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| Hello Friends, I welcome you to join me on this journey as I share this time in words of praise to God, devotion to Him for His faithfulness in my life and instruction I've received through my own time with God. I welcome you to come and relax with me, have a cup of tea and enjoy this time together. Justene |
| Hi All, I would also like to welcome you to join in our journey. I hope to bring you along with pictures of the people, places and things in our life. There are so many things to say, see and do and we pray that this little spot on the computer can give you peace and pleasure in the presence of God. Blessings, Jana |
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Seek The Welfare Of The City
by Mary Justene Martin
January 19, 2012
Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and
pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have
welfare. (Jeremiah 29:7)
The sound of complaining seems to be the cry of our
rundown and dying towns. It has become a small talk thing to
complain about the lack of prosperity, the price of gas, the cost
of living etc. We wish we could move somewhere where the
grass is greener, but we stay here and complain. The problem
is, every time we complain, we prophesy doom over the very
place where we dwell. Why do we think that moving to another
place would make us any more prosperous when we take our
prophesying gloom with us?
In Jeremiah’s day, God sent the exiles into Babylon, and
told them to build houses, take wives, have children and
multiply there. When a Christian is sent into a city, that city
should be better off for having them. Our culture has taught us
to complain, it has become a cultural habit to be ungrateful. We
are to prosper, and pray for the prosperity of those in the place
we are. I heard the other day, that if we stopped complaining
we would lose 90% of our vocabulary. I don't know if that is
true, but it certainly would limit our conversation.
Make no mistake, God hears our ingratitude. We have long
quoted the scripture in Jeremiah that promises plans for our
future welfare and not for calamity, but further on He declares
that the people began to listen to the prophets in Babylon
(complainers?) and it will not go well for them.
Complaining is like gossip. It’s cunning and seemingly
harmless, but it brings the very thing we are complaining about
or gossiping about to pass. It is no secret that we are in exile,
wherever we live, because we are not yet dwelling in the
kingdom of God. But we are to be a blessing wherever we live,
prophesying abundance and prosperity, and also praying for the
people who are living there with us. Instead of declaring what
we see with our eyes, we must be declaring what we cannot yet
see.
God is calling us out of the shadows and placing us
strategically in places all over the globe to pray and keep on
prophesying good over that place. We are prophets of God, not
prophets of doom. Don’t get caught up in the habits of the
complainers. We must be set apart for bringing the prosperity
and peace of God upon our land. God has told us to take this
land. This is God’s land.
by Mary Justene Martin
January 19, 2012
Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and
pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have
welfare. (Jeremiah 29:7)
The sound of complaining seems to be the cry of our
rundown and dying towns. It has become a small talk thing to
complain about the lack of prosperity, the price of gas, the cost
of living etc. We wish we could move somewhere where the
grass is greener, but we stay here and complain. The problem
is, every time we complain, we prophesy doom over the very
place where we dwell. Why do we think that moving to another
place would make us any more prosperous when we take our
prophesying gloom with us?
In Jeremiah’s day, God sent the exiles into Babylon, and
told them to build houses, take wives, have children and
multiply there. When a Christian is sent into a city, that city
should be better off for having them. Our culture has taught us
to complain, it has become a cultural habit to be ungrateful. We
are to prosper, and pray for the prosperity of those in the place
we are. I heard the other day, that if we stopped complaining
we would lose 90% of our vocabulary. I don't know if that is
true, but it certainly would limit our conversation.
Make no mistake, God hears our ingratitude. We have long
quoted the scripture in Jeremiah that promises plans for our
future welfare and not for calamity, but further on He declares
that the people began to listen to the prophets in Babylon
(complainers?) and it will not go well for them.
Complaining is like gossip. It’s cunning and seemingly
harmless, but it brings the very thing we are complaining about
or gossiping about to pass. It is no secret that we are in exile,
wherever we live, because we are not yet dwelling in the
kingdom of God. But we are to be a blessing wherever we live,
prophesying abundance and prosperity, and also praying for the
people who are living there with us. Instead of declaring what
we see with our eyes, we must be declaring what we cannot yet
see.
God is calling us out of the shadows and placing us
strategically in places all over the globe to pray and keep on
prophesying good over that place. We are prophets of God, not
prophets of doom. Don’t get caught up in the habits of the
complainers. We must be set apart for bringing the prosperity
and peace of God upon our land. God has told us to take this
land. This is God’s land.