Builders

Some times builders act like owners. They do not get any permission or any direction from the owner. God sent some builders and they have been reading prophecy but to never been in prophecy. they have passion and love their God the only problem is they don't know the purpose of the building. 

The purpose of the building lies in the heart of the corner stone. this builders rejected the corner stone thus they don't know the purpose of their call. A person that doesn't know the purpose is controlled in each every moment. if he finds the purpose, he will find the freedom from the control. The spirit of God does the both controlling directing. when you are controlled your discerning will never taken in to notice. when you are directed your discerning often times is appreciated or can be questioned. If your discerning is questioned, you can be corrected. being corrected is better than being controlled. if you know the purpose, the slavery finds no accommodation. Some people have work conscious. So they always move. every moving thing needs to be directed otherwise it will be automatically diverted. 

1 Sam. 7 (Peace)

PEACE

1. Peace within us

They were struggling they did not worship The Lord for a long time. They have been worshiping the idols. Samuel told them to shun the idols and worship The Lord alone. Yet this change was without confession. Samuel told them to come to Mispa. There they pour the water and confessed that they are sinners. Now this is peace with God. And thus the peace came into themselves. 

2. Peace through a fight

May be they thought that there would not be any fight from philistines. But while they are there to confess the philistines came to fight. Some times the fight that was scheduled in further future would approach early to be solved when you are in fasting. Israelites asked Samuel to continue praying for them. Now in the battle Israel won. Now the peace was established. The prevailing fear of philistines have gone. 

3. Peace through a treaty

Text did not say anything about treaty but I think that Amorites made treaty seeing philistines losing fight. That's how May be Israelites got peace with Amorites.

Fasting helped them establish peace in three areas. If not, they would be living with fear from these three areas.

Ex. 34:30

When God was said to be a lion, people were excited. When Holy Spirit was compared to a dove people understood. When God was said to be the Father, people are slow to understand. People understood when you compare The Lord to animal and to a bird, but they do not understand when He was compared the to human being.

God sent Moses and he could not reveal the Father. God sent Elijah and he could not reveal the Father. Only Son can do this. So the Father when he was about to send the Son, he paused. It's because If there was a father and if he was cruel to his son, then if you go and tell that particular son that the God is like father then he would think that God is cruel. So the Father in heaven wanted the fathers to turn to their sons and sons to their fathers. Some one has to go ahead of Jesus and do this. This job was given to Elijah. 

Some people squeeze out their battery to the job, friends and to certain people and when they come home, they use the home as battery recharging socket. They do not come a bit of battery left in them. They supposed to keep some for the family because God can take it into his notice.

Salvation was given to us by Christ but carrying it to the end was a job given to us. You have to continue it with fear and trembling. It's an unavoidable battle. How am I standing, because I always have a fight. Body against the spirit and spirit against body. As long I have this battle this shows to my Lord that I am hungry and thirsty for the righteousness, and I will be satisfied. This battle may be heavy today and may be very light tomorrow but you can not get rid of it. This fear is not for punishment it's a passion to keep up the righteousness. This fear is ok. 

The Power and Glory of God

When the power and the nature of God takes any visible form, people call it glory of God.

The power of God and nature of God are released into this realm through the door of His authority. The power of God and glory of God are not same thing. Power is an invisible thing and glory is a visible thing. 

As far as man is concerned, his power is released:

1. Over the sin and (Matt. 9)

2. Over the demons (Matt. 8)

And people glorified The Lord seeing it. 

His nature was expressed:

1. On the cross (centurion found His nature by earth quake and darkness etc.)

2. On the hill (bible says that they saw the glory of God on the hill of transfiguration)

Fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22)

Love took the place of priority. A man with love is near to the graduation. The last one is self-control but it is the kindergarten. That is where fruit of the Spirit starts. The man without self-control, i dont think he ever understand other parts of the fruit like- long suffering, peace, kindness etc. Everything of the fruit of the Spirit sprouts from the Self Control. 

Ps. 149

¹ "a new song,"

How to sing a new song? If child finds a coin on the road, he takes it and sings a new song by himself. He is the writer of that new song. When you are happy you will sing. When you are sad you will sing. Every situation in a human life had a song. It may be a birthday, death day, marriage. Every occasion has a song. If you have feelings about something, singing cannot be a difficult thing. When we see the Lord, we cannot help but sing. A new song is not difficult if we have feelings about the Lord. 

 "in the assembly of his faithful people"

The writer is talking about a public worship. 

   ²  Maker; King.
A person who makes something is the creator of it. And the one who buys it, is the king of it. Jesus is both. 

³ ...praise his name with dancing
Let the blood move while you praise him since the life is in the blood.

 ...and harp.
Once you strike the harp, the sound sustains. Some have a gratitude that does not sustain for a while. Hos. 6:4

⁴ For the LORD takes delight in his people;

   he crowns the humble with victory.

⁵ Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor

   and sing for joy on their beds.

   ⁶ May the praise of God be in their mouths
   and a double-edged sword in their hands,
⁷ to inflict vengeance on the nations
   and punishment on the peoples,
⁸ to bind their kings with fetters,
   their nobles with shackles of iron,
⁹ to carry out the sentence written against them—
   this is the glory of all his faithful people.

   Praise the LORD.

For peace

God wants his people to live in a peaceful environment. That is why God told them to target three things in Ex. 34:13. They have to destroy, smash and cut these three things.

1. Altars ( destroy)
2. Idols (smash)
3. Pillars (cut)

Not every altar they see, not every idol they see, not every pillar they see. He did not tell them to remove them while they were in Egypt and while they were going through some pagan kingdoms. They have to remove those three things only in the promised land. 

But sadly human beings usually think that compromising with these things help them live peaceful with neighbors.