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Dear Friends,
Greetings and blessings on this wonderful day of rest! I pray that you enjoy time with God’s people in worship, prayer, and receiving God’s word. God has a passion to meet with His people and enjoys delighting in them when they gather in unity and worship! He inhabits the praises of His people!
As I reflect on the reading for this past week, a section that I didn’t write on comes to mind. It is the story of Ahab and Jehoshaphat coming together to fight the King of Aram in 1st Kings 22. As they prepare for battle, Jehoshaphat suggests that they consult the Lord first of all! What a novel idea! The king of Israel brought four hundred men who claimed to be prophets and inquired of them. To a man they backed the King of Israel.
The King of Judah, Jehoshaphat, was still not satisfied and asked if there was not a prophet of the Lord that they could inquire of. Ahab answered that there was one more prophet, but he always prophesied something bad! (1st Kings 22:8) His name was Micaiah. The reason he was a bad prophet was that he did not tell the king what he wanted to hear!
This time was no different; Micaiah, asked for his opinion and told to tell the truth, gave a different word than the other false prophets. He told of Ahab’s death on the battlefield because of the deception of the false prophets! This not only infuriated Ahab, but made the false prophets angry, too. What a bad prophet Micaiah was! He was imprisoned and slapped by one of the other prophets.
What kind of word from the Lord do you like to receive? Are you critical of the preacher when he preaches a convicting word from God? Do you get angry or tune him out? Do you decide not to go so you won’t have to listen to that “bad preacher” anymore? Blaming the messenger will only make matters worse! Hopefully you adjust your attitude and listen even when it is not what you want to hear!
God bless you with ears to hear what the Lord is saying to His church! In His Love, Pastor John