Sunday Re-Cap (4th Feb 2007)

A Blessed and Chosen People
By Michael Lee

2 Chr 7:16: For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

Ps 65:4: Blessed is the man You choose, And cause to approach You, That he may dwell in Your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Of Your holy temple.

Ps 33:12: Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.

We are a blessed and chosen people.

The Name
When David battled against Goliath, Goliath used a spear, javelin and sword which are all made by hand; but David used pebbles which are made by God. We are better than the pebbles in that we are made in the very image of God. He has placed His name upon us.

2 Chr 14:11: And Asa cried out to the Lord his God, and said, "Lord, it is nothing for You to help, whether with many or with those who have no power; help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on You, and in Your name we go against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; do not let man prevail against You!"

The Eye
Matt 6:22-23; Ps 32:8; Ps 33:18-20
-When the eye is dark-we get lost, can’t see and may stumble and fall.
-The eye of the Lord keeps us alive in famine.
-We have the joy of the Lord in famine.

2 Chr 16:9a: 9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.
Jer 24:6; Deut 11:10-13 God gives us a good possession and His eyes are constantly upon it.

The Heart
Jer 24:7: God gives us a heart to know Him.
Jn 7:38: He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
1 Sam 16:7: The Lord looks at the heart.

God desires to give us His Name, Eyes and Heart. Are we ready?

Matt 9:17:
The old wineskin speaks of an un-crucified life. This cannot “contain” His name, eyes, heart.
The new wineskin speaks of a kingdom mentality, a crucified life and a changed mind-set. Only to these will be given the name, eyes and heart of the Lord.