THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION: Greetings again my friends. Well, the year is more than ½ over and God is moving in the earth. I was speaking in a church in Fayetteville, NC and asked the people if they knew what God was doing in the earth? Did you know God wants us to know what He is doing in the earth and then engage with Him. But one thing for sure, God will only move with those who are moving with Him. I will let that sink in. This month we will continue to look at the Prophet of God in respects to having a perfect “servant” heart. Thus we have looked at five areas of heart condition a Prophet of God must possess. Last month was an Obedient Heart (taken from 1 Chronicles 29:18) and this month we will look at being wholehearted. In 1 Kings 11:4-8 we read, “For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. 7Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.” You know these passages in the Scriptures scare me to death. When I read what Solomon did here I have to shake my head and say, “what was the man thinking.” I mean, Solomon, the wisest and richest man in the world, ever. How God used him! What a walk he had with the LORD, but in verses six to eight we read, “And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. 7Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.” What happened? What caused him to fall out of God? Oh, I am sure it was the pretty ladies, like Samson. Men seem to have problems with the ladies. I had a one-time friend, he walked away, because he got to close to a lady who was not his wife and this lady bewitched him. And I mean a real bewitching, like real witch craft. You know light CANNOT have relationship with darkness. And if we are of the light we will clearly be able to see the darkness for what it is, evil darkness, and the
darkness will be able to see the light, they use to be, and separate themselves from the light. I have seen this play out time after time. There was not much I could do but let them go and turn them over to God’s good graces. For Samson it cost him his sight and years of torment at the grist mill, but I think probably his biggest tormentor was his thoughts and how he once was waked in the light. Now we can blame the ladies for Solomon’s and Samson’s failure, but their problem was not their manly desires as much as it was their lack of being wholehearted or their heart being totally sold out 100% to what God wanted for their lives. Both Solomon and Samson got their eyes and thoughts off what God soke to them. Samson, the first Judge of Israel, one day was killing 10,00 Philistines with a jaw bone of a ass and the next week he was with the whores of Gaza. His heart was double minded, his thoughts were not single, but many. When we get off track from what God wants for our lives we always seem to mix in our thoughts and desires into what God wants us to do. James tells us, “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.: (James 1:7-8) Now James does not say the man is double minded in only what is thinking or doing for God, oh no, but “in all his ways.” When we are NOT wholehearted we are “double minded” and according to James we are “double minded” and “unstable in all of our way.” In other words everything we do, for God or NOT for God will be unstable. Everything we do will be unstable. Wow this being wholehearted is a big deal. And we can see it perfectly in the lives of Samson and Solomon. I will be honest with you all, these two men did NOT end well. They both started out well in God, but my friend it does not matter how we start out in God, but what matters is how we end in God. I know myself, I know David to a certain degree, probably not to the depths I might go, like Samson and Solomon, but I do know, I do not trust David as far as I can throw myself. And that scares me, which I believe is a good fear. A fear that keeps me moving on the right track. A fear that keeps my heart wholehearted and focused on God. Anything else and we will end up being “unstable.”
Next month we will continue looking at the perfect heart of the “Prophet of God” who must have a heart that brings about a right walk with God. I hope this is you my friend. Are you a Prophet of God? To be a Prophet we must be able to hear His voice. Listen closely and you will hear. Written by David Stahl
