Jesus wants to rejoice over you with gladness and quiet you with His love!

4/22/2020

Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, Who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger. Zephaniah 2:3 NKJV

The prophet Zephaniah called Israel back to the Lord. They had turned relationship with God into a rigid legalistic religion. They turned away from God in their hearts.

The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17 NKJV

Jesus is here today. Jesus is the Mighty One. Jesus will save His people. Jesus rejoices over us with gladness because He loves us!

When we are in distress, fearful, furious, and overwhelmed Jesus can quiet us with His perfect love. Jesus rejoices over us with singing because our love and devotion moves Him. The song Jesus sings over us is a love song. It is a song only Jesus can sing!

Before the prophet Zephaniah spoke these words of God’s love and compassion he called the people to repentance. What were the sins committed by Israel?

Israel worshiped false gods. They gave their hearts to idols. They turned away from God’s call on their lives. They replaced relationship with ritual. Their love for God turned Cold!

The Lord wanted to use Israel to reveal Himself to the nations of the world. God wanted to bless Israel with His love and be blessed by their love for Him!

After God called Israel to repent a book of the law was found. Many still did not repent. God judged them for arrogance. He judged them for not to seeking righteousness. He judged them for refusing to turn from the ways of the nations that surrounded them.

God is calling us to turn back to Him. Some of us to Jesus for the first time. Some of us to repent of legalism and religious tradition. Some of us to our first love. We must humble ourselves. God wants us to uphold justice and seek the righteousness of Christ!

The day of the Lord’s anger is coming. It will come upon the unrepentant and arrogant. It will come upon people who refuse to humble themselves. God’s judgment will come upon people who pervert justice and see themselves as righteous in their own eyes.

If we repent and turn back to Jesus we will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger!

Jesus will save us. He will rejoice over us with gladness. He will quiet us with His love. Jesus will rejoice over us with singing when we stand before Him in eternity!

Seek Jesus. Humble yourself before His Mighty Hand. Give Jesus a reason to rejoice over you with singing today!

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Jesus can use you to shake the foundations of the prison and set people free!

Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out that very hour. Acts 16:16-18 NKJV

The slave girl was speaking the truth. She was possessed by an evil spirit. The evil spirit was drawing people away from Christ!

This attack came as God’s servants went to prayer. The enemy of our souls attacks when we step out in faith. Satan seeks to distract us. He wants us to focus our attention on things other than Jesus.

The devil perverts the truth. He uses it against us. No one can serve two masters. This girl was speaking the truth about Paul and his companions while practicing witchcraft. When people claim to speak for God we must consider how they live.

The girl followed the disciples for several days before they cast the demon out of her. It is important for us to wait on the Lord before stepping out in faith. The bible tells us Paul was greatly annoyed by this girl. Paul was not fearful. The Lord was with Him!

Paul and Silas were put in jail. The owners of the slave girl were angry at the loss of income when the demon was cast out of her. While Paul and Silas were in jail they shared the gospel with the jailer. His entire household was saved.

God uses Satan’s attacks for His glory and our salvation!

Satan is a real being. He takes people captive to do his will. There really are demons who seek to destroy God’s people and bring destruction to our world.

We have nothing to fear from the devil or his demons when we live according to God’s will. We have nothing to fear from anyone or anything when we step out in faith to serve Jesus!

Jesus wants us to fear Him and Him alone. He wants us to know His power and authority are unequaled in all of creation.

God wants you share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the people in your life. Jesus wants you to walk in great boldness because He is with you everywhere you go!

Jesus can use you to shake the foundations of the prison and set people free!

Jesus wants to rejoice over you with gladness and quiet you with His love!

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