Tuesday, December 2, 2008

THE UPPER ROOM


Illustration: If my life could have changed just by someone telling me about reading the Proverbs. It brought me back my health, wealth, and self-esteem. It saved my life, my broken marriage, brought me closer to my family. You can imagine the change that can happen in your life by meditating daily on all the verses. The Proverbs have the power to clean and heal our words, our deeds, our actions and our body. We may have no special room for the Lord but we can definately create it by being in a quite place without much disturbances. Just relax, breath slowly, try being aware of the breath going in and slowly coming out. This is one of the best ways to feel spiritual silence. Begin by believing that you are the wellspring of life, feel the gentleness of the breese blowing, hear the birds chirping, feel your heart beating. Some may feel dizzy but that's okay, some may experience a feeling of rocking or a feeling of being lifted up or falling. Just be in that feeling and enjoy it. God inhabits the praises of his men. So begin the series with your favorite hymn of praise, or just by humming it. Avoid sleeping, try doing the same thing everyday at the same time. The Power of the Proverbs, as you breathe in slowly feel an inward energy bringing you closer to wisdom, understanding, discipline, prudence, righteousness, justice, fainess, knowledge, discretion, learning, discernment, guidance, knowledge, instruction, teaching, safety, victory, shield, protection, faithfulness, prosperity, favor, good name, nourishment, honor, wealth, love, gains, profits, returns, precious, long life, pleasant, peace, blessed, firmness, power, trust, confidence, inheritance, esteem, exhultation, gracefulness, splendor, brightness, wellspring, insight, sweetness, life, kindness, strength, feasting, correction,satisfaction, security, harvests, morality, governance, nobility, treasures, rejoicing, delightment, acceptance, addition, joy, diligence, grace, integrity, rooted, accuracy, humility, uprigthtousness, blameless, rescue, unpunished, refreshed, goodwill, abundance, rewards, endurance, promotion, ruler, cheerful, brightness, laughter, innocence, success, cheerful heart, good temper, patience, zealous, careful, attentive, flawless.
The Proverbs guard us from negative forces of life, as you breath out slowly feel that negative energy coming out of the body, all the forces that become our weakness, keeps us in chains of undiscipline, foolishness, enticement, restlessness, waywardness, ill-gotten gain, mockery, rejection, ignorance, rebuke, disaster, calamity, distress, trouble, complancy, destruction, fear, perversity, crookedness, deviousness, adultery, seduction, unfaithfulness, resentment, ruin, wickedness, snares, envy, violence, shame, forsaken, darkness, bitterness, death, cruelness, weakness, groaning, stubborness, captivation, trapped, sluggardness, scarcity, poverty, corruption, deciet, haughtyness, lies, guilty, schemer, false witness, dissension, immorality, jealousy, pride, arrogance, rejection, division, grief, disgrace, maliciousness, slander, uprooted, worthless, perish, godless, escape, gossip, punishment, stupid, decay, decietful, warped, pretence, fantasy, annoyance, plunder, liar, boasting, slave, rash, hatred, darkness, quarrels, dwindler, emptiness, sadness, hot headed, reckless, oppressed, wretched, trmoil, bribery, loss, rebellious, merciless, breacher, crushed spirit, ill-tempered, selfish, partial, hasty, ruins, dessertion, contemptuous, calamity, arrogance, frustration, deception, bloodthirsty to be driven out of our body, mind and soul in the name of Jesus. If there is something that I have missed you can feel free to add on. Encourage yourself by reading the Proverbs daily as the glory of our Lord, furthermore reading this before reading all the Proverbs so that it becomes your crowning glory of your life.
Proverbs 5
Warning Against Adultery
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen well to my words of insight,
2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
4 but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
6 She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths are crooked, but she knows it not.
7 Now then, my sons, listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say.
8 Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house,
9 lest you give your best strength to others and your years to one who is cruel,
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich another man's house.
11 At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
12 You will say, "How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
13 I would not obey my teachers or listen to my instructors.
14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly."
15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love.
20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
21 For a man's ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all his paths.
22 The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast.
23 He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
Prayer:Heavenly Father, we worship you, we praise you for your glory and honor, Almighty Father. Lord do not forsake us as we are the lambs lost, but you have found us. You have saved us Lord from all evil by dying for us on the cross, yet we sinners cant mend our ways. Father, you have given us your Holy Son, delivers us oh Lord, deliver us from all that is evil and grant us peace. Father of miracles, you have healed many just by your touch, touch us now and heal us from our disease. You are a prayer answering God, hear what we cannot speak, and grant us our favors. Merciful Father, protect us from all anxiety, enlighten our spirit as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Lord saviour, Jesus Christ.

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