As the new year 2020 begins, we want to dedicate ourselves to having 20/20 vision regarding God's Word and His will for us, and a 20/20 heart dedicated to fulfill His purpose for our lives. We can start by looking at some 20:20 verses in order to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, by the washing of our minds in His Word:
2 Chron. 20:20- "And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper."
Judah and Jerusalem were threatened by three enemy armies. The king sought the will of God: Should they go out to fight these enemies? The answer came through the prophet of God who said, "...the battle is not yours but God's...Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you....fear not, nor be dismayed; for the LORD will be with you." (v. 14-17). The king and all the people received this prophetic promise and bowed with face on the ground, and worshipped God. The next day, the king commanded that singers go out before the army, singing praises to God. The LORD set ambushments for the enemy armies, and they were smitten.
Have you sought the vision of the prophetic word for your life? Have you trusted in the LORD with all your heart for that vision? 2020 is the year to seek and fulfill these things with all your heart.
Acts 20:20- "And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house (testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ - v.21).
This is our walk: repentance and faith. This is our effort: to fulfill our purpose in God.
Paul was speaking to the elders of the Church at Ephesus, describing how, through tears and persecutions, he received the vision, and has faithfully carried out his service to God, teaching without compromise all that they needed for their spiritual profit. He was about to go to Jerusalem, where a perilous future awaited him. Yet he was determined to finish out his ministry and purpose which he received from Jesus Christ, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. Because of his faithfulness to God's purpose for him, he says, "...I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." v. 24-27
All of us have been given a purpose in God's kingdom. Do we have the vision of His purpose for our lives? Are our hearts dedicated like Paul's to fulfilling that purpose? 2020 is the year to find that vision and dedicate our hearts fully to it.
Ex. 20:20- "And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not."
The LORD had just delivered His Word, the ten commandments, with great signs upon the mountain: signs that caused terror in all the children of Israel, whom He had delivered out of Egyptian slavery. The LORD said to tell the people, "You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven." (v. 22). The LORD delivers His Word to us very effectively. Are we taking His Word seriously? Or have we put aside His Word in order to follow our own ideas and desires into sin. 2020 is the year to re-focus on the vision He has delivered in His Word, and decide to follow it with all our hearts.
Jeremiah describes the blessings upon those who trust the LORD:
"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." Jer. 17:7-8
What causes us to miss the vision and the trust to carry out that vision of God? God's people have a heart problem. Jeremiah wrote in the verse following, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (v. 9). We need to deal with this heart problem. If we sincerely desire to fill our hearts with God's vision, Word, and will, the LORD promised a reviving work in us, that He will give us a heart to know Him "...for they shall return unto me with their whole heart." (Jer. 24:7). David understood the importance of repentance and rededication of his vision, and his heart as he identified the sin that dwelled in it (Ps. 51). The transformation that David sought is a work that only the LORD can do in us when He sees our hearts turning back to Him. Psalm 119 speaks about a man who is determined to set his vision and his whole heart towards the LORD:
"Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." (v. 2, 9-11, 34, 69-70, 145).
Jesus also taught from the portion of the Torah which tells us the following, and commands us to teach the same to our children in all circumstances:
"Hear O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart." Det. 6:4-6
This must be our 2020 vision, and our 2020 heart.
*The above is based upon the 12/29/19 message to the Church from Dr. Kenneth Stevenson.
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Jeremiah describes the blessings upon those who trust the LORD:
"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." Jer. 17:7-8
What causes us to miss the vision and the trust to carry out that vision of God? God's people have a heart problem. Jeremiah wrote in the verse following, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (v. 9). We need to deal with this heart problem. If we sincerely desire to fill our hearts with God's vision, Word, and will, the LORD promised a reviving work in us, that He will give us a heart to know Him "...for they shall return unto me with their whole heart." (Jer. 24:7). David understood the importance of repentance and rededication of his vision, and his heart as he identified the sin that dwelled in it (Ps. 51). The transformation that David sought is a work that only the LORD can do in us when He sees our hearts turning back to Him. Psalm 119 speaks about a man who is determined to set his vision and his whole heart towards the LORD:
"Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." (v. 2, 9-11, 34, 69-70, 145).
Jesus also taught from the portion of the Torah which tells us the following, and commands us to teach the same to our children in all circumstances:
"Hear O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart." Det. 6:4-6
This must be our 2020 vision, and our 2020 heart.
*The above is based upon the 12/29/19 message to the Church from Dr. Kenneth Stevenson.
To Contact/Submit prayer requests/Support the ministry/Order the book, "NAZAH-White Linen and the Blood of Sprinkling", and to help us get out the message:
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Prayer of Salvation for all who desire to receive Jesus as their Savior: Lord Jesus, I desire to know You, and to know Your salvation. I believe that You died for me, and that You were resurrected for me. Forgive me of my sins. Come into my heart, change me, fill me with Your righteousness. Inscribe my name in the Lamb's book of life. Baptize me in Your Holy Spirit, so that I can learn the truth of Your Word and ways, and be strengthened in my walk all the days of my life. You are the hope of my life, and You are my eternal life. I place my trust in You, Lord, for myself, and my whole household. Use me to do the will of the heavenly Father, Who sent You, in Whose name You came. In Your name, and in thanks and praise I pray, Amen.
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