Be Still Pt. 3

Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don Noble of Pure

Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy.

Tonight is part three of Be Still, And of course, if you've been

listening the last couple weeks, I'm talking about a scripture Psal. I'm forty

six y ten. Be still and know that I am God. As I

mentioned, it's the simplicity of a scripture that has the most profound effect on

his spiritually. This is a very simple scripture that you could just blow on

by, but there's so much meat in this scripture. Now, last week

part two, I was a little forceful, maybe for some of you,

a bit too forceful. But don't make the mistake of calling me judgmental.

I am a passionate person when it comes to the Word of God, and

I know better than most that I am quite the fallible person. So if

you thought I was being too harsh last week, here's my defense. This

is Isaiah fifty eight to one. Cry aloud, spare not lift up your

voice like a trumpet, tell my people their transgression. God has given me

a voice like a trumpet. I'm not ashamed of that, and that voice

is to sound the alarm. So that's what I intend to do. See,

I'm committed to the Lord for this year of twenty twenty four that I

not only want to speak His truth, but that my life has to be

a true representation of the Gospel. The apostle Paul says this in Second Corinthians

three three. Clearly you are an epistle written letter of Christ, ministered by

us, not with pen and ink, but by the spirit of the Living

God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh, that

is of the heart. Let me translate that for you in simple terms.

Wherever I go, wherever I am present, in my home, in my

workplace, in the grocery store, in the bank, it's as if you

could see a tattoo on my heart, and it says I belong to God,

I'm his And everyone who sees me reads that and they know I'm God's

girl. But really they can't see that tattooed message on my heart. But

see Christ in my demeanor, in my actions, and in my words.

In other words, I'm a walking mirror of That's not just me, that's

you say this, say I'm a walking letter of Christ. Yeah, that's

what Secwod Corinthians three three says that we are a walking letter, a walking

epistle, and that we are God's letter to us and his word. It's

on tablets of flesh. Yeah, on our heart and on our spirit.

But you say, Dawn, I'm not even close to that. You know

what, It's okay, it's okay. Sanctification is a process for all of

us, you know. It's little by little, don't be so hard on

yourself. Little by little, we start letting go of this world and its

pleasures, and we start apprehending the kingdom life, the spirit of God in

you and I begins this glorious transformation. I like to call it the nuclear

bomb effect. When a nuclear bomb is dropped on a city, everything that

was no longer is think Nagasaki Hiroshima nineteen forty five. There are no remnants

of the past. Everything is destroyed. In fact, you can't make heads

or tails of anything that was once there. That's what the born again experience

should be like. All the old habits, all the old ways, and

all the old talk gone forever. Now the new man emerges and he has

to learn the ways of God. That bring fresh life and vitality and purpose

and direction. Unfortunately, this process takes a while to manifest the character of

Christ. Remember my first message for twenty TI twenty four, it was I

press on. I'm forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.

That's what Paul wrote in Philippians III. And I press on to receive the

heavenly price prize. That means you are pressing on. That means you are

forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead. Amen. Now,

part of the pressing on requires the being still part. If you try to

skip that part, it will be detrimental to your walk and you'll end up

like many Christians who walk most of the time in their flesh. I don't

They don't have a clear understanding of what walking in the spirit is all about.

Now, I ended last week's message talking about repentance and in the time

of being still, that's what we've been talking about. This is the third

week of being still. A person is actually in a posture of humility,

being humble before God. It's a good place to be. And you know

what He really looks upon that one person who has that repentant contrite heart because

he says in Isaiah sixty six to two. He says, but on this

one, I will look on him who is poor and of a contrite heart,

and who trembles at my word. Now, remember last week I also

talked about these two women. Remember these two women, and they called themselves

born again Christians. They went to church, and one even attended a weekly

life group in addition to church. And if you want to understand why I

am so passionate about what I'm saying, I want you to listen to this

because I can talk about this because both of these women live very far away.

There's no way that you're going to know who they are. But both

of them, this is all recent. This is very very recent. This

isn't like two years ago, a year ago, six months ago. This

is recent. Both of these women were married and both divorced their husbands.

They did the filing based on no biblical grounds. Okay, so they these

husbands did not cheat on their wives. They weren't sleeping around with every woman

in the city. No, these men were faithful. And these men did

not abuse their wives. They didn't beat their wives. Oh no, these

were good guys. But these women, we're greedy for money, and they

left these two men in financial arrears. They used a lot of manipulation and

lying. And you know, it says in Second Samuel fifteen, or it

might be First Samuel fifteen talks about rebellion being like witchcraft. And see when

you begin to operate in that rebellion manipulation lying, you're operating in witchcraft.

So there's all manner of evil spirits going on. Now. Does it sound

like these two women were godly women with godly character, I don't think so.

Sounds more like the Ephesis four nineteen that says, who, being past

feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Verse twenty two in Ephesians four says this that this is what you and I

are supposed to do. Okay. It says that you put off concerning your

former conduct the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts well,

their deceitful lust was a lust for money. And then Hebrews twelve twenty eight

I shared that scripture is this is you know, this is a commandment.

We are to serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. That's a commandment

of the Lord. That's how we are to live our lives, to serve

God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. Doesn't sound like these two women

fall into that category. Now, let's talk about real people in the Bible.

Last week I started talking about David, and I didn't get to finish.

He was, the scripture says, a man after God's heart. Yet

he committed adultery and had his mistress's husband killed. Now that's a great resume

for a godly leader, don't you think. But God's judgment for these acts

of sin was that his firstborn son died. Now what I've done is I've

selected a few psalms. There are many, you know, there are one

hundred and fifty psalms in the Book of Psalms. So I just selected a

few that David wrote that show his contry heart. As I mentioned, when

we are still and we humble ourselves and get in that posture of humility,

things began to change. The Lord can then work with our heart and begin

to transform us into his character. You're also going to see David's love for

God. And now Bathsheba was a worldly attraction of lust, and he paid

a dear price for it. But listen to David's words as he draws near

to God and realizes realizes he cannot live without God. That's important. See,

you, my friend, cannot live without God either, and neither can

I. So turn your heart to the Lord. You who have strayed and

got lost on your way, and it's time to come back to the real

love of your life. So let's just listen as I read several of these

parts of scripture. Listen to David's heart. This man who committed adultery and

committed murder Sow eighteen. This is what David says. He says, I

will you, o Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and

my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom

I will trust my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised. So

shall I be saved from my enemies. Look at all the things that David

says about the Lord. He says, I will love you. You are

my strength, my rock, my fortress, my deliver my strength, the

one I'll trust my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold,

woe. I'm going to call upon you, he says, so you can

see the passion in David's heart for God Psalm one nineteen. The law of

the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is

sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right,

rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure in lightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of

the Lord are true and righteous. Altogether more to be desired are they than

gold, yea than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Moreover, by them your word, your servant is warned, and in

keeping them there is a great reward. So David, really in a nutshell,

takes the word of God, and he really breaks it down. It's

a teaching. He's going to teach us and tell us what the word of

God is all about. It will convert the sore, it will convert the

soul. Excuse me, it will make wise the simple. It'll rejoice your

heart. It'll open your eyes and enlighten your understanding. It is clean,

it it will endure forever. And he says, God's word is more to

be desired than the finest gold, and it's sweeter than honey. What's that

tell you about God's word? That says a whole lot about what God's word

is to us and for us. Because he says the word of God,

God warns us. And in keeping God's word there is a great reward.

I mean, I don't know. It doesn't get better than that. Then,

he writes verse twelve, who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from

secret faults, Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not

have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be

innocent of great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of

my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my

redeemer. You know that's a scripture you should pray every day. Verse fourteen.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable

in your sight, Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Powerful. That's

the Psalm nineteen is powerful. This is Psalm sixteen. He writes, I

will bless the Lord who has given me counsel. My heart also instructs me

in the night seasons. I have set the Lord always before me, because

he is at my right hand. I I shall not be moved. Therefore

my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices, and my flesh also will

rest in hope. See David knew better than anybody. He was out there

with those sheep twenty four to seven. He was alone, he was being

still, he was worshiping the Lord, praying to the Lord, and he

knew the goodness of God. He says, the Lord, you give me

counsel, you instruct my heart, and I just set you Lord before me

always because you're You're at my right hand, and I'm not gonna I'm not

gonna be moved. I'm not going to be moved by circumstances, situations,

bad things, bad news, terrible calamities. No, I'm not going to

be moved because You're at my right hand, and my heart's going to be

glad no matter what. This is. Also Psal, I'm sixteen ten and

eleven, he says, for you now he's writing about Christ, for you

will not leave my soul and shield, nor will you allow your Holy One

to see corruption. Se he has revelation about Christ. But then he says

in verse eleven. You will show me the path of life. In your

presence is fullness of joy, and at your right hand or pleasures forevermore.

That is the that is the great reward of having this be still moment with

God, having this intimacy with the Lord, because he's going to show you

the path of life. You're going to have the fullness of joy, and

you're going to understand what it means when David writes, at your right hand,

Lord, at your right hand are pleasures forever more. Psal I'm twenty

five. Show me your ways, O Lord. Teach me your past,

lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God

of my salvation. On you I wait all day. Who is the man

that fears the Lord? Him? Shall he teach in the way he chooses.

He himself shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth.

The secret of the Lord is with those who fear him, and he

will show them his covenant. My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for

he shall pluck my feet out of the net. David is really humble,

and that's where we need to be. You know, Lord, I can't

do life without me without you, show me your ways, teach me your

path of righteousness, show me, lead me in pathsive righteousness for your namesake.

David is saying, lead me in your truth and teach me, and

that's those should be the cry of a heart. These are things that you

can pray. These are things you can bring to the Lord and tell him

lead me and teach me and show me Psalm twenty four. Who may ascend

into the hill of the Lord, or who may stand in his holy place?

Ah, he who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has

not lifted up his soul to an nor sworn deceitfully, he shall receive blessing

from the Lord and righteousness from the Goddess of his salvation. So we can't

come into God's holy place. In other words, we can't enter in God's

presence. Is really what he's saying when it says, who may ascend into

the hill, We can't come into His presence with unclean hands and an unclean

heart. There has to be a time of repentance. There has to be

a time of humility, humbling ourselves and saying, rot row, I messed

up, and Lord, I need to confess this to you. I did

something not good, So we can't come into his presence until we have made

that confession. Psalm twenty seven one of my favorite psalms. This is starting

with verse four One thing, David writes, one thing I have desired of

the Lord, that I will seek, that I may dwell in the house

of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of

the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of

tremble, wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall

strengthen your heart. Wait, I say on the Lord. And that should

be the same desire that we have, that we want to dwell in the

house of the Lord all the days of our life. We want to behold

his beauty, We want to inquire in his temple. How do we do

that? We just get in a quiet place. Get in the most quiet

place you can find in your home. That cell phone has to be far

away and turned off. In fact, don't let it even be in the

same room. You can't multitask when you're trying to be quiet before the Lord.

If you want to hear his voice, you can't have anything distracting you.

Noise children TV radio, not its cell phone. Has to be out

of the room and off. You have to be quiet. You have to

be still and see when things start coming down down the road in twenty twenty

four, this is where you're gonna need to wait on the Lord, be

of good courage and let him strengthen your heart. See, because the Bible

says men's hearts will fail them from fear. Well, your heart isn't gonna

fail. I decree and declare, your heart is not gonna fail. You're

gonna wait on the Lord. You're gonna you're gonna be bold and courageous,

and you're gonna let the Lord strengthen your heart. Amen. Now let's close

by looking at the life of Jacob. And as you know, Jacob and

Esau were twins. Esau was born first. Jacob grabbed his heel in Rebecca's

womb, and it ended up that Jacob was a deceiver. I tricked his

brother into giving him his birthrate as the first born, and then Rebecca the

mother talks him into tricking his father to get the blessing. So he was

a deceiver. But he has this incredible be still moment with God. And

this is Genesis thirty two verses twenty two through thirty. So let me just

read that real quickly to you, he says. During the night, Jacob

got up and took his two wives, his two servant wives, and he's

eleven sons and crossed the Javic River with them. After taking them to the

other side, he sent over all his possessions. This left Jacob all alone

in the camp and a man. Now that should be capitalized in your Bible,

a man. The word man should be capitalized because it's representing the Angel

of the Lord, which is really a pre christ being. And wrestled with

Jacob until the dawn began to break so all night long. When the man

saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob's hip and wrenched

it out of its socket. Then the man said, let me go,

for the dawn is breaking, But Jacob said, I will not let you

go unless you bless me. What is your name, the man asked.

He replied, Jacob, Well, your name will no longer be Jacob.

The man told him from now on you will be called Israel, because you

have fought with God and with men and have won. Jacob said, please

tell me your name, and the man replied, why do you want to

know my name? Then he blessed Jacob. There jacob name named the place

Penile, which means fa of God, for he said, I have seen

God face to face, yet my life has been spared. The sun was

rising as Jacob left Penio, and he was limping because of the injury to

his hip. So the deceiver had this be still wild moment with God.

What a wild moment, wrestling all night with the Lord. But he wouldn't

let he wouldn't let the Lord go. See, he was always after God's

heart. Esau no Esau was a profane man. Esau wanted nothing to do

with the Lord, but Jacob always had even though even though he did some

silly things, he always had a heart for the Lord. And so you

see, in that alone moment with God, a great transformation took place.

Jacob was humbled. Oh, Jacob was trans formed, not just physically because

now he had a limp, but spiritually totally transformed this man. And of

course, as you know, Jacob had his twelve sons and they became the

twelve tribes of Israel. So you have no idea what your be still moment

can produce. So I want you to be excited about having that moment.

I want you to be excited to want to have a be still moment and

see what the Lord is going to do. It's an exciting adventure to serve

God, and I hope that you enjoy that adventure as much as I have

and am still enjoying. Amen. Next week we will conclude because there's some

other things on my heart that I want to begin to share with you,

So we will conclude part four next week. This is Don Noble. You

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I look forward to being with you again next week, saying shalloam, shalloam?

Peace be unto you