CAC LIVING WATER - ARE YOU STANDING IN THE LORD’S COUNCIL?

LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL
ARE YOU STANDING IN THE LORD’S COUNCIL?

9TH , JULY 2022 

 

EXTRA READING FOR TODAY:  Proverbs 1-3

READ:  Jeremiah 23:16-24

 

16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the [false] prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility) and fill you with vain hopes; they speak a vision of their own minds and not from the mouth of the Lord.

17 They are continually saying to those who despise Me and the word of the Lord, The Lord has said: You shall have peace; and they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own mind and heart, No evil shall come upon you.

18 For who among them has stood in the council of the Lord, that he should perceive and hear His word? Who has marked His word [noticing and observing and giving attention to it] and has [actually] heard it?

19 Behold, the tempest of the Lord has gone forth in wrath, a whirling tempest; it shall whirl and burst upon the heads of the wicked.

20 The anger of the Lord shall not turn back until He has executed and accomplished the thoughts and intents of His mind and heart. In the latter days you shall consider and understand it perfectly.

21 I did not send these [false] prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

22 But if they had stood in My council, then they would have caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them [My people] from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.

23 Am I a God at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off?

24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? says the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.

 

 

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MEMORISE: “For who among them has stood in the council of the Lord, that he should perceive and hear His word? Who has marked His word [noticing and observing and giving attention to it] and has [actually] heard it?” - Jeremiah 23:18

 

 

 

 

 

EXPOSITION

Standing in the Lord's council means that one sees and hears His Word  (Messsges) directly. Jer.23v18 ask, *...who has ...perceived and heard His word?*  Perceiving, i.e. seeing and hearing are two important aspects of being in God's council. Unfortunately, there are prophets who get their supposed messages from Baal (v. 13), i.e. from demons. Such prophets are rampant in churches, deceiving people, today. Some others get theirs from their own minds (v16). When claiming to deliver God's Word to people, they are actually giving them pieces of their own minds. Hence, we need to be more careful in the Church, today. Such fake prophets have led many astray (v.17).

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       Why would men and women supposedly stoop so low as to be communing with the accused devil and his demons? V.18 implies that they have not been standing in the council of the LORD. If you are not in any council meeting, you cannot be privy to the agreement therein. Dear minister of God or church leaders, can you honestly say you have been frequent in the council of God? Who is the source of your messages and prophetic oracles?

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         Prophet Micahia is a challenge to us. In 1 Kings 22v5ff, we saw him clearly pitched against 400 fake palace prophets who were only good at standing in king Ahab's council, but not of the King of kings. Hope you are not another Ahab's prophet? Micaiah was different, in that despite the sincere palace messengers counsel (v.13) and the fact that he was going to be a lone-ranger in standing for the Lord, he chose to say only what he heard from God's council (c.f. 14-18). He had stood in God's council (vv.19ff), and so, damned the risk of saying the truth (vv.24ff). Who laughed last? Are you standing in God's council, such that you are qualified to speak for Him?

 

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PRAYER POINT:

1. Ask God for forgiveness at those junctures you have claimed to speak for Him when you have actually not been with Him.

2. Pray for the grace never to speak for Him until you have undeniablely been with, and clearly heard from Him.

3. Pray that God should decisively silent unrepentant ministers deceiving people with demonic words and words from their own minds while claiming to have been sent by God.

 

 

 

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

 

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