sweet deliverance of the gentle rain can revive the weary old plant and make it vibrant again. I say, I come out of agreement with that spirit of condemnation or accusation. Type Repentance into the seach bar to find them). (Thomas Boston,The Crook in the Lot: Living with That Thorn in Your Side, pp. Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version) copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. I will level the mountains/make the crooked places straight. All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children. And here are three passages, out of many, that I found: I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. He is also an accomplished musician and composer. God, as only God can do, made these crooked things straight. David said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I have escaped from the camp of Israel. And David said to him, How did it go? Accepting that we need adjustment isnt such a bad thing, as matter of fact that can be just part of the whole process thing here, I mean to develop and learn and find out that there are better ways for us than the same old habit patterns that have designed us and shaped our lives up to here. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. At the beginning and most of the time when we choose a pathway, all appears to be the right way for us; we do our sums and sometimes we even have a real emotional fuzzy to say all is well, so off we go! New American Standard Bible "I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars. And not just for me. Receive your subscription to this newsletter along with our bi-monthly Chalcedon Report all for just $20/year. The rough places are made smooth by the anointing oil of breakthrough and healing, this is our blessing and the place of smooth flow for our lives. But what does all this have to do with me? It is when we know things are drastically wrong that we pull out suddenly from incoming disaster. Again, another verse with reference to the crooked places made straight - to bring light and direction to those who are blinded and cant hear the right ways. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle (Psalm 103: 2 5 NIV). 29 He gives power to the weak, If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Something must be out of alignment and whacky in our decision making processes for us to be persuaded to take off down a wrong track. So, I searched. God is telling His Kingdom men and women: I have madeyour crooked paths straight;I am makingyour crooked paths straight;I will makeyour crooked paths straight. You come to rest in His very Presence that fills your life up and goes deep into the dark places of the crookedness of the soul, there you will receive a new strength that you did not have before, on the straight Highway of life. As we know, the way things turn out are not always what we considered and that is OK as well, as we need the element of mystery to be on an adventure, but I am talking about when we end up in the ditch and we are just plain bogged down with no way up anymore. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. The Hebrew word for crooked means fraudulent, deceitful, sly, or slippery. 31 But those who wait on the LORD His greatest fear is that you will walk in the truth, you will walk on the straight path, and he will not be able to sap your strength, divert you from your destiny in Christ, negate your Kingdom power, and make your straight path crooked. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, Cornelius. And he stared at him in terror and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. allen campbell chef salary, coastguard call outs today, mustang public schools calendar,

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