May 7, 2012

  • for lack of knowledge – O! for Your truth, goodness, light & sweetness! Isaiah 5:13, 20-21

    II Timothy 4:1  I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2  preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3  For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4  and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5  As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

    Isaiah 5
    13  Therefore my people go into exile
    for lack of knowledge;
    their honored men go hungry,
    and their multitude is parched with thirst...

    20  Woe to those who call evil good
    and good evil,
    who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
    who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!
    21  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
    and shrewd in their own sight!

    LORD God, have mercy upon Your people. There is a great dearth of knowledge in Your Church today. There are many sheep who are hungry and thirsty, and the tragic thing is many of these souls do not even know they are hungry and thirsty because they've had little access to sound teaching. Forgive us, Lord, for all of us are too easily and too quickly led away by our own passions, and we too quickly discard the hard sayings of Scripture without examining them because they are spiritually discerned. We allow our sinful flesh and earthly minds to guide us rather than submitting ourselves to the supernatural leading of Your blessed Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, lead us into all truth. Lord Jesus Christ, our Bridegroom, sanctify and cleanse Your bride with the washing of the water of Your Word. Holy Father, sanctify Your children in the truth; Your Word is truth. Both the shepherds and the flock end up calling evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness; and put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Forgive us, Lord God, for Jesus' sake. We are sheep who are prone to wander, and we each would go our own way – far, far away from Your way – apart from Your persevering grace. Holy Spirit, You are the Spirit of truth. Humble us, O God, bring us to our senses, and lead us into all truth, that we might once again treat the Word of God with the reverence we ought – that we would not sit as judges over Your Word, but put ourselves under Your Word and let Your Word judge us. Merciful God, send Your Spirit to soften and circumcise our hearts, to open our ears and eyes, and to lead us into all truth. Sanctify our hearts and our ears so we would desire and pant for Your truth, goodness, light and sweetness to be preached once again in our congregations, and that we would test all things in light of Your Word and settle for nothing less than sound teaching.

    LORD God, send us pastors and teachers who will not shrink back from their calling, but would be ready and faithful to preach Your Word without compromise in season and out of season. O, God, we are hungry and thirsty! We are in desperate need of Your truth, goodness, light and sweetness to flow forth from our pulpits! May Your grace equip our pastors and teachers so they might labor hard, and may Your love compel them to uphold and proclaim with authority the truths of Scripture to feed the flock of God faithfully, fearlessly and boldly, so Your sheep will not continue to go hungry and thirsty, but would be nourished with and grow by Your true Word as You intend, so we might glorify and enjoy and sup with You as we eat and drink of Your truth, goodness, light and sweetness! O! How can any single one of us thrive and flourish on falsehood, evil, darkness and bitterness! How can Your Church thrive and flourish on falsehood, evil, darkness and bitterness! How can the cause of Christ in the world thrive and flourish on falsehood, evil, darkness and bitterness! Unless we are eating and drinking of Your truth, goodness, light and sweetness, what truth, goodness, light and sweetness do we have to give out to a world which is lost and mired and enslaved in falsehood, evil, darkness and bitterness? Good Shepherd, send us pastors and teachers who are not seeking to please men, but who are seeking to please You. Send us pastors who desire to seek Your face and Your Kingdom and Your glory – and not to seek their own kingdoms or their own glory. Send us pastors and teachers who will not preach and teach to itching ears, but will keep their eyes on Jesus and persevere in sound teaching, no matter the cost to them. Almighty God, strengthen these men by Your Holy Spirit so they might be sober-minded, endure afflictions, fulfill their ministry, and be faithful proclaimers of Your evangel. Send us pastors and teachers who do not fear men, but fear You and tremble at Your Word and treasure and guard Your Gospel, knowing one day they will stand before You to give account for how they stewarded Your word and tended the flock which You purchased with Your precious blood.

    * Please add your PRAYERS as God's Holy Spirit leads you. *

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